Italy’s many talk show hosts and TV anchormen are in despair following a decision by RAI to ban political talk shows until after the regional elections at the end of March. This is because Italy has an equal media access rule for all legal political parties, guaranteeing them equal air time. In the past, some shows have not respected the time rule.
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Talk show hosts in despair
In this photo: Anna Wintour – Picture by Captain Catan Milan’s second Prêt-à-porter Week, which ends tomorrow, has attracted thousands of buyers from all over the world along with over two thousand journalists, but, for the organisers and designers, there is only one journalist who matters.
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Milan pret-à-porter week snubbed
Custom Teaser: Turin’s National Museum of Cinema is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Fellini’s masterpiece with a special exhibition that recreates the spirit both the film and the times, prompting Claire Provost to reflect on the emptiness that lay behind the sensuous Roman nights Words by Carla Passino Like every masterpiece, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (“The Sweet Life”) is the ongoing subject of critique, praise, study, and obsession. But unlike most, La Dolce Vita is also an enduring centrepiece in the world’s imagination of Italy at its best and its worst, its most central and its most fleeting
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Fifty years of La Dolce Vita
Sunday 28th February is “Anti-Smog Day” in Northern Italy, with over 80 towns planning to block non-emergency traffic for the day. Many Italian cities have had anti-pollution days before but this is to be the first time that the effort has been coordinated on such a scale.
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Anti-smog day
Emilio Lavazza, Honorary President of the family-owned coffee company, died at the age of 78 in Turin on Tuesday, it was announced yesterday.
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Addio, "Signor Espresso"
The video game “ Dante’s Inferno ” [Electronic Arts] which has already generated 10,000 web pages and has a following of 20,000 fans on facebook, has been released in Italy. “Blood and gore, intense violence, nudity and sexual content”, warns the game’s website encouragingly.
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The hell of a game
The Venice Carnival 2010 officially opened with the flight of an angel in Saint Mark’s Square on Sunday, watched by 75,000 people.
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A venetian sensation
The iMussolini, an iphone application featuring over 120 of Benito Mussolini’s speeches in text or audio form or in film clips, has been withdrawn from sale by its creator a fortnight after its launch.
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Mussolini application withdrawn from sale
The cities of Rome and Venice will be twinned for the Carnival season this year with Rome reviving traditions that have not been seen in the city since the seventeenth century. From 6th – 16th February the streets and squares of Rome will become a massive Carnival space, peopled with masked characters, musicians, actors, dancers and horseriders
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Rome revives its Carnival tradition
Custom Teaser: Unless the economy deteriorates dramatically, the Italian property market is likely to stabilize on 2009 levels, with top end homes performing well while those at the lower end experience a greater drop in prices and sale volumes … Words by Carla Passino Unless the economy deteriorates dramatically, the Italian property market is likely to stabilize on 2009 levels, with top end homes performing well while those at the lower end experience a greater drop in prices and sale volumes.
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Italy to see stable property market in 2010