A group of elementary school students in Treviso has started a crusade to clean up the Italian used by journalists and officials. The fifth-graders, led by teacher Maria Cristina Andreola, have one main gripe: the incorrect use or lack of the subjunctive mood. Often one of the most difficult things to learn for students of [...]
34.7% have an "intense sex life" 47.2% regret losing youth & beauty 74.3% do not miss youthful sexual vigor 20% admit to having had crush, age 60+ Italian senior citizens, currently the only growing segment of the population, confirm that they are still young at heart. Of the 3,500 over 65s interviewed by the Ageing [...]
Festival San Remo: send audio stickers • Resource on Italian authors •The Missing Klimt: An Italian Mystery • Italian practice: quiz to find the ideal sport Festival San Remo: send audio stickers The country’s most important, longest running & likely most boring song contest starts March 5, but get in the mood by sending audio [...]
Sainthood may have to wait, but Padre Pio has already been made the star of a new television channel. Tele Radio Padre Pio which has a brown-and-yellow logo featuring the Capuchin monk in profile, currently only broadcasts in the area of San Giovanni Rotondo near Foggia but plans are already underway to broadcast by satellite [...]
36% believe heroes exist in real life 17% believe heroes exist only in comic books 36% proclaim Carabinieri their heroes 27% proclaim firemen their heroes At last, Italy’s Carabinieri get some respect: a poll of 1,024 youngsters between 8 and 18 years old named them ‘heroes,’ beating out comic book legends like Superman, celluloid stars [...]
City officials in Florence have extended purse-snatch-protection insurance to city residents and visitors. The insurance was previously available only to senior citizens, many of whom became victims after picking up pensions from post offices. “After a young Turkish tourist fractured her leg during a purse snatching, we thought it right to extend the policy to [...]
Chinese New Year in Milan • Italian lessons taken from everyday life • Gina Lollobrigida Sings Puccini at Online Archive • Italian Gold at Winter Olympics Chinese New Year in Milan Call it a case of cosmic timing, but this year’s Carnival celebrations in Milan coincided with those for the growing local Chinese community for [...]
Italian authorities came out against an unreleased videogame called "Mafia: the City of Lost Heaven." Players take on the role of Tommy, taxi driver cum-gangster, in a make-believe American town of the 1930s. "In a spell-bounding story of human hunger for power, they will live through everything taking place in underworld during this stormy period: [...]
Italian singles, tired of being in the shadows for St. Valentine celebrations, have proclaimed their own saint and feast day. Feb. 15 has been named San Faustino Single Pride day, a day of awareness of the ‘status single’ with a special focus on the problems and discrimination faced by people who are not married. “Everyone [...]
+32.8% increase in number of restaurants +29% increase in bars & nightclubs +127% increase in bed & breakfasts +658% increase in fast food & delis Fast food in becoming big business in Italy, according to statistics from Milan’s Chamber of Commerce. Italians are eating out more than ever, but the big boom is snack & [...]
