Another small victory for Grandma’s wisdom: Italian researchers have found that hot pepper is good for digestion and helps combat nausea. A team from Bologna’s University, lead by Marco Bartolotti, studied the properties of one of Italy’s favorite condiments, called peperoncino. Volunteers, who frequently lamented digestive troubles and chronic stomach pain, were given 2.5 grams [...]
90% Proud to be Italian 66% Proud Germans 59% Italians unhappy with local government 62% Italians unhappy with local democracy Happy to be Italians, but dissatisfied with Italy: the latest poll by the European Union shows residents of the Bel Paese in a new light. Typically not very patriotic, Italians are more proud of their [...]
St. Domenico, protector from snake bites and toothaches, will be marched through town crowned with snakes to celebrate one of the most pagan of Christian rituals. The centuries-old rite is a holdover from when all Italians feared serpents — in current times they’re more likely to have one around the house. Some 60,000 Italians keep [...]
Labor Day Concert: Live online• Italian Pin-up for Pirelli Calendar •Italian practice: Mind Your Manners • The Anti-Sandal Committee Labor Day Concert: Live Follow the traditional May Day concert in Rome’s Piazza San Giovanni — live from 9 p.m Italian time. Guests include international Robert Plant and pop stars like Oasis as well as Italian [...]
Seeking to overturn a law from 1880, Roman politicians want to open family tombs to married women. Currently, women who married and their children may be denied burial in family plots, depending on the decision of great-great grandfathers who wished to keep family names ‘pure.’Italian women keep maiden names after marriage, but children are given [...]
24.5% Italians smoke 14.7 Average number of cigarettes smoked daily 19.6 Smokers quit (1999) 2 offbeat initiatives to quit Spa detox treatments and an exotic vacation are two new incentives to stop smoking. “We’ll do our part to make sure people who want to quit have access to spa treatments,” said Health Minister Girolamo Sirchia [...]
What started out as a joke turned into a profitable business for Italian sculptor Angelo Camerino who sells his virtuous creations in Italy and worldwide.Ten years ago the artist made a first pair of underpants in sheet metal, but the sideline didn’t really take off until American Lorena Bobbitt made headlines in 1993 for cutting [...]
Italian practice: just say no test • Vespa Tours in Tuscany • Almamegretta: video file • Weekend Travel Guide Vespa Tours in Tuscany Four-star tours of wine country on a Vespa — when you’ve already done it all… http://coloradovespa.com/italy/popup.html Almamegretta: video file Check out six videos from this roots Neapolitan band’s latest works…. www.mtv.it Italian [...]
Italian practice: free slang dictionary • Design week round up • Italians interned in Soviet Gulag: online memory project • Pino Daniele: sample new album Italian practice: latest in slang This newsweekly has set about compiling an up-to-the-minute slang dictionary with the help of readers. Click on links mid-right for the sections… www.espressonline.kataweb.it/ESW_articolo/0,2393,18394,00.html Design week [...]
In an unusual case of life influenced by art, Mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti was condemned to life for killing Peppino Impastato, the subject of award-winning film “The hundred steps.” The case, which dates back to 1978, was reopened after the film debuted in 2000. Impastato, son of a Mafia member, ran a one-man protest against [...]
