Big Brother Reality Show Returns • Haute Couture Hijinks in Rome • Italian practice: Hypnosis for Seduction • Giorgio Gaber’s Farewell Song Haute Couture Hijinks in Rome The sexy, the wild, the just plain weird — some of the creations proposed in the Rome alta moda shows this week really do give an idea [...]
42% (circa) think free time is for family +5% increase in Italians think free time = family 11.3% think they don’t have to account for free time 49.2% sees relatives at least once a week Time out from work or school still means family time for today’s Italians. Statistics institute Istat recently polled some 20,000 [...]
The 45 inhabitants of Sommapreda, near the Northern Italian city of Brescia, decked out the village with pink ribbon to celebrate the arrival of Aurora (“Dawn”) born to Maurilio and Marcella Canossi. The couple’s first child is the only one the Italian town has seen in 27 years. The couple, aged 30 and 28 respectively, [...]
300 regional specialties of Italian bread -20 kilos (44 lbs.) consumed per family, since 1998 4.3 days, Italians bought bread (1998) 6.7 days, Italians bought bread (2002) Once considered a culinary sin to dine without bread, Italians are getting out of the habit of using it to sop up sauce, accompany meat or clear the [...]
Sexy e-cards • Dusting off Neapolitan Hits • Holocaust Remembrance Day in Italy • Carnival Kickoff Sexy Calendar e-cards In a last-ditch attempt to milk popularity for Italy’s sexy pinup calendar industry, here are some popular images (not for the prudish) from the cals to send as ecards. Including a few (considerably more caste) of [...]
Dispelling a popular myth that would have all Italians rightfully smothered by a super-protective mamma, an Italian court awarded custody to a non-worrywart father instead. Judges of the Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest appeals court, ruled that an apprehensive mother could cause as much damage to her boy as neglect. “Her overly apprehensive and protective [...]
by Nicole Martinelli Falling in love is the quickest way to lose weight, according to Italian diet experts. Love as the (diet) drug works because it sets off a reaction that lessens appetite and increases feelings of satiety. The benefits of that many-splendored thing are especially helpful to dieters fighting the over-40 girth wars. If [...]
Men’s Fashions from Florence & Milan ? Sophia Loren: Test Your Knowledge? Pompeii’s Painted Rooms on Show Men’s Fashions from Florence & Milan So the Prada dress shirts with the hankie pocket on the rear & the pointy bras on otherwise hunky models at Vivienne Westwood probably won’t be big sellers, who said men’s wear [...]
75% Italians would follow a modern manners book Percentage of Italians judge manners ‘important’ in: 95% cleanliness/grooming 83% dining 90% behavior in public 90% with friends/family in private Italians, in public or private, still care about cutting a good figure. According to a poll of over 1,000 Italians, there is no escaping the rigors of [...]
“Under the Tuscan Sun,” the sentimental story of an American fixing up a villa in one of Italy’s most beautiful regions, just got a movie fix-up. Touchstone Pictures recently wrapped up the shooting in Cortona of a story which has little in common with the autobiographical tale in the book but sports the well-known title. [...]
