Entranced visitors to Venice nestle into plush cushions as the black lacquered gondola glides through the waters of the Grand Canal — now imagine the gondolier a woman, the boat made by an American and the gondola itself without the traditional bowed shape. These are just a few indicators that may add up to a [...]
Italian Comfort Food ? Pacifist Fallout: Dario Fo’s TV & Gino the Chicken #149; Sergio Cammariere’s Heartfelt Jazz ? Italian practice: Cultural Literacy Pacifist Fallout: Dario Fo’s TV & Gino the Chicken Italy’s protest of the war in Iraq is quickly moving beyond peace marches — Nobel-prize winner Dario Fo with wife Franca Rame & [...]
Istituto Luce archives contain: 12,000 newsreels 4,700 documentaries 3 million photos 7 years to create online archive infinite happiness for Italian film buffs/historians (est.) Aficionados of Italy and Italian film have a reason to rejoice, even if they’ve had to postpone or cancel a trip to the Bel Paese. Istituto Luce, the country’s largest film [...]
Harried Italians can now seek solace in a ‘stress clinic’ run by an order of Dominican nuns. The good sisters of Santa Caterina da Siena in Turin have been ministering to the sick for about 130 years — but this is the first time a Catholic organization in Italy has branched out to treat one [...]
With talent like Michelangelo’s, even graffiti becomes a priceless treasure. Restoration efforts are underway in Florence to salvage wall sketches made by the Renaissance genius in a secret hideout where he took refuge from war in 1530. The room remained a secret until art historian Paolo Dal Poggetto stumbled upon it in 1975. Experts were [...]
Italian Coverage of the War with Iraq ? Italian Cooking for Singles ? Berlusconi for your PC? Tracking down friends & relatives in Italy Italian Coverage of the War with Iraq If you’re looking follow events the way Italians will –or find out more what they think of it, here are the a few sources: [...]
zoomata.com staff Members of the Mafia in America were sent across the pond to perfect the criminal trade from pros in Sicily, according to a turncoat don. Antonino Giuffr?, arrested in 2002, confirmed FBI reports that members of the Bonanno crime family in the US were sent to the province of Trapani for training. The [...]
After long months of enticing conversation with custodians at the bell tower for news, the online booking service for obligatory reservations of one of Italy’s most famous monuments has finally been launched. Okay, so it’s a few months late and the cost (17 euro) is a bit higher than first estimated, but it’s worth it. [...]
There’s no Park Place and there are no railroads to buy — but otherwise the board game created by a Italian prostitutes’ civil rights group about how women enter and stay in prostitution looks a lot like Monopoly. At the roll of a dice, players in "Whoretown" find themselves a woman, most likely not of [...]
Italian patriotism: on the rise? by Nicole Martinelli Italy is still a nation very much in the making. It’s taken over 200 years to pin down the exact colors of the national flag — described recently in lay terms as brilliant grass green, milk white and tomato red. And before a scientific committee examined the [...]
