by Nicole Martinelli posted Tue 29 Apr 11:07 am Traditional Italian names like Marco, Giuseppe and Francesca are making a slow comeback after what was considered an “alarming” trend of babies in the Bel Paese being named after American movie and soap opera stars. Italians are now back to doling out grandparent’s names or those [...]
Mini-mini Italian skirts ? Labor Day Concert: Live ? Celebrating Spring in Assisi ? Remembering Comic Actor Ciccio Ingrassia Italian Designers shrink skirts for Summer Italian designers are not to be outdone in the contest to see who can get women to show the most thigh for 2003. These sexy Italian mini-minis require courage & [...]
Each month we introduce you to someone who has made the dream of picking up and moving to the Bel Paese a reality. In their own words they share the good parts, the bad parts and the just plain absurd moments of day-to-day life in Italy.Looking to move to Italy?Try the reader-recommended Survivor Package If [...]
Nocturnal tours of Pompeii in Italy start at the recently unveiled ‘pleasure baths’ (terme suburbane) to the accompaniment of music written for the occasion by spaghetti-western soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone. Until Aug.31 2003, visitors will see a new side of Italy’s most famous archeological treasures in an hour-long special tour, thanks in part to a [...]
Wine snobs now have heaps of new knowledge to lord over the rest of us after Italian winemakers unveiled a new tracking system providing technical information about the bubbly. Consumers punch in the code from the pink label on bottles of Asti spumante and Moscato at the consortium web site and up comes all you’d [...]
Italy’s Most Beautiful Women ?Easter Menus ? Donatello Awards: Love Conquers All ? Italian practice: zoomata to the rescue Donatello Awards: Love Conquers All Turkish-born but longtime Rome resident director Ferzan Ozpetek confirms his status as leader of the new Italian cinema — the delicate web of emotions in "La Finestra di Fronte" swept Italy’s [...]
by Nicole Martinelli posted Tue 8 April 11:24 am An Italian town, drained of population from emigration, will light up the main square every time a baby is born. The initiative to celebrate every much-needed bambino comes from Moretta, a town of about 4,000 inhabitants 30 miles from Turin.It’s the latest of a series of [...]
750,000 Italian university students behind with exams 9% Italians graduate before age 25 7 years average time to get degree 2 80-year-olds with three degrees It can’t be encouraging when you’re stuck in university at age 30 and grandpa shows off by getting his third degree — but that’s what happened when Aldo Paramatti, 80, [...]
Singer Gino Paoli Gets a Degree? Diesel Global Research Centre ? Stolen Art on Display in Rome ? Italian practice: Subway Stories Stolen Art on Display An entire exhibit of evidence that the special ‘art recovery’ arm of the Italian police is doing its job — from Russian icons to Greek statue heads, it’s a [...]
It?s tough being a young Italian in love?there?s just no privacy. Ask the 90 percent of Italians between the ages of 20 and 24 who still live at home. As a result, Italians will do it anywhere, especially in the car. But while surveys say 88 percent of Italians have car-copulated at least once, back-seat [...]
