Cell phones will now tell Italians when the tide is high in Venice. The city government just launched a free text message alert system for the floods which frequently put La Serenissima under several feet of water. Intended to assist waterlogged locals, the only real requirement for signing up is an Italian cell phone. These [...]
Chalk up another one for that particular brand of Italian genius: students have designed T-shirts bearing formulas and tricky grammar rules to get through high school finals. Web site “scuola zoo” (zoo school) is giving away 10,000 T-shirt cheat sheets, available in six different styles; nail-biting students need only pay shipping costs. Creators Paolo and [...]
Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” in Milan got a multimedia makeover thanks to British director Peter Greenaway. You can still catch it in Milan until September 6 when it’ll be packed up for an international tour promoting Italy’s Furniture Fair. Visitors see the ravaged Renaissance masterpiece in a new way with lights, voices, sounds and [...]
Heading to Turin’s International Book Fair tomorrow for the launch of a tome on the history of YouTube (“YouTube: La Storia”), with the author Glauco Benigni, ace entertainment journalist Alessandra Comazzi of daily La Stampa, RAI multimedia guru Renato Parancandolo and, uh, me (nervous, anyone? Just a leeetle).Where & When: May 8, noon, Palco RAI. [...]
Thought this poster advertising a friendly soccer match in Milan between Tibet and Padania (supporters of Italy’s thuggish Northern League party) was some sort of Sambuca-induced hallucination. But authoritative Italian daily Corriere della Sera reports the game is the real deal. Billed as an event where “for two peoples seeking freedom” compete, it’s not clear [...]
