Milan designer Anna Lodi has crafted a tortellini-shaped jewelry line. She made the pasta-shaped earrings and pins from glass mosaic — interestingly called “pasta vetro” in Italian. Lodi says each piece is made by hand in the same way the tortellini that ends up on your plate does, so all are unique. While Lodi’s [...]
As someone who has a hard time remembering what it was like to listen to music before you could hit “shuffle” or curate a digital playlist, I’m a big fan of automated music recommendation and Internet radio service Pandora. But that streaming service offers almost no Italian music, whether you want classic folk, pop power [...]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCU0RcoxKxE Italy’s Justice Minister used an iPhone to cite a wiretapping law during a prime-time talk show. Minister Angelino Alfano, best known outside Italy for a controversial immunity law meant to save the bacon of beleaguered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, pulled out a iPhone clad in a patriotic tricolor sticker to consult an app called [...]
Modern Italian great minds are fleeing the country, unable to get valuable research done in the face of shrinking funds, nepotism, red tape, penurious salaries and colossal inefficiency. Now this drama is being turned a movie called “Il Bene Oscuro†(loose translation: the dark good), riffing on the common expression “dark evil†(il male oscuro) [...]
After the worst earthquake in 30 years struck L’Aquila killing 250 and leaving 17,000 people homeless, Italians are text messaging donations to help. Italian mobile operators, including TIM, Fastweb, Wind, Tre and Vodafone, made a single number available for SMS donations to earthquake victims. Cell phone users send a blank text to 48580. They’re charged [...]
A new Italian reality show targets men who don’t have time for women, matching them up with ready-for-anything pin-up types. The format is similar to “SOS Nanny,” although here instead of relieving harried parents, four scantily-clad young women lounge around, waiting for a call from a male in distress.
Set to the tune of “Volare,” gondoliers in Venice stump for Obama. Obama, oh oh, Joe Biden Vice President. Only in Italian accents does the word “can” sort of rhyme with “president” (presidennn). Very catchy. Who thought such a romantic backdrop could deliver a political punch. Via iReport
Shock fotog Oliviero Toscani’s latest exploit is a limited edition T-shirt for the holidays that says “It’s Christmas? Shall we F***?” in Italian (E’ Natale? Scopiamo?) with his name under it. It’ll be sure to liven up the otherwise soporific unveiling of Christmas lights in Milan shopping mecca Via della Spiga, where the tees with [...]
If you can’t jet to the idyllic Italian island of Capri soon, you can always play the video game. That’s the idea, at least, behind forthcoming computer game “Anacapri: The Dream.” Players take on the tired-sounding role of an Indiana Jones-type expert who must search for an ancient artifact and save the village best known [...]
Rocco Siffredi, the Italian Stallion of porn, recently handed his legacy over to a bespectacled, overweight crossword expert. Well, sort of. Omar Monti, who came in second on the Italian version of “Beauty and the Geek,” now fills Siffredi’s considerable shoes in some potato chip ads. It’s one way to drum up publicity after equivocal [...]
