Italian practice:False Friends • Look Inside Italy’s Secret Services • Making a Splash: Summer 2002 Swimsuits • Uneasy Listening: Skiantos New Single

Italian practice: False Friends
Sign up for this free Italian-english dictionary from renown Garzanti — the list of false friends with Italian equivalents will come in handy.
www.garzantilinguistica.it/club/inglese

Look Inside Italy’s Secret Services
Learn more about the Italian secret services — get those acronyms Sisme, Sisde sorted out with this new official site…Quotes Macchiavelli on the homepage. Italian & French, English to come.
www.serviziinformazionesicurezza.it

Making a Splash: Summer 2002 Swimsuits
Tops made of artificial flowers, beads, cutouts and the return of the string bikini — there’s something for every extravagance…From La Perla, Victor Bellaish and Mila Shon…
www.moda.it/newgal/2002/296541.php?counter=2

Uneasy Listening: Skiantos New Single
Get an earful of "Virus" from this ska-satirical band celebrating 25 years of musical dementia…
www.skiantos.com/media/virus.htm

Italian practice:peek at & create online diaries • Following Giro d’italia • Rocker Ligabue’s Runaway Hit •Dylan Dog radio program

Italian practice: online diary project
Practice the language by taking part in this collective online diary or just browse the lively entries of about 7,0000 other diarists.
http://miodiario.jumpy.it

Giro D’italia
Get an eyeful of Italy by following the 85th edition of the country’s most famous bike race. Audio, video and historical info. The 22 teams will be biking through the Bel Paese until the beginning of June. In English, French, German, Italian.
www.gazzetta.it/speciali/giro2002

Dylan Dog radio program
A comic-book favorite, this ‘investigator of nightmares’ after becoming a film with Rupert Everett is now being transformed into a radio drama. Airs for the next three weeks at 8:45 am local time.
www.radio.rai.it/radio2
Click on "ora in onda"

Rocker Ligabue’s Runaway Hit
After a slow debut, "Tutti vogliono Viaggiare in Prima" (Everyone wants to go first class) has become the surprise hit of the Italian charts from new album "Fuori come Va?" which contains the track "Questa è la mia vita" from his sleeper film "Da zero a dieci."
www.ligabue.com/ligabue/anteprima.htm

Italian practice: English/Italian Soap Opera • Assisi’s Calends Celebrations • Articolo 31: Rap with Good Intentions

Assisi’s Calends Celebrations
Information & history about these little-known rites of spring dating back to Roman origin which take place this week– the town gets bedecked in garlands, the locals in Medieval gear and a lot of good-natured neighborhood rivalry is rekindled (only?) for this special week…Take a peek at the calendar for this year’s festivities, the photogallery of last years or participate in the forum of this spirited homegrown site. In Italian.
www.calendimaggio.com

Italian practice: English/Italian Soap Opera
Readers have enjoyed this hour-long radio program aimed at teaching Italians English in everyday settings — especially the soap-opera segment ‘London Calling’. Airs at 6 p.m. Italian time — click on the "dal vivo" icon lower left to tune in from the main address. If you can’t catch it live, give a listen to or download episodes from the archives.
www.radio24.it/english24/english24_index_archivio.htm

Articolo 31: Rap with Good Intentions
"Tomorrow I’ll quit" (Domani smetto) is the name of the catchy new hit from the rap duo from Milan…Here’s the cartoon version of the new clip.
www.my-tv.it/music/tonyo/tonyo1.jsp?IdArt=2716&sez=142&smi=0&show=

Labor Day Concert: Live online• Italian Pin-up for Pirelli Calendar •Italian practice: Mind Your Manners • The Anti-Sandal Committee

Labor Day Concert: Live
Follow the traditional May Day concert in Rome’s Piazza San Giovanni — live from 9 p.m Italian time.
Guests include international Robert Plant and pop stars like Oasis as well as Italian acts: Zucchero, Max Gazzè,Articolo 31, Edoardo Bennato and Daniele Silvestri.
www.radio.rai.it/live/radio1.ram

Italian Pin-up for Pirelli Calendar
The lone Italian on next years’ famous Pirelli Calendar — Valentina Stilla, a young Business grad from Puglia with kilometric legs….
www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2002/04_Aprile/24/pirelli.shtml

Italian practice: Mind Your Manners
Find out whether you would pass muster at an Italian table with this interactive quiz
http://news2000.iol.it/index_test.jhtml?id_test=541

The Anti-Sandal Committee
It’s well-known that Italians care about looking good (fare la bella figura) but this is the first time a lobby has been created to oppose an ‘antiesthetic’ article of clothing. This site, created by four male friends, lists a host of shoes that these self-proclaimed foot fanciers find ugly.
http://digilander.iol.it/sandalorosso/main.htm

Italian practice: just say no test • Vespa Tours in Tuscany • Almamegretta: video file • Weekend Travel Guide

Vespa Tours in Tuscany
Four-star tours of wine country on a Vespa — when you’ve already done it all…
http://coloradovespa.com/italy/popup.html

Almamegretta: video file
Check out six videos from this roots Neapolitan band’s latest works….
www.mtv.it

Italian practice: just say no test
Find out your push-over quotient with this interactive quiz
http://news2000.iol.it/index_test.jhtml?id_test=521

Weekend Travel Guide
Bike itineraries, spas, art towns, sun & sand…Plenty of good ideas for short trips in the Bel Paese
http://viaggi.virgilio.it/extra/italia/index.html

Italian practice: free slang dictionary • Design week round up • Italians interned in Soviet Gulag: online memory project • Pino Daniele: sample new album

Italian practice: latest in slang
This newsweekly has set about compiling an up-to-the-minute slang dictionary with the help of readers. Click on links mid-right for the sections…
www.espressonline.kataweb.it/ESW_articolo/0,2393,18394,00.html

Design week round up
Get an eyeful of new design trends from over 1, 950 companies at Milan’s Salone del Mobile…
www.corriere.it/speciali/design2002/index.shtml

Pino Daniele: sample new album
Neapolitan singer/songwriter Daniele’s latest effort "concerto" serves up live tracks & two new songs — listen to "un cielo senza nuvole" here.
www.pinodaniele.net

Italians in the Soviet Gulag
After 10 years of sifting through thousands of documents on Italian political prisoners in the Soviet Union, this site brings to light a little-known chapter in history. Database searchable by name or in alphabetical order of 960 Italian victims and a map of the lagers where Italians were interned.
www.gulag-italia.it

Undercover spring fashions from La Perla • Official Pompeii site Gets English Version • Italian practice: Travel with Simona • Notre Dame de Paris: Cocciante’s Musical comes ‘home’

Undercover spring fashions from La Perla
The latest in what’s on underneath it all from the popular lingerie co..
www.moda.it/newgal/2002/282673.php

Official Pompeii site Gets English Version
The government’s guide to one of the country’s most famous tourist attractions finally has an English version.. Get past the ‘earthquake’ intro for a fascinating story of restoration of a fresco, the inside story of the erotic baths, visit the applied research lab and have your kids shown around by Caius in the funky flash tour…
www.pompeiisites.org

Italian practice: Travel with Simona
Follow this 27-year-old MTV producer as she travels around the world. Forum, photos, stories.
www.concento.it/canali/index_template_canali.jhtml?canale=/Viaggi/Simona

Notre Dame de Paris: the Musical by Cocciante comes ‘home’
After touring the world, Riccardo Cocciante’s musical hit comes to Italy. Click on "disco" to compare tracks from the English, French & Italian versions.
www.notredamedeparis.it/home.htm

Reference site for Italian towns & cities? Italian practice: Great Writers on Italy ?Fiorucci’s funky web games ? Alexia: pop star finally sings in Italian

Reference site for Italian towns & cities
Trying to figure out if granddad’s home town has a website? Wondering if you can make a request on line for records or just tourist info? This site has excellent listings for Italian cities or towns — if no web site is available, addresses & phone numbers are often available..
www.comuni.it

Italian practice: Great Writers on Italy
Scroll down for short excerpts from Goethe, Stendhal and Hemingway on their travels in the Bel Paese.
www.italialibri.net/rivista.html#sthendal

Alexia: pop star finally sings in Italian
This 30-something with a string of seamless hits in English, now moves to conquer the Italian market with “Dimmi Come” her entry in the San Remo songfest. She didn’t win, but it has become the most played song on national radio…
www.alexiaonline.com

Fiorucci’s funky web games
Milanese fashion guru Elio Fiorucci has finally got a website up to par with his retail stores, try the games page…Get past the slow flash intro for some fun like “hot lovers,” “kiss or miss,” a puzzle and groovy e-cards..
www.fiorucci.com/060let/let.shtml

Pirelli Calendar Girl Contest • Leopardi’s "Silvia" poem gets new English translation • Giotto’s Capella Scrovegni Restored • Send e-greetings for Easter

Giacomo Leopardi’s poem "To Silvia"
Take in part of the new English translation with side-by-side Italian text of one of Leopardi’s most famous poems:
http://valeoggi.tiscali.it/news/200203/12/3c8d08ab02319

Giotto’s Capella Scrovegni Restored
Take a look at Giotto’s masterpiece after the new & controversial restoration. To visit Arena Chapel, get the necessary reservations by calling:
+39. 0492010020 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays.
www.mondadori.com/panorama/verdi/giotto/galleria/1.htm

Pirelli Calendar Girl Contest
Theworld’s most famous sexy calendar finally decided to pick some Italian beauties for 2003…Check out the semifinalists by clicking on "vuoi votare.."
http://212.31.255.92/splash.html

Buona Pasqua! Easter greetings in Italian
A few places to send gli auguri to your friends in Italy…
http://cartoline.iol.it

http://it.greetings.yahoo.com

www.auguri.it

www.cartoline.it

Italian Invents Moisturizing Bra • Father’s Day Greetings • Play the Mille Miglia Racing Game • Italian Practice: How to Become a Useless Writer

Father’s Day Greetings
Send e-greetings for March 19, feast day of St. Joseph & Father’s day…
it.greetings.yahoo.com/browse/Feste_e_ricorrenze/Festa_del_papa

Italian Invents Moisturizing Bra
Right, so we wouldn’t put it up there with any of Da Vinci’s creations, but lingerie designer Piera Pischedda has invented a bra called "Cosmetic Touch Up" which releases a non-greasy cream directly into the skin as it lifts & separates…
www.pierapischedda.com

Italian practice: How to become a Useless Writer
To read extracts from this new book by Ermanno Cavazzoni, just choose the crossroads from items on the top (lust, envy etc) with items from the bottom (family, hope etc.)
www.feltrinelli.it/SpecialiInterni/speciali/cavazzoni/index

Play the Mille Miglia Racing Game
Rev up in some classic Italian racing cars with the virtual version of the historic race…
www.bipop.it/1000miglia/index.htm