Sicily also partecipates at the Venice film festival
From today until September the 11th will take place the Venice film festival with Quentin Tarantino on the head of the jury.
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Sting and his wife Trudy star on festival stage in Cortona, Tuscany
British rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler took centre stage in this medieval Tuscan town on Thursday, starring in two renditions of an experimental work known as ‘Twin Spirits’. The ensemble performance, staged in the afternoon and evening, recreates the deep and ultimately tragic love between the German composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck.
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Ancient theatre exhibition at San Nicolo’ Church in Ravenna
Ancient theatre traditions are the focus of a novel exhibition named “Histrionica” and set in the city of Ravenna. It runs at the 14th-century San Nicolo’ Church until September 12. The show offers visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the tradition of theatre-going in Ancient Greece and Rome.
A drilling platform on the Mediterranean sea: good idea or bad?
The Corriere today published an interview of Libyan ambassador Abdulhafed Gaddur who was yesterday in Rome: “No one is going to tell us what to do. We know what we are doing. We’ve been doing this for 45 years, without advice from anyone. We have qualified personnel who can negotiate on equal terms with foreign peers. Anyway, hasn’t Italy’s ENI got a drilling platform at El Bouri?” – said Gaddur.
The final break up between Berlusconi and Fini
Troubles never stop in Italian politics for the recent break up between the leader of the Chamber of Deputies and co-founder of the Freedom party Gianfranco Fini and Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Their relationship now has become final with the statement released by the PDL president’s office, which refers three parliamentarians, Italo Bocchino, Carmelo Briguglio and Fabio Granata, to the party’s disciplinary committee. Besides, there were 33 votes in favour and three against from Fini supporters Andrea Ronchi, Adolfo Urso and Pasquale Viespoli.
Cinema: Venezia film festival about to start
Beautiful Venice will be soon the breathtaking scenery of the 67th Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, from the 1st to 11th September 2010 at Venice Lido. The aim of the Festival, directed by Marco Müller since 2004, is to promote various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance.
Two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Two Italian soldiers were killed yesterday in the north-west of Afghanistan when a roadside bomb hit their armoured vehicle, military sources in Rome told ANSA. The sources said no other Italian personnel were involved in the blast, some kilometres north of Herat.
Members of Parliament decide for a pay cut, but with an “attendance fee”
Italian MPs voted to take a pay cut of 1,000 euros a month in their 15,000 euros salary as part of austerity measures aimed at bringing Italy’s budget deficit in line with European Union rules, but we know, all the roses have thorns. Infact as nice as it may seem, once again we have to face the awful truth.
Italian researchers near Turin discover ‘metastasis molecule’
As Ansa reported Italian researchers say they have discovered a molecule that governs the spread of cancers, possibly paving the way for new treatments for millions of sufferers worldwide. A team from the IRCC cancer lab at Candiolo near Turin, led by Luca Tamagnone, say that blocking the molecule, semaphorine E3, could stop metastasis.
Tonight Avatar star Sam Worthington at the Giffoni Film Festival
It is now taking place the Giffoni film festival at about 80 km distant from Naples. It is a festival born in 1971 from a Claudio Gubitosi idea promoting and developing cinema for young people elevating it from the marginal position it had back in those days, and leading it where it belongs , e.g. a high quality genre capable of “penetrating” the market. The leitmotiv of this year is LOVE.
Marchionne emigrates to Serbia for Fiat and Lancia brands
Fiat and Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne announced today that due to labor concerns in Italy, Fiat would produce the next-generation multiperson vehicles for the Fiat and Lancia brands in Serbia, not Italy. Three models will replace the Fiat Multipla, Fiat Idea and Lancia Musa, all currently produced at Fiat’s Mirafiore plant in Italy. They are to go on sale in 2012.
New phone tap bill, Fini exults: “compromise has been reached”
One more time we return to speak of the phone-tap bill. A new amendment of the law yesterday destroyed Berlusconi’s hopes while Gianfranco Fini and his supporters have earned a political victory.
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Economy: Austerity budget ‘touched bigwigs’
Ansa reported today the words of Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti about Italy’s austerity budget: “It has for the first time touched bigwigs”. Referring to protests against salary cuts by diplomats and other high-ranking civil servants, Tremonti also said: “if you ask staff to make sacrifices you have to ask the highest levels to (make them) too”.
Record number of visitors for a “Caravaggio White Night” in Rome
More than 20,000 art lovers crowded the Galleria Borghese and the churches of Santa Maria del Popolo, Sant’Agostino and San Luigi dei Francesi for the special itinerary to illustrate Michelangelo Merisi’s masterpieces in a white night out in Rome last week end.
Palermo: Today the 18th anniversary of Paolo Borsellino’s assassination
Today is the day of commemoration for Palermo, for Sicily, for Italy. Eighteen years ago the Sicilian Mafia Cosa Nostra, killed the two most prominent anti-mafia investigators: Giovanni Falcone assassinated on May 23rd 1992 and Paolo Borsellino, on July the 19th of the same year, both with their escorts.
The Vatican hardened its line on paedophilia
The Vatican yesterday tightened up its line on paedophilia after recent scandals involved priests having abused minors sexually. It was officially declared that the statute of limitations for paedophilia has been lengthened from ten to twenty years in the updated version of a 2001 list of canon law Delicta Graviora (Major Crimes).
Palermo’s patron saint Santa Rosalia and the tradition of the “Festino”
Every 14th of July, the people of Palermo celebrate the festivity of Santa Rosalia, the Patron saint of the city, who is nowadays largely still venerated. The so-called “Festino” is considered for the majority of the inhabitants a “not-to-be-missed night event” made of Sicilian tradition and amusement, with street food and live music.
Dell’Utri and Cosentino probed in “P3 case”
Senator Marcello Dell’Utri and Economy Undersecretary Nicola Cosentino were placed under investigation by Italian prosecutors yesterday. They are both suspected of criminal conspiracy and breaking rules, set up after the P2 ’state within a state’ scandal, outlawing secret associations.
Marco Travaglio and his “Promemoria” arrived in Palermo
Marco Travaglio was the real protagonist of the show “Promemoria” (transl. Memorandum) which took place at the theatre of Villa Filippina in Palermo last week end.
Earthquake: L’Aquila inhabitants protest in Rome and get beat up
A significant number of citizens coming from the city of L’Aquila and led by the mayor Massimo Cialente (around 5,000 people) arrived in Rome yesterday to protest against the government politics for the situation they are still facing in Abruzzo after the ruinous earthquake that stroke the city and its surroundings on April the 6th 2009.
Minister Brancher resigned in court
Aldo Brancher, 67, the minister appointed to Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s government last month resigned during an embezzlement trial Monday, after facing criticism inside and outside government that he was only appointed as ‘federalism minister’ to take advantage of a new law allowing ministers to claim a ‘legitimate impediment’ from attending trials.
Today the protest against the new bill on wiretaps, press freedom is at risk
This afternoon will start in Rome and in some other Italian cities the protest “anti-gag”. To say “NO” to the new bill made by the government against publishers and journalists who represents a threat to press freedom. Italy’s privacy watchdog authority Francesco Pizzetti in his annual report to parliament said this bill “moves the balance between press freedom and privacy completely in favor of privacy.
Berlusconi’s aggressor acquitted
Massimo Tartaglia, 42, the man who threw a souvenir of Milan’s Dome at Berlusconi’s face last December the 13th after an outdoor political rally was yesterday acquitted of aggravated assault charges. A preliminary hearings judge acquitted him because he was not of sound mind at the time of the attack on the premier wrote Ansa.
Dell’Utri sentenced to seven years in prison
Marcello Dell’Utri, one of the creator of Forza Italia right party was sentenced to seven years for complicity in conspiracy with the mafia organization. Inferior court had convicted Dell’Utri for 9 years of prison in November 2004, but in the appeal the punishment was reduced from 9 to 7 years, after 6 days of jury room in Palermo.
Palermo and the new attraction: the garbage dump
The Corriere today has published an article on the situation of the garbage in Palermo. The 2,000 tourists who disembarked yesterday morning from two floating palaces, the Fantastica and the Concordia, to discover Palermo among carriages decked out like carnival floats, they took the route that goes from the harbour to Piazza Politeama along Via Emerico Amari.
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Defeated and down
No legs, no brain, no energy, no determination, no character, no good will, nothing. We expressed nothing at all yesterday and it doesn’t really comfort me what Lippi said during the international press conference in Johannesburg: ”I obviously didn’t prepare the side as I should have, I would never have expected my team to play as they did in the first half.”
Oldest surviving portraits of Apostles discovered in catacombs of St Thecla
The Corriere published today an article about the niche of the Apostles. The fourth-century paintings, the earliest surviving icons of the apostles, were discovered in a two metre-long niche in the catacombs of St Thecla in Rome’s Via Silvio D’Amico, near Via Ostiense and not far from the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura.
First day of the “Maturità” in Italian high schools
Today in Italy the High school graduation examination has started with the first test: the essay on Italian literature or current affairs.
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Is Pirlo ready to play vs. Slovakia?
Ac Milan player Andrea Pirlo did a full training session today for the first time at the South Africa World Cup, hoping he could play for Italy in their final Group F match, against Slovakia on Thursday. Pirlo missed the opening 1-1 draw with Paraguay and yesterday’s shock 1-1 draw with New Zealand for a calf injury, leaving the world champions without any real creativity in midfield, as well as in the attack sector.
Buffon’s world cup at risk for back pain
Alarm for Italy at the World Cup after doctors yesterday said that they do not know when goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon will be able to recover from a back problem. Buffon, part of Italy’s 2006 World Cup-winning team, was forced to come off at halftime of the Azzurri’s opening match against Group F rivals Paraguay, which ended 1-1.
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Una “class action” contro il razzismo della Lega Nord
Ci risiamo. Ancora una volta Umberto Bossi, il leader del Carroccio, ha espresso il suo "lungimirante" parere sul Mezzogiorno, parlando del libro “Il regno del Nord” (di Arrigo Petacco), presentato nei giorni scorsi a Cortina d'Ampezzo, e secondo cui Cavour ... -
Sicily also partecipates at the Venice film festival
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