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The “Italian-influence” gastropub taking over the Kenny’s Castaways space on Bleecker Street signed a lease for the 6,000-square-foot space last week, Side Dish has learned.
ROME – The Campania Film Commission, the body set up promoting cinema projects in the region that includes the city of Naples, is under investigation after a shortfall of €120,000 ($157,000) in the organization’s budget was revealed by leadership.
PARMA, Italy — He looks like Jerry Garcia, jokes like Jon Stewart and says the world has nothing to fear from Italy’s funniest man. So why is Europe trembling from the political earthquake that is Beppe Grillo?
ROME – A total of 85 days after they first went on strike, workers at Rome’s famous Cinecitta Studios on Friday agreed to go back to work -- at least temporarily.
ENGLISHMEN HAVE IMPECCABLE TAILORING. The French, a polished savoir faire. The Americans a preppy practicality. The Italians have something perhaps more authentic: a composed ease that comes from a deep understanding of fit, function, style and excellent-quality cashmere. From the bustling streets of Milan to the sun-dappled hillsides of Tuscany, Italy's men manage to do dressing very well. Colors, often in earthy browns and olives, are mixed. Rarely does a jacket match the pants. Layering is a given. And most men are keenly aware of dressing appropriately for their age.
Any of the Western directors who had something to say created their own version of the West: Anthony Mann created a West that had room for the characters played by Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper; Sam Peckinpah had his own West; so did Sergio Leone. Sergio Corbucci did, too — but his West was the most violent, surreal and pitiless landscape of any director in the history of the genre. His characters roam a brutal, sadistic West.
2012 is shaping up to be a very big year for President Barack Obama.
With Mitt Romney supporters coming very close to equaling the amount of Obama supporters, we as a country will be seeing an election that could be neck and neck right until the very end.
Aldo Moro, the forner Italian prime minister who was murdered by the Communist Red Brigades in 1978, may become beatified, the first step toward sainthood, according to the Rome Diocese.
(Reuters) - The crew of the Costa Concordia, the huge liner which capsized off the coast of Italy in January killing as many as 32 people, won the Lloyd's List "Seafarer of the Year" award for 2012, the ship's operator Costa Cruises said on Thursday.