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THE NEWYORK TIMES. Thousands of fans make their way to an industrial park on the outskirts of Bologna to ooh and aah at the Ducati museum. (Read the article)
ABC. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has returned to an old passion of his while recovering from last month's attack at a rally: writing Neapolitan love songs, news reports said. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italy's well-heeled fashionistas have been given the chance to continue indulging their passion despite the credit crunch, with the opening of the country's first-ever 'designer swapping store'. (Read the article)
ANSA. Britart legend Damien Hirst's huge tiger shark suspended in a glass tank full of formaldehyde is among the highlights of a major new exhibition in Naples. (Read the article)
ANSA. flood watch along the Tuscan riviera had opera lovers holding their breath on Wednesday as water levels remained perilously high near the lakeside home of turn-of-the-century composer Giacomo Puccini. (Read the article)
ANSA. The minds of churchgoers need to be nourished but too often Sunday sermons are boring, uninspired and unpalatable fare, a top Italian cleric said on Wednesday. (Read the article)
ANSA. The agriculture ministry will continue to be responsible for guaranteeing the authenticity of the prized Italian wine Brunello di Montalcino at least until June 30 of next year, Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia said on Tuesday. (Read the article)
THE NEW YORK TIMES. For more than a century and a half, The New York Times has been recording the pleasures and prejudices of the American palate. “The Way We Ate” is a weekly tasting menu of vintage food writing from The Times’s archives. (Read the article)
THE NEWYORK TIMES. With the opening on Dec. 30 of Torrisi Italian Specialties in that fading neighborhood, Richard Torrisi (at left in photo) and Mario Carbone (at right) are updating the meaning of Italian-American: all the “Italian” food they sell in their tiled, brick-walled shop and cafe has been made in the United States, with an emphasis on high quality. “This could not have been done as well 15 years ago,” Mr. Torrisi said. (Read the article)
BOSTON GLOBE. For a couple of years, three Italian-American sons of Boston jointly held the brass ring of political power. The overlap between Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, and House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi represented a brief but heady moment of consolidated triumph for Boston’s Italian-Americans. (Read the article by Johan Vennochi)