From the Wall Street Journal this morning, about the 142-year effort to build a bridge between Sicily and the Italian mainland:
The late marine explorer Jacques Cousteau helped with research. At one point, a study was commissioned to study the effect of the bridge’s shadow on fish. None was found.
The Observer‘s Eliot Read More
Italy’s screenwriters, acting in solidarity with their American counterparts, are threatening to strike, according to Variety…
"Prompted by their overseas WGA colleagues, Italy’s screenwriters are rattling sabers and threatening strike action over new media residuals," the magazine reports. "TV scribe Andrea Purgatori, who is the screenwriters’ rep within Italian artistic copyright association SIAE is Read More
Overlooked in the culture wars, a new phenomenon has been emerging: domesticity without family, or with family lite. I’m thinking of my friends who have elaborate, Martha Stewart–like (though not Martha-inspired) domestic situations, either without husbands, or children, or both. You could call it housewifery by choice.
It used to be that women married for Read More
BK in a box
DR. SELMAN: Good to see you. What’s up?
HILLY: Nothing.
DR. SELMAN: Last time you were here, Hilly was about to go to Rome.
HILLY: It was fun! It wasn’t anything like when we went to Rome, because George wasn’t there and I was with work people, and the first couple nights we were actually Read More
Papers around the world are covering Day 2 of the Materazzi insult. The Times includes the leading favorite, promoted by Zidane’s brother, that Materazzi called Zidane, who is Algerian by descent, “the son of Harkis”—a slur, referring to Algerians who fought on the French side in the war of independence. But Gazzetta in Read More
In Madison Square Park the other day, in heavy rain, Harlequin heartthrob Fabio presided over a peculiar press event; a competition that pitted three soap stars in a quest to become the new spokeshunk of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.
Four judges, under a small tent, crowned Greg Vaughan, of General Hospital, the new Read More
ROME—Exactly how scared am I supposed to be over here?
I’ve been wondering about this since last month, when the U.S. State Department announced that Americans living in Italy are now in danger of possible terrorist attacks. For some reason, the terror isn’t sinking in. Even after they warned me that:
Demonstrations are planned Read More
ROME—Exactly how scared am I supposed to be over here?
I’ve been wondering about this since last month, when the U.S. State Department announced that Americans living in Italy are now in danger of possible terrorist attacks. For some reason, the terror isn’t sinking in. Even after they warned me that:
Demonstrations are Read More
Can New York City Function Without the BlackBerry?
Only days after coming up with a contingency plan for a crippling snowstorm, City Hall is scrambling in the face of another potential freeze: the potential cutoff of wireless service to the 6,100 city employees who are issued BlackBerry devices.
“I’m always nervous in the electronic Read More
