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lJaques-Yves Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-Andr-de-Cubzac in France. [], then when he was training to be a pilot a serious accident ended his aviation career. So it was the ocean that would win this adventu...
=To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Mann, there will be an exhibition entitled Heinrich and Thomas Mann in Italy at the Casa di Goethe in Rome. The two German writers moved to Italy in 1895 to visit Rome...
It is rare to witness a mould-breaking* political event but the centre-lefts primary elections in October to choose the leader of the Unione coalition fitted the bill. There was no revolution, to be sure, no blood on the...
Do you fancy a weekend, a week or a few months out of Rome? Then why not email a complete stranger on the other side of the world and ask to stay on his or her couch for a while, free of charge?
It may sound fanciful, b...
A special train is to pull out of Romes Termini station in December and launch a revolution in the Italian railway system, today regarded by Italian railway operators as stuck in the stone age.
An ITR-500 Eurostar wil...
Das Rheingold, prologue to the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, is notoriously difficult to stage, with enormous differences of settings between one scene and the next and the necessity of a huge orchestra. This new prod...
Why the long face? Is the thought of disposing of your lightweight, barely-there summer wardrobe unbearable? Are you feeling out of sorts because theres no other choice but to store away halter necks, tank tops, flowery...
When the then centre-left city mayor Francesco Rutelli commissioned American architect Richard Meier to design a new pavilion for the Ara Pacis in Piazza Augusto Imperatore in 1996, he could never have imagined that it w...
Letters of love and hate.
The English Theatre in Rome is staging two productions featuring the art of letter writing. Address Unknown tells of the correspondence between two German men one of whom is Jewish between...
Hey, Rosita I hafta go shopping downtown
For my mudder she needs some tortillas and
Chilli peppers.
From the song Speedy Gonzales.
Words and music by Kaye, Lee and Hill
The Californian rock group and the wor...
At the beginning of August, underwater archaeologists excavating at Lake Bracciano north of Rome brought to the surface a nine metre-long dugout canoe hewn from a massive oak trunk. Some 9,000 years old, buried under thr...
Against a background of nostalgic protests on the one hand and down-to-earth relief on the other, the historic cobblestones of Rome are now being pulled out of their beds in the citys busiest thoroughfares and replaced b...
All eyes are trying to focus on that date some time in April or early May next year when Italians will elect a new parliament. Every politicians most frivolous utterance or action is aimed at squeezing the last drop of e...
=The exhibition Only one Painting at Most is in its fifth edition at the German Academy. The artists chosen to display their work in this two-person, two-piece show are Domenico Bianchi and Sean Scully, with Without Titl...
When composer William Walton and his young bride, Susana, came to the island of Ischia in 1949, they had no idea that they would end up staying there forever. Walton was simply looking for somewhere quiet where he could...
The bruised reputation of Italian finance has taken another battering in recent months because of a row about the conduct of Antonio Fazio, the governor of Italys central bank, the Bank of Italy (BOI).
The affair has l...
The Via Ceri winds through pine woods, dells, hillocks and hummocks for some 8 km off Via Aurelia about 32 km north of Rome. Road signs all the way along make sure that the traveller cannot go wrong.
Suddenly the little...
In Turins historic Piazza Castello a huge clock counts the days and hours until 10 February 2006, when the Olympic torch will make its way into the newly-refurbished Olympic stadium. In two futuristic pavilions in a near...
Although this is a review of the fourth night with the second cast, it must be said that, in this most popular of Mozarts comic operas, beloved both for the exquisite invention of the music and the humour of the action,...
If you are in Rome for longer than a tourist visit, youll want to start feeling like a Roman and being treated as one as soon as possible. It is common for newcomers to pay over the odds for the many things they need wh...
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