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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...
For 20 years the Corpo Forestale, Italys special environmental corps, has been compiling a census of the Italian forests, which include more than 2,000 examples of trees of special interest and 150 trees that are classif...
Victory for Romano Prodi was assured late on Sunday night in Italys primary elections to choose the leader of the Unione centre-left wing coalition. Parliamentary elections are due next spring and should the Unione coali...
From 17 October, all poultry on sale in Italian butchers shops, supermarkets and markets must have a new label, so that the health authorities can trace all birds back to their origin. The label must show the local healt...
No more carte blanche for genetically-modified organisms in Lazio they may no longer be cultivated in the region (apart from in greenhouses and for research purposes). Restaurant owners and anyone else selling foodstuff...
Disastrous consequences await Romes cultural landscape in 2006 if the Italian governments proposed budget cuts go ahead. Cultural events in Italy such as theatre performances, exhibitions and contemporary Italian cinema...
During the first nine months of this year, 1,519 hopeful couples living in Lazio have applied to adoption a child. Some 900 of these would-be parents applied through national agencies while over 600 have taken the intern...
From 25 October, Rome residents will receive a discount when buying ecological motorcycles and electric cars. The Lazio regional government has set aside 4 million in subsidies for 2005. To receive the discount, anyone b...
Italians call them baby-cubist, the teenage girls who dance atop pedestals, stage props or Perspex cubes in Romes numerous clubs for under-18s. And like their counterparts in adult clubs, they are often scantily clad wea...
Anyone over 18 not in possession of a normal driving licence who drives a low-powered motor vehicle (motorcycle, tricycle, quad or one of the low-powered mini cars) must now obtain a licence to do so. The licence may be...
Owners of the 1,700 commercial internet points and telephone centres in the province and the city of Rome should have applied to the police by the 26 September for a special register to record customers identities and de...
Romes political leaders have been promising action for years to tackle the epidemic of double-parking in the city. From Monday 17 October the traffic authorities will be redoubling their efforts to tackle the problem alo...
The Rome city council and the national institute of geophysics and vulcanology are evaluating the possibility of using hot water from natural geothermal cisterns below 100 metres in certain areas of Rome. Hot water from...
Mussolinis former residence at Villa Torlonia, along the Via Nomentana, is coming to the end of a 4 million facelift. Around 60 specialists in everything from marble to frescos are at work every day at the villa, restori...
Rubbish collection in the Trastevere area of Rome has altered in the past months, since AMA, the city rubbish collection company, instituted an experimental system. Instead of communal bins on the street, the rubbish, wh...
There are now 6.8 million unattached Italians between 25 and 64, and one in three has tried online dating in the search for a new companion. So says the latest survey from Parship, www.parship.it. The company based these...
Anyone with an electoral voting card, wanting to vote in the primary elections for the leader of the centre-left LUnione political coalition on Sunday 16 October, can get information on www.unioneweb.it.
The number on t...
Blood Runner is Lazios answer to a blood donor crisis. Now in its fourth year, the event starts on the Piazzale del Gianicolo at 09.00 on Sunday 9 October, kicking off with a 300 m corsa delle goccioline for children age...
Italian professional football has a new and serious problem. Every year less people buy a season ticket to see their home team play and less people are turning up in general to see the matches live, preferring to stay at...
With the opening-up of the telephone information service to competition, the number 12, which was once the only service available, has been replaced with a series of numbers offered by the various telephone networks, bot...
The ZTL, the limited traffic zones in the historic centre of Rome, S. Lorenzo and Trastevere, will be closed to private traffic on Friday and Saturday nights beginning Friday 7 October from 23.00 03.00. The closure, whi...
The IKEA shops in Italy have closed their financial year 2004/2005 with sales 883 milllion, an increase of 23.7 per cent on the previous years sales. IKEA has announced that in 2006 it intends to open three more stores...
The Geneva-based World Economic Forum has released annual figures about 117 countries worldwide in which Italy remains in 47th place for the second year running, the worst position of any member state of the European Uni...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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