Italian News Snippets: 05.19.07
- Italians might not be shocked by much, but a gigantic naked man floating above a park in Milan is causing some raised eyebrows. To me, it’s not nearly as bad as some other public “art” that’s been shown in the past. Oh, and here’s another picture of the naked guy, too.
- A virtual love lock bridge is supposed to help keep the actual one in Rome from being destroyed. I wonder if it will work… Here’s the love lock website, if you’ve got someone about whom you’d like to express your undying affections.
- Sometimes old cities crumble and there’s nothing to do but watch them go. In Civita de Bagnoregio, “The Dying City” as it’s known, the one path that will get you there isn’t long for this world. Now they’re thinking of using mules to carry the tourists who want to come see the place before it’s gone.
- If you want to be ahead of the fashion curve, get your mitts on something from “Alice,” the new line of clothing which is a cooperative inside Milan’s San Vittore women’s prison.
- Will there be a new bridge to the city of Venice, or will the new bridge finish off the sinking city under its weight? And who do we blame if it’s the latter?
- An Italian minister might be calling for a “global-warming Marshall Plan” to deal with the devastating changes that are in store due to globacl climate change, but MTV Italia has a sense of humor about it. Too bad some people didn’t get the joke.
- Sicily’s Mt. Etna is rumbling again, “blowing lava from one of its main craters.” It’s apparently not enough to require evacuations or anything, but I’m not sure I’d be comfortable in Sicily right now.
- A new tour guide to Naples celebrates the city’s famous women, including the co-patron saint of Naples, Saint Patricia.
- The husband routinely calls Venice “Disneyland for adults” but apparently he forgot to tell the editorial board at The Financial Times that he’d already thought of that analogy. Oh, and the husband never suggested Venice should start charging an entry fee.
- The traditional art of puppetry in Naples is a dying art – one of the last puppet masters recently had to shut down because of financial troubles.
- In Sicily they’re apparently growing their marijuana right alongside their tomatoes and zucchini.
- Here’s an excuse to dust off that old copy of the wonderful film “Cinema Paradiso” – a survey in the Guardian says that it’s the best foreign film of all time.