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by Janna Brancolini | Mon, 06/05/2023 - 06:30
Italian popstar Alessandro Mahmoud, stage name Mahmood, seemed almost destined, in retrospect, to play Sebastian in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Born to an…
Culture
by Liz Shemaria | Thu, 06/01/2023 - 06:33
A white hand ashtray sculpted in 1942 is lit in a glass case with terracotta hands and ears fired during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE.  Etruscans formed ex-…
Culture
by Tatjana Dordevic | Mon, 05/29/2023 - 09:58
The emerging European trend of climate activists targeting artworks and historical monuments with paint and other liquids is generating varying degrees of both…
Culture
by Alexa Ahern | Sun, 05/14/2023 - 17:00
Piazzale Loreto in the north of Milan is an eyesore of the excessive cementificazione of Italian cityscapes. An intersection of seven major thoroughfares, it…
Culture
by Laurence Connell | Wed, 05/10/2023 - 09:00
In Italy, drill music — a subgenre of hip hop — has broken into the mainstream. It’s been barely three years since the release of the genre’s first viral…
Lifestyle
by Joseph Harshbarger | Sun, 05/07/2023 - 07:00
The world watched transfixed this weekend as King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey on May 6, succeeding his mother as monarch and becoming King of…
Culture
by Lucy McCabe | Fri, 05/05/2023 - 08:25
“I played with great seriousness. At some point they began to call my games art.” – Maria Lai I first “met” Maria Lai while visiting Cagliari, the capital of…
Culture
by Amy Gulick | Wed, 04/26/2023 - 06:20
The perennially popular Italian folk tune “Bella Ciao” has roots in 19th-century farm laborer protests in northern Italy, but this simple yet stirring hymn has…
Culture
by Katherine Wilson | Thu, 04/20/2023 - 15:00
This spring, the city at the base of Vesuvius is ready to erupt.  Abuzz with adrenaline and already spray-painted blue, Naples is anticipating a national…
Culture
by Toni DeBella | Sat, 04/08/2023 - 08:07
Easter eggs aren’t just child’s play in Civitella del Lago, a tiny Umbrian town just above Lake Corbara. The town’s local Ovo Pinto Cultural Association — yes…