Italy News: 08.24.08
Some Italian news for your Sunday reading pleasure:
- An Italian court has ruled that teachers are not allowed to spit at principals. Good, I’m glad we cleared that up.
- Here’s another article about one reporter’s Home Food experience (remember my Home Food dinner in Milan?). I’d love to do another one.
- So, just in case you were wondering, you’re not allowed to build sandcastles on the beach in Italy.
- As if there aren’t enough trendy shops in Italy, Abercrombie & Fitch now says it’s going to open two stores in Milan next year.
- With the Serie A soccer season starting up in a week, I’m starting to get excited about what my team, AC Milan, will do this year. I’m trying not to get too optimistic, given last season’s results & news that Gattuso just got injured in a friendly against Austria, but this Pirlo highlight reel makes me think anything’s possible… Oh, how I love this man… (Don’t worry, the husband knows of my affections.)
- The mayor of Varallo has said he’ll work as a street cleaner every morning in order to help reduce the costs associated with keeping the city spic & span.
- A medical association in Italy has asked Italian TV programmers to pull several medical- and hospital-theme TV shows (such as ER & Scrubs, as well as some Italian shows) because they “get details wrong.”
- Apparently some turtles in Calabria got a bit turned around and, instead of crawling into the sea, crawled into a nearby restaurant. Luckily, turtle soup isn’t on the menu.
- If you’re headed to Pompeii or Herculaneum this year, be sure to check out one of the two exceptionally cool-sounding events listed here. The Pompeii event runs through November, the Herculaneum one through the middle of September.
- One flight attendant gets the inside scoop on Positano from another flight attendant - she says they tend to have some of the best travel advice, and these Positano tips only proved her point again.
- Once again, there’s an Italian wine region that’s under scrutiny for “possible fraudulent grape mixing” - first it was Brunello, and now it’s Montepulciano.
- The Pope made some comments which appear to indicate that he fears Italy is in danger of returning to fascism.
- An Italian has won the gold in the men’s 50km race-walk in Beijing.
- Wanna know what music the Italians are listening to this summer? Sara’s got the rundown, complete with videos.
- A woman in Italy gave birth to quadruplets, which would be news enough - except that the woman’s 55 years old.
- Etruscan art pieces which were on display in Russia’s Hermitage museum are on their way back to Italy, where they’ll be on display at the Etruscan Academy Museum in Cortona.
- Italians are perplexed that the price of pasta continues to rise as the price of wheat drops.
- In 2005, Verona named a street after a local man who fought under and stayed loyal to Mussolini, and a new left-leaning city council wants to change the name.
- A farmer in Abruzzo who is raising a fawn that was abandoned by its mother is now being threatened with prosecution if he doesn’t hand the deer over to authorities of a national park.
- A new Italian law makes it easier for employers to dismiss workers who aren’t carrying their own weight.
- The gap between Italy’s North and South is growing wider, at least in terms of money matters. The North continues to get richer as the South gets poorer.
- Okay, it’s not about Italy, but it’s about Italian food - Italy’s Grom gelato chain (yes, it’s a chain - but it’s an amazing chain of amazing gelato) is now in Paris.
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Love the no spitting law. Although that’s even less incentive for me to get into teaching now 
great to know about the spitting. And thrilled to know about Italian Gelato in Paris. See, Europe really is the place to vacation! Well, except for the new A&Fs in Milan. Those things are probably best left in the U.S…..
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Love the no spitting law. Although that’s even less incentive for me to get into teaching now