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...Italian-born Morawetz knew he wanted his private club to be in Venice, where select members who care for the city could enjoy a well-managed part-time home. "But it couldn't be just a luxury club," he says. It had to be quintessential Venice. When he saw the abandoned palazzo (better known as Palazzo Pauly, since it was the headquarters of the Pauly Glassworks for more than a century), it was a revelation. Morawetz acquired the property and, rather than selling the valuable artistic-glass collection that came with it, decided to give Venice a new Museum...
...hardest one was actually Mandarin. Japanese was easy, sort of.' AVRIL LAVIGNE, Canadian pop star, who recorded the chorus to her new single Girlfriend in English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin...
...Harry's. To date, A.-and-R. representatives from major labels have not been among them. In fact, Right on Time, Ponnudorai's blinding first album (of mostly covers but with a couple of originals), was only released in 2005, produced and paid for by a friend, the Italian blues guitarist Enrico Crivellaro. Available only online-except for the half-dozen copies Ponnudorai carries around in his bag-it hasn't sold in significant numbers. Neither Crivellaro nor Ponnudorai have sufficient resources to promote it, nor is Ponnudorai of an MTV-friendly...
...Boston’s lack of celebrity culture and its patriotic heritage. Money and power are less revered in Boston than in other cities. Perhaps this is because there is no Hollywood or Wall Street in our backyard, or maybe it stems from the working class, Irish and Italian immigrant roots of so many locals. Whatever the reason, it means that the New Englander craves heroes distinct from the highfalutin socialites and power-mongering business elites assayed endlessly in other cities’ tabloids...
...thesis combines two related arguments: Firstly, Europeans (meaning, inevitably, Christians) are committing collective suicide by not reproducing fast enough; secondly, Muslims are replacing these sterile sons of Europe. This argument isn’t solely the domain of the religious right—Oriana Fallaci, a vitriolic Italian atheist, made similar arguments—but theocons are undoubtedly the most vocal doomsday prophets...