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As my 30th birthday looms ever near, I find myself doing a lot of thinking about what it means to be a grown-up. At one point in my life, when I was as sure of myself as I was clueless, I had some pretty strong ideas about the label: Grown-ups worked in an office. Grown-ups were married. Grown-ups cooked their own dinner. Now, as a newly single fre...

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It’s an exciting month for us as we explore nebbiolo throughout all regions of Italy. The name nebbiolo is derived from the Piemontese word for nebbia, meaning fog. It derives from the fog that comes down from the mountains and roles over the Po Valley helping with the ripening of these grapes.

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Just outside the northern city of Milan, a very colourful tourist attraction is taking shape. The city is set to get Italy's very first tulip field this month - and visitors can take the flowers home to keep. The enormous field, which has the aim of becoming "the happiest place in Milan", will showcase 250,000 tulips of 183 different varieties acro...

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«Il suo amore per il cupo look industriale della Sony diminuì quando, nel giugno del 1981, cominciò a partecipare al congresso annuale del design. Quell’anno lo stile del convegno era lo stile italiano, ed erano stati invitati l’architetto-designer Mario Bellini, il regista Bernando Bertolucci, il designer di auto Sergio Pininfarina». Steve Jobs (i...

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“Paintings are appealing things, and just about anybody might be tempted to steal them,” wrote Neapolitan poet Giovanni Battista Marino from Paris, worried about what might happen to the drawings and canvases he was expecting from Italy. He recommends that his correspondents “send them to me by a safe route...”. Whose paintings and drawings is he r...

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Milan and the rest of the fashion world stepped off the ready-to-wear hamster wheel this week to pay tribute to Franca Sozzani, the longtime editor of Italian Vogue, who died in December at 66. The winter sky was slate gray on Monday afternoon as the great and the good of the industry gathered in the Duomo, the city’s massive Gothic cathedral, for...

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Starbucks’ first foray into Italy will be a big, high-end Roastery located in a historic building in central Milan. The 25,500-square-foot store, to be located in the turn-of-the-century Palazzo Delle Poste (post office) building on Piazza Cordusio, will open in late 2018. It will be the company’s first Roastery in Europe, and the fifth announced t...

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If the Porta Nuova-Garibaldi area in Milan, with its skyscrapers that have come to symbolize the city’s recent changes, is progressively growing into the financial and hi-tech district of the metropolis, the futuristic architecture designs of CityLife have attracted investments from the major insurance groups, with Allianz preparing to move 3,000 e...

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Una finestra fotovoltaica trasparente, fabbricata senza materiali tossici e che non modifica la qualità della luce che filtra negli ambienti? Sembra impossibile ma questo sogno tecnologico si sta avvicinando alla realtà grazie alla collaborazione tra l’Università del Minnesota e l’Università di Milano-Bicocca. Su QualEnergia.it avevamo anticipato i...

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This summer, Professor Gloria Pastorino, who teaches French and Spanish on the Florham Campus, will be hosting a trip to Bergamo, Italy. This will be Fairleigh Dickinson University’s fifth trip to Italy, although only the third to Bergamo. Pastorino started the program in 2008, when she first began teaching at FDU. She said that she noticed a need...

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