I am in crammed into a station wagon headed for Milan on Italy’s A1 autostrada with three AP Television colleagues (Paolo Lucariello, Pietro De Cristofaro and Davide Ghiglione). Next to me I have one camera and one computer bag. Under my feet are the metal legs for the platform we have in the back. Also […]
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A participant at the Gay Pride Parade in Rome Saturday holds up a sign saying “I can get Married in France”. Note the Eiffel Tower in the jeweled crown. Gay marriage in France was legalized in May of this year. It is not legal in Italy and I think it will be a long time
It has been a busy, wacky week in Rome with Harley Davidson’s roaring through the center of the city, and the press in an uproar about a “gay lobby” at the Vatican. As this acoustic and verbal storm has whirled around me, I’ve been happily working on a feature on street performers in Rome, filming
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Dear Blog Readers, This weekend I was invited to the Festival of Economia in Trento, Italy to moderate a talk with one of Italy’s most prominent journalists and writers, Federico Rampini, currently US Bureau Chief for the Italian daily “La Repubblica.” Stepping back from the daily grind of personal and professional responsibilities was an unexpectedly
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A staircase in the small town of Corigliano Calabro’ in southern Italy was dotted Monday with pairs of shoes latched together with red ribbons. They were there in protest, and in solidarity, following the “femicide” this week of 15-year-old Fabiana Luzzi. “Femicide” in Italy is a topic I have avoided writing about for a simple,
Dear Blog Readers — I have had a difficult couple of weeks for various personal reasons that I am sure all of you would understand, but I will spare you the details, I am sure you all have enough of your own. Of course, you can imagine that writing blog posts gets quickly shoved aside
This past week for me has been a strange experience of ushering in the new, and ushering out the old in Italian politics. Last week I did a post on Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black Minister, who represents a clear break from the old ways of getting things done in Italian politics (See Post “Call
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When Cecile Kyenge walked into her press conference in Rome today, I was surprised at how petite and unassuming she appeared. I had been chasing an interview with Italy’s first black Minister all week and in my mind she had become larger than life. Who was this small, unassuming woman with dark skin, short hair