Dear Blog Readers – I have been very busy doing election commentary for the Italian Television RAI News 24, and in recent weeks I have let my blog slide. But, lucky for me, my ever-talented 13-year-old nephew, Gaetano M. has been working away. Here is a cartoon he has drawn on the US Elections. Translating […]
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Dear Blog Readers, Last week I took a break from some of the usual news stories I do– Vatican, Politics, Strikes etc, to do a feature story for our entertainment department on the TV series “Borgia”. They were filming scenes for the second season in the little Italian town of Sermoneta. I went with a
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He once poured red wine for a Pope dressed from head to toe in white, careful not to spill a drop…but while impeccable in his table service, the Pope’s butler was spilling much more, delivering private documents from the Papal apartments directly into the hands of an Italian investigative journalist. The Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele,
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It was only four years ago that Barack Obama sent the hopes of Americans soaring with promises for change and dreams of a better future. People joked that he could “walk on water.” Michelle Obama, always with her feet firmly planted on the ground, kept things in perspective joking that her husband “snores and has
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Solo quattro anni fa, Barack Obama infiammava l’animo degli americani con promesse di cambiamento e sogni di un futuro migliore. Si scherzava dicendo che poteva “camminare sull’acqua”. Michelle Obama, sempre con i piedi ben piantati a terra, riportava tutti alla realtà affermando che il marito “russa e ha l’alito cattivo al mattino.” La settimana scorsa
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Dear Blog Readers – On Monday I start a brief stint as a political analyst on RAI News 24, the 24-hour news channel on Italy’s state television network. My role will be to help explain the American presidential elections to the Italian public, in and around the period of the Republican and Democratic Conventions, and
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Dear Blog Readers– We are now in the Dog Days of Summer and I am sitting in Rome a sweaty, soggy mess. Not good for writing interesting blog posts. So I’ve decided to post a short story I wrote for young adults years ago and then never had time to hunt for a publisher. It
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Vorrei dedicare questo post a mio marito Gustavo Piga. Quando ho visto la vignetta qui sopra sull’International Herald Tribune, ho pensato subito a mio marito e a me, genitori da social network per eccellenza. Oggi ho mostrato la vignetta ai miei colleghi maschi alla AP Television di Roma, esclamando: “Ehi, guardate qua, sembriamo proprio Gustavo