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I was driving home after attending our city’s Homeless Coalition meeting, thinking about a young family I had helped get housing. I remembered years back, while in graduate school for social work, we were given an assignment where we had to write about how our family of origin shaped our values, beliefs and opinions; and how this affected our work....

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RM Sotheby’s 18-19 January Arizona auction is one of 2018 first major auction, and is set to include the sale of one collector’s substantial collection. A total of 11 cars will be offered, ranging from one of the earliest Alfa Romeos to a Ferrari California T.The collection is being offered entirely without no reserve, and while all the cars on off...

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Spring is beginning to green the rolling Piedmontese hills as we make our way down the auto strada from Milan.Thi s is familiar country – I spent long stretches of my childhood here, among the wide fields and castle towns, the Alps a constant backdrop of crags and snow. Now, though, I’m here for a glimpse of the future that is also a window into th...

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At the recent Maison & Objet design fair in Paris, muted olives hues and fleshy pink tones ran rife. Nests of circular coffee tables came endlessly grouped in threes. Brass detailing abounded. In fact, everything was so pleasantly on trend that little was truly compelling, let alone engaging or amusing. Until, that is, I stumbled across the Seletti...

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As the late season, final rounds 11 and 12 for the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America competitors kicked off this week in Imola, Italy, they were welcomed to the beautiful Italian countryside by unusually cold temperatures and of all things, snow. Needless to say, the snowfall and inclement weather put a damper on the week's proceedings and mos...

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Zelinda Paglieno, who turned 102 in October, offers sobering advice when asked what's the secret to her long and healthy life: "Two fingers width of red wine, and no more, at lunchtime every day.”  “I’ve never smoked, but a little wine is good for you — and that’s something I still do now. We have very good grapes here,” she explained. Paglieno’s a...

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“Against the ball, put the laser against the ball, kid! Madone.” I was folded over on one knee at Boston’s North End bocce courts, trying to get the guys a measurement. Eyeing the distance between a bocce ball and a pallino often doesn’t work, so Sammy Viscione comes armed with both a tape and a laser measure, though his sciatica makes it impossibl...

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Last month, actress and director Asia Argento voiced her disgust with criticismfrom the Italian public after she came forward with rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein. “Italy is far behind the rest of the world in its view of women,” she told the press of her native country. 50 years ago, Italy was rocked by one woman’s courageous efforts to...

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Ne ha fatta di strada questa ragazza Italiana! Pamela nasce a Roma, studia a Milano all’Istituto Marangoni dove si laurea come Fashion Designer, lavora e fa esperienza in case di moda Italiane come: Fiorucci, Exté, Rossana Buriassi con la quale sviluppa collezioni di accessori per Armani, Dolce e Gabbana, Swarovski. Nel 2009 decide di fare un viagg...

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The Light Festival will kick off in Florence with the lighting of the Christmas tree on December 8 in piazza Duomo. From that moment, which symbolically inaugurates the seasonal festivities, all the main events of the “F-Light” festival will begin, a full month of “dressing up” the city’s main monuments and squares. The event, spread over around 15...

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