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The Tuscan city of Pistoia has banned new fast-food restaurants and sex shops from opening in the historic centre, as well as ordering that all store signs must be written only using the Latin alphabet. The tough new rules were set out by the city council on Monday, and apply to the entire historic centre of the medieval city. New shop signs and wi...

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When Hunter S. Thompson took the English artist Ralph Steadman to the Kentucky Derby in 1970, he tried to prepare him for the chaos into which they were descending. “Just pretend you’re visiting a huge outdoor loony bin,” Thompson said. He added, because he was rarely out of character, “If the inmates get out of control we’ll soak them down with Ma...

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A young traveler returns eager to share experiences and determined to work some lessons from abroad into daily life at home. It’s a common enough tale. It happened to Richard Brennan III too, though he’s found a unique way to follow through. Brennan, the son of restaurateur Dickie Brennan, recently finished an internship in Italy with Dario Cecchin...

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Food lovers, get your passports ready. Jet-setting foodies in search of Japan’s tastiest yakitori and the best bowl of bolognese in Italy will devour this latest news. The travel experts at TripAdvisor just released a list of the world’s best cities for foodies, according to travelers who use the site. Unsurprisingly, three Italian cities snagged p...

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Composer Ed Munger, 76, and lyricist Herb Weisburgh, 82, are a local songwriting duo who have been working together for 50 years. Their first and only stage work, the musical "Love in Firenze," is finally having a full production this week at The Addy, the intimate new theater at Proctors. Named after the city of Florence (Firenze), the show is a l...

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Woodpecker Disco – Cervia, Emilia-Romagna: Woodpecker disco is a domed nightclub nestled in a pine forest near Cervia, in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. The structure was designed by architect Filippo Monti and began operating as a club in the late 1960s. It was considered one of the most popular clubs of the Adriatic Riviera until...

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Da mercoledì 18 a venerdì 20 aprile il comune di Castiglion Fiorentino ed il Sistema Museale Castiglionese ospitano la tre giorni “Il Sistema museale castiglionese e il Metropolitan Museo of Art di New York: esempi di accessibilità a confronto” nella quale esperti proveniente da importanti realtà nazionali ed internazionali come aiuteranno ad appro...

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Dal primo salone (siamo nel 2012) di Cremona per arrivare ai due store a Dubai; nel mezzo ci sono quelli di Brescia, Milano e Bergamo. Oggi Barberia Italiana punta a Carrara, più precisamente a Marina di Carrara, in via Rinchiosa 32a. E' qui che sabato 14 aprile verrà inaugurato (dalle 17) Little Italy Barber Shop, per un locale, anticipano i propr...

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Inhibition of the oncogenic kinase AKT, a key protein governing the cell cycle, was found to arrest cancer cell proliferation and triggered their programmed death by apoptosis. The study, published today in Oncogene, represents significant progress in the clinical translation of previous basic scientific discoveries. “Understanding the molecular fe...

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Florence may be synonymous with the Renaissance, but its present-day cultural attributes are proving dynamic too. Last month, just weeks on from the unveiling of eight revamped rooms showing works by Caravaggio and his contemporaries at the Uffizi, saw the opening of a new not-for-profit public gallery, the first pledged to show only Modern and Con...

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