Gabi Logan
Articles by Gabi Logan
Wed, 08/29/2012 - 06:12
Armed with medieval military accounts, papal documents, and ancient administrative records, historical seismologist Emanuela Guidoboni published the m…
Wed, 08/29/2012 - 04:21
A cross between the European reality series "Donna Avventura" (Adventure Woman) and "America's Next Top Model", Chinese series "Dream Come Top Model"…
Tue, 08/28/2012 - 03:57
Beginning with the pre-opening party this evening, the 69th Venice Film Festival, part of the Venice Biennale, takes over the Venetian island Lido unt…
Tue, 08/28/2012 - 03:41
Winemaker Marco Caprai, who has taken on the work originated by his father Arnaldo.Wine Enthusiast Magazine has included three innovative Italian inst…
Mon, 08/27/2012 - 04:53
Three months into the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum's CAM Art War, the Neapolitan government has created a "cease fire" by sending a letter to the m…
Fri, 08/24/2012 - 05:48
Italian Minister of Culture, Lorenzo Ornaghi, announced late last month that the long-awaited restoration of Rome's Colosseum, funded by billionaire D…
Thu, 08/23/2012 - 09:13
Colin and Chris Weir, winners of Europe's largest ever lottery jackpot, are sending a young art student from Scotland to the Florence Academy of Art f…
Wed, 08/22/2012 - 19:24
Rome's Capitoline Museums are letting the fourth-century-B.C. sculpture "Lion Attacking a Horse" out on loan to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Ca…
Wed, 08/22/2012 - 05:48
An unusual case, originally tried in Potenza, reached Italy's highest court late last month after multiple appeals. You can now be fined in Italy for…
Tue, 08/21/2012 - 05:39
Miss Italy organiser Patrizia Mirigliani has banned revealing swim wear, tattoos, and contestants with cosmetic surgery from her competition, beginnin…
Mon, 08/20/2012 - 23:43
With the start of the Chardonnay harvest in Franciacorta near Brescia on the 8th of August, Italy officially began its 2012 harvest season earlier thi…
Mon, 08/20/2012 - 00:45
When China's National Museum opened their year-long "Renaissance in Florence: Masterpieces and the Protagonists" exhibit, China Central Television's (…
Fri, 08/17/2012 - 01:36
At a time when cultural institutions are resorting to sensational protests to maintain government funding and asking private corporations to underwrit…
Thu, 08/16/2012 - 05:07
Budget cuts and a lack of qualified faculty have forced the University of Florence to remove its course on Dantean philology and criticism from the of…
Thu, 08/16/2012 - 01:18
Italian rap megastar Jovanotti's first American album, a greatest hits compilation titled Italia 1988-2012, received a glowing review from the New Yor…
Wed, 08/15/2012 - 00:38
As two rare Ferrari exhibits celebrate the anniversaries of the 250 GTO and Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve's death, the Ferrari Museum in Maranello…
Tue, 08/14/2012 - 00:25
This summer, pickpocketing inside the Louvre Museum in Paris has reached epidemic proportions, with visitors to the "La Gioconda" (The Mona Lisa) as t…
Fri, 08/10/2012 - 05:42
After a long struggle with depression, 55-year-old talented singer and songwriter Lucio Quarantotto, best known for his work on Andrea Bocelli's "Con…
Thu, 08/09/2012 - 08:33
Late Wednesday afternoon, the Italian Olympic men's volleyball beat the defending Olympic-champion American team in straight sets, securing their spot…
Wed, 08/08/2012 - 05:22
Italian investigative journalist Mary Pace filed a law suit in Rome against the U.S. Government and the Italian Interior Ministry for the $25 million…