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Special Student Issue and Free Aperitivo

TF Real Social Network, february 11
Come get your free copy of The Florentine Student Issue and toast your new semester with a free beer with chicken wings and fries! at Red Garter/House of Sizzle Restaurant - from 6:30 to 8:360 pm - Via dei Benci 33-35r...and the night continues with live music Are you studying abroad? Want to know what's hot in the city? Where to find free wine tasting or where …
Jane Fortune Mosaics

Drawing conclusions

by Jane Fortune
Elisabetta Sirani and the Gabinetto di disegni e stampe
This is a chapter from Jane Fortune's book Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence     Suspicious that artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) had been poisoned by an envious maid, her father forced authorities to …
Expats in Florence

Atsuko Kato

by Melinda Gallo
Welcoming guests to Florence
Florence is home to many expats: those who have longed to live here, those who have found love and moved here, and those who have come to Florence and felt immediately at home here. Many people arrive here at a point in their lives when they seek to redefine themselves: whether they were not completely happy, were searching for something new, …
Italian Sketches

Carlo Bugatti

by Deirdre Pirro
Ivory and ebony
The name Bugatti conjures up images of Gatsby-type roadsters of the 1930s. Indeed, these magnificent cars were designed and built by Ettore Bugatti, one of Carlo Bugatti's two …
Il Fatto Bello

The man who knows the meanings

by Linda Falcone
Il fatto bello della settimana. Moments from everyday Italy
If I had an analyst, she would probably tell me that my very first visit to what Italians call il commercialista has something to do with turning 37 …
Florentinisms

Buzza, Calosce/Galosce/Sciantilli', Lecca, Scoppio

by Alexandra Lawrence,  Francesco Stefanelli
Your in-progress dictionary of the florentine dialect
Buzza: Belly. A buzzone is a person with a huge belly.   Example: E gliè' venuto una buzza di nulla! (Wow, he's gotten a huge belly!)
Va' iaa buzzone! Mangia meno! (Woah …
Food & Wine

Pure Tuscany: pappardelle al cinghiale

by Rachel  Priestley
Living the local cuisine
In New York, London or Auckland you may be served ‘Italian' food in which basil pesto, for example, has been added to, say, orecchiette pasta and semi-dried tomatoes. No such marriage of regional specialties would work here in Italy, however. And when you observe a cross-regional marriage between people like Stefano and Mari, (once she decided they could no longer live …
Community

Children find their voices through theatre

FESTA workshop empowers
Allen Shamblin's song ‘Don't Laugh at Me,' sung by the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, was written in response to an incident of bullying. It is such …
The Arts

WRITING for open-mindedness

Taking a HUMAN approach to immigration
I was nervous before interviewing writer and artist Gabriella Kuruvilla: she speaks no English; I speak no Italian. Because we would both rely on translators to relay our …
News - Sport & Leisure

In the saddle

Discover the region on horseback
Slow travel on four legs is the focus of a new project to promote eco-tourism in Tuscany, regional councilor of culture and tourism, Paolo Cocchi, explained when introducing Tuscan Horse Trails.   The five new trails through Tuscany are part of a larger interregional program to increase opportunities for eco- and equestrian tourism in Italy's rural areas. ‘This type of tourism is increasing in …
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Trekking in Forte dei Marmi

In the footsteps of the famous
Promoting the cultural heritage of Forte dei Marmi is the goal of a new tour in the coastal Tuscan town. Called Trekking in the Footsteps of the Greats, …
Travel & Leisure

Alpine getaway

by Noelia de la Cruz
Exploring Interlaken, Switzerland
Just about anyone visiting Europe, be it the first time or the tenth, is eager to explore all of its many different cities. Yet time is limited. For those in study abroad programs, a semester or even a year may sound like a long stretch, but it's not enough time to thoroughly explore all that Europe has to offer. …
The Arts

Elio Fiorucci

by Brenda Dionisi
The inventor of the 'fashion' jean
Fashion designer, entrepreneur, talent scout, trendsetter, and among the world's first mass communication gurus: all these terms describe Fiorucci.   The focus of the exhibit Elio Fiorucci: Fashion Jeans Inventor Histoire, …
The Arts

Making the invisible visible

by Alexandra Korey
Jane Fortune brings women's art to light
Women is an expression of love for the female artists of Florence's past. Jane Fortune has dug through the archives of the Florentine museums in search of women's …
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Maya Bloch / Daniel Spoerri

Until March 20, Galleria San Gallo Art Station, via Fra' Giovanni Angelico 5r
An exhibition dedicated to Danel Spoerri, the Noveau Realisme master who loved Tuscany. Spoerri's works are flanked by pieces by Maya Bloch, an emerging Israeli artist showing for …
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Chocolate Festival

February 4-7 Piazza Santa Croce
Chocolate lovers won't want to miss this annual appointment with Italy's best chocolatiers in Florence to share their classic products and latest flavors.     Call 055/2207209 or click www.fieradelcioccolato.it for more information.   …
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Middle East Now Film Festival

February 3-7 Istituto Stensen, Viale Don Minzoni 25/c and Odeon Theatre, Piazza Strozzi
The first Italian film festival dedicated to the Middle East will focus on contemporary Iran, from revolts to daily life. Other films and documentaries from some of the Middle East's hot-spots like Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Dubai will also be presented. The festival's 13 films document politics and the struggle for human rights, but also stories of love and friendship with glimpses …
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The Great European Photography: Paris 1920-1940

14 January-11 April Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia (MNAF)
Between the two world wars, Paris, with its strong economy and sense of political and religious freedom unmatched elsewhere, was a hotbed for photography. This exhibition features over 100 …
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Firenze Scienza: collections, places, people of the 1800s on display in Florence

November 8-May 9, 2010,
Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the Museo di Storia Naturale, the Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica-Gabinetto di Fisica and the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza.     Firenze Scienza, in …
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Betty Woodman: L'allegra vitalitt delle porcellane

October 2 - February 15, 2010 Museo delle Porcellane, Palazzo Pitti
This exhibition is the American artist's first in Italy. Woodman is an internationally acclaimed sculptor who has been working with porcelain for over 20 years, drawing inspiration from …

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