Time a vacation idea. For several years there in my home region on the Lago Maggiore, the festival "Tones on the Stones' place, a number of music and dance events in different quarries. And while it would take at least 10 horses to drag me into an opera house, but last night I went relatively freely in the marble quarry above Crevoladossola [...]

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Every year visited the good Davide van de Sfroos my adopted country and every year simply because you have to go. This time even the weather was and the arena was not filled directly by the lake reasonably well. Despite or because of acute shortage of beer (barrels were enough there, but they were not sold), was the good [...]

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I have indeed been left out in February on the Italian Bruce Springsteen Vasco Rossi. I had the opportunity to experience the man now at the Turin leg of its "indoor" tour, in the Stadio Comunale, situated directly next to the "Palaolimpico". If at all possible, he and the audience even better on it than it was in Milan. Many words [...]

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Vasco Rossi is a phenomenon in Italy. Probably the exact opposite of Marco Masini, although the Italian knows everyone loves but by far not all. Laura Pausini has many "too American", Ramazzotti "too small", Masini "too depressing," Gianna Nannini "too gay", ie de Andrè "too arty" - Vasco Rossi, however, knows and loves everyone. [...]

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The most important thing at the beginning: Hardly any of these boards has really changed my life, but I assume the title of nice-like tones ednett, who has thrown me a stick so beautiful that I find it again after 2 months. I'm terribly heavy on text and so are usually books that changed my life, or important [...]

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It is time to once again devote to the pleasant things about my foray into the realm of Italian fascism and the intricacies of the Milan Ultras curves. And so I come to the latest newsletter from Perche No? in handy for this Saturday, a concert of the reggae band "quarters Coffee" from Grosseto and the Combat-folk band "Bandarranca" from [...]

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The new Serie A season has just begun and it is time for the cute little climbers from the south - due to be welcomed - U.S. Lecce. Footballing terms, we must first see how to set up the guys are like that, but musically, the yellow and reds are way ahead schonmal: Sud Sound System - Giallurussu simmu Sud Sound System are [...]

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Was supposed to at this point a nice article about the heroes of the Italian ska-punk "Banda Bassotti" appear, but since the AKA has done here and here much more detailed and meticulous, than I would ever have thought that I, at this place only earnestly to the Godfathers of Italian ska with Attitude toward: [...]

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While I was at the meticulous evaluation of my now legendary holiday in the Cilento work (watch this space!), Here is the timeliness because once again after a concert report from the North Italian folk god Davide van de Sfroos ... Because it was time again, one year his last visit here on Lake Maggiore made the folk fantasist again hold in my [...]

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There are a few issues that you should discuss with Italians only if one knows them well enough to get a faux pas tolerated. One is the Cantautore Marco Masini. For which there is no intermediate shades - he is hated or loved. Marco Masini: Dal Buio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NgDpf-WXqs berwältigende The majority of male Italians, especially [...]

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