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Salvini spilts Siracusans

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Reactions ran high at a rally for Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini when he spoke in Siracusa, Sicily recently. Audience members either loved his “Italy for Italians” policies or hated them — and openly shared their views.

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Personal passion powers Monopoli’s mayoral race

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The two major mayoral candidates in this week’s election offered completely different platforms and came from vastly different backgrounds. Yet voters often were torn between them. Why? Because they are friends with both men. The choice was personal, a question of whom they know better, whom they trust more, regardless of politics.

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Always on Sunday: Two Italian mothers serve a luscious luncheon lesson

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Our friends, Maria and Francesco, invited me to witness their mothers prepare my favorite local dish – patate, riso and cozze (mussels). Unlike cooking confabs one might hold with friends, this was a serious affair – no idle chitchat, no brunch-time beverages, just a seamless 2-hour culinary tango between Nicoletta and Marisa.

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How we became ‘famoso’

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Soon after my account of living in Monopoli, Italy, was published in The Wall Street Journal, a young woman leapt up from her café table to ask my husband: “Are you Don?”

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Carnevale di bambini

Carnevale di bambini By PAMELA HASTEROK with photos by DON LINDLEY In Monopoli, Carnevale’s Fat Tuesday was mostly for  “di bambini” – kids and babies. Costumed children accompanied by parents gathered mid-afternoon at the main town square.  School kids danced on stage and were “singin’ in the rain” (in English) on a sunny day. The square’s resident…

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