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More things to do and places to eat in San Francisco
SFO Terminal 2. This bright space, formerly the airport's international terminal, was redone and reopened in 2011. Its 14 gates serve American and Virgin American flights, including many from LAX. Arriving, you find a yoga area, day spa, Peet's,...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Lifestyle and Leisure, Personal Service, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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Looking for opera inspiration
Like every other form of art, operas can be inspired by just about anything — historical events, myths, epic poems, plays, even movies. Often, such operas go on to eclipse their inspiration. Puccini's "Tosca," derived from a play by Victorien...Tags: Anglicanism, Arts and Culture, Murder, Meryl Streep, Music Industry
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Under spotlight, cardinals pray on last Sunday before conclave
ROME -- They asked for prayers of support, quipped with adoring parishioners and kissed squirming babies. On the eve of what may be the most important decision of their lives, Roman Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope made their likely last...Tags: Angelo Scola, Roger M. Mahony, Christianity, Washington, DC, Rome (Italy)
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Italy's Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 1 year in jail
A Milan court on Thursday convicted former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of breach of confidentiality for the illegal publication of wiretapped conversations related to a failed bank takeover in a newspaper owned by his media empire. The court...Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Justice System, Prisons
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Italy's Berlusconi sentenced to a year in jail in wiretap case
ROME -- Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was given a one-year jail sentence Thursday for breach of confidentiality after the publication of illegally obtained wiretaps by a newspaper controlled by his family. Berlusconi remains free...
Tags: Punishment, Prisons, Italy, Elections, Politics
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Making a bet on Chicago's Italian heritage for 2013
Silvio Marchetti, who has silver hair and a dry sense of humor most atypical for an attache, tells a story about meeting the late Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, in the mid-1980s. Marchetti, who now heads up the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Arts
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PASSINGS: Mariangela Melato
Italian actress Mariangela Melato, known for her critically acclaimed performance as a spoiled socialite stranded with a sailor she had tormented in the 1974 film "Swept Away," died Friday in a Rome hospital. The LaPresse news agency said she had...
Tags: Giancarlo Giannini, Celebrities, Italy, Pancreatic Cancer
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Cirque Italia extends run until Feb. 10
Cirque Italia's "Aquatic Spectacular" show has extended its run in Kissimmee by a week. The show, which has pitched its big top on Vine Street, will now give performances through Feb. 10. The "Aquatic Spectacular" stage holds 35,000 gallons of water for...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel, Kissimmee
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Muti out, Maazel in for CSO's Asia tour
Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti has been diagnosed with an inguinal hernia that will force him to bow out of the orchestra’s entire tour of the Far East, Jan. 25-Feb. 7. After the Italian maestro, 71, flew home to Milan,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Flu
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Riccardo Muti 'resting comfortably' after surgery
Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti is expected to be released Tuesday from a hospital in Milan, Italy, where on Monday morning he successfully underwent a hernia operation. "Maestro Muti’s surgery went smoothly and he is...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Flu, Hernia
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With Riccardo Muti out, guest conductors fill the CSO breach
Riccardo Muti just can’t seem to catch a break. And, this time around, it isn’t only the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago public who are being affected by his health issues. Thousands of listeners throughout the...
Tags: Concerts, Arts and Culture, Culture, Music Industry, Beijing (China)
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Pope Paul VI needs a miracle to reach sainthood
The Religion WorldReligion News Service reports that Pope Paul VI is one step closer to sainthood: VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Paul VI, who guided the Catholic Church through a tumultuous period of change in the 1960s and 70s, took a crucial first step toward possible...
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