Venice, Italy News

A Canadian in Venice captures the zeitgeist Mark Lewis's four short films - meditations on urban space, from the towers of power to the mean streets - prove a hit at the Biennale, despite awkward viewing conditions, Sarah Milroy writes Sarah Milroy VENICE, ITALY - From Monday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Monday, Jul.

A sunset at Wailea Beach in Hawaii. Photograph by: Handout photo, Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau During a visit to Maui last month, we spent several days at the beautiful Grand Wailea Resort.

Il Ridotto is a little restaurant located on a precious square near San Marco. There are a few excellent enotecas nearby, including one catty corner to the restaurant also owned by Bonaccorsi called Acciughe .

This is the first place we ate in venice. It is a small enoteca near piazza san marco on frezzaria.

A selection from the "Beato Angelico" exhibit. ROME This is the last week to visit "Beato Angelico: the Dawn of the Renaissance" at Rome's Capitoline Museums , an exhibit that's as enchanting as it is frustrating.

Do they have a fourth of July in Italy? That's not a trick question. This July 4th, Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base in a town already swarming with U.S. troops stationed at existing bases.

In this Aug. 27, 2008 file photo, actor George Clooney arrives for the screening of the movie 'Burn After Reading' at the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.

OTTO is an electronic musical instrument for realtime manual beat slicing of audio samples.

The White Horse Tavern ... legend has it that poet Dylan Thomas collapsed outside the tavern in 1953 / AP BARS, pubs, and taverns of the world can hold as much history as any museum and present as much drama as any theatre.

This piece, "Mirrors Mirror" by Daniel Rozin is 768 motor controlled mirrors that follow the viewer into the piece and reflect a grany image, much like old fuzzy television images.

Next month sees the start of the annual Venezia Jazz Festival, which runs until August 2nd.

Venice, June 26 - Venice on Friday got its first official female gondolier when a married mother-of-two passed her test, breaking into one of Italy's last male bastions.

Most known for its houses on the water Venice is a city of Romance, History and Culture.

It started at about 8 p.m. Monday as a few trucks and trailers pulled into downtown Wausau, spilling forth men and women onto the grassy City Square.

I'm now in the world's most charming, enchanting, and romantic city Venezia, Italy, with my sister M P, otherwise known as Mary Paula, otherwise known as military police.

Alexander Ponomarev Using sailors on shore leave, Ponomarev has taken his art submarine all over the world.

For years, millions of hot-blooded Italian men have secretly wished they could gatecrash one of the parties hosted by their ebullient prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, featuring scantily-clad starlets and models, and endless bottles of expensive wine.

It is somewhat ironic that there is perhaps broader political consensus in Jamaica now, than at any other time, on the logic of the Caribbean Community and regional conglomeration.

Venice is a walker's paradise, with picture-postcard views round every corner. Napoleon called St Mark's Square "the finest drawing room in the world", so that's probably the best place to start.

An Italian property expert offers advice on where to look for affordable property in Venice, Italy.