I chatted with another LJer some years ago and she lives in northern Italy, Tuscany as I recall.  Anyway, there's a custom among the region's restaurants to hang baggies of water in the kitchen to ward off flies and the baggies have a number written on them?  Like 13 or 42 or 69 or something?  It's, er, bugging me.  It seems she showed me a YouTube ( Read more... )

what Italian song does the gondolier sing starting from 1 min 31 sec in this video?

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I'm trying to remember two songs that my Italian grandfather used to sing to me when I was very little. His family was from the Abruzzi region, and he moved here (Upstate NY) when he was preschool age. If anyone's heard of either song, that would be fantastic ( Read more... )

It's a really well-known tune, with no words. It has the same beginning as the song Rafiki sings in the Lion King ("Asante sana, squash banana") but continues from there. It has a kind of Italian sound... I've recorded someone whistling it, but I can't figure out how to put it up here
Anyone know what it is?

EDIT: Found! It's Tarantela Napoletana

I took an Italian class my freshman year of college ('07) and I cannot for the life of me remember the name of a song. I know it's a stretch, but I figured I'd try since it's driving me mad ( Read more... )

Okay, this is driving me MAD. I was watching Everyday Italian today and I remembered this show I used to watch on the food network ( Read more... )

Ok, this is going to be extremely vague, so if anyone knows this I'm going to drop dead of shock (and gratitude ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if this qualifies as an appropriate question for this community; feel free to delete it if it isn't.

A couple of weeks ago I was out browing in antique shops and I saw a painting that I thought was very odd and very, oh, odd. Of course I went back today and bought it. The gal at the shop didn't know anything about it though she was ( Read more... )

I'm trying to track down two movies ( Read more... )

Hi all-

---Tiny "Angels and Demons" spoiler--

Question regarding a specific quote/passage/dialogue...not so much a passage because I have neot yet read the book, but in Ron Howard's "Angels in Demons", Robert Langdon and Ewan McGregor's character are having a conversation near the beginning of the film...I believe they are in the Vatican, and it is ( Read more... )