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Welcome to Maiale: The Sum of (very tasty) Piggish Parts
If you want to go whole hog you need to get to know all its parts in detail. Judy Witts provides a brief introduction.[more...]
American History Top Stories in Recent Months
Roth Exits A Ghost
(May 2008) Philip Roth directs fictional alter ego Nathan Zuckerman from center to front, and Patricia Fogarty follows.
Luddite, Redeemed
(May 2008) Madeline Klosterman (shockingly) meets a man without a BlackBerry and redefines urgency.
Berlusconi III
(April 2008) By winning national elections, Berlusconi has entered the top-flight Roman numeral league, writes Christopher P. Winner.
Dinner With La Russa
(April 2008) Madeleine Johnson dined with Italian Alleanza Nazionale leader Ignazio La Russa and came away with mixed feelings.
Bringing Up Bailey
(April 2008) To teach pets to like babies and vice versa get along (within limits) you need some rules, says Erica Firpo.
Hostile Takeover
(April 2008) Just when you think you've won over la mamma ... something (inevitably) gets into her, writes Nicole Arriaga.
Veronicas Sighs
(April 2008) Two women, a bar, some doubt, but this time the man is no problem Annie Gold takes it from there.
Night Moves
(April 2008) Millennial Milan by night is a brothel that much Nancy Feyen knows but who's in her car... again.
Dreaming of Waterland
(April 2008) Landlocked Milan has a liquid past now, all it has to do is dig it up and use it, writes Madelein Johnson.
Big Brother
(April 2008) Terrorism, obesity and ... oh yes, wet hair Clare Pedrick is certain that they know
The Spirit World
(April 2008) Mamoiada is a sleepy hollow until Mamuthone rock the world, Eliot Stein writes from Sardinia.
Pulp Friction
(April 2008) Getting old? Lynda Albertson dare you to a few goopy grape pills and a wine bath.
The New Brown
(April 2008) Suzanne Dunaway says American school lunch restrictions carry a good idea way over the top.
Translations You Can Trust
(April 2008) Italian menus offer some delectable choices if only you could understand their real meaning. Corinne Amendola sets it straight once and for all...
The Mating Game
(April 2008) "Do the men meet the women here or do they bring them here, asks Madeline Klosterman, who is taken by surprise at a London bar.
Ciak Before Prodi, Before Berlusconi...
If anything, Italian politics has grown staid over 20 years. In 1979, Budapest-born porn star Ilona Staller, whose stage name was Cicciolina, joined an early incarnation of the Green Party on a lark and gradually built up a voter fan base. She switched to the Radical Party in the mid-1980s and campaiged against NATO and nuclear power. She won a seat in parliament in 1987, actually polling more votes than party leader Marco Panella. In 1990, Staller offered to seduce Saddam Hussein to avoid Gulf War and then joined with fellow porn star Moana Pozzi to start the Party of Love. But when Pozzi died at age 33 in 1994 the porn politics movement fizzled out.
Area51 Editorial Musings by Christopher P. Winner
Talking CLEEN-tom
(05.11.2008) Its time for CLEEN-tom or il nero to fix it up. If only America would decide.
