Buongiorno Venezia

This week’s issue of Buongiorno Venezia talks of:

* The “strike calendar” (updated)
* Venice’s empty pockets
* MOSE gets Shanghaied
* Care-free, car-free Sundays
* Pinault’s plans for Punta della Dogana
* 3 euro a day for the loo
* Benny Katz’s commonplace Carnival

The REMINDER:
* The Carnival of Venice - Programme
* Art shows in Italy - a 2009 calendar of events (update);
* 2009, the year of Futurism, with shows throughout Italy;
* Biennale

DINING: Restaurant of the week
EVENTS: MUSIC, THEATRE, and EXHIBITS

MEMBERS OFFERS: CARNIVAL PARTIES, MASKS, ACCOMMODATION
and The “HURRY UP! Limited Offer”

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This week’s brand new issue of Buongiorno Venezia talks of:

* A new type of travel schedule: strikes
* “Venice connected”: the best timing for reservations
* Unauthorized B&B shuttered
* Women of Italian descent: come out wherever you are
* Hard Rock Cafè for the homeless

The REMINDER:
* The Carnival of Venice - Programme
* Art shows in Italy - a 2009 calendar of events (update);
* 2009, the year of Futurism, with shows throughout Italy;
* Biennale

DINING: Restaurant of the week
EVENTS: MUSIC, THEATRE, and EXHIBITS

MEMBERS OFFERS: CARNIVAL PARTIES, MASKS, ACCOMMODATION
and The “HURRY UP! Limited Offer”

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I remind you that the Full Edition is available only to the VeniceWord Club members: follow the above link and you’ll find instructions

hi, wonderful people

this week’s brand new issue of Buongiorno Venezia talks of:

* The Venice Carnival… on a budget
* You can’t tell the players without a programme: download yours here (Carnival is here!)
* The Giro shines with stars, including Lance Armstrong
* The Vatican at the Biennale… but not now
* A labour cease-fire at Starwood’s top hotels
* Illegal vendors: scofflaws ignore fines… and the police

EVENTS: MUSIC, THEATRE, and EXHIBITS
DINING. Restaurant of the week
VENICEWORD CLUB MEMBERS OFFERS: CARNIVAL PARTIES, MASKS, ACCOMMODATION

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this week’s brand new issue of Buongiorno Venezia talks of:

* 60,000 kissing at midnight: St. Mark’s marks the new year - the videos
* Art shows in Italy - a 2009 calendar of events (1)
* 2009, the year of Futurism, with shows throughout Italy
* The grand hotels without the grand parties: labour strikes a blow
* Money mourning at Teatro La Fenice - and the January programme
*Two very different Happy New Year speeches by Mayor Cacciari
EVENTS: MUSIC, THEATRE, and EXHIBITS
DINING. Restaurant of the week
VENICEWORD CLUB MEMBERS OFFERS: CARNIVAL PARTIES, MASKS, ACCOMMODATION

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If all Italians would send their greetings via email, we would save 1831 tons of CO2.
So… best wishes to you all!

(I know you missed me.. thank you

this week’s brand new issue of Buongiorno Venezia talks of:

* New Year’s Eve, dinner with.. strike
* Sand Nativity in Jesolo
* The new face of Porto Marghera
* The Accademia bridge to be rebuilt
* Hydrogen vaporettos, at last

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this week’s brand new issue of Buongiorno Venezia talks of:

* Palazzo Grimani end the 20 year wait
* Virtue restored at the Doge’s Palace
* Death at the Guggenheim
* A Kiss-In in St. Mark’s
* It’s a date: the 53rd International Art Exhibition

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(”where have i been?” busy, my dear. and too lazy to post the topics, also… but here i am again also on the blog)

this week’s brand new issue of Buongiorno Venezia talks of:

* Death in Venice
* The Venetian dialect: more Italian than Italian
* Unconsummated
* U2 in June?
* Join The Santa Claus Marathon

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I quote from the current issue of BUONGIORNO VENEZIA….

There is a new webcam in Venice: the view over the Calatrava bridge. Under the magnifying lens of architects from all over the world who have been visiting the Biennale Architettura, the fourth bridge across the Grand Canal, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is still in the news… with some instructions for use.

The bridge required six years of work instead of, as originally planned, a little more than one, and it cost twelve and a half million euros instead of four (plus eleven million more in additional expenses which are at the centre of various legal arguments). Those expenditures, however, pale beside yearly maintenance expenses of forty million euros. At the moment, none of the bridge’s accessibility devices for the disabled are working… to be continued.

a suggestion by Janet from S.Francisco:
“I have respectively and unobtrusively visited your magical city several times and have been horrified that so many people (residents and tourists alike) toss cigarette butts into the water and the streets. In many places in California I have noticed, recently, relatively “not too-ugly” receptacles for snuffing them out and disposing of them. They look to be made of ceramic or dark metal and shaped not unlike a fat bowling pin! I looked on the Web and there are many manufacturers.”

well, thank you for your suggestion… though the main problem of garbage collecting is not about tossed cigarettes… here, may i suggest a simple “quit smoking”?