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...Palermo Catacombs I look at the dead in Peter’s photographs and think, “That’s quite a crowd, too.” You might need some La Mer cream on these people. I tell you, don’t ever get an open coffin....
...“The fight against Cosa Nostra hasn’t been headline grabbing, but it’s been very successful over recent years,” said John Dickie, author of Mafia Republic, and several other books on Italian criminal organisations...
...Palermo, which she photographed while holidaying in Sicily....
...The first Baron Rothschild and John Pierpont Morgan rocked up on their yachts....
...“Madame X”, pallid skin, hourglass figure, impossibly haughty expression, remains the emblem of the chilly American socialite a century after her creator John Singer Sargent sold her to the Met with the...
...It’s something special,” says John Bracco, sales director at Immobilsarda, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate....
...The tech company even hired out the temple at Agrigento for a spectacular dinner and concert, flying in the likes of Elton John, Lenny Kravitz and even Prince Harry....
...It’s where both John Belushi and Helmut Newton died. “The Chateau captures almost any moment in time going back to 1927,” says Balazs. “It has its own culture.”...
...I was sitting in a trattoria in Palermo half way through a bowl of spaghetti alla vongole when I heard that pasta had been decreed not fattening after all....
...John Authers writes that choosing Mr Powell to lead the Fed is more significant than you might think....
...An estimated 154 private jets are scheduled to land on Palermo’s small landing strip....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is John Singer Sargent, in particular his Portrait of Rodin....
...As well as Naples and Palermo, Mr Renzi headed to Reggio Calabria on Friday before a closing event back in his home town of Florence....
...Ginevra Poli, a masters student at Johns Hopkins University, thinks Mr Renzi has an “ego problem” but may back the reforms....
...Provenzano led an extremely violent, if successful, campaign in the early 1980s, known as the second Mafia war, against other clans in Palermo which had taken control of the burgeoning heroin trade....
...A more favourable government attitude to foreign investors is confirmed by John Burton, Head of Development of Westfield UK/Europe that is opening a shopping centre in Milan....
...Without exception her artists — ranging from eightysomethings Gerhard Richter and John Baldessari to the new darling of sculpture, the Argentine Adrián Villar Rojas, whose first gallery show in her Manhattan...
...FitzRoy began organising parties on a grand scale after arranging her own wedding in Palermo, with a reception for 200 in a “crumbling Sicilian palazzo”....
...Hull City completed the most transfers on the final day, signing four players – including Palermo striker Abel Hernandez for a reported club record....
...Olivia Palermo Ask anyone aged under 25 to name their style idol and they’re likely to choose this 28-year-old former reality-star-come-model-come-actress-come-nobody-quite-knows-what....
.... ——————————————- Palermo A quarter of Sicilians live in the province of Palermo, along the northwest coast. The capital city is also called Palermo....
...The tenor John Osborn gave an ardent, fully involved performance as Henri, sung with (mostly) ringing high notes and firm tone....
...John Lloyd is an FT contributing editor...
...“Sicily and other bits of Italy were in danger of going the way of modern Mexico,” says John Dickie, a historian and author of several bestselling books on the mafia....
...Italian Ways : On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99, 288 pages Not an account of one journey but a portrait of a country and its people, encountered in railway...
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