TORONTO - Renzo Piano’s scarab-shaped music halls in Rome recently hosted the photocall for Director Alessandro Tonda’s new ...

TORONTO - Pomp and circumstance; ceremonial flags and standards; fife and drums; costumery galore… out with the old, in with the new. Excitement and drama to stimulate the much-ballyhooed anticipation ...

TORONTO - La Piana di Catania, fertile land surrounding Mount Etna in Sicily is home to many flavourful fruits, nuts and ...

TORONTO - It is appropriate to be among those well wishers who extend the very best to Canada’s newest Prime Minister, Mark ...

TORONTO - Toronto filmgoers were treated to a Marco Bellocchio retrospective at TIFF Lightbox recently, an event that celebrated the Italian filmmaking legend’s decades-long career – which started in ...

TORONTO - The prelude to the "economic warfare with the USA (Trump) is not over yet. The State of the Union Address tonight ...

TORONTO - My maternal grandfather, Leonardo Liscio, settled permanently in the Annex quarter of Toronto, in the early 1900s. He had travelled back and forth across the Atlantic in the late 1800s ...

TORONTO - Pupi Avati one of Italy’s Horror Film masters, best known for his Giallo masterpieces The House with Laughing ...

It is sometimes beneficial to recall that other people, other cultures, impact on our experience. Special Alert: someone had the audacity to live Life before we decided to be born. In the early 50's, ...

TORONTO - With the 97th Academy Awards now in the can and the perennial “shock wins” and “snubs” recorded into history, we ...

Canadian and otherwise – is replete with personalities who left an impact, made a difference good or bad. How that legacy is retold is more often a reflection of the values of “story-teller’s values” ...

TORONTO - It could have been a Media driven scheduled event for a major Sports tournament: In Soccer, the final brackets for the Champions League show down, in Basketball, March Madness. One day, two ...