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Rule issued for Beijing Olympic spectators

Luca @ July 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

In compliance with IOC requirements and common practice at previous Olympic Games, BOCOG has issued a rule that spectators must observe during the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The rule is similar to that of the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games, placing caution on articles accompanying spectators and spectator behavior at the Olympic venues, said Zhang […]

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PICNIC 08

Luca @ July 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet

From 24 to 26 September 2008, thousands of creative minds from all over the world will come together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY - 8 MARCH 2008 (Shaping Progress)

Ilari Valbonesi @ March 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet

15,000 women marched through New York City in 1908 demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights.
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/about.asp
100 years on, the pertinence of this event is honored through IWD’s 2008 global theme ‘Shaping Progress’.
Around the world, websites link to this site. Add your own IWD events and news.
There are currently 612 IWD 2008 events listed […]

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Take Time Today to See Who’s (not) Participating

Ilari Valbonesi @ March 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

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The Media’s New Aesthetic: Why Tv Is About to Have a Major Mood Swing

Luca @ January 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The last few years have been hard on poor old television.
Viewership has fallen across the board as core audiences — guys aged 18 to 34 in particular - are abandoning the device that raised them, opting instead for game controllers and the internet. Meanwhile, those who have remained loyal to TV are failing to remain […]

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The Right to Communicate

Luca @ January 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet

On Monday, January 7th, the British Columbia Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on whether or not Adbusters’ lawsuit against Global Television, the CBC, and the CRTC, should go forward. If the Adbusters lawsuit clears this hurdle, media rights advocates will celebrate an important victory in the battle against censorship.
For more than a decade, […]

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Enzo Biagi Died This Morning

Luca @ November 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Every independent journalist should be sad, this morning Enzo Biagi died in Milan. He was 87. Enzo Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and started his career as journalist in Bologna.
Biagi then disappeared from the TV screens a few months after the Berlusconi declarations in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the then-Prime Minister accused the […]

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A Portrait of the Artists as Young Men: Gilbert & George

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet

A Portrait of the Artists as Young Men

London 1967: two sculpture students meet at St. Martin’s School of Art. From then on, they decide to join their lives and their art in a unique, indissoluble entity. During the subsequent forty years, calling themselves simply Gilbert & George, the two artists investigate the complexity of the […]

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