While his native Italy spars daily with a souffle' of debt, Flaminio Malaguti stays very much in the black. A favored fixture at the poker tables of his adoptive Las Vegas, Malaguti holds four all-time records, completed in the calendar year of 2012. He had 51 cashes in the money,...

Fashion fiends, in particular Yves Saint Laurent devotees, will get a chance to lay their fervent hands on some sleek loot on April 8. Neapolitan beaute' Marina Schiano is parting with some very personal mementos that were bestowed upon her through the platinum years, by her friends Yves Saint Laurent...

Clearly, Antonio Pio Saracino loves to involuntarily "provoke" his fellow Italians. The suave Pugliese architect and industrial designer, a New York City transplant, was hired in 2011 by Eni (Italy's preeminent energy company) to design the trophy for the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix at Budapest. After 2 seasons, he...

How far is distant gratification? Get me to its nearest exit, Siri, and let it be your parting gift. The quest for instant gratification in communication is eroding all mystery and chance from human equation. And creating concave personalities, stripped of all subtlety and coyness yet bloated with nano-pedestrian infos....

The lamentation of estrogen-laden Bridget Jones was echoed the globe over and is soon to be reanimated via a London musical circa 2012. Now hear it from her equally neurotic, testosterone-tested brother Dow Jones. Who, until now, had kept his curiouser and curiouser industrial cogitating to himself.

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Mild eternities have passed since the Colombe d'Or in St. Paul de Vence, Sud-est de la France, built itself a blue-chip arsenal. As, legend has it, patrons such as Bonnard, Signac, and Matisse gifted their oeuvre in exchange for a fricassee. Currently, the relationship between food and art has become...

Thanks to actor George Timothy Clooney, Italy took a brief respite from Standard & Poor's demotion, with an all-Italo corner of primetime real estate nirvana when Elisabetta Canalis -- the young Sardinian who recently stopped running on Clooney's Omega time (her current stateside claim to fame) -- bantered with Dancing...