and a couple articles
http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/08/25/german_usa_working_life_ext2010

I don’t like this articles cuz it sort of makes Obama sound like something other than a republican…
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013683,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct

At some little pub down the street they had an amazing jazz singer and guitarist. In Italy I’ve seen exactly 3 shows. 2 Jazz bands I stumbled onto (both of which were quite good) and 1 irish band that sang 90% in Italian and 10 percent in  English (I guess the 10% were Pogues covers tho).