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Lauren Sanchez, in preparation for her Venice wedding, is carrying an Eiffel Tower purse that likely costs more than your monthly salary.
Jeff Bezos’s yacht Koru’s purchase price could supply insulin for 856,666 diabetics or feed roughly 1,285,000 people for an entire year.
The Bezos/Sanchez $10 million wedding is just the tip of the selfish iceberg that is the Amazon empire, -- known for grinding warehouse workers into the ground with surveillance practices, extreme time manag…

Why Venetians want Jeff Bezos to choke on his wedding cake
Taya Graham breaks down what Bezos’s luxurious fete reveals about the massive wealth imbalance in the United States.

'Supporting more terror' — Ukraine slams Russian flag display at Venice Film Festival: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/29/supporting-more-terror-ukraine-slams.html

Wikipedia right now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Jeff_Bezos_and_Lauren_Sánchez

"Activists from the UK action group Everyone hates Elon and Greenpeace Italy unfolded a giant 20x20m banner reading “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax” on Piazza San Marco, as Jeff Bezos is due to celebrate his reportedly multi-million wedding in the lagoon city this week."
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The skit is: you arrive in Venice and remember you forgot a wedding gift... you log on to the wedding registry and...

Venice Film Festival Hacked, Attendee Data Compromised
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-film-festival-hacked-data-compromised-1236338374/

Venice Film Festival Hacked, Attendee Data Compromised
The festival confirmed that a data breach exposed names, contact details, and tax data of accredited participants for this year's festival.

Genius. Thank you, Greenpeace!

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Impossible Conversations:
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Inside the No Space for Bezos movement: ‘One man rents a city for three days? That’s obscene’ - The Guardian https://apple.news/AmQ5e_byqRIi71UB60A2qDA

Inside the No Space for Bezos movement: ‘One man rents a city for three days? That’s obscene’ — Guardian US
The Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, is about to descend on Venice with his fiancee, some ex-Marines and his limitless credit card. We meet the Italian activists who are saying: enough

:chefkiss:
https://theonion.com/bezos-wedding-guests-given-monogrammed-plastic-bottles-to-urinate-in-during-ceremony/

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony
VENICE, ITALY—In a welcome bag filled with favors such as local chocolates, artisanal soaps, and scented candles, guests arriving for the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez this week were reportedly given monogrammed plastic bottles in which to urinate during the ceremony. “Because guests will be strictly prohibited from leaving the room […]

About bloody time! Should never have happened.
In a statement, Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette apologised for the impact of the board's decision on Sabsabi, Dagostino and the wider arts community.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/kha

Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at 2026 Venice Biennale
After controversially and suddenly withdrawing Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has announced it has reversed its decision.

Star-studded nuptials between Amazon founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Lauren Sšnchez, a former TV journalist.
The days-long shindig,
expected to begin from 24 June,
will be the biggest wedding held in Venice California since George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin in 2014.
While Venice residents mostly embraced the Clooneys’ fairytale big day,
the Bezos wedding has been met with much more antipathy.
As soon as Venice’s millionaire mayor, Luigi Brugnaro…

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Steve Harvey:
🎵 Tonight
#SteveHarvey
https://ghostsofvenice.bandcamp.com/track/steve-harvey-tonight-ghosts-of-venice-dub

DK Metcalf to appear in 'Asteroid' thriller with Hailee Steinfeld, who is married to Josh Allen https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46042980/pittsburgh-steelers-dk-metcalf-asteroid-thriller-hailee-steinfeld

1/ I know very little about the Balkans, and I discovered this excellent book, Modern Albania by Fred Abrahams, in an unusual way. I was at the Albania exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, and this happened to be placed with the exhibit. ↵
#BookReview

due scudi
going rate to have good time in Venice in the 1500s

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Antonio Vivaldi, Simone Kermes, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon:
🎵 Sum in medio tempestatum, RV 632 (opening aria)
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Visiting beautiful Strasbourg, feels like little Venice of Alsace. Looking forward to be here again for the @… conference in October 2025 together with the @… team, who will be presenting a secure messenger service for the educational…

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Antonio Vivaldi, Chouchane Siranossian, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon:
🎵 Concerto in D major RV.208 (Il Grosso Mogul) for violin and orchestra: 3rd mvt
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Jocelyn Pook:
🎵 The Merchant of Venice
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https://open.spotify.com/track/2gqmtxoyhYOWnNhhiEtbHr

| When you're that rich or adjacent to it, the rules bend. Climate guilt is something for the rest of us. For them, "awareness" is enough — even if it means standing on a yacht with champagne while Venice floods below.
| This isn’t just hypocrisy — it’s obedience. Participation in these rituals of excess is a display of loyalty to the system that sustains them. The same energy as the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, calling Trump “daddy.”

How Bezos and Sánchez’s Venetian Bacchanal Delivered a Pitch-Perfect Ad for Socialism
This billionaire bad-taste gathering is (accidental) outrage fodder for the age of populism.

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- Courtroom Drama
From Harper Lee's crusading lawyer Atticus Finch to Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury, Dickens's Jarndyce v Jarndyce to The Merchant of Venice and Jocelyn Pook's film score.
Relisten now 👇
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Jocelyn Pook, Andreas Scholl, Siobhšn Armstrong, Elizabeth Kenny & Baroque String Quartet:
🎵 How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)
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Judith Bingham, Daniel Thomas, Black Dyke Band & Professor Nicholas J. Childs:
🎵 Venice iv. Marriage with the Sea, and Fanfare
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https://open.spotify.com/track/3g0h4QJkNqaTUxLgQ5rOnH

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- Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Donald Macleod and Laurie Stras explore how Barbara Strozzi navigated the male-dominated music scene in Venice in the 17th century.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jcqm

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Antonio Vivaldi, Avi Avital, Alon Sariel & Venice Baroque Orchestra:
🎵 Double Mandolin Concerto in G major RV.532 (3rd mvt)
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Antonio Vivaldi, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon:
🎵 Concerto in B flat major, RV 167
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Giuseppe Tartini, Chouchane Siranossian, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon:
🎵 Violin Concerto in A major (3rd mvt)
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