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LEGO Reveals $450 Godzilla Set for Black FridayTech — Nov 2, 2026LEGO’s November lineup includes the 12,060-piece Sagrada Família, its largest set by piece count, alongside releases such as Dragon Ball: Shenron & Goku and a Venice model. The month’s headline late release is the 5,363-piece Godzilla, a roughly $450 MonsterVerse-inspired set launching November 27 with a free bonus display for early buyers while supplies last.

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LA28 Unveils Preliminary Venice Beach Triathlon Courses — Sep 23, 2026LA28 unveiled Venice Beach triathlon courses; the women's race on July 15, 2028, awards the first medals of the Games with a rare beach-start swim.

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Chris Dalton The single finish line at Venice Beach should make the races more exciting to watch in person.

Venice Bishop Dewane dies after leading 260,000 Catholics — Oct 7, 2026Bishop Frank J. Dewane, who led the Diocese of Venice for nearly two decades and served a community of roughly 250,000 to 260,000 Catholics, has died at 76 after a brief illness. He retired earlier this year; funeral arrangements are pending.

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Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz spark buzz with Venice departure — Sep 4, 2026

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Nicole Hardy Every trip these two take turns into a headline, must be exhausting for them.

Casey Affleck and Lookalike Son Indiana, 22, Appear Together at Venice Festival — Sep 9, 2026

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Sam Okafor Casey and his son really do look alike, especially side by side at the festival.

Most Influential Women in World HistoryYourlist — RankingFrom ancient queens who ruled empires to modern activists who changed laws, these women left indelible marks on politics, science, and culture. Vote for who you think shaped history most profoundly.

Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem embrace after Bunker receives 15.5-minute Venice ovation — Sep 8, 2026

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Elena Vasquez minutes of applause for Bunker shows real audience passion, and that embrace between Cruz and Bardem feels like a well-earned celebration.

‘Company’: First Footage Revealed For Casey Affleck’s Venice Drama Featuring His Two SonsEntertainment — Sep 8, 2026

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Green Canal Gambit: Greta Thunberg Banned From Venice After Protest Stunt — Nov 25, 2025Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been barred from entering Venice for 48 hours after taking part in a dramatic climate demonstration that turned the city’s famed Grand Canal bright green. According to Fox News …

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Casey Affleck and Nick Nolte Get Emotional as ‘Company’ Debuts in Venice; Ben Affleck Shows Up to SupportEntertainment — Sep 8, 2026

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New Venice museum revisits Pierre Cardin's futuristic fashion legacy — Sep 3, 2026Venice unveiled the Pierre Cardin Museum in Palazzo Cardin, displaying around 130 garments and highlighting the designer’s space-age, democratizing approach. A coordinated costume ball helped launch the museum, with events aligning to its Sept. 13 opening and reaffirming Cardin’s enduring influence on fashion licensing and design.

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Jared Kim A costume ball to launch it is such a fitting touch, the man never did anything halfway. Would love to see photos from that night.

EU Halts Venice Biennale Funding Over RussiaWorld — Jul 21, 2026The European Union halted a €2 million grant to Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia after approving the reopening of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, citing democratic values, open dialogue, diversity, and freedom of expression. The move follows widespread protests from Kyiv and the EU and comes amid broader backlash to Russia’s participation in a biennale that had been boycotted since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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New York Pizza vs Chicago Deep DishYourlist — VS BattleThe foldable slice versus the fork-and-knife casserole — America's longest-running food fight.

Venice Film Festival reportedly cancels jury press conference — Aug 29, 2026The Venice Film Festival opens with a star‑studded lineup and features Alex Gibney’s near four‑hour documentary on Elon Musk, a project Musk has criticized as a potential hit piece. In a rare move, the festival has scrapped its traditional jury press conference due to a scheduling conflict, while the jury is led by Maggie Gyllenhaal amid ongoing debates about politics at major festivals.

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Alina Șerban film takes audience award at Venice close — Sep 12, 2026The 83rd Venice Film Festival closed with a star-studded red carpet as Maggie Gyllenhaal led the jury, with contenders like NAZA, Possible Love and Wild Horse Nine driving strong showings ahead of the Golden Lion awards, which will be announced along with eight prizes in the evening. The festival also highlighted notable awards buzz and record ovations, signaling a competitive race for multiple honors.

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Marcus Bell Those strong ovations for films like NAZA and Wild Horse Nine show how competitive this year got.

Malkovich and Arcel win Venice acting awards as Gaza film stuns — Sep 12, 2026At the Venice Film Festival, John Malkovich won best actor for Wild Horse Nine as other acclaimed titles like Possible Love and DAU drew strong reactions, while NAZA emerged as a leading contender for the Golden Lion on the festival’s final night. Ultimately, Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother took the top prize, underscoring a competitive awards lineup that also highlighted Gaza-focused storytelling.

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Rachel Meyers Jarmusch taking the Golden Lion over the other contenders makes sense given his consistent track record.

AMD Helios Debuts on Azure, Expands Anthropic DealsTech — Jul 20, 2026AMD unveiled Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, as a bid to challenge Nvidia, with Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and Oracle among early customers and plans to ship to customers in the second half of 2026 for Azure deployment. Helios combines Instinct MI455X GPUs, Venice CPUs, Pensando networking and ROCm software, and will power frontier-model inference in Azure, with two new Venice-based VM series and expanded Pensando DPUs to scale cloud AI workloads.

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Build a pizza and the AI guesses your ageQuizie — QuizCrust to final slice, every topping is evidence. The AI guesses your age — and explains exactly which choice gave you away.

US Tourist Stops Alleged Pickpocket — Aug 25, 2025A vacation to Venice took a shocking turn for one American tourist — and it was all caught on camera. A now-viral video shows a U.S. mom of eight grabbing a suspected teenage pickpocket by the ponytail after realizing…

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Airlines Expand U.S. and International Flight RoutesBusiness — Oct 2, 2026Delta is expanding its European network for summer 2027 with new seasonal nonstop service from Detroit to Athens and Boston to Venice. The additions, alongside an earlier return for Detroit–Rome flights, will boost the airline’s transatlantic offerings from both hubs.

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Danny Boyle's Murdoch drama joins migration themes at Venice Festival — Sep 5, 2026At the Venice Film Festival, Italian cinema is highlighted with Paolo Genovesi’s Sei mai stata sulla luna? filmed in Milan and Apulia and focusing on inheritance and community, alongside Danny Boyle’s Ink, which reimagines the Murdoch-era press as a Frankenstein-like force and Paul Schrader’s introspective meditation on guilt and memory. Valeria Golino promotes Nessun dolore and Serpenti, arguing cinema can address harsh realities like domestic violence and migration while Gianni Amelio calls for unified European migration policy and a hopeful, morally probing ending in Nessun dolore.

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Dana Whitfield Boyle calling Murdoch's press a Frankenstein monster is a bold framing, curious to see if Ink backs it up with nuance or just spectacle.

Priscilla Presley Defends Relationship With Elvis Presley at 14Reporting — Sep 5, 2023Priscilla Presley, ex-wife of late singing legend Elvis Presley, defended their romance when he was 24 years old and she was 14. During a press conference at the Venice Film Festival on Monday for the upcoming biopic…

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Mike Huckabee: Biden’s ‘Shut Up and Obey’ Strategy Won’t Work Long-TermOpinion — Sep 30, 2021The Bible tells us in Luke 8:17 (NAS version), “For nothing is concealed that will not become evident, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.” Or as Shakespeare put it in “The Merchant of Venice,”…

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Driver Terrified After Massive Gator Easily Moves His TruckOpinion — Apr 16, 2022Daniel Jay Kaufman got a ride on the way home from work recently that he won’t soon forget. The Venice, Florida, resident was stopped at a traffic light about 5 p.m. on April 7 when he noticed a Snap-on Tools van…

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Assisi marks 800th anniversary of Francis’ deathLifestyle — Oct 9, 2026Ivy Salon & Gallery won its first Best of Butler County award as it marked 10 years in Hamilton. In separate Catholic community news, Bishop Emilio E. Biosca visited Diocese of Venice schools, while Assisi marked the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ death with a yearlong jubilee culminating in feast-day celebrations.

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Activists Claim Cops Murdered BLM Co-Founder’s Cousin, Then the Body Cam Footage Comes OutOpinion — Jan 14, 2023Following a Jan. 3 traffic accident at a busy intersection in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles witnesses say he caused, Keenan Anderson, 31, tried to flee the police. According to witnesses, Anderson showed signs…

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Wenders defends 'antidote' remark as Gyllenhaal offers contrasting view — Sep 6, 2026Wim Wenders reiterates that filmmakers, with empathy, are the opposite of politicians and that cinema can influence change, while clarifying he did not intend to say filmmakers should stay out of politics despite controversy at Berlin. He spoke at Venice about his new film on architect Peter Zumthor, stressing that politics and artistry intersect and that his earlier remarks were misunderstood.

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Sam Okafor Gyllenhaal's pushback probably reflects how actors feel the political weight more directly than a director explaining his intent afterward.