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The article focuses on Club dei 27, an exclusive club based in Parma, Italy whose members share common adoration of 19th-century composer Giuseppe Verdi. Information is provided about the history of the club, the annual club gathering every 10th of October to celebrate the life and music of Verdi, the club's dress code for special occasions, prerequisites and process of member selection, and the names taken by members.

The article highlights how mainstream media in India, once critical, became staunch supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose popularity and control over information systems were so dominant that they misled public sentiment, only to face a surprising electoral setback.

The article offers news brief on topic including Sierra Leonean emigres, beat Rafael Nadal to reach the quarterfinals of the U.S Open, tennis has nudged itself into the conversation.

The article discusses that a top-tier Israeli soccer team with a notoriously racist, Arab-hating fan base has sold a 50 percent ownership stake to a member of one of the royal families of the United Arab Emirates. It mentions that the barrier-shattering deal is among the first fruits of Israel's nearly three-month-old normalization agreement with the Emirates and carries outsize symbolic importance; and puts a Muslim sheikh at the helm of Beitar Jerusalem.

The article focuses on soccer team Atlanta United F.C. It includes information on the participation of Atlanta in Major League Soccer competition and Atlanta fan club Terminus Legion. It also mentions the training of player of Atlanta Hector Villalba for team's debut soccer match against soccer team New York Red Bulls.

The article focuses on an annual event celebrated by the players of the soccer team German Bayern Munich, as of December 2016. It states the tradition of meeting and greeting fan clubs by players of the team, and cites example of player Thomas Müller, who met the fan club De Rodn Waginga in Munich, Germany. It notes commercial success of Bayern.

The article focuses on a study which found a 93% increase in the population of the endangered small migratory shorebird, piping plover, that nests in Fire Island, off the southern coast of Long Island, New York after the island was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.

The article discusses the San Francisco Giants baseball team of San Francisco, California, focusing on the return of players including Willie Howard Mays Jr. to New York city, the team's original home, for games in September, 2013. A rivalry between Giants fans in the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia organization and the New York Giants Preservation Society is mentioned.

The article examines how the fan clubs of musicians and other entertainers have used the Internet to advocate their own interests, often in direct conflict with those entertainers. The fan club of Miley Cyrus, the lead actress in the television program "Hannah Montana," is suing the singer's Web site for a deceptive concert ticket promotion. A coalition of fan Web sites of the rock musician Prince are fighting his effort to keep them from posting photographs of his concerts.

The article reports on the demand of the Landscrona, the fan club of Zenit St. Petersburgh, that the team include no gray or African American players in Russia in 2012. The group posted a letter on its Web site stating that it liked to preserve the traditional identity of the team by signing just homegrown players. Antiracism officials stated that the request was another embarrassment for the country as it prepares to host OAO Gazprom and the 2018 World Cup.

KENSINGTON, Conn. -- The unofficial Chicago Bulls fan club of central Connecticut gathered around a 110-inch television one Thursday earlier this month. One family composed most of the club, four parents and two siblings who live here within half a mile of one another, the entire brood close by, always, except for one. The face of the absent one filled the screen midway through the first quarter of the Bulls' game against the Miami Heat. Career mementos sat nearby, decorations for the fan cave, autographs from Yao Ming and Patrick Ewing and Derrick Rose, a framed Ray Allen jersey, a signed box score from N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bites from the Broadway bug can be deep, incurable and -- for both actors and fans -- easy to scratch, even on nights when not much is playing onstage. Instead of resting on their nights off or going home after the curtain falls, many Broadway performers head to places across the city where no show tune or pop song is wasted. Watching them are Facebook-generated micro-fan clubs, fellow actors, Broadway hangers-on and, if kismet allows, producers, casting agents or other theatrical dream makers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the charitable engagements of 501st Legion, an organization established by a costume fan club of the movie "Star Wars." It is headed by Mark Fordham. The group has 3,385 members in 43 countries. They visit children hospitals and play Santa Claus by wearing the costumes of Star Wars. They have also developed a good relationship with Lucasfilm Ltd. which gave them an opportunity to act in a Star War segment of the Rose Parade.

The article focuses on the importance of celebrity branding in the fragrance industry. A former vice-president and an author, Raymond A. Nadeau says that the fragrance industry has been a supplement to the fashion industry for the last few years. He thinks that this craze for celebrities has no association with fan club.

This article presents information about Sal's Pals, a fan club for baseball player San Fasano.