If English is your mother tongue or what you read best make sure you pick up a copy of The Florentine when you are here. They publish every two weeks and have a great calendar that includes movie times and all kinds of art, music and cultural events both in Florence and greater Tuscany. They also do an interview in each issue with a an interesting Florentine, and have some original articles and a small but growing classified section, along with short snippets of daily local and national news. Their website is not exactly friendly (they only publish PDF files) but might be good to download and browse off-line and/or print.
