What pre-Roman burials in Italy are telling us
Death is inevitable, but what death shows us about the social behaviors of the living is not. And recent University of Cincinnati research examining the ancient bereavement practices from the the Central Apulian region in pre-Roman Italy helps shed light on economic and social mobility, military service and even drinking customs in a culture...
Seattle’s Famous Teatro ZinZanni Serves Up An International Cast for Its Latest Theatre Spectacle “Be Italian!”
It's old country meets new world in the all-new larger-than-life Teatro ZinZanni Seattle creation, "Be Italian!," which is starting rehearsals with its brand new cast this week in the magical, Seattle-based spiegeltent. Teatro ZinZanni is a fully original show based in Seattle, Washington whose model is unlike anything else seen in the Uni...
They did it! Columbus Square Park is funded
By Bill Chenevert Almost exactly two years ago, South Philly Review reported on the meeting at Columbus Square Park, between 12th and 13th and Wharton and Reed streets, and the nearly $3-million renovations that the Columbus Square Advisory Council was proposing for the park. At the time, $3 million seemed like a massive amount of...
Referendum popolare del 17 aprile 2016
Alcune date importanti per i cittadini italiani che intendano votare al referendum del 17 aprile. I residenti stabilmente nella circoscrizione consolare dell'Ambasciata e iscritti nell'AIRE che intendano votare in Italia, dovranno far pervenire a questa Ambasciata ENTRO IL 26 FEBBRAIOun'apposita dichiarazione su carta libera. Gli elet...
Judge rules state within rights to ban ‘offensive’ lunch cart
A federal judge has ruled that the state did not violate the First Amendment rights of the owners of Albany's "Wandering Dago" lunch cart when it was banned from slinging sandwiches in a government complex because of the anti-Italian slur in its name. Northern District federal Judge Mae D'Agostino dismissed the lawsuit filed by the truck's...
The 50th anniversary of the Asian Art Museum gets an Italian touch with Matteo Ricci’s exhibition
The celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco got an Italian touch: while the museum's current home was designed by architect Gae Aulenti, the museum is hosting an exhibition regarding the Italian Jesuit Missionary Matteo Ricci, curated - among others - by Italian exhibition designer Marco Centin. The co...
Poughkeepsie's Italian Center to Host Discussion with Author Douglas Gladstone
Author Douglas J. Gladstone, whose book argues that the United States Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) is chiseling Mount Rushmore's Italian-American chief carver out of posthumous credit, will talk about the issue before members of Noi Italiani D'Oggi (NIDO) at the Italian Center on Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m. Glad...
This New Italian E-Commerce Site Is Taking on the Luxury Fashion Industry
Buy your new favorite leather jacket and fight the tyranny of retail markups in one fell swoop? Sign us up.Armadio is a new e-commerce marketplace that brings luxury Italian fashion straight from Tuscany's best craftsmen—the same ones that design and manufacture leather goods for brands such as Prada, Gucci, Max Mara, and Brunello Cucinelli, and co...
The Mirandola biomedical district hit a 2015 export high, with an extraordinary +29.1%
The boom of exports of the biomedical sector accomplished by the Mirandola district, in the province of Modena (+29.1% in 2015 according to the Monitor Intesa San Paolo), is the proof that currently Made in Italy has no rivals, not even in the hi-tech industry, when it is courageous enough to invest in research, innovation and training, turning ter...
ICC Minneapolis Seeks Executive Assistant
The Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St Paul is a non-profit organization founded in 2006. The ICC promotes the best of Italian culture in Minnesota to people of all ages, and creates stimulating opportunities for enrichment on personal and community levels. We provide Italian language classes which are taught by native instructors. In additi...
Museum of the Rockies only Western museum to host centuries-old Italian artifacts
June 18 will be the first day that Museum of the Rockies visitors can take in an exhibit they've never seen before — and probably will never see again. "Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii" will illustrate not only the wealth that people loved to show off during the years before Vesuvius did them all...
Lingua e cultura: il CQIE negli USA
Da oggi e fino al 6 giugno, il senatore Pd Claudio Micheloni è in missione a Washington-New York-Chicago (USA) alla guida di una delegazione del Comitato per le questioni degli italiani all'estero – di cui è presidente – e della Commissione Istruzione composta dai senatori Mussini, Conte e Turano. Cqie e Commissione sono impegnati nell'indagine con...