Celebrating Columbus Day: an Italian holiday
by Silvia Simonetti Despite last winter's attempt to remove it from the list of official holidays observed in California and to replace it with the Native American Day, the historic Columbus Day has been saved, and it will be celebrated next Monday by the Italian American community in Los Angeles within the special framework of 2013 - Year...
Arriva a Washington "Il Principe" di Nicolo' Machiavelli per illustrare il suo tempo"
La mostra Il Principe di Niccolò Machiavelli e il suo Tempo inizia a Washington il suo tour internazionale. Dopo il successo al Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano la scorsa primavera, l'esposizione arriva, grazie alla partnership con Eni, negli Usa in occasione dell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, di cui l'azienda è corporate ambas...
Cibo e italo-americani? Un’ottima simbiosi
By Chiara Zaccherotti Quanto ha a che fare il cibo con la creazione dell'identità collettiva di un popolo? Tanto. Con l'aggiunta di un processo migratorio, poi, il fenomeno assume caratteristiche sociali ed economiche per nulla irrilevanti. Un po' come è accaduto agli italiani che a partire dalla fine dell'800 hanno lasciato la patria per attraver...
Eni supports The Guardians: Hero and Superhero. Two new sculptures at Bryant Park in New York
Eni today will unveil the installation of The Guardians: Hero and Superhero, two 13-foot-high statues created by acclaimed Italian architect and designer Antonio Pio Saracino, at Bryant Park in New York City. Hero is a gift from Italy to the United States and was donated with the support of Eni by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embass...
Prosecco production outpaces Champagne in volume
Wine production of the popular Italian bubbly Prosecco beat out French Champagne, consortiums for the two sparkling wines reported on Friday. A growing global thirst for Prosecco prompted makers to produce 330 million bottles in 2013 compared to French producers' 300 million bottles of Champagne. "It is a trend that is growing stronge...
Italian artist lights up Deering Library in the dead of winter
by Miranda Leon With polar vortexes and chilling winds, it can be difficult to deal with the frigid and desolate days of January in Chicago. One method for overcoming winter's oppression is to celebrate light and its encouraging connotations amid this dark time. The work of internationally-acclaimed Italian artist Marco Rotelli does j...
Eleven concerts for the city's European Culture Capital candidacy
The duo Karima & Ruggeri's opening concert at Teatro Duni on November 26th has marked the launch for the 12th season of Matera in Musica, the city's official concert season organized by Festival Duni and the Ico della Magna Grecia Orchestra. The event foresees 11 concerts between the end of November and May, 2014, and is part of the programme f...
Belinelli sfiora la tripla doppia. San Antonio vince a Boston
Prima doppia-doppia nella Nba per Marco Belinelli, che è stato decisivo nella vittoria dei San Antonio Spurs in casa dei Boston Celtics. Il bolognese ha chiuso con 16 punti, 11 rimbalzi, 8 assist e 6/12 al tiro, per un complessivo +17 di plus/minus nei 36 minuti in campo. Belinelli è andato a soli 2 assist dal chiudere con una storica tripla-doppia...
Sicilian mafia 'plotted to kill' former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani
The Italian mafia plotted to murder Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, a turncoat has told investigators. The assassination was ordered by Toto "The Beast" Riina, the then head of Cosa Nostra in Sicily and one of the most feared mafia godfathers. The plan was drawn up in the mid-1980s when Mr Giuliani was working as a federal prosec...
Utah Opera delivers superb ‘Turandot’
"Turandot" is one of Utah Opera's most highly anticipated productions in recent memory. The opening performance Saturday lived up to the show's buzz — and then some. Possibly the only way to improve this production would be to shorten the intermissions, because after the thrilling conclusions of the first two acts, 20 minutes seems too long to wait...
1944 to 2014: After 70 years, Kentucky’s link to WWII in Italian conflict, Dachau revealed
By Whitney Hale Almost 70 years to the date of combat in the small town of Tremensuoli, Italy, during World War II, the University of Kentucky's Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History along with a researcher in Italy have connected to reveal an amazing discovery about an American GI who served in the battle and left his mark on that communi...
11 Travel Tips Italians Want You To Know
by Lisa Condie Over 46 million tourists visit the boot-shaped peninsula each year! They come from all over the world, and many return again and again for a magic that only Italy can deliver. As Samuel Johnson said, "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a m...