IT and US: Valentino, the Italian immigrant who created a dazzling, enduring legend
WTI Magazine #39 2014 July, 16Author : Cookie Curci Translation by: In an era of fast cars, flappers and bathtub gin, a restless and liberated generation searched for a hero. They found him in silent screen star Rudolph Valentino who, a decade earlier, was among the influx of poor Europeans who came to America. Like most Italian immi...
Italian Lights Festival
The 5th Annual Italian Lights Festival is the weekend of September 5th through 7th this year. Join in celebrating the Italian culture and cuisine over three days. This is a family-friendly event that includes activities like a meatball eating contest, grape stomping competition and wine tastings. There will also be live music, free parking...
36 Hours: Lake Como, Italy
by Ingrid K. Williams In the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, Lake Como deserves its reputation as a playground for the wealthy. Virtually deserted during the winter, the wishbone-shaped lake awakens from its slumber in mid-March when glamorous crowds begin flocking to the pretty towns clustered around its midsection: Bellagio, Men...
Italian sport: Medals, medals, medals ... give it up for our girls and boys in the swimming pool!
WTI Magazine #42 2014 September, 3Author : Simone Callisto Manca Translation by: Federica Pellegrini, Tania Cagnotto, Martina Grimaldi, and not only: behind the "star" of Italian swimming there is a growing generation of young and very young that, after the disappointment of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the transition of the 201...
Seattle mayor wants Columbus Day changed
By Graham Johnson There's wide support at Seattle City Hall for transforming Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples' Day. But the City Council vote scheduled for Monday was delayed so the move can get more attention. Councilmember Bruce Harrell, a co-sponsor of the resolution, pointed out KIRO 7's camera alone in the City Council chambers, and said...
Italy and Miami Strenghten Their Alliance With a Full Week of Cultural Activities to Celebrate the Senate of Florida Resolution ‘October – Italian and Italian American Heritage Month in Florida’.
Italian Institutions and Enterprises join forces to bring a series of prestigious artistic events to the heart of Miami. LIGHTNING RELEASES Miami September 29th 2014. For one week the longstanding friendship between Italy and Miami will be celebrated by a dynamic, rich, and multifaceted activation. A series of cultural and artistic events...
Walking Stories - October 22, 2014 at 6:30PM
Mr. Stroppini will present some of his most successful projects, including the outstanding Il Viaggio di Arnold, which describes the journey that brought Stroppini from a little village called Andermatt in Switzerland to the little Greek Island of Iraklia. The journey retraces the path that a mysterious man, Arnol Hünsperger, took in 1974. Stroppin...
Georgia university to develop Italian campus
Life University in Marietta is planning to develop a campus in Rome, Italy. The Marietta Daily Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1zzqbBQ) that Life's board of trustees last week voted to move forward with the plan. Officials say the Rome campus would offer a Doctor of Chiropractic degree -- the same degree offered at the Georgia campus. &nb...
Figura di spicco in politica Consoli selezionato dagli Usa
Il vice sindaco di Catania Marco Consoli ha ricevuto dalle mani di Kathleen Doherty, vice ambasciatore Usa in Italia, la lettera d'invito a partecipare all'International visitor leadership program nel corso di una breve cerimonia svoltasi nel Salone Bellini di Palazzo degli Elefanti. Il programma di scambio culturale Ivlp,finanziato dal Di...
William Tell - WED 12.03.14 at 7:00PM
A highlight of the 2014-2015 Harris Theater Presents season, Teatro Regio Torino of Turin, Italy, launches its first-ever North American tour at the Harris Theater with a rare concert production of Gioachino Rossini's William Tell sung in Italian. One of Italy's oldest and most venerable opera companies, under the leadership of internation...
10 Old-Fashioned Italian-American Restaurants to Try in Brooklyn
Near the end of the 19th century, Italian-America cuisine was invented by housewives from regions like Campania, Apulia, and Sicily who arrived in America to find many of the ingredients they were accustomed to cooking with simply not available. Cured pig products, fresh herbs like rosemary and sage, capers, foraged mushrooms, canned Itali...
The first restoration school in Southern Italy opens in Matera reinforcing its role as European capital of culture
by Eliana Di Caro The South's first restoration school is being finalized in Basilicata, in the heart of the historic centre of Matera, the European capital for Culture 2019, the city of Sassi (stone dwellings, ed.). "The classrooms are almost ready, the last furnishings are arriving. The laboratories for restorations and the scientific la...