Expo 2015: United Tastes of America
Expo 2015 vuol dire cibo, in ogni sua declinazione: è questo il tema che metterà assieme tutte le attività per il grande evento di Milano, tirando così in ballo una molteplicità di ambiti, approfondimenti, persone ed aziende. Anche il mondo dell'innovazione? Si, eccome, e in modo prioritario: la dimostrazione è nella partnership che Micros...
Supporters Visit Our Boys’ & Girls’ Towns of Italy
Mario Alioto, 2015 honoree for the San Francisco Ball of the Year, visited Boys' and Girls' Towns with his wife Kelly in February. Mario has been involved with Boys' Town in San Francisco for several years and knows BGTI's history. As he says, "until you put real faces and names to the story, it is impossible to understand the true essence of...
50 simboli del design italiano
Design, cibo, moda: quando si parla di Italia, e di genio italiano, la triade resta questa, ma non è una colpa e neanche un limite. L'attualità di certe soluzioni e la bellezza senza tempo di diverse proposte, soprattutto nell'ambito del design industriale, grazie anche a un tumultuoso per quanto tardivo sviluppo industriale nel secolo scorso, è la...
Tourists in hot water for Rome fountain dips
In the early hours of Monday, a group of American tourists put on their costumes and went for a dip in the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in Rome's Piazza Navona. According to an appalled eyewitness Victoria Wyatt, who published photos of the event on Facebook: "They did full circles around the fountain...after their 20-minute swim, the tourists dr...
Mamma mia! Italian exhibit focuses on motherhood on sidelines of Expo
by Colleen Barry They called it "The Great Mother," but organizers of an exhibit focusing on motherhood opening this week on the sidelines of the Milan Expo world's fair may just as well have been called "Mamma mia." Curator Massimiliano Gioni said there was some irony in the choice of theme "because motherhood and the mamma is part of the...
Why Sophia Loren is the Number 1
There are many, many reasons to love Sophia Loren and dedicate our enthralled gratitude to her, and to tell the story of her legend is tell the story of a piece of Italy's past, the most difficult but also the brightest pages of our country's history. In fact, Sophia Loren's career has been intertwined with the transformation of society, morals, fi...
The Art of Making Coffee the Italian Way
The morning moka: a bleary-eyed ritual involving an aluminum pot (also known as a stovetop percolator or espresso maker), a small mountain of ground coffee, and that gurgling sound that sends people rushing to their kitchen as the coffee begins sputtering and pouring into the top chamber of the pot and sending out wafts of that incomparable, comfor...
The Face of Mercy
By Nicolina Villani It was St. Ambrose who said, "Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy." Our beloved Pope Francis, for whom mercy is a central element of his personal and spiritual experience, has declared the upcoming year, "The Year of Mercy". Starting on December 8, 2015 (Feast of the Immaculate Conception), the c...
Gregorio Paltrinieri breaks oldest world record on the books in 1500
by Braden Keith Italian swimmer Gregorio Paltrinieri has broken the oldest World Record on FINA's books on Friday at the 2015 European Short Course Championships in Netanya, Israel. Paltrinieri, who is the defending World Champion in the 1500 free in both long course and short course meters, broke a World Record in the latter on Frida...
Grandi città nella morsa dello smog, la soluzione in una eco-vernice
Una tecnologia anti inquinamento racchiusa in una pittura. Si chiama Airlite e agisce in modo naturale attraverso la fotocatalisi, perfezionata e 'innestata' su una vernice. Simile alla fotosintesi clorifilliana, tale processo sfrutta la potenza della luce per liberare molecole ossidanti che attaccano gli agenti inquinanti trasformandoli in sali mi...
The $106 Million ‘Eataly World’ Revealed
By Kate Krader Italian food fans, gird your loins. Eataly World is almost here. When it opens its doors in Bologna in Sept. 2017 (if all goes as scheduled), the 20-acre complex promises to showcase 10,000-square meters (108,000-square feet) of orchards, gardens, and pastures; 40 different workshops where you can watch pasta and cheeses being...
La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic
Venice stands as a monument to the improbable paradise where city meets sea. The Venetian Republic—also known as La Serenissima, or "the Most Serene Republic"—reached levels of maritime supremacy, democratic progressiveness, financial prosperity, and both cultural achievement and innovation, flourishing for 1,000 years before its fall to Napoleon i...