Rome's Fiumicino airport best in world for security
Rome Fiumicino Airport has been named the World's Best Airport for Security Processing by Skytrax, the principal rating and assessment company in the international airport sector. The recognition for Fiumicino, known officially as Leonardo da Vinci International Airport, is part of the 2024 awards from the UK-based Skytrax which surveys travellers...
Mario Andretti offended by F1 rejection. 'If they want blood, well, I’m ready,' says 1978 champ
Mario Andretti said Friday he was deeply offended by the language Formula One Management used in denying his family and General Motors the opportunity to join the global motorsports series. The 1978 Formula 1 world champion said he was “devastated” when F1 rejected Andretti and General Motors in late January in their application to expand the curre...
Absolute domination of Italy at the XXXI pizza world championship
The XXXI edition of the Pizza World Championship has just concluded, featuring 718 competitors representing 55 nations. With 1078 challenges to determine a single winner across various categories, the city of Parma served as an exceptional venue. Italy emerges triumphantly from the competition, with near absolute dominance in several specialties. G...
IAP 320: teaching, traveling, and transforming lives!
Well, the ground beneath us may have shaken from New Jersey’s surprising earthquake, but it’s the stirring tales of passing along the Italian culture to future generations that truly rock our world! This week we’re joined by the delightful Marisa Fusaro, Italian teacher and creator of Stellina Travel, who shares her insights on the crucial role of...
We discovered the first pasta made from olive leaf flour, it's fantastic and it comes from Ascoli
We discovered a new fresh pasta, it tastes like olives but maintains all the characteristics of a beautiful artisanal pasta in both aroma and texture. It's the latest creation of Paride Vagnoni, a visionary and pragmatic entrepreneur, deeply passionate about Ascolan gastronomic traditions, who wanted to propel them into the future through industria...
City planners say it’s time to put Northwest Side’s Little Italy on the map
A long-running effort to turn a stretch of Harlem Avenue on the Far Northwest Side into a walkable showcase for Italian American businesses and culture like Little Italy’s Taylor Street is inching forward. City planners told the 2-mile stretch between Grand Avenue and Irving Park Road can become a destination neighborhood with improvements to the s...
Sabrina Impacciatore continues to conquer America: she's the first name in the cast of "The Office" spin-off
Nothing surprising, in some ways. Sabrina Impacciatore's excellent performance in the second season of The White Lotus gave her great popularity in the United States. So much so that it even led her to an Emmy nomination in the category dedicated to best supporting actress in a drama series. It is a great pleasure to finally see the talent of an im...
Michele Ferrero's sweet intuition gone iconic: Nutella turns 60 years old
60 years of history locked in a jar, Nutella has become a brand, not just a product. Nutella's 60 years celebrate the genius of Michele Ferrero, who invented the hazelnut and chocolate spread in 1964. For decades it was an almost unique proposition inside large-scale retail; today it has become a product category in its own right. On April 20, 1964...
PA Judges Unanimously Revive Lawsuit That Would Prevent the Removal of Pittsburgh’s Christopher Columbus Statue
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Friday overturned the dismissal of a lawsuit that was filed to block the planned removal of Pittsburgh’s Columbus statue, writing in a 24-page opinion that a lower court “erred” in its dismissal of the case in 2022. Philadelphia litigator George Bochetto filed the lawsuit, and subsequent appeal, on behalf of t...
An unpublished piece by Giacomo Puccini will be performed for the first time at the Lucca classical music festival, April 28
A young Puccini, a piece that remained "hidden" for a very long time, then available only in unfinished form and, finally, brought back to light recently thanks to the studies of Professor Gabriella Biagi Ravenni of the Centro Studi Puccini, who found it complete in the library of the Conservatorio di Musica "Luigi Boccherini," where the Puccini wa...
Presentation of 400th festival of Santa Rosalia (Palermo - Italy) in New York
The press conference for presenting the 400th anniversary of the Feast of Santa Rosalia 1624-2024 took place at the headquarters of the Italian Consulate in New York, attended by the Mayor of the Municipality of Palermo, Roberto Lagalla. This year marks the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the miraculous remains of Santa Rosalia, the...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 174
Dear friends, I just came back from a magnificent Verrazzano Day in Tuscany, in Greve in Chianti, the small town where the great explorer who first entered New York Bay 500 years ago was born. It was a beautiful day of friendship between Italy and the United States together with the Tuscan authorities, the new U.S. Consul in Florence Danela Ballard...