How Italian businesses are feeling the strain of US trade tensions
The real-world impact of the trade tensions sparked by the current U.S. administration is now showing up in official data. According to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the consequences for Italian companies are beginning to materialize in the value of U.S. trade statistics. Since the announcement of new "reciprocal" tariffs on April...
World Health Expo in Miami: Italian MedTech Exports to the U.S. Up 14%
Italian medical technology continues to gain traction in the U.S. market: in 2024, exports to the United States grew by 14.6% compared to the previous year, reaching a total value of $832 million (source: usatrade.census.gov). This positive trend sets the stage for Italy’s participation in the upcoming World Health Expo (Whx) in Miami, scheduled fo...
Bridging Worlds: Italians at the Forefront of Science and Space
Tuesday June 10, 2025 - 6:30PM - 8:30PM. Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, 644 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA. A conversation with the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF) shaping the future across science, technology, and beyond. Join us for an special event celebrating the groundbreaking work of Italian s...
Tucci in Italy: Episode 2 Recap
In Episode Two of Tucci in Italy, Stanley Tucci heads north to Lombardy. It’s a region that represents finance, manufacturing, and Milanese fashion, but Tucci is looking at what’s coming out of the kitchens. He visits Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, and the striking plains of the Pianura Padana, meeting the people helping to maintain Italy’s obsession wit...
Seventeen Italian researchers awarded in Chicago for innovative cancer studies
Seventeen Italian researchers have received the prestigious Conquer Cancer Foundation Merit Award during the world congress of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago. Eight of them work in Italian institutions and universities, while nine are currently working abroad. Their studies have been recognized for their “high level of...
Amore e Amore celebrates Italian cuisine
Located in Inman Park, family-owned restaurant Amore e Amore combines themed decorations with authentic Italian cuisine. The restaurant is owned by Giovanni Ferro and his wife Gale Parker. Ferro opened the restaurant with the goal of embracing his Italian culture through the food, as well as creating a family-friendly atmosphere. “When you come he...
They Won’t Let Sacco and Vanzetti Die
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have been arrested in time on the third floor of the Community Church of Boston. They are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought to disrupt it. In the Church, their memory has...
An honest review of every (major) Italian lake
First things first: the Italian Lakes are beautiful. Balmy weather in what should be a region of Alpine chill nurtures palms, olives, lemons and a profusion of sublime villa gardens. Old fishing villages cling to the shores, the views are some of Italy’s loveliest, and gentle hills and rugged mountains tumble to the water to provide the most perfec...
Song'E Napule
For a sit-down Neapolitan pizza, Song’E Napule in Greenwich Village always delivers. The pizza comes out of the oven consistently chewy and light, with nicely charred edges, and you can pretty much always get a table—even at peak downtown bar-and-restaurant hopping hours. The restaurant is bigger than it looks from the street, and colored in the s...
Samnites: The Italian Enemies of Rome
The Samnites were Italic tribes that migrated from Central Europe to the mountainous area of south-central Italy in the 9th century BC. They later became an enemy of Rome. Even though these tribes shared language and cultural ties, each maintained a level of autonomy in governance and societal organization. They were native to a region known as Sam...
IACC celebrates 100 years
It began several decades ago. A group of Italian immigrants came to the city of Steubenville, making it their home away from home. These particular individuals were filled with passion …. passion for preserving their cultural identity within America, within Ohio, within Steubenville. And they chose to do so through the theater. A group of these men...
No sandcastles and no clogs! Italy's most bizarre laws
Italy is known for many wonderful things: art, architecture, opera, hand gestures, and an enviable approach to coffee. But tucked among these cultural icons, there is something just as incredible: its delightfully peculiar laws. Some are old, some still enforced, and some are just baffling enough to raise an eyebrow and bring a smile. Whether aime...