Alexa speaks Roman: Ale Giorgini signs the new illustrated edition
Bezos may be getting married in Venice, but Alexa stays loyal to Rome. Amazon celebrates 15 years of operations in Italy with a special tribute to the capital: “Echo Dot Limited Edition Rome”, the first European limited edition Echo device. The project is signed by illustrator Ale Giorgini, known to Domus readers for designing the header of the Mod...
Assemblyman Ed Ra Presents Italian American Legislators Scholarship To New Hyde Park Memorial High School Valedictorian Marco Valle
Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) today presented the Assemblyman James D. Conte Memorial Academic Scholarship to Marco Valle, a senior at New Hyde Park Memorial High School and the school’s Class of 2025 valedictorian. The scholarship, awarded by the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators, recognizes outstanding academic ach...
Welcome To The White Lotus – Taormina Sicily
For the ultimate escape, fantasy, indulgence, magic carpet ride this Sicilian retreat gorges in rich history. It has everything, perfect weather, euphoric vistas, art, opera, renaissance, ancient Greek theater. The shopping district here makes 5th Avenue look like a miserable mouse. Taormina played host to season two of White Lotus. If you haven’t...
Delta Airlines celebrates 100 years and strengthens its leadership in Italy: 'First carrier between US and Italy, second European market after UK'
With 17 daily flights and steady growth, Delta Airlines remains the number one airline for passenger traffic between Italy and the United States. Our country is now the second largest European market for the American carrier, right after the United Kingdom. A new direct Rome-Seattle flight will also arrive in 2026. During a special evening organi...
Italian capital of contemporary art 2027: six cities vying for the title
The race for the title of Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027, established by the Ministry of Culture to promote creativity, the cultural production fabric and social inclusion through innovative art projects, has officially begun. There are six accepted project proposals submitted by eight Italian municipalities, individually or in aggregate,...
Cleveland Museum of Art acquires Giambologna sculpture
“The Fata Morgana is a masterpiece within Giambologna’s oeuvre, deploying his favorite subject in marble—the female nude—to express his trademark modeling and dynamism,” the release reads. “This extraordinarily rare and internationally renowned sculpture will go on view in a dedicated gallery of the Italian Renaissance collection (117B) of the Clev...
The Bue Standard: How Bandiere Blu Shape the Sustainable Future of Italy
Liguria, Puglia, Calabria, Campania – but also Marche, Tuscany, Sardinia, and Abruzzo. These are the regions with the highest number of Blue Flags in 2025, a quality certification that 246 Italian coastal municipalities and 84 tourist marinas can proudly claim this summer. In total, 487 beaches across the country have earned the label. Thanks to ex...
'Like hitting the lottery': Sopranos star shares stories with fans at Brockton Rox game
Actor Steve Schirripa was living in Las Vegas and had a full-time job at a hotel when he auditioned for “The Sopranos,” he said. Schirripa said he first auditioned for a role as the FBI agent on "The Sopranos," but was told, "No, we don’t see you as that guy, we see you as 'Bacala,'" he said. A week later, he auditioned again for creator David Chas...
Genoa: the ultimate guide to visit it in 2025
Squeezed between the mountains of the Ligurian-Genoese Apennines and the blue of the sea, Genoa is a city of a thousand faces and a thousand colors. Stretched vertically, Genoa is the fascinating city that gave birth to the great Christopher Columbus and that has been sung many times by poets and singer-songwriters such as the beloved Fabrizio De A...
Dancing of the Giglio at West Hempstead's St. Thomas the Apostle honors Italian-American tradition
The Sons of San Paolino celebrated 20 years of Italian-American tradition with its annual Dancing of the Giglio last Saturday. The event was the highlight of a four-day festival held at West Hempstead’s St. Thomas the Apostle Church. The Dancing of the Giglio has roots in Italian religious traditions. For over 1,000 years, the feast has honored Sai...
Living in an Italian village: the reality of rural life
There’s something a bit magical about life in an Italian village. Winding cobbled lanes, neighbours who know your name, the slow chime of church bells and the promise of an afternoon spritz under the shade of a vine-draped pergola. Moving to an Italian village means trading city noise for mountain views or rolling fields, swapping big supermarkets...
A Promise Kept: An Italian American’s 18-Year Journey for Dual Citizenship
My family’s roots trace back to the small mountain town of Controne, Italy, about 70 miles south of Naples. It was there that my grandparents — Vincenzo Manfredi, born on December 24, 1885, and Filomena Chiaini, born on October 12, 1892 — began their lives together. They married on May 3, 1914, and had four children: Nicola, Silvia, Eduardo (my fat...