An Empire for Our Time: Cinematic Appropriations of Ancient Rome
The spectacular story of Rome's origins, expansion and fall have provided Hollywood screenwriters with a rich storehouse of material to mine over the course of the 20th century. Some topics, such as gladiators or Caesar and Cleopatra, remain perennial favorites, while other themes, such as Roman daily life, have been given new attention, e...
Chamber honors Giannetti family for service to Brownsville
When Philip "Chip" Giannetti was a youngster growing up in Brownsville, he recalled how his parents were involved in the community: his father was on the Brownsville Area School Board and park board while operating a garbage business and Dodge car dealership, and his mother was active at church. Three generations of the Giannetti family, l...
I giovani italiani di New York 2 / Young Italians in New York 2
This symposium will continue the discussion begun during the first encounter of "I giovani italiani di New York." Panelists will come from a variety of professions and speak to their experiences as young Italians and the challenges they face in today's fast-paced professional worlds.
Bocconiani di tutto il mondo unitevi. A New York la conferenza internazionale con Monti e Marchionne
by Maurita Cardone L'università Bocconi arriva a New York per affermare la propria (crescente) vocazione internazionale affacciandosi nella capitale mondiale del business, vetrina per eccellenza. Con la Bocconi Alumni American Conference, venerdì 20 giugno, l'università milanese ha riunito nella Grande Mela i propri ex alunni intorno al t...
New Breed of Italian Jewelers Make Their Mark
I've often said Italy as a country produces the best designed and crafted jewelry in the world. Whether mass marketed or bespoke the tradition of jewelry making in the country, the number and variety of pieces, and the jewelry-manufacturing infrastructure is unsurpassed. However, there are signs that the jewelry industry isn't advancing. T...
Museums plan Piero di Cosimo exhibit in US, Italy
Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo's career in painting will be examined next year in a major exhibition planned for Washington and Florence, Italy. The National Gallery of Art will announce Friday that it's organizing the first major retrospective of Piero's paintings with the Uffizi museum in Florence. Curators say it will include 40 of...
Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development, Luisa Del Giudice, Independent Scholar
Wednesday, October 29 The Watts Towers — a complex of multistoried structures decorated in pique assiette — were created over the course of three decades by a determined artist, Sabato "Sam" Rodia, an Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do "something big" and ended up creating an internationally renowned architectural wonder. Featurin...
The Book of Mucci: A Warrior’s Tale
By Niccolò Graffio War is a strange phenomenon, to say the least. It is during wartime that humans can both reach the greatest heights of heroism and go down to the lowest depths of bestiality. I believe it was no less than Gen. George S. Patton Jr. who once exclaimed "Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignific...
Garry Marshall - Awakening the Italian in me
Hollywood sells the American dream to the whole world, a clear example of that is the movie Pretty Woman, which ends the modern Cinderella fable with the line "This is Hollywood, the land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't, but keep on dreaming". If you were to ask all the people that come to Los Angeles, both from United States and from...
San Gennaro Festival in Seattle: Celebrating Italian Heritage and Charity
by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis Brown If you are Italian, there is a very good chance you know the story of San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples. A man of unwavering Christian faith, he was known for his generosity, especially to the needy. The Romans beheaded him in the fourth century. His mourners wrapped the bishop's body and severed h...
Columbus Day celebration set for Oct. 13 at Elmwood Park, Norristown
For the fifth consecutive year, local waste service company J. P. Mascaro & Sons will sponsor Norristown's Columbus Day Celebration. The event will be held on Monday, Oct. 13, at 11:15 a.m. at the borough's Christopher Columbus Commemorative Monument in the Elmwood Park, Harding Boulevard and Sterigere Street. This years keynote speaker for the...
Potere e potenzialità della lingua italiana nel mondo
by Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino La settimana dedicata alla lingua italiana è un evento che promuove lo studio della nostra lingua nel mondo. L'evento organizzato ogni anno dalla rete culturale e diplomatica della Farnesina, si svolge durante la terza settimana di ottobre con conferenze, mostre, spettacoli, incontri con scrittori, con spettacoli e in...