Aesthetics of fonts and paper. A special lecture by an Italian letterpress-printer - November 21, 2014 at 6:00 pm
An event in partnership with the Tallone publishing house. Featuring a Q&A with Elisa and Eleonora Tallone Screening of: Il mestiere del libro [The Book Handicraft] (2007, 31 min.) In Italian with English subtitles In the digital age, the visual and tactile delights experienced by reading books set by hand in type...
È ancora l’America la meta più ambita dagli studenti
Gli studenti stranieri regolarmente iscritti nei college e nelle università degli Stati Uniti sono incrementati dell'8 per cento nell'anno accademico 2013-2014, fino a raggiungere la cifra complessiva di 886,052 iscritti, rivela il report Open Doors on International Educational Exchange del 2014, reso pubblico oggi a Washington. Il numero...
Put Sacco and Vanzetti sculpture on display
EIGHTY-SEVEN years ago, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in the state prison in Charlestown. The two men, self-avowed anarchists, had been convicted in the April 1920 robbery murder of two men at the Slater & Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree — paymaster Frederick A. Parmenter and his guard, Alessandro...
Italian land and nature: The Italian Riviera of Ponente
WTI Magazine #49 2014 December, 10Author : italia.it Translation by: Jagged-edge coasts, enormous cliffs that go on for miles, enchanting, characteristic sea villages: each one is different from the other, yet each one is a reflection of the setting that is the Italian Riviera (also known as the Ligurian Riviera). The Riviera is subd...
Lavazza Expands “Buongiorno” Advertsing Campaign To U.S.
After doubling investments in 2013, Lavazza, Italy's Favorite Coffee, is proud to announce that The Italians Are Coming to the U.S. With an amplified 2014/2015 strategy, Lavazza launched their integrated Buongiorno campaign to expand marketing and promotional efforts in North America to grow the brand's reach exponentially and secure the U.S. as th...
Introducing Tony De Nonno
Multi-award winning filmmaker, director, producer and cultural historian. He'll take the JetBlue red-eye from New York to Albuquerque in early February to headline the Albuquerque opening gala of the 2015 NM Italian Film & Culture Festival — "Strings Attached". Why the reference to strings? Well, because Tony brings with him the fascin...
Presentato alla Camera dei Deputati il libro “Andarsene sognando. L’emigrazione nella canzone italiana”
E' stato presentato a Roma , presso la sala del Refettorio di Palazzo San Macuto (Camera dei Deputati) , il libro di Eugenio Marino "Andarsene sognando. L'emigrazione nella canzone italiana", pubblicato dall'editore Cosmo Iannone nella collana Quaderni sulle Migrazioni. Un'analisi storica a 360 gradi che ripercorre il variegato passato del...
Screening of The White Sheik (Il sciecco bianco, 1952, 83 min.)
Screening of The White Sheik (Il sciecco bianco, 1952, 83 min.) by Federico Fellini with Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, and Brunella Bovoin Italian with English subtitles Tuesday, February 3rd at 6pmItalian Cultural Institute Join us for the first screening of Italian films of the season! A selection of films by Federico Fellini will...
Avviso di assunzione di impiegato a contratto temporaneo da adibire ai servizi di collaboratore amministrativo
E' indetta la selezione per l'assunzione presso l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington di un impiegato con contratto temporaneo (della durata di sei mesi) da adibire ai servizi di Collaboratore amministrativo. Possono candidarsi coloro che siano in possesso dei seguenti requisiti alla data del presente avviso: abbiano compiuto il 18° anno di e...
The Pasta Sisters: la pasta fresca come quella della nonna adesso anche a Los Angeles
«Ma Giorgia, non posso mica fare gnocchi per tutti ristoranti di Los Angeles!». «Vabbé mamma, vorrà dire che ti aiuterò io». Per fare impresa, così come nella preparazione di una ricetta, ci vanno ingredienti e metodo. Prendete una buona dose di coraggio, aggiungeteci un po' d'incoscienza per affrontare il rischio, quindi armatevi di pazie...
Easy Cioppino is a traditional San Francisco seafood stew
I once went with a friend to San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf — for lunch. I grew up as the daughter of a commercial airline pilot, which made it easy to taste the world on a whim. My children did not inherit the same travel benefits, but I like to think that my own job as a food editor and restaurant critic has shown them that worthwhile...
Local opera productions blend comedy, tragedy
Behind beautiful music sometimes lurks the shadow of violence. Something horrible awaits the audience in the final scene of many operas. And at least one composer, the Renaissance’s Carlo Gesualdo, was a murderer. Two concerts this weekend touch upon this aspect of music. And while they may cause an occasional shudder, they should ultimately leav...