Paolo Sorrentino Talks Actors Sean Penn and Toni Servillo and Oscar Frontrunner 'The Great Beauty'
I first discovered the cinema of Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino in 2008 when I saw "Il Divo" at Cannes, which stars the incandescent Toni Servillo as former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. Even though the biopic did a deep dive into decades of arcane Machiavellian politics in Italy, the movie was utterly accessible because Servillo carried you th...
Alla virologa Ilaria Capua l’Excellence Award 2014
Alla virologa Ilaria Capua l'Excellence Award 2014 nel campo della Microbiologia Clinica e Malattie Infettive. Il prestigioso riconoscimento è stato attribuito alla ricercatrice , nata a Roma nel 1966 e padovana di adozione, dall'ESCMID, la Società Europea di Microbiologia Clinica e Malattie Infettive. Capua è la prima donna europea a ricevere il P...
America’s 12 Best Italian Restaurant Chains
Like Irish pubs and Chinese takeouts, you'd be hard-pressed to find a moderately-populated town without an Italian restaurant. And for much of the country, that Italian restaurant is a chain. We canvassed the country, and from corporate behemoths like Olive Garden to family-run chains like The Old Spaghetti Factory, we've tracked down the 12 best c...
A Sicilian-American goes back to school on an olive ranch in Sicily
I consider myself a fortunate person. I get to run one of America's finest Italian restaurants, I have a loving family and many friends, I get to travel a lot and do a lot of research and I get to experience first-hand what some people only dream of. This past March, I traveled to Sicily with a group of friends and visited everything from...
Italian traditions: Franchises de Nus, Nus
WTI Magazine #26 2014 Apr, 18Author : folclore.it Translation by: Franchises de Nus is a weekend of celebrations in Nus, Aosta, to commemorate and celebrate the relief granted to the town in 1296.
USA, proprietà intellettuale: dopo 25 anni, Italia fuori da "watch list" dei paesi sotto osservazione
Con il rapporto annuale pubblicato oggi dall'Amministrazione Obama sul rispetto della proprietà intellettuale, l'Italia viene finalmente rimossa - dopo ben 25 anni di permanenza continuativa - dalla lista dei Paesi sotto osservazione per le criticità nel settore della proprietà intellettuale. "Risultato di straordinaria importanza" "E' un...
Italian Heritage Night — at the Ball Park!
by Mauro Battocchi San Francisco is lucky to have AT&T Park as the home of their beloved Giants. The modern behemoth is nestled against San Francisco Bay and, if the action on the field lulls, the bleacher seats can gaze out over the water and watch the container ships drift by. Usually, though, the game has good pep, considering the G...
L’ambasciatore @CBisogniero in Indiana
L'Ambasciatore d'Italia a Washington, Claudio Bisogniero, era nei giorni scorsi nell'Indiana ( all'interno della circoscrizione consolare di Detroit) per una serie di incontri. Dopo la visita alla fabbrica di telai per automobili da corsa Dallara, il diplomatico ha incontrato il Governatore dell'Indiana Mike Spencer ed il sindaco della citta', Gre...
Italian design: Cassina and Luis Vuitton featured an exclusive piece for 2014
WTI Magazine #34 2014 June, 11Author : Martina Siega Translation by: Cassina and Luis Vuitton featured an exclusive piece for 2014. LC4 CP is a master piece that joins Design and Fashion. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, well known with the pseudonym of Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect who belonged to the first generation of...
Carlotta Corradi Receives First Mario Fratti Award for Emerging Italian Playwrights
Italian realist playwright Carlotta Corradi was awarded the first Mario Fratti Award for Emerging Italian Playwrights last night, June 24 at the concluding event of the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, which was held at Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave. The award recognizes her new play, "Via dei Capocci," which was given a s...
San Diego’s Little Italy: The pizza and piazzas are just like the real thing
By Lori Weisberg Ask me where I'd like to vacation, and whatever the day or year, my answer will invariably be the same: anywhere in Italy. A devoted Italophile without the means to travel overseas regularly, I feed my passion instead by seeking out Italian-centric neighborhoods in U.S. cities. How fortunate, then, am I to live just minut...
Songwriter/Producer Michéal Castaldo Calls for Artwork
Celebrated musical artist Michéal Castaldo has organized a special showcase of art to exalt the glories of Italy and her people. The selected artwork will be presented in the Grand Lobby of the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) in South Orange, New Jersey. The art show will accompany a double performance (2 p.m. an...