Il maestro professore
By Chiara Trebaiocchi Devo ammettere che ero un po' intimorita dall'idea di intervistare un direttore d'orchestra. Quelle figure di spalle al pubblico mi hanno da sempre messa in soggezione: la concentrazione, l'impeto e la fermezza che servono a guidare un'orchestra nella mia mente si associavano solo a maestri dall'aspetto un po' burbero e sever...
Concorso Italiano to Celebrate Zagato 95th With Contemporary Atelier Zagato Productions
We are very pleased to announce the celebration of Zagato 95th anniversary. In honor of this great occasion Concorso Italiano will be featuring, for the first time ever, a stunning display of Contemporary Atelier Zagato Productions. Usually, when celebrating an anniversary it is an opportunity to look back. However, we believe it will be f...
The new Scavolini Store opens in Chicago
This important new space follows the opening of the Scavolini Soho Gallery in New York by Scavolini USA, in 2010, which is Manhattan's largest kitchen showroom to date, and the store inaugurated last September in Miami. The exclusive location—the world's widest building at the time of its inauguration in 1930—belonged the Kennedy family for many y...
The music of Italian tenor Micheal Castaldo
by Miriam "Mimi" Medina Micheal is in a competition for this month of March. We are trying to get as many votes as we can to help him reach First Place and remain there. You have heard him sing, you have seen his interviews and have read his bio. Please click the link at Artist Signal and vote to help him win. CLICK HERE TO VOTE...
Opening in Albuquerque
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Cibola HIgh School, Albuquerque, NM, has an opening for a full-time Italian teacher, beginning in August 2014. The position involves teaching levels 1 through AP. Cibola, part of the Albuquerque Public Schools District, is an urban high school with approximately 1800 students and a growin...
Loyola University Maryland History Professor Wins Fulbright to Study Italy's Honor Killing Law
Steven Hughes, Ph.D., professor and chair of history at Loyola University Maryland, is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Grant to study the 19th and 20th century evolution of an Italian law that drastically lessened the punishment for honor killings. Hughes will conduct his research in Rome during the 2014-15 academic year, with...
Special Presentation: Present Day Italy
Financial crisis, falling population, third world immigration, these are some of the issues that Professor Louis Leonini will address in his lecture. How did Italy go from a war-torn, poverty stricken country in 1945, which was primarily agricultural, to a modern success story in the 1960s through the 1980s? What was the role of the politi...
Mi Piaci to Transform Into Cucina Neighborhood Italian
by Whitney Filloon Mi Piaci shuttered last month after two decades in Dallas, and now the Preston Center spot it vacated is poised to become another Italian restaurant called Cucina Neighborhood Italian. Construction permits were spotted in the window yesterday, posted right up alongside the landlord's lockout notice that ousted M...
A City’s Simple Joy
If there was ever a perfect warm-weather, holiday-weekend city sport, bocce may be it. It requires only a set of bocce balls, which are traditionally made of metal but come in a plastic version these days, and a flat, rectangular space to use as the court. The rules are complicated enough to keep the game interesting, but the skill is simp...
Italian cuisine: Apricot stuffed with goat cheese and pecans
WTI Magazine #34 2014 June, 11Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn Translation by: Fruit is the real star of this recipe which, although very simple, is exquisite and perfect for a tasty summer aperitif. This should hardly be called a "recipe"; you just assemble three ingredients: apricots, fresh goat cheese and nuts. The result is ext...
Italian sidewalk market, deli to open in West Asheville
When Peter Affatato left Eric Scheffer's Savoy in 2002, he wanted to open the now-closed 28806 Deli to bring a taste of New York to West Asheville. That restaurant closed, but Affatato, who lived in New York for the first 21 years of his life, hasn't lost the taste for the deli-style sandwiches and prepared salads he sold there. In mid-Jul...
It's 200 years old, but what is Italy's carabinieri?
By Dany Mitzman I've always been puzzled by the fact that Italy has two police forces, although Italians don't seem to find it strange at all. If you ask "why two?" they'll tell you, by way of unsatisfactory explanation, the polizia are the regular state police while the carabinieri are part of the army. The real reason is a quirk of his...