Adventure With an Italian Accent
No international motorcycle manufacturer, it seems, can afford to be without an adventure-touring offering — and an attendant line of high-couture color-coordinated rider apparel — in its lineup. All, to some degree, are chasing the runaway success of the BMW R1200GS, pioneer of the genre and the impetus for a European subculture of hotels...
Bringing Tuscany to San Diego
When Antonio Bandini was 15 years old, he enrolled in a watercolor painting class in his hometown of Livorno, Italy. One day his teacher approached him and expressed a desire to enter one of his paintings in an art competition in Milan. Bandini was interested, but concerned. When would he get the painting back? The teacher explained that i...
Italian Two Ways
As the name suggests, Olana, which opened two months ago among the sooty gray office buildings along lower Madison Avenue, is a place of lofty, even romantic, ambitions. The restaurant is named for the Hudson River home of the nineteenth-century landscape painter Frederic Church, and so the windowless room is decorated with murals, some of them bac...
An Italian 'Speakeasy' is Coming to the North End with Craft Cocktails & 'Game of Thrones' Beer
Just when you thought the North End was limited to pasta and tourists, a slew of variety has finally entered Boston's "little Italy." In addition to Tenoch Taqueria and the upcoming Urban Cantina restaurant, the North End will soon be home to its own Italian "speakeasy," Parla. Last week, the NorthEndWaterfront.com reported that the new re...
MOMA - Marco Bellocchio: A Retrospective
The remarkable career of Marco Bellocchio, director of an impressive number of features, documentaries, and shorts for both television and cinema, has encompassed a wide range of genres and subjects. Yet his work remains distinctive and personal, reflecting his uncompromising views and artistic ambition. During his 50-year career Bellocchi...
The 19 best Italian restaurants in Northeast Ohio: 2014 A-List dining guide
by Joe Crea, Northeast Ohio Media Group Back when, dinner at an Italian restaurant meant a platter of spaghetti big enough to feed an army, large green salads and a basket of crusty bread. You can still find plenty of reliable places that offer hearty Italian-American fare -- but today you're just as likely to find authentic and a...
Toledo gets taste of Italian businesses
A summit to showcase the business and development opportunities that Toledo and Ohio can offer Italian companies began Monday night with community and business leaders promoting the area's strengths. Speaking through a translator, Carol Contrada, president of the Lucas County Commissioners, welcomed the Italian visitors to the Glass City d...
Serie A club Cagliari to be sold to US consortium
Cagliari president Massimo Cellino has agreed to sell the Serie A club to an unidentified American consortium. Cellino, who recently took over Leeds, has been in charge at Cagliari for 22 years but has been frustrated in his efforts to build a new stadium for the Sardinian club. "I am very happy," Cellino told Italian news agency ANSA on...
Italian language: Learn Italy and Italian with us
WTI Magazine #34 2014 June, 11Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: Our dear Italian language. Who among us has never faced a word of Italian language? Surely spaghetti, opera, amore, pizza are among the most popular words ... and yet the lexicographic material of our beautiful language contains a huge trea...
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Bando per l'assunzione di due impregati a contratto temporaneo al Consolato Generale d'Italia in New York
Il Consolato Generale d'Italia in New York ha indetto una procedura di selezione per l'assunzione di due impregati a contratto temporaneo (6 mesi) da adibire ai servizi di Assistente Amministrativo. L'avviso di assunzione ed il facsimile della domanda di ammissione al colloquio sono disponibili sul sito web del Consolalo Generale d'Italia: www.con...
Growing Up in the Coney Island Slums, Here Italian Americans Called Italians “Guineas”
In 1969, my father Angelo and mother Onorina bought a house in Coney Island. My parents had come over to the United States just ten years before, but then we'd returned to spend four of those years in Italy. I still had the traces of an accent from my first language, the dialect spoken in Vallemaio, a village of 600 people in the mountains...