Los Angeles Italia Film Fest dedicato a Frank Sinatra
Raoul Bova e il tenore Vittorio Grigolo sono le "Italian icons 2015" premiate al Teatro Cinese di Hollywood nella decima edizione di «Los Angeles, Italia - Film, Fashion and Art Fest» (15-21 febbraio), festival promosso dall'Istituto Capri nel Mondo che accende i riflettori sul cinema italiano nella settimana che precede la notte degli Oscar. &nbs...
Italian scientists probe RNA for secrets of protein
Italian scientists may have discovered some of the secrets behind the body's ability to produce essential proteins, possibly hidden in ribonucleic acids (RNA). Also known as the close cousin of the body's DNA, the RNA has a more flexible structure that can fold into any number of configurations. Read more Source:&nb...
New Jersey Association of Verismo to Celebrate Lucine Amara's 90th Birthday and Over 70 Years of Performing
Opera diva Lucine Amara, Artistic Director of the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, celebrates a milestone on March 1: her 90th birthday and over 70 years performing on the stage. Ms. Amara debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in 1950 and sang off stage the Celestial Voice in Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo, and her career took off. Rave...
Mosaic impresario Matteo Randi
This we know: Italians and their ancestors claim crucial contributions in just about every classic art form. But the place of mosaics in Italian history is far lesser known to many art lovers. That’s why the Chicago Mosaic School in the city’s North Center neighborhood plays two vital roles: not just as a place to learn the craft, but also to pas...
Lavazza creates first eco-friendly coffee capsules
The first ever 100% biodegradable coffee capsule was created in Italy, the result of a five year joint research by Lavazza, one of the main coffee producers, and Novamont, a pioneering group in biodegradable plastics. Expo Milano 2015 from May 1 will be a chance to launch the new “green phase” of a market that is quickly moving in the direction of...
Five O'Clock Piano Duo: Italian Connection (April, 16)
The musical evening that the Five O 'Clock Piano Duo offers the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco reflects the content of their recent album, ITALIAN CONNECTION. It's a musical journey that unfolds among the various stylistic trends of Italian contemporary piano music. The deep need for immediacy of communication is the glue that...
Italian festival spreads culture through cinema
Films are an important part of Italian culture for Pietro Sarcina. That's the Troy resident became involved with the Italian Film Festival USA Metro Detroit. Running from Wednesday, April 1 to April 26, the festival offers 14 contemporary films in various genres created between 2013 and 2014. A national event taking place simultaneously in...
California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies
Annual conference of the California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies (CICIS) addressing the theme of the Sacred in Italy across time, place and discipline. Key note speaker: Maurizio Viroli, University of Texas, Austin and University of Lugano. Read more Source: http://www.iiclosangeles.esteri.it/ &nb...
The layered style of Copertino's castle
The Castle in the old town of Copertino – in the province of Lecce, Apulia – is a collection of at least three different architectural styles, fleshed out in the square fortified tower built under the Angevin rule; the sumptuous portal built under Charles III, reflecting the taste of the Renaissance with influences from Catalan art; and the mighty...
A Cave with a View
Take any road in Italy, look up, and you'll see a lovely hilltop town: a campanile, a castello, a few newer buildings spilling down the slope, as if expelled for the crime of ugliness. But even amid this bounty there is something exceptional about Matera. It clings to a denuded peak in the extreme south of the country, in the Basilicata re...
CfP: Italian American Studies Conference, Oct. 15-17, 2015
Session I: Italian American Cinema. This session aims to discuss a variety of topics concerning Italian American Cinema. Topics may include some of the following themes:-Food in Italian American Cinema-Influences on Italian American Cinema-Comparative discourses among Italian and Italian American Cinema-Images of Organized Crime in Italia...
Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America
BOOK PRESENTATION.Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 6pm Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America Donna DiCello, Yale University School of MedicineLorraine Mangione, Antioch University New England The father-daughter relationship can be central to both the father and the daughter, yet there is a dearth of psychologic...