Fairytales and fantasy in Venice for Carnival 2014
A Carnival celebration like no other, one of a kind in terms of history, atmosphere and masks, the Carnevale di Venezia draws thousands of spectators and participants to the Lagoon City every year. During an exciting chain of events and celebrations, expect Venice's calle and piazzas to be filled with "Wonder and Fantasy" until March 4th. La natur...
Monterey Peninsula Italian Americans to be honored
It'll be about the pasta, the wine, and the friendships Friday night at the Monterey Marriott. But Friday's 10th annual Italian American Cultural Foundation dinner will mostly be about four honorees who have established themselves as an important part of the Italian American fabric of the Peninsula, and have made significant contributions to the lo...
Tamburi entra in Eataly con il 20% per 120 milioni di euro
Tamburi Investment Partners, tramite il veicolo societario Clubitaly, ha acquisito da Eatinvest (controllata dalla famiglia Farinetti) il 20% di Eataly. Lo si legge in una nota in cui viene spiegato come Eataly, fondata nel 2003 ad Alba da Oscar Farinetti, sia attiva nella distribuzione e commercializzazione a livello globale di prodotti d...
Mayor Ed Lee Voices His Support for the Italian Language
Last month, Mayor Lee honored the Italian community with his presence at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club and publicly stated his commitment to help bolster support for Italian language education in the Bay. In the face of a recent decline in Californian schools offering Italian as a choice in their World Language Curricula, we are...
Albany Symphony to present Italian opera for season finale
The Albany Symphony Orchestra will present its season finale on April 12 in the Darton State College Theatre at 7:30 p.m. and on April 13 at 3 p.m. at the Rylander Theatre in Americus. These performances cap off a year of celebration of 50 years that the Symphony has been entertaining audiences in Southwest Georgia. A combined chorus of area colle...
2014 Atlanta Italian Film Festival: 3 Must-See Movies
Italian cinema is hot right now with Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and grossing a cool $2.8 million in the United States, good for No. 9 on the Italian-language box-office list. So it's the perfect time to brush up on some of the latest Italian movies at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival, which wi...
Cervelli in fuga, expat, emigranti nuova mobilità: un libro ci dice chi sono
di Riccardo Giumelli Il tema è a noi caro: giovani e meno giovani italiani che espatriano o stanno fuori d'Italia. Non cervelli in fuga, come abbiamo già avuto modo di descrivere, ma "nuovi mobili". È quindi la "meglio Italia" che parte? Parliamo di questo con gli autori Maddalena Tirabassi, direttore del Centro Altritalie di Tori...
Italian Glass, for Your Bidding
by Eve M. Khan One of the most comprehensive collections of 20th-century Italian glass is on view in New York just as it is being dispersed. As a preview for a sale next Tuesday in Chicago, Wright auction house has packed its Manhattan showroom at 980 Madison Avenue with glass vessels and sculptures consigned by the photo stylist and art d...
Cinema italiano a Detroit: Everybody’s Right by Paolo Sorrentino
Award-winning Italian actress Iaia Forte is once again working with Paolo Sorrentino after the extraordinary international success of "The Great Beauty". In the play "Everybody's Right" adapted from Sorrentino's novel, Iaia Forte plays Tony Pagoda, a Neapolitan singer at the height of his career in 1950′s-era New York, as he awaits the most importa...
Italian pop sensation, Il Volo, makes a stop in Stamford
In 2010, when Il Volo ascended to the top of the charts in its native Italy with its self-titled debut album, it turned out to be the first of many peaks this pop-operatic trio would scale. In the years that have followed, Piero Barone, 20, Ignazio Boschetto, 19, and Gianluca Ginoble, 19, have shared the stage with some of the biggest name...
FIFA World Cup Trophy is Made in Italy
by Silvia Donati The FIFA World Cup trophy is made in Italy. Precisely in Paderno Dugnano, in the province of Milan, by a company called Bertoni, which has been producing the trophy since 1974. Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, who at the time was artistic director at Bertoni, was awarded the commission by FIFA. Made of 18 carat...
Good news, one-percenters: Italian supercar maker Pagani opens 5 U.S. showrooms
One might think that American million and billionaires were spoiled for choice, when it came to supercar offerings. Turns out, though, there's been at least one major void in the American supercar market: Pagani. Known for making some of the most stunning – and hard to pronounce – supercars in the world, Pagani prides itself not only on speed but...