Italian-American Profiles of Success: Joe Motisi
Joe Motisi describes himself as a jack-of-all-trades and master at some. He's held just about every job imaginable, but studied broadcasting and is a former talk radio board operator and producer. Currently, this Chicago native—and current Pittsburgher—convinces people to buy very expensive things for a living. Joe is also a cartoonist whi...
New Book “ME AND THE GENERAL” Captures the Essence of the Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a time when the mafia crime bosses reigned supreme in the American underworld. It was a time of glitz, glamour and blood. In "ME AND THE GENERAL", author Rosemary Valenti Guarnera has written an eye-opening read that delves into this era and looks into the life of Ralph Liguori, a man whose entire life was based on...
Italian culture and history: Emilia Romagna, Formula1 and Ferrari
WTI Magazine #41 2014 July, 30Author : italia.it Translation by: A trip to Emilia Romagna is a trip to the land of motors. After all, it was here that one of the greatest symbols of Made in Italy was born a legend: the Ferrari brand.This beautiful Region offers car lovers a grand series of pertinent places and events, including the M...
Pallotta gains full control of Roma
James Pallotta has taken 100 per cent control of Roma, after buying out Italian bank UniCredit's shares in the Serie A runners-up. The American was part of a consortium which bought the capital club in 2010, and became president in 2012 when Thomas DiBenedetto stepped aside. And with a new stadium on the way for Roma, the Americans now have f...
***NEW*** Memoir Writing Workshop
Wednesday, September 17, October 1, 15, 29, November 5, 19, 2014, 10:00am to 12:00noon. If you have a story you wish to tell and are serious about your writing, this workshop is for you. Enrich your writing skills by sharing your work with other serious writers like yourself, develop your craft and improve your skills. Whether you are ju...
L'Italia con l'ICE alla “Maker Faire” di New York
Ci saranno anche le aziende italiane all'edizione 2014 di "Maker Faire", fiera in programma a New York il 20 e 21 settembre. Dedicata all'innovazione, creatività e alle idee del "do it yourself", la "Maker fire" - promossa dalla rivista "MAKE" con l'appoggio di oltre 40 sponsor corporate come Ford, Motorola, Microsoft, NASA, e Autodesk, ed...
Italian good news: There are those who get a job just creating it
WTI Magazine #45 2014 October, 15Author : buonenotizie.it Translation by: It is not a museum , but a big music studio: a "factory" to all intents and purposes, where the sound is the main charachter and children and guys coming from different schools are the "workers". "Fabbrica dei Suoni" (Sounds Factory) of Venasca is an idea born...
The Vatican Library's Amazing Documents Are Finally Online
The official library of the Holy See is undertaking a massive digitization project designed to upload hundred of thousands of books and images from its physical archives into an online database. As Business Insider reports, nonprofit organization Digita Vaticana Onlus was founded in 2013 with the goal digitizing 80,000 manuscripts. That's...
Orietta Crispino, la Biancaneve scura del teatro italiano a New York
di Liliana Rosano New York se fosse un'opera teatrale sarebbe sicuramente il Faust di Goethe mentre il luogo teatrale per eccellenza della Grande Mela é la metropolitana. Viene dal teatro dei grandi nomi, Orietta Crispino, triestina di nascita, ma dal 2000 a New York. Dopo aver frequentato il Teatro Piccolo di Milano e lavorato con Giorgi...
La Storia…Birmingham’s Italian Community Exhibit
When I first moved to Birmingham in 1980, I was asked by several people if I were Italian. I would say "no, why?" ...and the person asking would say something like, "well, you have such dark eyes and dark hair." I had no idea at the time that there was a large Italian community in Birmingham and that this community has been present since t...
‘Monuments Man’ Deane Keller Celebrated at New Haven Museum: Timely Exhibition Underscores Continued Need for Protection
The leveling of the tomb of Jonah (think: whale) in Mosul, Iraq, last July, was a striking reminder of the fragility of our collective cultural inheritance. Have we nearly come full circle? In 1943, as Nazi Germany laid waste to much of Western Europe, Monuments Men-a handful of soldiers whose job it was to protect cultural heritage during wartime-...
Statistics say 82, 000 Italians left Italy in 2013
In 2013 the number of Italians who moved abroad rose to 82,000, the highest in ten years. The number grew 20.7 percent from 2012, said the latest ISTAT report on the "International and domestic migration of the resident population". Italians' main destinations when moving abroad in 2013 included the United Kingdom (13,000 migrants), German...