Spelacchio in 2017
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From Christmas trees like Rome's "Spelacchio" to projects to fight pollution through urban forestry, trees make news, and not only those in Rome which have been neglected and fall across downtown streets.
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Fear of immigrants is an economic theme: 58% say they believe that migrants take away jobs from Italians
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This December's annual Censis Report on the Italian society and economy is not exactly what Santa ordered. Its 52d edition shows an Italy suffering from fear of the future and of migrants, and lax in investing in education.
Art & Culture
Alessandra Salerno’s new single FAITH WITHIN YOUR HANDS is her first song recorded in New York collaborating with guitarist-producer Fabrizio Sotti
Dining in & out
How to prepare Pandoro and Panettone in a different and scenic way
Dining in & out
Aficionados of Italian Christmas sweets have always been divided into two camps: lovers of pandoro and lovers of panettone.
Facts & Stories
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that New York City's Central Park monument to Christopher Columbus has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 76-foot rostral column was erected in 1892 in Central Park by New York's growing Italian-Americancommunity, which embraced Columbus as a unifying figure to help Italians overcome discrimination and gain inclusion in mainstream society.
Il fischio al naso (The Seventh Floor). 1967. Italy. Directed by Ugo Tognazzi.
Art & Culture
Tragedies of a Ridiculous Man. A retrospective that spans his four-decade career-
(December 5–30, 2018 - The Museum of Modern Art)
By George Steinmetz
Art & Culture
Bosco Verticale (in English Vertical Forest) is the marvelous masterpiece designed by the Italian architecture studio of Stefano Boeri. This project is part of the architectural renaissance that has been impacting Milan.
Valeria Golino
Art & Culture
For this edition of the renowned Festival, Award-winning actress and director Valeria Golino will be our guest of honor during the screening of her film Euforia along with Director Julie Taymor and Novelist André Aciman.
Special guest director Paola Randi will present her movie Little Tito and the Aliens.
Art & Culture
In a 22-year project, 50 classicists and computer experts have for the first time recreated ancient Rome in virtual reality. Thanks to new technology, students and scholars as well as the general public can fly over the Rome of 1,700 years ago.
Life & People
Saint Lucy's Day is a Christian feast day celebrated on December 13, commemorating Santa Lucia, a 3rd-century martyr. The feast is a Catholic celebrated holiday with roots that can be traced back to Sicily.
Life & People
The Neapolitan nativity is The Word made flesh, wedded to the myths, fables, stories and splendors of a culture that continues to preserve the past.
And the Neapolitan nativity, now as then, goes beyond religion. Thanks to this identification of our day-to-day lives with God, the sacred and profane, the past and present, history and legend fuse together.
Digging
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This is the height of the truffle season, and Italy is host to a number of truffle fairs. The most important, the International Truffle Fair at Alba, in Piedmont, celebrates the incredibly aromatic white truffle. But truffles are found even near Rome, and almost year round.
Art & Culture
With a new mission in mind, the film screenings of N.I.C.E. will be hosted by world-wide renowned Princeton University and the festival’s long term partner: NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. Guests will include: Director and screenwriter Francesco Falaschi and writer, director and producer Andrea Magnani
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After a wide-ranging career, Tommaso Cardana, born in Italy 43 years ago, took a Master’s degree in Venezuela, then moved to Miami, where he opened a hotel services company and later expanded to home supplies. A year ago, he was elected president of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast, Miami (IACCSE).
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The 2018 midterm elections will be remembered as The Year of the Woman in more ways than one. On November 6th, the Democratic Party enjoyed its highest margin of victory ever among female voters in a midterm election. The result, As of November 13, the Democrats had a net gain over the Republicans in the House of Representatives of at least 32 (up to 40 is possible) seats giving them a solid majority there. Under the U.S. Constitution, The House has "the sole power of impeachment." Therefore, women, I would guess, can’t wait to tune into the President’s Impeachment Hearings on MSNBC hosted by Rachel Maddow.
Rome under attack
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Associated Press agency album of photos of Rome display huge trash piles, clogged sewers, graffiti and potholes. Going viral worldwide this week, the AP photos shocked even the Romans. Perhaps worse are plans to build a shopping plaza within the...
Louise DeSalvo, Edi Giunta
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Eulogy read at the memorial service for Louise DeSalvo (September 27, 1942 - October 31, 2018...
Maureen McCarthy, Antonin Scalia's Widow with President Donald Trump
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Foundation Congratulates President Trump on Selecting Prominent Italian American Jurist. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest honor for a civilian.
Art & Culture
Monica Vitti enchanted cinema and the public. She is perhaps the last great Italian diva, an actress who provoked sympathy and emotion in both cinephiles and the general public. She united the two separate souls of Italian film, auteurist cinema and...
Uffizi in Florence
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Italy's cultural heritage outshines that of any other European nation, but this has not prevented the government from slashing its budget for heritage maintenance. Spending on school has also been reduced.
Louise DeSalvo, author / Credit: Larry Kosson / Deja Vue
Remembering an Italian/American award-winning teacher and writer, scholar, mentor and friend
On October 30, the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities of the Italian Republic, Alberto Bonisoli, traveled to the Embassy of Italy for a restitution ceremony of twenty artifacts recovered by the United States over the past two years
A suggestion from i-Italy food editor: A Cranberry Fig Mostarda recipe to complement a traditional Thanksgiving menu.
Happy Italian Thanksgiving!
Major elections take place only next May in the 27 EU member states, including Italy. But already political voices are being raised in Italy these days, from the rubbish pile-up to the pile-up of the national debt.
Martin Scorsese returns to his childhood parish, the Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral for a conversation about how his youthful imagination was inspired by his church and his neighborhood of Little Italy.
What happens in an Italian-American household on Thanksgiving Day? Take my family's case...
On October 22, the third edition of the "Gli Stati Generali della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo" took place in Rome. Villa Madama hosted the conference, seating up to dozens of diplomats, managers and scholars from all over the world. Villa...
In the narratives collected in Italian American Women, Food, and Identity: Stories at the Table, food represents home, loss and desire. Food is also synonymous with race, class, sex, sexuality, immigration, region, place and space. This is how to...
The evening of October 25, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura brought to Washington, DC a very relevant performance entitled The Worth of Women, based on a book originally written over 400 years ago in Venice.
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ISSNAF 2018 Annual Event Highlights the Longevity of Italian Innovation and Life
On Monday, October 22, the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF), hosted by the Embassy of Italy, led revealing discussions on the future of longevity for human life. That evening, ISSNAF honored an Italian who has influenced the field of neuroscience across the Atlantic with the 2018 Life Achievement Award, Emilio Bizzi, Emeritus Investigator at the McGovern Institute and Emeritus Institute Professor at MIT.
Art & Culture
Rome Museum Honors Rino Barillari, Fellini's "King of the Paparazzi"
For his 1959 film "La Dolce Vita," Federico Fellini dubbed photographer Rino Barillari "King of the Paparazzi." This month Rome's prestigious Maxxi museum honors Barillari's 60-year career with an exhibition of 100 of his photos.
Art & Culture
Fabrizio Freda. Inventing the Unexpected for the Selfie Generation
Interview with Fabrizio Freda, CEO of American luxury beauty products company Estée Lauder
Art & Culture
Claudio Del Vecchio: The Key to Success is in Learning How to Listen
Interview with Claudio Del Vecchio, CEO of American luxury clothing brand Brooks Brothers, which celebrates its 200th anniversary this year
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Frontaliers Disaster: An Evening of Swiss-Italian Comedy, Language, and Conversation
To celebrate Italian Language Week 2018, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Switzerland held a joint event to demonstrate how language can be an opportunity to unify, not divide.
Art & Culture
“Ferrante Fever”: A Documentary on the Success of the Pseudonymous Author, Directed by Giacomo Durzi
The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington presented Ferrante Fever, a documentary by Giacomo Durzi.
The screening was followed by a panel discussion featuring movie director Giacomo Durzi and Ann Goldstein, the American translator of Ferrante’s novels, moderated by Laura Benedetti, professor of Italian at Georgetown University.
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Celebrating the International Day of Italian Contemporary Art in DC
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. hosted a conversation on new trends in Italian Art. The panel, New Directions: Italian Contemporary Art in the United States, featured curator Ilaria Bernardi and artist Massimo Bartolini, along with Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, co-founders of Magazzino Italian Art, a museum in the Hudson Valley dedicated to Post-war and Contemporary Italian Art
Life & People
Before the 43rd NIAF Anniversary Gala
The night of Gala Receptions and the Awards Dinner were preceded by two days of Italian and Italian American events, many of them free and open to the public.
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Niaf 43rd Anniversary Gala in Review
Family, friends, music, wine and food! Now that’s Italian! On Saturday, October 13, The National Italian American Foundation’s 43rd Anniversary Gala hosted more than 2,000 Italian Americans and special guests from Italy in a weekend-long celebration of our heritage and culture at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
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What a Weekend with NIAF!
For two days every year, the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel swells with Italian voices, music, and food for the National Italian American Foundation’s (NIAF) Anniversary Gala weekend. October 12 and 13 of this year were no different. Pugliese wine, olive oil, and sauce was enjoyed by eager Italian Americans looking for a taste of their culture at the Expo Italiana, and gala attendees gathered to honor Italian Americans who have contributed greatly to American business, science, government, and the arts.
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When Money Talks, Even for Governments, Who Listens?
The clash between Italy's Minister for the economy and finance Giovanni Tria and the top political players overshadows all other arguments within the government. On the agenda are in-house quarrels over dropping the euro and the amount of monthly pensions, and going forward with the gas pipeline from Azerbaijan.
Life & People
Hospitality in Molise: “It Takes a Village”
‘Alberghi Diffusi’ and Historic Houses in Charming Villages
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Taking Molise to the World
THE REGION ACCORDING TO ONE OF ITS MAJOR ENTREPRENEURS: Enrico Colavita. A life devoted to entrepreneur-ship and internationalization. His is an exemplary story. From a family business in a small village in Molise he embarked on a great adventure that would bring olive oil to the world, the United States in particular. Today, Colavita is not only in the olive oil business; it has put its international practice to the service of both region and country.
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Travels in Molise: Splendors of the Samnites and their Scions
Discovering the Wonders of the Bel Paese.
A small region of 1,714 sq
miles and little more of
300,000 inhabitants,
located between Abruzzo
and Apulia, Molise is a land
rich in history, full of
mountain- and hilltop
towns that look like nativity
scenes, hermitages and
monasteries, and vestiges
of the ancient world.
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The Two-Wheeler: An Italian Passion Going on a Hundred
Andrea Dell’Orto discusses EICMA (Esposizione Internazionale Ciclo Motociclo e Accessori), the world-famous two-wheeler exhibition that every year for over a century has brought leaders in the two-wheeler industry to Milan—motor or no motor. Not to mention millions of fans of all ages, though young people dominate.
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NIAF Anniversary Gala Honors Six Outstanding Leaders
Honorees are Chef Lidia Bastianich, Vincent Boccia, president, Confindustria; Giovanni Caforio, M.D., chairman/CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb; Antonio De Matteis, CEO, Kiton; Cav. Lav. Vito Pertosa, founder, Angel Group; and Carl Schramm, an American economist and entrepreneur.
Art & Culture
When Tourism Becomes more Burden than Bounty
Until now, tourism has been hailed as Italy's magic beam, transporting the country beyond the losses from runaway factories and ever more present robots. Nevertheless a small but serious reaction against the vast influx of tourists is becoming evident.
Life & People
New York Columbus Day Parade 2018. Celebrating Italian-American Heritage
First Data President Guy Chiarello serves as Grand Marshal of annual march and will kead the parade with over 100 marching groups Including high school bands; Italian-American Cultural Institutions and colorful floats
Art & Culture
Leonardo Da Vinci, Between Lombardy and New York
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of the Renaissance genius, the Morgan Library presents a preview of the film "Being Leonardo da Vinci" by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory (October, 9 2018) Also, don’t miss the historical re-enactment in costumes dedicated to Leonardo during the Columbus Day parade on Fifth Avenue (October, 8 2018)
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An inheritance battle has broken out within an aristocratic Italian family who own assets worth nearly two billion euros, including the world’s largest private collection of ancient marble statuary.
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In Nine, the curious musical in which Daniel Day-Lewis (convincingly) pretends to be Italian, his director-in-crisis character eventually flees from Rome to Anguillara Sabazia.
Italian liquor group Davide Campari posted strong results Tuesday, helped by fizzing sales of its signature orange aperitif
Mario Segale, the man after whom video game hero Super Mario was named, has died aged 84.
Mr Segale was a successful Italian-American property developer from the US state of Washington.
If you'd like to eat the world's most scientifically perfect pizza, you have two options: One, fly to Rome and order a Margherita pizza fresh from the brick oven; or, two, solve a long thermodynamic equation to simulate that glorious Italian pizza in your pathetic electric oven at home.
With surprisingly little controversy or debate, the City Council voted this Tuesday to designate the second Monday of October — traditionally celebrated as the federal Columbus Day holiday — as both Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Italian Heritage Day.
The 12th Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival, which runs Oct. 25-28 at the Sottile Theatre, is Charleston’s biggest celebration of Italian culture.
This year it focuses on a particular city in Italy known as a creative center in a country known for its artistic and cultural legacy. Four of the 13 films to be screened at the festival tell stories of Naples.
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Maria Sole Tognazzi e suo padre Ugo Tognazzi
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In omaggio all'attore una retrospettiva al Museum of Modern Art di New York dal titolo "Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedies of a Ridiculous Man", dal 5 al 30 dicembre 2018 .
La figlia Maria Sole Tognazzi ha raccontato vita, curiosità e aneddoti...
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Olivio Romanini, giornalista e scrittore, ha presentato il suo nuovo libro dal titolo "Una nevicata memorabile" in contesto veramente speciale. Tra i tavolini del locale Piccolo Cafe dell'Upper West Side di Manhattan.
Il libro,...
Copertina del libro ed il suo autore, Goffredo Palmerini
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A pochi mesi dal decennale del sisma che il 6 aprile 2009 provocò 309 morti a L’Aquila e danni ingenti a tutto il comprensorio, esce il libro "Grand Tour a volo d'Aquila" di Goffredo Palmerini. Intervista all'autore che, come...
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