Mantua's Light Art Biennale: light turns into art
Last July 21st, Mantua’s Palazzo Ducale lit up with works by the international artists taking part in the second edition of the city’s Light Art Biennale. Installations by Donatella Schilirò, Federica Marangoni, Nicola Evangelisti, Massimo Uberti, Edward Shuster + Claudia Moseley, Marco La Rosa, Davide Dall’Osso, Romano Mantovani Boccadoro, David D...
Jessica Cambio: l’amore per l’Opera da un lato all’altro dell’Oceano
Se non avesse scelto l’Opera sarebbe diventata una suora, attratta sin da bambina dalla vita monastica. Jessica Cambio, nata e cresciuta a Providence, Rhode Island, dove immigrarono i suoi nonni materni da Ciorlano, provincia di Caserta, fu folgorata sulla via della lirica a dieci anni, quando durante una messa ascoltò l’Ave Mariadi Schubert. Prima...
90 plus years of Italian traditions to be celebrated in Hoboken
Everything Italian will be the order of the day next week when the annual Hoboken Italian festival opens its run. A fixture in the city for more than 90 years, the festival will return on September 6 and continue to September 9 along Sinatra Drive and at the park on Hoboken's Waterfront. It features four days of Italian traditions, live music, mult...
Organic, pulses, artisanal: pasta lovers have it all
Pasta is the most popular and traditional Italian staple on kitchens worldwide. The wellness consumer trend has prompted producers to carefully innovate a product that as never before is able to satisfy all needs, including demand for a low-carb diet. Exports figures confirm evidence of strong demand for pasta. Italy, the world’s top supplier of pa...
8 Hidden Gems of Italy You Need to Discover
If you’ve been to Italy before, chances are you’ve taken every requisite pic from the Rialto Bridge and each little canal in Venice, befriended a random group of strangers while waiting in line to see the Colosseum in Rome, and also crossed Milan, Florence, and Veronaoff your travel bucket list. But to experience a rich, undiscovered part of Italia...
Il vino bianco si afferma nel mondo, Italia leader
Italia batte Francia e si afferma sui mercati mondiali quale primo paese esportatore di vini bianchi fermi, per volume e valore. Donne e giovani, con la predilezione per un gusto più leggero e i sentori di frutta, sono il motore di questa espansione. E' quanto emerge da un'indagine Nomisma Wine-Monitor presentata in settimana al convegno 'Bianco co...
La fotografia Neorealista a New York
Una mostra fotografica che vuole ritrarre la vita in Italia prima, durante e dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. È "Neorealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960", in programma dal 6 settembre all'8 dicembre a New York nelle due sedi di Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò e Grey Art Gallery. La mostra è curata da Enrica Viganò e organizzata da Admira, Milan...
Italian Chef Opens First U.S. Vegan Wine Bar and Restaurant Pura Vita
Vegan drinking venues are nothing new. Within the past few years, gastropubs and breweries have been the new social “thing,” serving slightly outrageous yet equally delicious plant-based bar food with an impressive selection of local beers (on tap, of course). However, this culture has yet to truly permeate the wine world. Tara Punzone wanted to ch...
Football: Michael Casinelli finds perfect fit at Springfield
Michael Casinelli of Shelton did all he could to make his Gael football team the best it could be. In earning All State, All-Walter Camp, All-Southern Connecticut Conference, as well as USA Today All USA Connecticut honors, Casinelli put in his time in the weight room and went over video of opponents. He was as diligent with his studies. Casinelli...
Not Just Dante: Italian Speaking Countries In The World – Part One
If you are wondering how many Italian speakers exist around the world, this is the article for you. The Italian language, in addition to being the fourth most widely taught as a foreign language after English, Spanish and Chinese, is also an official language in several states. Let’s discover together where. Italian is among the twenty-four officia...
Mama T's Italian Steakhouse in Huntingburg continues Sicilian family dining traditions
Huntingburg is a cute little town about an hour to our northeast, where shoppers browse for antiques and gifts on historic Fourth Street. Also on Fourth Street, locals and visitors alike flock to Mama T’s Italian Steakhouse for a dinner of pasta, lasagna, meat and seafood specials from the grill, homemade desserts and more. Chef and owner Brandon A...
High heaven: hiking Italy’s Cottian Alps
The first day of my hiking trip in the Valle Maira in Piedmont, north-west Italy, begins with a hot, lung-bursting, heart-pounding three-hour slog up a steep path. I should have expected as much. The tour operator classes its new circuit in this Alpine wonderland as “Grade 3: Challenging” – and my one-day training hike along the Devon coast hadn’t...