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By Jenna Careri   Four hundred years after Renaissance music's fall from favor, Emiliano Ricciardi is on a mission to save it from extinction. Ricciardi has organized an Italian Madrigal Festival at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is an assistant professor of music history.   The two-day event, on Saturday and S...

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Coccoina glue holds together almost ninety years of memories for generations of Italians. Manufactured by Pavia's Balma, Capoduri & C. since 1927, the "while, solid office glue" is an amazing "madeleine", known to evoke distant childhood days with its unique almond smell.   In one of his novels, Italian politician and author Walter Velt...

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It's Mother's Day weekend and I can't help but reminisce about Mother's Day when I was a child. I'm sure we can all remember past Mother's Days and recall how they differed from today. Growing up Italian American, we didn't eat out in restaurants much. So our holidays and Mother's Day were spent at home at the kitchen table. There were no reservat...

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Palazzo Cellamare in Naples, Caravaggio's last home prior to leaving for Tuscany as well as being at different points home to both Casanova and Goethe, will be open to the public as part of the Association of Italian Historic Houses (ADSI) Days on Saturday and Sunday. The non-museum areas of Rome's Palazzo Ruspoli will also be open, as will Villa d...

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By Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino Su La Voce di New York scrivo le mie riflessioni di docente, raccontando cosa significa insegnare italiano nelle scuole pubbliche di New York. Le emozioni, i momenti belli o brutti, e le mie esperienze sono simili a quelle di molti colleghi che vivono negli USA o in altri paesi fuori d'Italia. Un fenomeno che ho osser...

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A sweeping project being planned on the tiny Italian island of Pantelleria envisions electric power plants fueled with renewables, cells to store energy, and an electric transformation of public and private transportation. The project, which aims to improve energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions, would turn the picturesque Pantelleria into...

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Let's say you are a curious traveler who finds him or herself dawdling under the ever-present portici of Bologna on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Let's also say that you are passionate about Italian art and culture and that you want to know more about this beautiful city's past and present lifestyle.   If so, there is a place you should absolute...

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by Catherine Accardi   Mauro Battocchi's last day as San Francisco's beloved Consul General will be July 8, 2016. He has been Italy's Consul General in San Francisco since September, 2012. For the past four years, Battocchi has presided over countless events with a never-ending smile and seemingly boundless grace that will be sorely mis...

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Pizza and pasta are easy to come by in the restaurant world, but few are making waves like Ribalta in Greenwich Village. The popular Italian eatery that's only a five-minute walk off the Union Square subway stop became buzzworthy after Grubstreet named their spaghetti Pomodoro one of NYC's 10 best pasta dishes, and their Neapolitan-style pizza has...

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By Ray Negron   If you have ever read my book, "Yankee Miracles," then you would know that there is a chapter in the book about the great Yankee manager, Billy Martin. Billy was a very fierce competitor with a heart of gold. In the book, I talk about a time when Billy took me to the historic New York Italian restaurant, Patsy's, where we had...

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International Pizza Expo, a pizzeria business-to-business trade show owned by Emerald Expositions, will launch a new two-day trade show at the Atlantic City Convention Center that will focus on pizzerias and Italian restaurants.   "This is in no way a replacement to Pizza Expo for East Coast pizzeria operators and their staffs, but more of a...

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By Rachel Donadio Eike Schmidt, the new director of the Uffizi Gallery here and the first non-Italian to hold the job, took what seemed a logical step. In the spring, he set up loudspeakers warning visitors about scalpers and pickpockets who target tourists waiting in the perennially long lines outside Italy's most-visited museum, famous for its m...

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