La grande bellezza è riconsegnare il borsello smarrito alla turista americana
La grande bellezza non è solo perduta e grottesca, sguaiata e svilita. La grande bellezza d'Italia sopravvive anche nei piccoli gesti inattesi e sorprendenti, che l'America magari nemmeno sospetta più, pensando all'Italia dei film. Ma la realtà può essere molto più edificante e consolatoria dei film, almeno in alcuni momenti e in alcuni luoghi.&nb...
Kobe Bryant To Invest In Italian Soccer Team
According to reports, Los Angeles Lakers star shooting guard Kobe Bryant is ready to invest 350,000 euros in order to be part of the group that is attempting to purchase FC Bologna. Bologna, which competes in Serie B in Italy, is up for sale and Bryant is part of a group of investors, led by American lawyer Joe Tacopina, that are in advanced t...
Un newyorchese per rilanciare Roma nel cinema. Antonio Monda direttore del Festival del Film
Un pezzo di New York al Festival del Film di Roma. Antonio Monda è stato nominato direttore della rassegna romana che si tiene ogni anno in autunno. Monda insegna cinema alla Tisch School of the Arts della New York University. Vive da più di 20 anni a New York dove è animatore di importanti eventi culturali e ha contribuito...
The truffles that took over the White House
by Enrico Netti The company is operational in Dubai, Shanghai, and the United States with its five branches. These are the key markets for Urbani Tartufi, the family-owned business that is now in its sixth generation. Its long history is tied to the precious tuber: the company markets nearly two thirds of the worlds truffles, and its produ...
San Gimignano in Tuscany: Paths of Middle Ages in Italy
This awesome skyline is known throughout the world for its towers, and legacy of a past in which power was demonstrated by an impressive architecture. During the struggle for supremacy between rival families, the loser's tower-house would be demolished and the winner's one elevated for even more height. There were over seventy towers,...
In Umbria time and patience are put to good use to preserve forgotten trees and their stories
by Chiara Beghelli Trees can also tell stories, beside giving fruits. Branches and roots can hide ancient traditions, keep in silent woods, hard to discover unless you strongly want to. Livio dalla Ragione wanted it: a painter, a former partisan, with an intense passion for folk culture, he started to look for these "telling trees" about 5...
Tracing the Lineage of the World’s Greatest Aperitif, the Negroni
by Naren Young So, who invented the Negroni? I've yet to meet a Negroni I don't like. I could argue the minutiae of using hand chipped, brilliant clear ice; getting the cocktail's three ingredients to agree on the correct proportions; or stirring them in a fancy crystal Japanese mixing glass until the solution reaches the perfect leve...
Visita a Sorrento da parte di una delegazione italo - americana del New Jersey.
In visita a Sorrento una delegazione di italiano – americani proveniente dallo Stato Americano del New Jersey. Domenica mattina la delegazione capeggiata da Buddy Fortunato direttore responsabile di "The Italian Tribune" noto giornale americano in lingua inglese rivolto a tutti i cittadini italiani trapiantati in America hanno visitato la Basilica...
Titan of the South: Francesco Messina
By Giovanni di Napoli Francesco Messina was born on December 15, 1900 in Linguaglossa, a small town near Catania, languishing in the shadow of Mount Etna. Like many other poor Southerners he grew up outside his native Sicily, residing wherever his family could find work. Instead of making the arduous trip across the Atlantic to th...
Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies - Critical Studies on Food in Italy Summer 2016 Program
Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies is now accepting applications for the OPEN SUMMER 2016 CRITICAL STUDIES ON FOOD IN ITALY, a 5 week program that takes place from May 23 to June 25, 2016 in Rome, Italy. The program is open to all university majors, and all students, degree seeking or not. It is also open to scholars, food lover...
DEI - USA: Wow Technology amongst the winners of the 2016 International Projects contest
The Italian Wow Technology Group was amongst the winners of the "2016 International Projects" competition launched by the Environmental Management Division of the US Department of Energy (DoE). More specifically, the company based in Este, in the province of Padua, was one of the competition's ten winning projects. Wow Technology thus obta...
Ferrari target beating Mercedes after launching new car, the SF16-H
Ferrari have revealed their 2016 car, the SF16-H, as they target overtaking Mercedes at the front of the Formula 1 grid this year. Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen pulled the wraps off the new car at the team's Maranello base. Chief designer Simone Resta enthused: "I can say that this F1 car is one of the most beautiful Ferrari's ever....