Oscars 2015: Italy Celebrates Fourth Costume Design Win for Milena Canonero
by Ariston Italy on Monday celebrated after the country's Milena Canonero took home her fourth Oscar Sunday night for best achievement in costume design for The Grand Budapest Hotel. It was her third collaboration with director Wes Anderson after The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited. Twitter was abuzz...
The Italian secret diet in 10 easy rules
'Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.' Sophia Loren Feeling like on a secret-mission, Me, a non-Italian with a normal metabolism have been analysing the Italian diet for more than 4 years and finding out why obesity and over-weight are not major problems in this amazing country. If you take a quick look at the Italian population ev...
De Niro checking out locations in Abruzzo in July for the filming of “Imagery”
Robert De Niro's manager, Danilo Mattei, is currently in Abruzzo researching various locations for a film, which will definitely be showing in our region, and which, amongst others, will star De Niro, the Hollywood legend, who actually has roots via his great-grandparents to Ferrazzano (Campobasso). The idea came about after a meeting with...
Mayoral Food Policy Forum -- USA and Italian Mayors -- at Expo Milan | July 18, 2015
A delegation of United States Mayors will meet with a delegation of Italian mayors, under the leadership of The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), in the USA Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 this coming Saturday, July 18. Mayors will discuss their role in helping to shape a healthy and sustainable local food environment, as well as suc...
House Hunting in ... the Italian Alps
This four-bedroom apartment occupies the top two floors of a four-story chalet just outside the resort town of Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomite mountains. The 2,800-square-foot home was renovated in 2000, and rustic wood beams — many salvaged from a 17th-century barn — floors and paneling lend it a traditional Alpine feel. The apartment i...
Showman Renzo Arbore's bits and pieces on the loose
by Stefano Brusadelli Instead of an abbey, or a princely mansion, we're in a former slaughterhouse. Nevertheless, the model is always the same --Renaissance and Baroque Wunderkammer where treasures and bizarre objects are displayed, testifying to ingenuity and extravagance (and sometimes horror), and apt to arouse curiosity and wonder; two...
La famiglia dove tutti arrivano a cento anni
di Selma Chiosso Giuseppina a giugno compirà 107 anni, Lorenzo a marzo 103, e Maria l'8 gennaio ne ha compiuti 100. Un altro fratello Michele è morto a 100 anni, la «più giovane», Francesca, a 92. I fratelli Barberis di San Damiano d'Asti sono la famiglia più longeva d'Italia ma il fatto straordinario è un altro: i tre fratelli sono lucidi...
Pistoia, Italian capital of culture for 2017
In a bit less than 12 months, the prestigious title will move from Lombardy to Tuscany. Pistoia has just been nominated the new capital of culture. This little beautiful city managed to beat its seven competitors: Aquileia, Como, Ercolano, Parma, Pisa, Pistoia, Spoleto, Taranto and Terni. The aim of the competition is the one of stimulatin...
Da Grillo al Papa: la magia degli ologrammi italiani
L'ambizione è altissima, e non poteva essere da meno se ai suoi clienti offre anche la "resurrezione" digitale e tratta a tu per tu con i leader del mondo: «Vogliamo lasciare un segno nella storia, perché l'ologramma cambierà per sempre il modo di comunicare tra gli uomini». Giovanni Palma da Briosco (MB), classe 1970, un passato tra i lea...
Italy, the crucial player in NATO’s new strategic frontier
Italy's Minister of Defense Roberta Pinotti explains Italy's potential in peace and security matters should the country become the next non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2017 and 2018. Italy has lent its full support to the United Nations (UN) since becoming an member of the organization in 1955 and is the top Western con...
Vito Cannillo al vertice della National Italian American Foundation per la Puglia
Rappresenta oltre 25 milioni di cittadini italo americani residenti negli Usa e dal 1975 contribuisce a tenere saldi i rapporti tra il Bel Paese e gli Stati Uniti d'America collaborando attivamente con il Congresso degli Stati Uniti e con la Casa Bianca. È a National Italian American Foundation (Niaf - Fondazione Statunitense Italo-America...
Italian Cherry Ricotta Cheese Muffins
Bite into one of these delicious muffins and experience the flavors of southern Italy — ricotta cheese and cherries! Did you know that fresh ricotta cheese is the main ingredient in southern Italian sweet delicacies like Italian cheesecake and cannolis? It's much healthier than the artery clogging processed cream cheese that is typically used in Am...
