Embroidered Stories Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have b...
Uk And Us Buyers Head Back To The Italian Property Market
UK and US buyers are increasingly looking to Italy to buy property. According to Robert Fawcett, a partner in Knight Frank's Italian team, Italy's traditional treasures – food, culture, wine, architecture – continue to attract overseas buyers. Italy is still struggling to free itself from the after-effects of the 2008 crash and the Eurozon...
Lorenzo Richelmy travels far as 'Marco Polo'
by Curt Wagner Eight months ago, Italian actor Lorenzo Richelmy didn't know how to ride a horse, sword fight, do martial arts or use a bow and arrow. Now, after playing the title role in Netflix's new series "Marco Polo," the 24-year-old can do all those things—and speak English. "I didn't know English at the beginning of thi...
Barack and Matteo: The Italian connection
by David Jackson Just a couple of guys hanging out at the White House, talking about Italian wine, food, art, and the threat of the Islamic State. President Obama and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi seemed to get along famously Friday, praising each other on a first-name basis during a White House news conference. "I brou...
OSIA elects national officers
The Order Sons of Italy in America elected Daniel J. Longo of Maryland to serve a two-year term as national president during its 54th biennial national convention in August in Bonita Springs, Fla.. The former national director of client services for Prime Care Technologies, Longo stated that his administration "will focus on the possibilities....
Joe DiMaggio: Italian of the Week
Sicilian immigrants Guiseppe and Rosalie DiMaggio welcomed their son, Giuseppe Paolo, on November 25, 1914. His family lived in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California, where they worked as fisherman. When Joe was a boy, he and his brothers would play baseball at various sandlots and playgrounds around Fisherman's Warf. In 1932, h...
Italy’s Great, Mysterious Storyteller
There is a devastating exchange in The Story of a New Name, the second of three—soon to be four—books in Elena Ferrante's masterful Naples novels, in which Lila, one of the two main characters, runs into her former schoolteacher, Maestra Oliviero, on the street. To the teacher's dismay, Lila, now in her late teens, did not continue her edu...
The Film Director Behind Fashion's Viral Videos: Luca Finotti
The digital age has seen a variety of new professions emerge within the world of fashion 2.0. The job of film director is currently amongst the most inevitable ones, in the fast-changing digital landscape. Today's fashion short film directors, have the task of reaching a wide range of individuals online, through content which transmits a fashion ho...
Italian conductor Speranza Scappucci brings some of the best operas to the U.S.
Among the few women who have made it to the conductor's podium, Speranza Scappucci is also a brilliant pianist and a graduate from the prestigious Juilliard School and the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome. After her debut as a conductor at the Yale Opera with Così Fan Tutte, in the last few years Maestro Scappucci has performe...
Gli italiani che sognano in America di Alexo Wandael
Il nuovo progetto del fotografo italiano Alexo Wandael è una finestra sulla vita e la personalità di uomini e donne nati e cresciuti in Italia che si sono trasferiti in America in età adulta per seguire e soprattutto realizzare un sogno. Le immagini e le interviste di ITALIANY.US raccontano italiani coraggiosi che hanno saputo andare incon...
Confirmed: The Body of St. Maria Goretti Will Soon Be Brought to the U.S.
by Joseph Pronechen It's been confirmed. The body — the major relics — of St. Maria Goretti, beloved by countless millions, is heading to the United States. When she arrives from Italy, the first public appearance will be on Sept. 21 at Sacred Heart Basilica in Newark, N.J. — public because she will initially be visiting a prison before that....
This Italian Brand of Distinctive, Lightning-Strike Heels Is Opening New Stores in the U.S.
By Sandra Salibian Baldinini is known for the distinctive lightning strike heels of its premium line, Gimmy Baldinini, and favored by Milan street-stylist stars such as Clara Racz and fashioneditors alike. The Italian shoe and apparel brand that launched in 1910 is continuing to expand into the American market. Closely following t...