Belfast council renames Columbus holiday Indigenous Peoples Day
By Abigail Curtis Goodbye, Columbus. Belfast city councilors voted this week at a regular meeting to do away with the name Columbus Day and to replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day, making the midcoast city the first municipality in the state to rename the holiday. "If we act, our town can be a beacon for the rest of Maine a...
Book Riders: Literary Tours based on Classes taught by Marta Ciccolari Micaldi
by Nancy Casas Marta Ciccolari Micaldi has been teaching American Literature classes in Turin, Italy for some time now. Along with Claudio Morrano and Federico Giacomelli, Marta has been able to take her classes on literary tours to the United States called Book Riders. Claudio and Federico are the founders of the tour operator XPLOR...
International Remembrance Program Series - Book discussion
Date: Monday, January 25, 2016 Hours: 6pm Venue: Italian Cultural Institute of new York Organized by: ICI In collaboration with: Consulate General of Italy in New York, Centro Primo Levi, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Academy, CUNY's John Calandra Italian American Institute. Reserve Book discussion: Primo Levi, The Friend by Bianc...
Cocalico's Fabiani chosen to represent U.S. in football exhibition in Italy
by Ed Gruver Cocalico senior and football star DJ Fabiani has been selected to be a member of the American Football Worldwide ELITE team that represents the United States when it travels to Italy in March. Fabiani and the ELITE team will compete in an international exhibition against the U19 national team of Italy on March 26 in Milan...
Studying (in) Italy: 4 Ways to Know You’re Suited to Classical Studies in Rome
WTI Magazine #76 2016 February 15Author : John Cabot University Translation by: Classical Studies tends to get a bad rap. Or should we say, a bad "rep," (as in reputation), which of course comes from the Latin reputationem – something any good Classics student would know. But, we'll get back to Latin a little bit later. Far too often...
Amore Victoria is now Amore Uptown and it just got a lot better
by Mecca Bos You really want to like certain places, but they can't seem to like you back. They're stunted in the reciprocity department. Amore Victoria on Lake Street was one of those places. The indie Italian-American restaurant with the huge rooftop deck and killer real estate was the sort of place you'd find yourself landing, in s...
New York, il volto del nuovo italo-americano
Che la presenza degli italiani negli Stati Uniti fosse ampia è risaputo. La National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) e l'Order of Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) stimano che gli Americani di origine italiana siano circa 25-26 milioni. La domanda d'italiano e d'Italia da parte della società americana è in crescita. Gli studenti d'italiano nelle...
Il progetto fotografico di Louis De Belle
Incontro per la prima volta Luigi Di Bella (in arte Louis De Belle) appena un anno fa in occasione di una sua mostra personale dal titolo "Failed Diorama", tenutasi al Tieranatomisches Theater di Berlino. Lo incontro nuovamente oggi, e – a un anno di distanza – Luigi mi parla del suo ultimo progetto fotografico: "Besides Faith" che ha risc...
Italian Mimmo Lucano Among Fortune's Most Influential Leaders
Italian Mayor of Riace in the Calabria region is 40th in Fortune magazine's ranking of the world's 50 greatest leaders for his work in rejuvenating the once-dwindling town by recognising the potential of immigrants in a way that could prove a model amid Europe's refugee crisis. Domenico (Mimmo) Lucano was the only Italian on the list and h...
Auricchio (Assocamerestero): A febbraio l’Export italiano rialza la testa
A febbraio torna in territorio positivo l'export italiano, con un aumento delle vendite del 2,5%, nei dati destagionalizzati, rispetto al mese precedente. A fare da traino la ripresa delle esportazioni sia in ambito UE a 28 (+1,8%) che extra-UE (+3,3%). Il trend fa segnare all'Italia la migliore performance rispetto ai competitor europei, con la Ge...
Giorgio Bassani 100 - Round Table
When: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 From 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Organized by : IIC NY Entrance : Free A round table on the occasion of the publication of GIORGIO BASSANI, New York Lectures and interviews, CPL Editions; a collection of the conferences and interviews held by the writer at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. And...
Looks Aren’t Everything at Café Altro Paradiso
Over the 11 or so weeks Café Altro Paradiso has been open, I've taken some photographs that are as awful as the food is good. The restaurant's carpaccio is simple and marvelous, a single piece of raw bison pounded so thin that when it is laid over small, newly fried potato chips and a mound of arugula salad, it drapes like purple silk. My pict...