Davide Ghiotto's win: gold at world speed skating championships
Fantastic feat by Davide Ghiotto who became world champion in the 10,000-meter speed ice skating event. This is a historic achievement for the Italian long blades because no Italian skater had managed to win a gold medal at the World Championships single distance. Ghiotto, in recent days rainbow silver medalist in the 5,000 and last year in Beijing...
Italian-American activists say Chicago mayoral candidate has promised to return Columbus statues
Activists rallied Sunday in front of Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas' headquarters to demand a controversial piece of history be returned to Grant Park. They said Vallas recently promised the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans that he will put the Christopher Columbus statues back in Grant Park and Arrigo Park. Vallas has not made tha...
Lent in Italy – Corajisima, A Calabrian Tradition
If you happen to be celebrating Easter in Calabria and you arrive a little early, you may just come across what looks like a ragdoll hanging from a balcony or the side of a house. Not to panic, this is not some form of malocchio or evil eye, but Corajisima, a traditional practice during Lent in Italy, specifically, Calabria and other areas of the s...
Giorgio Chiellini dedicates his first MLS goal to a former teammate
The reigning champions, the Los Angeles Football Club, faced Portland Timbers to start the 2023 Major League Soccer season after the week 1 matchup against the LA Galaxy was postponed last week due to the severe weather conditions. Prior to the game against the Timbers, the Black & Gold received their 2022 MLS Cup championship rings in a special pr...
An Evening with Italian Director Alina Marazzi 3/17
Friday, March 17 - 5-7 p.m. Olney Science Center, Room 150, North Campus. One University Avenue - Lowell, MA. Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Department of World Languages and Cultures and co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the History Department and the Gender Studies program. The...
Zane Weir, the Italian giant strike gold
Zane Weir, the Italian behemoth with South African blood, is the new European weight throw champion. A powerful shoulder that sent the seven-kilogram-plus ball soaring to 22.06 meters, a new Italian record and the best European performance of the year. Zane's gold is also Italian athletics' medal number 100 in 37 editions of the Euroindoors (since...
Rovagnati’s New Paolo Rovagnati Black Label Line Debuts in US Retailers
Industry-leading charcuterie company Rovagnati announced the launch of the Paolo Rovagnati Black Label Line – a range of quality salumi products – at the Winter Fancy Food Show, which took place in Las Vegas in January. Rovagnati, a proud brand committed to supporting tried-and-true Italian tradition, expands with the debut of the new and luxurious...
Treasures from new digs reveal that Pompeii is far from ‘frozen in time’
The first sign was smoke rising from the mountain and it was Pliny’s mother who noticed it. They didn’t know which mountain this cloud came from, Pliny the Younger says, but it rose in the air before spreading out like a pine tree. Pliny wrote two letters to his friend, the historian Tacitus. They are quietly devastating: my uncle died in a disaste...
For his leadership on COVID-19, Alessandro Vespignani receives ‘lifetime honor’ from American Association for the Advancement of Science
Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute and Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor at Northeastern, has been elected as a Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The group is the world’s largest “general scientific society” and publisher of perhaps the most widely recognized prestigious academic...
A perfect snack: Puglia’s taralli
Taralli are a recent culinary obsession of mine. It all began one evening when I received an impromptu invitation for dinner from a friend, who set up a quick aperitivo, too: a glass of white, some parmesan cubes, and cold cuts accompanied by a bowl filled to the brim of taralli. While I had them before, I had never really thought much about them,...
Celtics Joe Mazzulla defends the honor of a Rhode Island staple, The Pizza Strip
Did you know that Celtics Head Coach Joe Mazzulla grew up in Rhode Island? You’ve probably heard that once or a thousand times by this point in the season. Zolak and Bertrand like to pick the Johnston native’s brain about peculiar Ocean State traditions on his weekly interview. During Super Bowl week they decided to ask Mazzulla his opinion of the ...
Lucio Battisti and the music of his 80th birthday
Lucio Battisti was born 80 years ago, the day after Lucio Dalla, an example of a generation that changed the world through music. An offbeat genius, he expanded the boundaries of Italian song, measuring himself with the creative approach and experimentation of the greats of international music by opening the doors of contamination with rock, black...