Salvatore Ferragamo
It's a hop, skip and a jump from the Geary Street side of Union Square to 236 Post St., where the Salvatore Ferragamo store just reopened in larger, two-story digs. A fixture in San Francisco since 2000, the purveyor of luxury Italian goods is now cheek-to-jowl with Burberry, Cartier, Graff and Giorgio Armani, a growing designer alley. &n...
Music review: Luca Pisaroni highlights an evening of dramatic songs
By Charles T. Downey The narrators of songs can be such complainers. Luca Pisaroni's recital Friday night, presented by Vocal Arts D.C. at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, brought together a program of songs, half in Italian and half in German and all dramatic. The nature of the music can make the words seem more or less sincere, but t...
Maratona Infernale
Una vera e propria maratona dantesca - 7 ore di trasmissioni, 34 canti dell'Inferno, e migliaia di chilometri attraverso le bellezze paesaggistiche e architettoniche italiane. Questo progetto offrirà a tutto il pubblico di RAI ITALIA una rilettura in chiave contemporanea dell'Inferno dantesco. Un programma non solo culturale, ma anche un v...
New York e il suo teatro premiano Mario Fratti
By Laura Caparrotti Theater for the New City è uno di quei teatri che fanno parte dell'era leggendaria di New York, di quando la città era ancora un luogo pieno di artisti di tutti i tipi che ne facevano una fucina d'idee, di nuove visioni, di parole altre. Fondato nel 1971, il TNC, com'è conosciuto ai più, si trova su First Avenue fra la nona e l...
Remembering the other saint day in March
By Mary Ann Sorrentino The Irish seem to own mid-March celebrations. Even their natural ethnic rivals compete to grand marshal St. Paddy's Day parades everywhere. The gay community fights fiercely to march wearing Erin's green while St. Joseph has no parade. Instead, he's buried upside down to improve bad housing markets. In Rhode Island, as a ca...
Tutto Italiano
Tutto Italiano is coming! Bring your Italian car, motorcycle or just your love for Italian design. We welcome you to join us and appreciate the style and grace of Italian machinery at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. Tutto Italiano is a family friendly event, featuring activities such as face painting for the kids. In addition to all the beautiful a...
An Italian new prosthesis sensitive to senses
The Sant'Anna BioRobotics Institute in Pisa is a prestigious hub for research. Engineers from Sant'Anna actively cooperated with a team from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, lit. Polytechnic Federal School of Lausanne) to developed the revolutionary invention of a robotic hand sensitive to senses. In 2013 a prototype of this...
Italian good news: The artistic heritage of Venice, just a click away
WTI Magazine #27 2014 Apr, 25Author : buonenotizie.it Translation by: More than 370 images of Venetian collections are available on the platform of Google Art Project: thanks to the recent agreement between Venice Civic Museums Foundation and Google Cultural Institute, the lagoon city fulfills a definite step forward on the road of "...
New York Italians is hiring: Playgroup leader [part-time]
NEW YORK ITALIANS is HIRING!! Italian language children PLAYGROUP LEADER [part -time] Job description: The Playgroup Leader will be responsible for the day to day running of the playgroup sessions to ensure safe, stimulating play and to provide for the needs of the children. This will involve planning, preparing and delivering play- bas...
Pininfarina’s Modulo In Atlanta Among Dream Cars
Pininfarina's Modulo will star overseas at an exhibition dedicated to the most sensational cars of the Twentieth century. "Dream Cars – Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas" is the title of the exhibition, held at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from May 21 to September 7, 2014. The exhibition focuses on concept cars and limited edition ca...
Italian Religious Events: Gigli Festival, Nola (Napoli)
WTI Magazine #33 2014 June, 4Author : folclore.it Translation by: The Gigli Festival of Nola is an ancient festival to honor St. Paulinus Bishop, who lived in the fifth century and devoted himself to the poor people by giving all of himself including his freedom, going captive of the Vandals in Africa in the place of the son of a poo...
IB&II Marks Its 3rd Anniversary
Our CEO, Fernando Napolitano tells us about the achievements and the results that the Italian Business & Investment Initiative reached in three years of activities. Dear All, At the three-year mark, IB&II has covered a lot a ground. We will celebrate our latest results next July 9 in Rome at Radio Dimensione Suono headquarters wh...