Get to know Mother Cabrini
Mother Cabrini is the patron saint of immigrants. She is known for her dedication of caring for the poor, uneducated, sick, abandoned, and especially, Italian immigrants. She founded 67 institutions including orphanages, schools and hospitals, spread across the U.S. — New York, Colorado and Illinois — Central and South America. Mother Cabrini was b...
2018 Contemporary Italian Film Series kicks off in January
Our contemporary film series features recent Italian movies with English subtitles. The series will run from January to May, with one film being shown per month. Come enjoy modern Italian cinema with us throughout the first months of 2018! First screening: Detective Montalbano double feature. Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:...
20 traditional dishes of the Italian Christmas dinner
OK Google, which is the typical recipe for the Italian Christmas dinner? You may try asking this to Google or to your Italian friends, but you will be probably surprised to get dozens or even hundreds of different answers to this question. The right answer is that there is no particular Christmas dish in Italy that can be found on the table in ever...
Italian Business Integrity Day at the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC
To mark the International Anti-Corruption Day, the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC organized an Italian Business Integrity Day to illustrate the tools adopted by companies to prevent illegal behavior based on international and Italian laws, but also to promote the image of Italy and its legal and economic systems. The initiative is part of the pr...
Rivals Salvatore and Igliozzi an unlikely pair to lead Providence City Council
The leadership shuffle on the Providence City Council won’t be complete until the group meets Thursday night to elect a new president, but one change is already official: John Igliozzi, the second-longest-serving member of the council, is the new majority leader. Igliozzi, a Democrat who has represented Ward 7 in Silver Lake since 1997, was elected...
Gatta Cenerentola-Cinderella the Cat: an “animated” and artistic view of Naples
The Italian animated feature film Gatta Cenerentola - Cinderella the Cat was screened at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on November 27th. The movie was chosen by the Academy for the category of Best Animated Feature (a first, for Italy, notwithstanding her long and successful tradition in the production of animated movies) and, therefore, it...
Brain Food: Unlocking the Hidden Life of Ancient Pompeii
CAT scans are revealing more information about life in Pompeii, an ancient Italian city buried under the volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The findings are the focus of a new exhibit at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix. Sari Custer is the Vice President of Curiosity. She says the scans reveal fascinating facts about the people and envi...
An Artist Who Made Her Personal Life Central to Her Art
Anna Maria Maiolino was displaced twice in her life: first from fascist Italy, where she was born in 1942, and then from the military dictatorship of Brazil, the country where she has resided most of her life. These seismic shifts had an impact on her largely autobiographical art, as she seemingly spent years waiting to finally settle in one place....
Marco’s Pizza opens new location on Lafayette Parkway
The rainy afternoon did not keep customers from going to the grand opening of Marco’s Pizza Sunday. The pizza chain opened at the old Hog Heaven location on Lafayette Parkway. “We haven’t advertised, so what we’ve done is doing it through word of mouth,” franchisee Chris Lopez said. “Some young folks first came in at the beginning of the week, we j...
Second edition of the Prometeia report
Economic diplomacy is not just second rate diplomacy, but is essential for the economic development of the country and directly and indirectly accounts for 1.4% of Italian GDP. This is the picture that emerges from the report by the consultancy firm Prometeia on the economic impact of tenders and contracts obtained abroad by Italian companies who w...
15 Things ‘Moonstruck’ Nailed About Italian-Americans: From Superstitions to Dean Martin
From the family gatherings in the kitchen to the kooky nicknames and Drama Queen reactions to just about everything, "Moonstruck" hits the Italian-American personality out of the park. As fans celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film that brought Cher, Olympia Dukakis and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley Academy Awards and producer/director Norm...
The Espresso Boom in Manhattan: Which Cups Are Best, and Why?
I live in Manhattan. I drink gallons of espresso in Manhattan every year (even though each pour is very, very small!). Over the years, I have developed a list of my favorite Manhattan cafés for espresso—always remaining open, of course, to new places, in what can only be described as a post-Seattle Manhattan espresso boom. But one big espresso deta...