Il regalo degli “zii d’America”: donati 10mila dollari alla Montessori
Tutti i bambini della scuola Montessori di Macerata in fila per dare il benvenuto a Joan Marchi Migliori, italoamericana che ha consegnato 10mila dollari all’istituto di via Don Bosco. All’arrivo della donna, originaria di Lucca, hanno cantato gli inni nazionali dell’Italia e degli U.S.A. sventolando le bandierine dei due paesi legati da una fortis...
Mamma Guidara's Is Back for the Season
Right in time for fall, the Italian-American Sunday dinner pop-up at The Nomad Bar is back. In case you missed it last year, Mamma Guidara's is a family-style four-course meal that pays homage to the now-defunct NYC institution that was Mamma Leone's. You can find it at the NoMad Bar every Sunday—hard to miss a full on Italian feast complete with r...
Pirandello: A Double Feature Screening
When:Wednesday, October 04, 2017 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 - Total runtime: 110 minutes - Screenings in Italian with English subtitles REGISTRATION & PHOTO ID REQUIRED - DOORS OPEN 30 MINUTES PRIOR EVENT START-TIME To mark the 150th birth of Luigi Pirandello, the Italian Cultu...
Group Calls Columbus Statue Vandalism ‘An Instrument Of Hate Against Italian Americans’
With a new social media campaign targeting Columbus Day, the NYPD is ramping up plans to protect statues across the city. Vandals have already attacked statues of Christopher Columbus all over the metropolitan area, cops arrested a homeless man this weekend trying to put pink nail polish on the statue in Columbus Circle, and they’re still looking f...
Prof. Roberto Tartaglione's workshop for Michigan and Ohio
On Saturday, September 23, a group of Italian language teachers of Michigan and Ohio schools and universities took part to Prof. Roberto Tartaglione's workshop. The linguist Roberto Tartaglione is the creator of the portal ScudIta (http://www.scudit.net/mdindice.htm), a useful resource for teachers of Italian language, and the author of numerous gr...
Wildwood Italian Festival
The sights, sounds and delicious smells of old-world Italy will waft through the air at the Sons of Italy’s annual Olde Time Italian Festival, to be held in Wildwood Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29 and 30. The 13th annual event, held inside Fox Park, features an Olde World Italian Market with Italian craft and food vendors to peruse. Get an early st...
Thanks, Chris! Nation, world remembers historic voyage of Christopher Columbus
In the fall of 1451 in Genoa, Italy, a man was born who would later discover America — Christopher Columbus. The eldest of five children, he and one of his younger brothers, Bartholomew, sometimes helped their father, a wool weaver, by carding raw wool. But even at a young age, Christopher kept his eyes on the sea and knew in his heart that the day...
Welcome to CIMA's new season! ALBERTO SAVINIO October 6, 2017 - June 23, 2018
We are pleased to announce CIMA's fifth exhibition season, dedicated to the fascinating and under-recognized artist Alberto Savinio – painter, writer, composer, critic, and younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico. The 25 works on view in the exhibition, produced after his move to Paris in 1926, demonstrate Savinio's vivid color palette, his fantastic...
Gelato Festival America to make stops in Phoenix and Tucson
A European-based gelato festival is crossing the pond and making its debut in America with stops planned in Scottsdale and Tucson. Organizers of Gelato Festival America said the three-day food festival will make four stops in the western part of the United States and bring international and national gelato-makers together for people to taste Italy'...
Utes get Aspen City Council’s ear over Columbus Day
Aspen City Council's regular meeting is scheduled Oct. 9, which happens to fall on Columbus Day, a federal government holiday. It also happens to fall on the day that council members will vote to proclaim the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day, which an increasing number of American municipalities are adopting. Aspen elected officia...
Ottobrata Romana: Why October is a Great Time to Visit Rome
October in Rome can be so pleasant weather-wise, with the likelihood of sunny days and warm temperatures, that the Romans have a name for it: ottobrata romana. Originally, with the phrase ‘ottobrate romane’, people referred to the Sunday trips out to the countryside surrounding Rome that the Romans used to go on until the first decades of the 20thc...
Q&A with 'Fear Friday with Dario Argento' coordinators
The Department of Romance Studies is hosting a film screening series called “Fear Friday with Dario Argento” every Friday until Oct. 30 in the Media Resources Center of the Undergraduate Library. Each screening will feature a movie by Italian horror director Dario Argento, with the last screening featuring John Carpenter’s “Halloween.” Assistant Ar...