Tra umorismo e satira: donne americane e donne italoamericane nella narrativa di John Fante
La madre italoamericana nell'opera dello scrittore americano (ma di padre italiano) John Fante (1909–1983) è un'umile ed ignorante casalinga, devota a un uomo che spesso la tradisce, precocemente invecchiata a causa della povertà e delle frustrazioni causatele dal marito, incapace di prendersi cura di se stessa, iper-protettiva coi figli ed iper-re...
Writers on writing: Traci Andrighetti
Traci Andrighetti is the author of the national bestselling Franki Amato mysteries and the Danger Cove Hair Salon mysteries. Traci wrote her first mystery in her bedroom closet with her cousin Louisa when they were just twelve years old (it was called The Message in the Driftwood, à la Nancy Drew). But then she abandoned writing completely to pursu...
Apply now for the 2016 Italian Diaspora Culture Program in Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende)
This three-week summer program, to be held for the second year in a row at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende) takes place June 13 through July 1 and is designed to introduce participants (doctoral students and professors) to cultural studies of the Italian Diaspora from a variety of academic perspectives. This is the second y...
Old family recipes yield a family’s story of adaptability – and a distinctive Easter pie
When my Aunt Maria Ciancio passed away recently at age 92, my husband made a request: Save the family recipes. I did. Maria – "Nini" to her sisters' children – was not the family's alpha cook. That role fell first to my grandmother and then to my Aunt Sophie, now 93 and the oldest of my grandmother's three daughters. Nini, however, did so...
Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone: the success of the Design Week 2016
The Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone are the most important events in the world about design. During the Design Week 2016 (from 12th to 16th April) events, parties and exhibitions have animated the entire city of Milan. An amazing start of spring featuring more than 2,400 exhibitors among the Salone and the Fuorisalone, and over 1,000 events...
Lido Cantarutti Receives 2016 Marin Cultural Treasure Award
Lido Cantarutti, the director of the Italian Film Festival in Marin County, was recently awarded the 2016 Marin Cultural Treasure award, for his excellent work in directing the film festival since its inception 39 years ago. I would like to offer my heartfelt congratulations to Lido for this meaningful distinction, and also reinforce how l...
Como, delegazione di studenti dell'Insubria incontrerà i colleghi di Harvard
Partiranno alla scoperta degli Stati Uniti d'America trentadue studenti dell'Insubria, ma non si tratta di una vacanza. I ragazzi partiranno il prossimo 19 maggio e visiteranno Boston, New York Philadelphia e Washington, accompagnati dal professor Giorgio Maria Zamperetti, ordinario di Diritto Commerciale nel Dipartimento di Diritto, Economia e Cul...
Gelu Italian opens “ice box” for the summer
Gelu Italian Ice has opened its standalone location outside of Sutherlands at 2405 F Road in Grand Junction. Gelu also operates mobile carts and serves Italian ice treats at fairs, farmers markets and festivals in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah. The location at Sutherlands — dubbed the "ice box" — offers a place where people can drive up,...
Fashion museum to open in Florence
A Museum of Fashion and Costume was created Tuesday in Florence with the signature of an agreement between the management of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Immagine Discovery, the foundation including Pitti Immagine and the Florentine center for Italian fashion. The objective is to start a three-year program of events dedicated to contemporary fashi...
"Fiorello!" at BTG is a musical for our time
He defended strikers and labor unions. He worked as a translator at Ellis Island in Italian, Yiddish and Croatian. He helped and represented newcomers in the city, and against the corrupt political machine of Tammany Hall they supported him when he ran for the House of Representatives — as a Republican. Times have changed since 1916. ...
Italy's rep better abroad than at home
Italy has a better reputation abroad than it does at home, a new RepTrak report by the Reputation Institute showed Thursday. Italy's reputation abroad was valued at 71 points - up four points over 2015 - to place 12th in a global ranking that saw Sweden take the top slot as the country with the best reputation in the world at 78 points. I...
Review: Marisa Tomei, in Extremis, in ‘The Rose Tattoo’
Marisa Tomei, who stars in the Williamstown Theater Festival's buoyant new production of Tennessee Williams's "The Rose Tattoo," may at first blush appear to be literally a few sizes too small for the feisty, fiery central role of Serafina Delle Rose. In describing the character in the text, Williams uses the word "plump" not once, not twi...