Treasures of Calabria Revealed
Embassy of Italy - 3000 Whitehaven Street NW - Washington, DC 20008. December 1, 2015 at 6:45PM MORE INFO: click here CONTACT INFO: Giulio Busulini, Scientific Attaché, Embassy of Italy - [email protected] Registration PHOTO ID REQUIRED TO ENTER THE EMBASSY Overview of the importance to protect and preserve the Treasures...
Enchanting Venice. ACQUA ALTA: The History, Its Occurrences, And How The Hardy Venetians Deal With It
December 12 10:30 am — 12:00 pm - Westchester Italian Cultural Center - 24 Depot Square - Tuckahoe, NY - Members $15, Non-Members $25 Acqua alta refers to the higher than normal water levels that invade the city of Venice and cause the lagoon's salt water to overflow the edges of the canals and flood the streets. Those who love Venice are, of...
An Italian team of engineers creates Walkman
by Claudia Astarita The Centre for Advanced Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has successfully taken steps forward in its innovative project "Walkman". The latter consists of a big robot, conceived to operate duringdisasters, either human made or natural ones. Among its tasks, Walkman has been programmed to ope...
Old school Italian at Chianti's Ristorante Italiano
In a few months, Chianti's Ristorante Italiano will open in the location formerly occupied by Suriya Thai. Brian McCarley, owner of Chianti's, also owns The Other Side Bistro in Bonita Springs, which opened March 2014. "When I was a kid, it was called The Pizza Inn," McCarley recalls about his new restaurant's location. McCarley and...
Carretti Siciliani: The Painted Carts of Sicily (Part I)
by Jerry Finzi The wheel has been around for at least 6000 years... from Mesopotamia in the Middle East all the way to central Europe. No one really knows when it was "invented". Wheels move people, wood for making fires and the construction of useful items, animals, and products of the harvest. The first wheels were wooden disks....
Leonardo da Vinci and his Greatest Artistic Masterpieces
Date: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 Hours: 6:00 p.m. Site: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611 Organized by: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago In collaboration with: http://davincimasterpieces.eventbrite.com Leonardo da Vinci and his Greatest Artistic Masterpieces. Join us for the...
Super Bowl 50 Fashion Scorecard: Gucci, Versace and Beyoncé
by Vanessa Friedman For the ultimate in American sporting events, Sunday evening's Super Bowl 50 looked awfully... Italian. Indeed, when it came to on-field style, if it wasn't Nike, it was a veritable microcosm of Milan Fashion Week — a preview, perhaps, of what we will see when the women's fashion season gets underway this month. ...
Review: Il Volo at The Kennedy Center
by Em Skow I've always known that the mix of pop music and classical singing is one of the most popular music styles in Italy. What I didn't know until last night's Il Volo concert was that it is "Fan Girl" (Fan Woman, Fan Grown Man...) levels of popular. Numerous standing ovations, countless screaming fans, and more than one mid-...
Cristiano Mori brings the award winning "The Tailor" to the San Diego Film Festival
By Michael Traversa The Tailor - Il Sarto dei Tedeschi directed by Antonio Losito starring Cristiano Mori, who also penned the script, is being showcased at San Diego Jewish Film Festival. It's a festival that recognizes outstanding Jewish-themed short films from all over the world and The Tailor has been selected to represent Italy. &nbs...
Le eccellenze tecnologiche italiane in vetrina a Detroit
La prima conferenza-expo sulle eccellenze tecnologiche italiane negli Stati Uniti si terrà a Detroit il 9 e 10 maggio 2016 presso la Wayne State University. Aziende italiane leader mondiali nell'ingegneria e nell'innovazione tecnologica tra le quali FCA - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Brembo, Comau, Magneti Marelli, Esaote presenteranno i loro prodot...
New York City’s Last Accordion Repairman
Since the 1960s, Alex Carozza has been repairing and building accordions in New York City for customers around the world. Now, at the age of 88, he's reportedly the only person left in the city still repairing these complicated instruments in a cramped studio with his 93-year-old assistant. Great Big Story sits down with the "Sultan of Squ...
From Cloquet to Italy with love
Telling anyone's life story in 1,800 words or fewer is a difficult feat. But when I met David and Rosetta Johnson of Cloquet, I truly struggled to narrow down our wide ranging conversation. Does the story start with Rosa's Italian heritage and adjustment to living in America, or does it start with David's Cloquet roots? Or perhaps the best...