Apply Today: 2023 IABF College Scholarships!
The Italian American Baseball Foundation awards college scholarships to deserving student-athletes who express pride in our culture and heritage. The 2023 application process is now officially open. The organization’s goal is to honor graduating high school seniors or current college players. The scholarships are open to Americans, and internationa...
Italy focuses on Roots Tourism
Italy is also focusing on root tourism to revitalize the sector, with a 20 million euro plan to benefit especially small municipalities under five thousand inhabitants. In fact, today at the International Conference Hall of the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the presentation event of the Project 'Roots Tourism: an integrated strategy for the...
The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum 2023
The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum 2023 is coming soon! Usually at this time of year, AGBO and the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) would be accepting applications. This year, they are reimagining the opportunity and working together to continue this tradition in a new, enhanced, and more appealing format. Stay tuned and fol...
The quirkiest Carnevali in Italy
Carnevale is here! It’s a time of joy, feasting on delicious food and enjoying your friends’ company, possibly dressed up in fun costumes. The Italian tradition of Carnevale is renowned around the world: who isn’t familiar with the Carnevale di Venezia, that of Viareggio, or that of Putignano? There is so much creativity, tradition, and joy de vivr...
A Divine Comedy We Can Feel in the Pulse
English is a wonderfully weird language with a huge vocabulary, but one with distinct “registers.” I am currently in the process of translating Dante’s Comedy, and this is the central insight guiding my work: We have a split-level language. This is because our language has both Latin and Anglo-Saxon influences. In English, anytime we want to use ab...
Zanti Cucina Italiana Is An Italian Restaurant In Texas That Makes All Of Its Pasta From Scratch
You don’t have to travel to Italy to enjoy fresh pasta. One of the best Italian restaurants in Texas, Zanti Cucina Italiana makes its pasta (and most everything else on the menu) entirely from scratch. The taste is truly out of this world, and you’ll find yourself coming back time and again to savor the authentic flavors. With locations in The Wood...
Toni Servillo: Master of His Craft
Named by Vogue Italy as the most versatile performer in the history of Italian cinema, Toni Servillo has earned a reputation as a masterful character actor with the ability to hauntingly transform himself into dark, troubled protagonists who seem indifferent to the dubious methods they employ to get what they want. Born in 1958 in Afragola, a town...
Italian Design Day 2023 | Inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop
When: March 9, 2023 | 6:30 PM - Where: Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT, 710 Sansome St, San Francisco Italian Design Day in the World 2023 (IDD) will take place in 100 cities all over the world. As in the past editions, a theme will be chosen with particular attention to sustainability by 100 “Italian design ambassadors” - architects, designers...
Campari's classic Negroni recipe is more than 100 years old and is easy to make at home
We've all heard of the Negroni — the bright cocktail made with gin, sweet red vermouth and Campari — and its distant cousin cocktail the "Negroni sbagliato." Bars around the globe offer the original cocktail and plenty of variations — Dante, a New York City institution that's among the Top 50 World's Best Bars, even offers a full Negroni menu at it...
Parise's Original Cannoli and Coffee Bar Puts Venice on the Map
Ask anyone where to find a mindblowing cannoli, and they’ll tell you Venice. Not Venice, Italy, but Venice, Florida, where Michael “Wheels” Parise runs Parise’s Original Coffee and Cannoli Bar, a mobile food trailer serving up life-changing cannolis and coffee. Parise, now 57, grew up in Florida, where he worked in restaurants but dreamed of becomi...
Alfa Romeo Tonale Production Boosted To Keep American Buyers Happy
In anticipation of strong demand in the United States, Alfa Romeo has increased production of the Tonale to 400 units a day, reports Automotive News. The automaker recently announced US pricing and opened pre-orders for the range, excluding the base model. Sales have already commenced in Europe, with local deliveries expected to take place in the s...
Paliano and Bomarzo, when landscape touches its extremes
It could have been a tribute to their generation; it became a symbol of their failure. And of the inability of institutions, elites and intellectuals to understand the value of architecture, which in the impossible equilibrium between memory and the future saves or condemns Italy’s only true treasure. Sentencing it, as Antonio Cederna wrote in 1956...