St. Joseph’s Day Italian Festival successful
The 11th annual St. Joseph’s Day Italian Festival on March 18, presented by the Sons and Daughters of Italy Ocean City Lodge #2474 and St. Luke’s/St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, was an enormous success and our best attended to date. It was a fun day for all who attended and a profitable fundraiser. We have many individuals, merchants and organization...
Italy's leading role in the mission to Jupiter
Assessing the habitability of Jupiter's moons: this is the main goal of Esa's new Juice (the acronym stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) space mission, with a strong Italian footprint. Of the 10 instruments aboard the probe, four, in fact, are Italian. After launching from Esa's Kourou base in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 launcher, Juice wil...
ENJJPT instructors participate in a flyover to celebrate the 100-year Italian Air Force anniversary
To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the Italian Air Force, a group of five T-6 Texan II aircraft, flown by 10 Italian Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training instructors led by Lt. Col. Andrea Cerri, the Italian Senior National Representative, took off from Sheppard AFB on a historic round trip. The mission saw them land and fly over sites of histo...
Rhythmic gymnastics, Italian triumph: 4 golds for Sofia Raffaeli in the Word Cup in Tashkent
Four golds for Sofia Raffaeli in the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup finals in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Italian outclassed all her rivals in the final eight: the reigning world champion immediately took the top spot on hoop ahead of Germany's Kolosov and Uzbekistan's Ikromova. At the ball, she won again over Kolosov and Slovenia's Vedeneeva. But she...
“Galileo’s Daughter” explores fraught filial relationship
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will stage the world premiere of “Galileo’s Daughter” at Theater Wit in Chicago from April 5 to May 14. Rattled by a personal crisis, a playwright flees to Florence to study the letters between Galileo Galilei and his eldest daughter, Maria Celeste. Maria Celeste, caught up in the threats against her father, must abandon...
Brides "crazy" for made in Italy: recovery runs especially in the U.S.
After the Covid-imposed halt to ceremonies, weddings are coming back to populate spring-summer 2023. And the wedding apparel industry, which had a global value of about $61 billion in 2022, is expected to reach $83.5 billion in 2030. The heaviest market, in economic terms, remains the American with $27 billion in value in 2030. During 2022 and the...
Archaeologists in Italy unearth ancient dolphin statuette
Excavations in southern Italy have unearthed terracotta bull heads and a figurine of the Greek god Eros riding a dolphin. The discoveries shine new light on the religious life and rituals of an ancient city, Italian culture ministry officials said. It is the first trove of artefacts identified from a sanctuary in the ancient Greek city of Paestum,...
Lady Gaga Named Co-Chair of President Biden’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
The White House announced on Thursday (April 13) that President Joe Biden has tapped Lady Gaga to co-chair his Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Mother Monster will share her position as co-chair of the committee with Hollywood producer and Oscar winner Bruce Cohen, while the likes of Kerry Washington, Jon Batiste, George Clooney, Jennifer...
Mike Pompeo says he will not run for president in 2024
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday that he will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024. "Susan and I have concluded, after much consideration and prayer, that I will not present myself as a candidate to become President of the United States in the 2024 election," Pompeo tweeted Friday evening. In a state...
Genoa celebrates the world's longest focaccia
About 350 meters in length by one ton in weight and more than 15 thousand portions to be distributed for free: these are the numbers of the world's longest focaccia, produced by 14 bakers of the Genoa Bakers Association on Saturday, April 15 in the streets of the center of the Ligurian capital.In front of the Ducal Palace there was the official "pr...
Mario Fratti, Famous Italian Playwright, Dies at 95
Mario Fratti passed away in the early morning hours of Saturday in his beautiful Manhattan home. He was 95 years old. He would have continued writing and going to the theater as he did until he was 93 if an inexorable and sudden physical decline had not slowed him down. He was the most famous and prolific Italian author of comedies and plays in the...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 162
Dear friends, Spring has come and We the Italians is off again to New York, where we will attend the NIAF Gala and make some important and interesting meetings. And speaking of galas, we are working hard to organize our Gala dinner again this year here in Rome. It will be held again at the prestigious Club of the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affair...