Italian Wine Specialist Students Continue Their Voyage “Down the Boot”
It was the dinner and not the school bell that rang at 9:30am on Saturday, October 26th when the Italian Wine Specialist Certification Course commenced. Perfectly staged at one of Miami's most popular Italian restaurants, Toscano Divino, a group of wine professionals and recreationists gathered to learn all that there is to know about Italian wine....
Italiani a New York, nasce il progetto Mires per rilanciare l’Emilia Romagna negli States
di Piero Armenti Pochi giorni fa si è inaugurato a New York il nuovo progetto nato dalla collaborazione tra la stilista italiana Pamela Quinzi ed il giovane imprenditore Italiano Andrea Balestra: Mires "Italy to Love". Una festa in uno dei più conosciuti Rooftop di Manhattan, lo Skyroom per celebrare l'inizio di una nuova avventura tu...
Italytheater. Primo passo
Da martedì 3 dicembre Italytheater è una realtà e possiede una sua credibilità. L'associazione culturale creata dal regista pugliese Vittorio Capotorto e dall'uomo di marketing emiliano (ma con base a Zurigo) Francesco Pagano, ha messo in scena il suo primo spettacolo e quindi ha accolto il pubblico nell'arco di due serate, discusso con alcuni...
Italy: Cagliari may become ‘Mediterranean City of Fountains’
A lawyer has set his sights on transforming the Sardinia's regional capital into 'The City of Fountains'. Maurizio Loche, originally from the Italian island but with an associated law firm in the UK and legal advisor to the British Consulate, envisions Cagliari with an abundance of fountains, lights, and music embellishing its squares, gardens and...
History Center’s Italian American Collection to Host Inaugural Scholar-in-Residence
This month, the Senator John Heinz History Center's Italian American Collection will host Poet Laureate of North Carolina, Joseph Bathanti, as its firstScholar-in-Residence. A Pittsburgh native and professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., Bathanti will produce an original body of work inspired by his re...
IALA’s new leadership takes office and hosts the National Italian American Bar Association
by Silvia Simonetti Eager to connect more deeply with the local community, IALA's schedule has been particularly rich in engaging events during the last week. On Thursday, January 23, the Italian American Lawyers Association hosted the "NIABA Night" at Casa Italiana, while on Saturday 25, members and their guests gathered at the USC C...
Italian politics: The Judicial system
WTI Magazine #17 2014 Feb, 14Author : Francesca Papasergi Translation by: After the appeal virdict for Meredith Kercher murder's trial, in which Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty, Americans may think that the Italian judicial system is pretty complicated and inconclusive. Som...
Oscars 2014: Italy's 'The Great Beauty' wins academy award for the best foreign language film
Visually stunning Italian drama "The Great Beauty" won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday, capping its successful awards season run in the United States and Europe. Director Paolo Sorrentino's film about an aging writer's reflections on life and his search for meaning among Rome's idle rich also won top foreign film honors at t...
Starz Adapting Italian Gang Series ‘Romanzo Criminale’ With Steven S. DeKnight, Steve McPherson, Scripted World & Lionsgate
Starz is developing an U.S. adaptation of the Italian drama Romanzo Criminale. It will be written by Steven S. DeKnight, creator/showrunner of Starz's most successful original series, Spartacus, who is serving as executive producer and showrunner as part of his overall deal with the pay cable network. Lionsgate, which previously produced B...
Libri tra due mondi. La letteratura italo-americana vista da Anthony Tamburri
By Maurita Cardone Anthony Tamburri, direttore del John D. Calandra Italian American Institute della City University of New York, ha appena pubblicato un libro in cui sviscera un pezzo di letteratura le cui specificità sono state a lungo ignorate se non negate. Re-reading Italian Americana. Specificities and Generalities on Literature and...
Feast of St. Mark Italian Food Festival set for April 26
By Cassandra Mickens Organizers of Feast of St. Mark Italian Food Festival say the event is bound to excite the taste buds. The third annual rain-or-shine feast is set for Saturday, April 26 from 4 to 11 p.m. at Saint Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Birmingham. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children ages 6 through 12....
Renzo Piano custode dell'arte americana ad Harvard
By Valeria Robecco Dopo il New York Times Building e la Morgan Library, e in attesa dell'inaugurazione della nuova sede del Whitney Museum, prevista per il 2015, anche la Ivy League si rivolge a Renzo Piano. L'architetto conferma il forte legame con gli Stati Uniti presentando a New York la sua nuova opera, la ristrutturazione e l'ampliam...