2014 Atlanta Italian Film Festival: 3 Must-See Movies
Italian cinema is hot right now with Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and grossing a cool $2.8 million in the United States, good for No. 9 on the Italian-language box-office list. So it's the perfect time to brush up on some of the latest Italian movies at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival, which wi...
Cervelli in fuga, expat, emigranti nuova mobilità: un libro ci dice chi sono
di Riccardo Giumelli Il tema è a noi caro: giovani e meno giovani italiani che espatriano o stanno fuori d'Italia. Non cervelli in fuga, come abbiamo già avuto modo di descrivere, ma "nuovi mobili". È quindi la "meglio Italia" che parte? Parliamo di questo con gli autori Maddalena Tirabassi, direttore del Centro Altritalie di Tori...
Italian Glass, for Your Bidding
by Eve M. Khan One of the most comprehensive collections of 20th-century Italian glass is on view in New York just as it is being dispersed. As a preview for a sale next Tuesday in Chicago, Wright auction house has packed its Manhattan showroom at 980 Madison Avenue with glass vessels and sculptures consigned by the photo stylist and art d...
Cinema italiano a Detroit: Everybody’s Right by Paolo Sorrentino
Award-winning Italian actress Iaia Forte is once again working with Paolo Sorrentino after the extraordinary international success of "The Great Beauty". In the play "Everybody's Right" adapted from Sorrentino's novel, Iaia Forte plays Tony Pagoda, a Neapolitan singer at the height of his career in 1950′s-era New York, as he awaits the most importa...
Italian pop sensation, Il Volo, makes a stop in Stamford
In 2010, when Il Volo ascended to the top of the charts in its native Italy with its self-titled debut album, it turned out to be the first of many peaks this pop-operatic trio would scale. In the years that have followed, Piero Barone, 20, Ignazio Boschetto, 19, and Gianluca Ginoble, 19, have shared the stage with some of the biggest name...
FIFA World Cup Trophy is Made in Italy
by Silvia Donati The FIFA World Cup trophy is made in Italy. Precisely in Paderno Dugnano, in the province of Milan, by a company called Bertoni, which has been producing the trophy since 1974. Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, who at the time was artistic director at Bertoni, was awarded the commission by FIFA. Made of 18 carat...
Good news, one-percenters: Italian supercar maker Pagani opens 5 U.S. showrooms
One might think that American million and billionaires were spoiled for choice, when it came to supercar offerings. Turns out, though, there's been at least one major void in the American supercar market: Pagani. Known for making some of the most stunning – and hard to pronounce – supercars in the world, Pagani prides itself not only on speed but...
Italian-American leaders criticize Republican Rob Astorino's 'mafia' remark
Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino angered Italian-American leaders Monday by comparing Gov. Cuomo's handling of the anti-corruption Moreland Commission to the actions of a mafia boss. Astorino used the mafia comparison to mock Cuomo's argument that his administration only gave "advice" the Moreland Commission and did not inter...
Dianne Hales Presents MONA LISA: A LIFE DISCOVERED at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, 9/11
On Thursday, September 11 at 7 p.m. award-winning author Dianne Hales will present her latest book,"Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered" at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum. Every year, 9 million visitors to the Louvre visit a gallery in which one small portrait-the lone painting on an immense wall-sits inside a bulletproof glass case, further protect...
Sexy Shopping shines a light on Italy at the 2014 Hollyshorts Film Fest
The 10th edition of the annual Hollyshorts Film Festival returned to the Chinese Theater, featuring a selection of Italian short movies, including Sexy Shopping by Antonio Benedetto and Adam Selo, Voce Umana by Edoardo Ponti, The Escape by Ivano Di Natale and Alessandro De Vivo, Un uccello molto serio by Lorenza Indovina, and The Age of Insecurity:...
American Association Of Teachers Of Italian Logo Competition
AATI is looking for a creative mind to help us rethink our look by creating a brand/logo for the association. The logo should somehow represent our guidingcharacteristics: "Preserve, Advance, and Promote Italian Culture" and reflect our mission: The American Association of Teachers of Italian is a professional organization...
Al via l’XI edizione del Concorso Video Memorie Migranti - Testimonial d’eccezione i giornalisti Piero Angela e Gian Antonio Stella
Giunge all'XI edizione il Concorso Video "Memorie Migranti", nato per recuperare la memoria storica dell'emigrazione italiana nel mondo e favorire un'attività di ricerca e di studio sugli aspetti sociali, storici ed economici legati al grande esodo. Promosso dal Museo dell'Emigrazione "Pietro Conti" con la partecipazione di Rai Teche e del...