Italy Plans To Lift Some Coronavirus Travel Restrictions Early Next Month
Italy has taken another major step in its emergence from one of the world's strictest coronavirus lockdowns. In a decree issued early Saturday, the Italian government laid out its timeline for lifting restrictions on domestic and foreign travel. Come Monday, people will be allowed to move freely within their own region, and on June 3, officials exp...
Olio umbro fa il pieno di premi negli USA: tre ori a New York, argento e bronzo a Los Angeles per Farchioni
Tre medaglie d’oro per tre etichette di olio italiano, umbro in particolare: “Selezione Oli del Mediterraneo”, “Collezione di Famiglia” e “Dop Umbria Colli Martani”. Questi i premi conquistati in questi giorni al New York International Olive Oil Competition da Farchioni, l’azienda con sede a Giano dell’Umbria che dal 1780 trasforma i frutti della t...
Softball Spotlight: Valhalla's Christina Ferrara
To recognize some of the athletes who never got a chance to take the field this spring, we're putting the spotlight on the softball field, highlighting and introducing one player each day with a questionnaire. Next up is Valhalla's senior shortstop, Christina Ferrara, who's been a member of the varsity team since eighth grade. Christina Ferrara Sch...
Storie di famiglia. Labor of Love: Wine Families of Piemonte.
Friday May 29. 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM. Zoom Meeting. Registration here. Member: FREE, registration required. ICC Members receive a $5 DISCOUNT & PERSONAL INSCRIPTIONS when ordering the book! See event description for details. Non-Member: FREE, registration required. A detailed email with information on how to access this event online will be sent closer...
Le università americane in Italia al tempo del coronavirus
In Italia ci sono circa 165 sedi permanenti di Università e Colleges statunitensi, canadesi e australiani, ogni anno oltre 33.000 giovani provenienti dai rispettivi atenei passano un periodo di studio in Italia della durata che va dalle poche settimane ai sei mesi, il settore conta circa 12.000 addetti fra personale docente e non docente, l’impatto...
How will we ever make people feel at home again, ask Italy's fearful trattorias
Armando al Pantheon, a lively, family-run trattoria in the heart of Rome, counts the architect Renzo Piano among its illustrious customers. And there is no way that owner and chef Claudio Gargioli, is going to offend his sensibilities – and those of other regulars – with plexiglass. His father, who opened the restaurant a stone’s throw away from th...
NIAF Congressional Fellowship: Part 2
My Italian American heritage has always played a large role in my life. From a young age, the stories of my family’s hard work to make a new life for themselves in America inspired me to put my best foot forward in not only my studies but also in my career. As a political science major, working in Washington, D.C., was frequently thought of as a dr...
Harvard Economist, Austerity Expert Alberto Alesina Dies at 63
Alberto Alesina, a prominent Harvard University economist and expert on austerity, has died at age 63, Italian media reported. Alesina, who received his doctorate from Harvard and headed its economics department from 2003 to 2006, was considered an authority on political economy. He died of cardiac arrest while hiking, the Ansa news agency reported...
Italy reopens museums and churches
On a side street around the corner from the Pantheon in Rome’s centro storico, locals again this week spotted a familiar sight: a crowd queuing to get into the church of San Luigi dei Francesi. Even by Roman standards, this is not any old church. It holds the Caravaggio masterpiece The Calling of Matthew—a must-see for any visitor to the Eternal Ci...
Why Now is the Perfect Time to Visit Little Italy
In the P.P. (pre-pandemic) era, Little Italy was bustling with a constant stream of tourists, drunk birthday party revelers, and a smattering of hosts belting out Frank Sinatra tunes. Perhaps this is why the last two months have felt particularly dead on the iconic stretch of Mulberry Street. Home to several independently owned, multi-generational...
Italian Street Festival postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic
An event that annually draws 40,000 fans of Italian food to the southeast side of Downtown Indianapolis has been postponed. The Holy Rosary Italian Street Festival, which was scheduled for June 12 and 13, is postponed indefinitely due to concerns about COVID-19. Italian Street Festival organizers said in a statement that they will post updates to t...
Via Montenapoleone, “Il Salotto di Milano”
“Via Montenapoleone, il salotto di Milano, ritrovo delle signore dell'élite della città.” It was 1954 when Dutch born singer Peter Van Wood sang his ode to the beating heart of Milan, the spine of what was already the centre of the city’s fashion district, the “quadrilatero della moda.” If we want to be historically accurate, we should say that...