Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow and Italian Institute of Technology present FI5
Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow and the Italian Institute of Technology have joined forces to come up with a pulmonary ventilator that can be used by hospitals as a vital tool when dealing with emergencies such as the current COVID-19 virus global pandemic. The project goes by the codename FI5: the letters being the initials of the Maranello marque...
Research Your Italian Roots – Join us May 21 at 6pm!
Thursday, May 21, 6 p.m. EST. Get all the tips of how to begin researching your Italian family through this first webinar from NIAF's virtual three-part Genealogy Series. In the first session, we will answer both Genealogy and Dual Citizenship Questions; it is free but you must register to attend! REGISTER NOW Bianca Ottone, founder of My Italian F...
COVID-19, Updated Notice of Revised Consular Services May 18, 2020
Due to the current COVID 19 public health crisis and the recent restrictions enforced by local Authorities, the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles will only be open to the public - until further notice - exclusively for emergencies and by appointment only, every week on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 am to 3:30 pm. To avoid any form of gath...
Silvio Impagliazzo of West Babylon: A local sports icon
At age 92, Silvio Impagliazzo worked the concession stand at West Babylon Senior High School’s homecoming football game last fall to volunteer his time before taking a seat to watch the on-field action with one of his sons. But what stands out for Paul Impagliazzo when he remembers that day with his father isn’t the game they saw but all the famili...
Bergamo e Brescia si candidano insieme a Capitale italiana della Cultura 2023
Bergamo e Brescia, le città più drammaticamente colpite dalla pandemia di Coronavirus, che qui ha provocato una vera ecatombe – impossibili da dimenticare sono le immagini dei mezzi militari che portano via le bare dal cimitero strapieno per trovare una sepoltura altrove – si candidano insieme a Capitale italiana della Cultura 2023. «#Bergamo e #Br...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 127
Ciao from Rome on lockdown to all the friends of We the Italians. Dear friends, I start this editorial from an Italy in phase 2 of the lockdown thanking you all again for the final outcome of our fundraising. Here you can find the video with which the General Director of the Spallanzani Hospital, Marta Branca, thanks us for this wonderful result: a...
Italian culture and history: Padua and Its Patron Saint
The city of Padua is inextricably linked to the figure of St. Anthony, a Franciscan friar of the thirteenth century, venerated all over the world and patron of the city itself. Strenuous defender of Catholic doctrine, he fought the Cathar heresy, especially in France, with great energy and considerable success. He moved to Padua, where he died age...
Italian cuisine: Homemade Tagliatelle with peas and asparagus
Ahhh! Springtime aromas are in the air! Homemade pasta with peas and asparagus is tasty, healthy and easy dish to prepare. The delicate taste of fresh peas and asparagus goes perfectly well with egg pasta, making this dish highly appreciated and certainly a success at the table, both for a family lunch or a dinner with friends. Pasta with fresh veg...
Italian art: Gio Pomodoro's labyrinth
Built for the Galleria Giò Marconi in Milan, where a solo show of Pomodoro was held in 1995, in 1997 the Labyrinth was exhibited in the Medici Palace of San Leo in the Rimini province, Emilia Romagna. The atmosphere is inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, the first epic poem in human history, engraved on eleven clay tablets in cuneiform characters. D...
Italian little Italies: Capalbio
A borgo with a fascinating history, Capalbio, which over the years has achieved a national reputation derived from the excellent attendance of politicians, intellectuals, journalists and personalities of the showbiz, who have elected as “buen ritiro” the historic center and the countryside of Capalbio, by virtue of the beauty and quiet privacy of t...
Italian design: The ADI Design Museum
A few weeks before the entire world stopped, the new ADI Design Museum was presented to the public in Milan. The project, born from a collaboration between the government, the Lombardy region, the municipality of Milan and ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale), is located in a restored industrial building which was originally a Milanese tra...
Italian sport: Cagliari, the miracle of Italian soccer
Soccer, considered in Italy almost as a religion, has been telling beautiful and sometimes really exciting pages of history for over 100 years. One of these was written in 1970, exactly 50 years ago. In those years Italy was still experiencing the famous economic boom of the '60s, that of well-being for all the people who came out a few years befor...