Looking Forward to In Scena! Italian Theater Festival
Presented by Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, for the third consecutive year, In Scena!, the Italian Theater Festival in New York is about to start (May 4 – 20). In Scena! will bring 8 shows to be performed, in English, Italian, and in different Italian dialects, in over two full weeks. The festivla opens on May 4th at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo' with a double-bill: Homage to Pasolini and Viola di Mare.
Personal Shopper: Italian Dream of Spring
For a comfortable, romantic, softly lit, playful and wry spring. The watchword is vintage. Italian stylists have come to us bearing gifts inspired by the world of dance and the splendors of childhood. Our recommendations for intimate apparel, on the other hand, lean toward the sexy and (obviously) vintage. For your own personal downtime, only trust designs wedded to fashion. As for your wrist, go romantic—without a shadow of a doubt. And for you first jog across the grass left behind by the snow? Below you’ll find some decidedly different shoes….
Business and Culture Award for the 'Fighter' Federica Marchionni
Federica Marchionni, Former Dolce & Gabbana executive and now CEO of American brand Lands' End received the 2015 Business and Culture Award from aboard the exclusive MSC Divina cruise ship. This year, the Italy America Chamber of Commerce decided to honor her, a charismatic and driven woman who played a great role in the world of telecommunication and luxury. “Look up and take the highway” Marchionni states, inviting all women to aim high.
Italian Signs in American Sports
Through participation and excellence in American sports, Italian immigrants maintained ethnic identity and enabled it to change as they moved from Italians to Americans. In the process they fashioned new American identities while preserving older, useful aspects of Italianitá.
It’s “Forward Ho!” for Renzi’s Ship
During the vote on Premier Matteo Renzi’s controversial election reform bill nicknamed the “Italicum,” the leftist MPs from Nichi Vendola’s Sinistra Ecologica Liberta’ party wore black mourning bands. But the Renzi bill sailed through the Chamber of Deputies with a comfortable margin, leaving Italy itself more victor than funeral parlor. “Not everyone is on board, but the ship is sailing forward,” said an obviously relieved Renzi.
April 30, 2015
Bambini, Ragazzi, Giovani
The Calandra Institute's annual conference focuses on children and youth, in Italy and the Italian diaspora
April 30, 2015
Modigliani e les femmes in mostra a Napoli
Il 22 maggio parte la mostra internazionale dedicata all'artista Modigliani
Ammalati di serie A e serie B
I medici giurano, ma ha ancora valore il giuramento di Ippocrate? Mi chiedo su quale etica si strutturi una prassi consolidata, e giustificata dal sistema economico e politico, che gestisce la sanità, non poche volte confermata dal comportamento del medico, che ritiene normale fare una distinzione tra il paziente che ha possibilità di pagare e chi invece no. Oggi l'unica ambizione sembra essere il potere economico e di fronte al fascino e alla seduzione della ricchezza non c'è più tradizione o giuramento che tenga.
April 26, 2015
Catholic Church joins the Protestant Reformation…Italian American Louie Verrecchio Explicator of 1965 Vatican II Council
For one-thousand and nine-hundred sixty five years, the Theology, Moral Teachings and Ritual of the Catholic Church were universally accepted by all members of the Church (Clergy and Laity). Similarly, Church Architecture (e.g. Romanesque and Gothic) and Ritual Music (e.g. Gregorian) varied little during that period. /// /// And Then! In 1965 under the aegis of the Vatican II Council, literally every aspect of the Church changed instantly and simultaneously. Today the Church is rent!
I manoscritti di Frate Francesco tornano ad Assisi
Assisi. Dopo il grande successo dell’esposizione alle Nazioni Unite e al Brooklyn Borough Hall, i manoscritti di Frate Francesco tornano a casa.
A raccontare il viaggio del messaggio del Santo del Cantico delle Creature a New York, un documentario realizzato da i-Italy, trasmesso per la prima volta all'inagurazione
Remembering the Liberation
This is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Italy from the Nazi-Fascist yoke, and the celebrations are everywhere. As the ranks of those who were there begin to thin, the recollections of those who were there grow in importance. Here is, Nunzia Cavarischia, one woman’s story of arresting an enemy soldier when she was just 15 years old – and its aftermath.
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