Vatican plans social media celebration of popes' sainthood
Website, smartphone app and Facebook page being set up for canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II
Italy PM Renzi says will quit if Senate reform blocked
Italy's new prime minister threatened on Monday to resign if a plan to reduce the powers of the upper house of parliament, a central part of his ambitious constitutional reform agenda, is blocked.
Police return dismantled church to Italy in US art row
A church in southern Italy dismantled by an artist who planned to rebuild it at New York's Museum of Modern Art is being returned to its original site, Italian police said Saturday.
March 31, 2014
2nd Saturdays with IAWA Welcomes Joey Nicoletti and Mark Saba, Saturday, April 12 @ Sidewalk Cafe NYC
The three rules of IAWA: Read One Another, Write or Be Written, and Buy Our Books.
New York, NY- The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) presents writers Joey Nicoletti and Mark Saba on Saturday, April 12, 2014, at the Sidewalk Café, 94 Avenue A (at 6th Street) in New York City’s East Village, www.sidewalkny.com; 212-473-7373. The reading takes place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and kicks off with Open Mic readings of five minutes after which the featured writers take the stage.
Con men stopped entering Vatican bank with €3 trillion of fake bonds
Two smartly-dressed men armed with forged bond certificates worth trillions of euros have been caught while trying to talk their way into the Vaticane's bank, in a spectacularly bungled fraud scheme.
Napoli. Salicelle. Dove l'incesto urbano diventa umano
Alle Salicelle l’incesto non è un caso isolato e, per essere terra seviziata, anch’essa può dirsi nata da una visione urbanistica incestuosa, progettata contro ogni natura di vivibilità. Così si presentano tanti agglomerati costruiti dopo il terremoto del 1980 in Campania, specie a Napoli e in provincia, mucchi di case senza strutture sociali, che alla fine si somigliano l’un l’altro e dentro i quali scompare ogni individualità. Deportazione di popolo costretto ad occupare spazi angusti, gente spodestata dalla memoria e spostata in fretta da altrove per altrove miseria.
Riccardo Battaglia to Dance With Ailey II
2014 is Riccardo Battaglia's first year with Ailey II. The talented dancer will star in numerous premieres in the soon to start New York season. He is the first male Italian primo ballerino (soloist) to be accepted by the dance company.
Passeggiate romane. Le case del Celio
Sotto la chiesa dei Ss. Giovanni e Paolo al Celio secoli di oblìo hanno tenuto perfettamente conservata una domus romana del III secolo d.C. con vasti ambienti sotterranei, alcuni con pareti affrescate. Questo complesso residenziale dal 2002 è aperto alle visite del pubblico
Captains of Industry to be Honored at NIAF New York Gala
Held at the legendary Italian Renaissance-inspired Cipriani 42nd Street, the evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with a cocktail reception followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. The gala also includes musical performance by Louis Prima Jr. and The Witnesses, an eight-piece brass-infused swing band.
La realtà dei valori della nostra terra e delle sue genti. Ovunque nel mondo
”L’Italia dei sogni - Fatti e singolarità del bel Paese”, One Group Edizioni, ultima fatica letteraria di Goffredo Palmerini. Un libro di storia e di storie che tutte le scuole italiane e gli Istituti di Cultura all’estero dovrebbero avere. Come eravamo. Come siamo. Come vorremmo essere. In Italia e oltre i confini della Penisola. Dal sogno passare alla realtà della Bellezza dell’Italia
2014, Anadromous Selves on Escalators. An Introspective Invitation
Professor, Robert C. Morgan: “While many sculptors focus on their materials in a literal way, Tao Kulczycki chooses to transform his materials into metaphors of the human condition. At the same time, he is exacting and precise in the manner he constructs these metaphors using various assortments of found objects.”
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