Things that make you go hmmm...
Just when you think you're out, they pull you back in... and so I paraphrase the words of the fictional character Michael Corleone in "The Godfather III"
December 19, 2013
Things that make you go hmmm...
Just when you think you're out, they pull you back in... and so I paraphrase the words of the fictional character Michael Corleone in "The Godfather III"
Nino e i 3 doni magici. Il folklore italiano sull'AppStore
“Nino e i 3 doni magici” è una storia tutta italiana, che affonda le radici nelle nostre terre, rievocando i nostri valori più antichi, più profondi. Disponibile da Dicembre sull’AppStore, lo storybook ricco di animazioni è disponibile sia in inglese che in italiano. E CappuccinoApps, la startup che l’ha lanciata, promette una trilogia…
Nino and the 3 Magic Gifts. A Traditional Italian Tale on the AppStore
The newly released iPhone and iPad application “Nino and the 3 magic gifts” celebrates Italian folklore and cultural traditions. It’s an “edutainment” tool for kids of all ages: a storybook with fun animations and interactive features to support learning in Italian.
Dear Babbo Natale
Naples is the quintessential Christmas town, and for many families its Nativity scenes - presepi - represent an accumulation of decades of collecting. The whole street of San Gregorio Armeno, in the heart of old Napoli, is a file of storefronts jammed with Nativity figures. But for 28 years another custom has developed: the wishes people of all ages attach to the 24-foot-tall fir tree known as the "Tree of Desires" in the elegant turn-of-the-century Galleria Umberto I. Their wishes are a slice of Neapolitan life.
December 17, 2013
So … What Happened to Little Italy? … Why did the Italians Leave? --- Part I: “The Urban Villagers”
“I’d go back in a heart beat!” … So ended an interview with an upper-middle class southern-Italian American baby boomer. She was born and raised in one of Rochester, N.Y.’s half-dozen Little Italy neighborhoods. In the 1960s she followed the migration to suburbia and lives in a house bigger then her birth home and the two next to it. Yet, she misses the neighborhood of her childhood. She’s not alone.
Migrants of Yesterday and today
In occasion of International Migrants Day, the 18 of December at United Nation there will be a discussion about the important relationship between migration and development. We interviewed Professor A. J. Tamburri, who will be one of the panelists at the conference
Ministro D’Alia: “Il settore pubblico é il motore dell’economia”
Conferenza stampa a New York di Gianpiero D’Alia. Il Ministro per la Pubblica Amministrazione e Semplificazione era giá stato in precedenza a Washington per incontri istituzionali
When Truffles Become a Family Story
Behind the great variety of products presented by la Rustichella, there is an old recipe belonging to Nonna Maria and Sergio Brugnoli's great determination to bring high quality Italian products to the rest of the world. This is an interview with his daughter, Francesca Brugnoli, who, along with the rest of the family, works hard at bringing the brand abroad.
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