Italy’s New Foreign Minister Emma Bonino Has Been Pushing For A New EU Country For Over A Decade: Israel
Italy’s new Foreign Minister Emma Bonino is part of the small Radical Party, a group considered mostly leftist, although it could be associated with issues considered mostly libertarian in the U.S. One of its signature positions is staunch support of Israel, something that's far from being in the majority among Western Europe's liberal elite. And one of the things Bonino has been closely associated with is a campaign launched in 2001 to admit Israel to the European Union.
Italy Faces a Shortage of Pizza Makers
A growing slice of Italy’s pizza makers are not actually Italian. Despite a long recession and high unemployment, Italians may be less inclined to take pizza-making jobs because of the long hours and modest pay, according to the Telegraph.
Answers for Art Students
No matter where or when, the creative artist always has the ability to enjoy prosperity and success. Here's how I do it.
Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este: on View at the Met
A year after the series of violent earthquakes that struck the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northeastern Italy, affecting the cities of Ferrara, Mantua, and Modena, the Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomes one of the great portraits of the 17th century from one of the most prestigious regional museums in Italy, the Galleria Estense in Modena. On view through July 14th.
St. Anthony's Italian Feast returns to Roselle Park
Residents know that summer has arrived in Roselle Park, when the Church of the Assumption presents its annual St. Anthony Italian Family Feast. Once again this year it will be four days of faith, fun, family and friends, packed full of delicious homemade cooking, an Italian-style Café, food venders, non-stop entertainment and music (more performers than 2012!), amusements, and games.
The Beauty of Liguria
Harbors, picturesque cities on the edges of cliffs, beautiful beaches and great cuisine are just some of the characteristics of Liguria, a region to discover. "If you come to Genoa, you can see all the palaces where the merchants and the bankers of the city lived. UNESCO decided that these palaces and the center of the city deserve to be a World Heritage Site,” said Anna Castellano, Council of the Department of Communications and City Promotion of Genoa, at an event organized by the Italian Government Tourist Board in New York
April 29, 2013
“Odyssey” ‘Song of Sicily’… Poet’s Images = Sicilian Reality
A previous article (“Step Aside Homer…” link in Related Articles box) introduced the meticulously documented factual based conclusions of two eminent classical scholars, who demonstrated that the metaphoric locations described in the “Odyssey” were not the product of the poet’s imagination. Rather, imaginary places like ‘Scheria’, for example, were in fact real locations in western Sicily circa 1,000 B.C. (e.g. Trapani)…. Also, the author of the poem was not Homer, rather a Sicilian, possibly a Sicilian girl.
Help wanted: 6,000 pizza makers needed in Italy
There's a crisis in Italy: It's too hot in the pizzeria and the Italians have gotten out, leaving a shortage of 6,000 'pizzaiuoli,' according to the Italian business group FIPE.Despite the worst unemployment rate in two decades, these crucial roles in the land that invented the tomato and cheese pies are going unfilled, according to the report, by the Italian Federation of Confcommercio Companies for Italy.
CSO's Riccardo Muti receives award from Italian American Chamber of Commerce
Chicago’s Italian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) presented Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti with a Lifetime Achievement award during a gala event at the Art Institute of Chicago's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room on Wednesday night. The IACC was founded in 1907 to support the Italian business community and American businesses specializing in Italian products.
Italy gets first black minister Cecile Kyenge
Cecile Kyenge, a doctor who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has become Italy's first black minister after being named in Premier Enrico Letta's new cabinet on Saturday.
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