Italian wine exports continue to shine, up 9.4% since 2011
Italian wine exports continue to rise with some variation on markets and vintage preferences, a Mediobanca report said on Thursday
Ruby wants her day in court
The young Moroccan woman known as 'Ruby' at the centre of a sex scandal that has put Italian ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi on trial said on Wednesday she will stage a protest in front of the Milan court where hearings have been taking place to make her voice heard. Karima El Mahroug, who will arrive in front of the courthouse Thursday at 10:30 am Italian time, told ANSA that she wants "to protest not being heard during hearings" that carry her name.
Paolo Di Canio: “I’m not a Fascist” (but Italy would be in a ‘better situation’ under Mussolini)
Is Paolo Di Canio still a Fascist? Right now, he is not saying because he only wants to talk about football, but there is a rambling interview in a 2002 book West Ham: Irons in the Soul by Pete May (available as an e-book) in which he can be said to have answered the question:“I never said I was a fan of Mussolini but for the media it is more easy to make the polemic. I said that after Mussolini no one political man was a patriot or a nationalist because nationalism is not equal to being a Nazi. English people are very proud of their nationalism too; my nationalism means you are proud because you are Italian…
Italy's Nadia Santini named world's best female chef
Nadia Santini, the head chef of the Michelin-starred Dal Pescatore restaurant in a village in northern Italy, was named Best Female Chef by the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards on Wednesday.
'Six' Fights Gun Possession. Your Contribution is Essential
With 300 millions of guns privately owned by civilians in the U.S, gun possession is a massive problem nowadays. This short film by the young Italian director Frank Jerky aims to investigate the different aspects and consequences of this issue.
Exibition Opening - Emotions from Pisa by Stefano Pasqualetti
Bon voyage at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò with this special collection of photographs
On view through April 29, 2013, Mon-Fri 10-5. The opening event will feature a performance by the NYU Madrigal Singers
"A Song for Life"
A special concert with Singer Charlette Shulamit Ottolenghi, pianist Shai Bachar, and trumpeter Frank London.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Ottolenghi presents Mediterranean and Eastern European songs of mourning and resistance drawn from the experiences of women in the Holocaust.
Bounded Rationality Updated: The 1st Conference of the Herbert Simon Society at the Italian Cultural Institute
"Slow and Fast Thinking, Creativity and Rational Expectations". Three days (April 8-10) to reflect on the feasible alternatives to neoclassical economics and the doctrines that are at the basis of the present financial crisis. The Conference will include two Honorary Lectures (held by Gerd Gigerenzer and Joseph Stiglitz ), and six Key Speeches (held by Ron Sun, Keith Frankish, Pat Langley, Jonathan W. Schooler, Roy Radner, Alan Kirman & Massimo Egidi).
Angelino Alfano: "The House on Fire"
Right and left in Italy agree on the gravity of the problem. "The house is on fire," thundered Angelino Alfano, titular secretary of the rightist Freedom Party (PdL). "Italy is starting to be frightened - yes, frightened," intoned the moderate leftist professor Ernesto Galli della Loggia, writing in Corriere della Sera. Both lament the politicians' failure to move toward formation of a new government. But there agreement ends, and the impasse over what to do to avoid a dangerous power vacuum continues.
Why Italy keeps tormenting Knox
Amanda Knox might have thought her long nightmare was over when her conviction in the murder in 2007 of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, was overturned in 2011. But this past week, Italy’s Court of Cassation ordered her to be retried. Welcome to the Italian criminal justice system.
Directly from Tuscany... Please Welcome Prosciutto Toscano PDO
It took Gruppo Parmacotto five years for to get the approval of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to import Prosciutto Toscano PDO to the USA. This legendary cured meat hailing from Tuscany is not as sweet as Prosciutto di Parma but is very savory. It can be enjoyed alone or together with fresh fruit, such as melon and figs, or vegetables and seasonal salads.
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