NYCEDC and CUNY Launch IN2NYC Program for International Entrepreneurs
A new program which will make available up to (initially) 80 new potential (NO LOTTERY) H-1B visas for international entrepreneurs in NYC! Thanks to NYCEDC, the City of New York and CUNY.
Shakespeare With an Italian Twist
During the month of March two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, are being revisited in New York's theaters with an Italian twist.
Italia, Europe’s Rice Paddy
Six out of ten people in the world subsist on rice; after wheat, it’s the most consumed grain, providing more than half the world’s population with over 50% of its calories. Nearly all rice production—94%—is concentrated in the Far East, and a good 8,000 varieties are known and grouped by grain length.
Forget Silicon Valley, Come to New York City!
When we sat down with Alessandro Piol, the Italian venture capitalist based in new york who has 30 years of experience in the field of technology, he opened up about how his father— in Italy, a pioneer in the sector—taught him to love his work. He also explained how he chooses projects to finance and why New York presents even greater prospects than Silicon Valley. And he concluded with a little “message in a bottle” for young Italians looking to come to the City to develop an idea.
Dacia Maraini: "Ecco come nascono i miei romanzi"
Eco, "Un grande amico di cui ammiravo tanto la vena ironica perché amava prendersi in giro. “Agli americani consiglio di leggere I 'Viceré' di Federico De Roberto”. E’ l’invito alla lettura che Dacia Maraini, tra le voci più note della letteratura italiana, rivolge ai lettori americani. Li ha incontrati a New York: prima all’Hunter College (Cuny) e poi alla Casa italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU).
The Truth Behind Appearances
He started out as an Alpine guide in the vast stretch of mountains in Veneto and Trentino. Today he lives in New York where he works with a scalpel on paper. Marco Gallotta is an original artist who loves exploring the rich and complex relationship between man and nature, carving out the truth hiding behind appearances.
The wonderfully weird world of Italy’s church supplies expo
In 1993, a brilliant idea to streamline churchgoing for professionals made its international debut at Italy’s church supplies expo: a confession box to which your sins could be faxed. “A space-age telephone booth,” one reverend raged to the Catholic Herald
On the trail of Italy's strangely beautiful street signs
The most interesting Italian signs and inscriptions are rare, and usually have to be patiently hunted down. What distinguishes them is the variety of original shapes -- or letterforms -- that are sometimes used in situations that would be unthinkable in polite "Anglo" circumstances.
Behind the scenes at Milan Fashion Week
Behind the scenes at Milan Fashion Week, the industry's future is shaping up to be a game of fast vs. slow fashion.
Food, family, and God: How Italy won the race for beauty
This is the first of our new Style Italia series - dedicated to the past, present and future of Italian design.
Italy's Farewell Salute to Umberto Eco
They waited in line for over an hour, sometimes even fighting over precedence -- students and housewives, politicians and pensioners, all anxious to pay a last salute to Umberto Eco, who died Feb. 19 at age 84. At the funeral ceremony Tuesday in front of the Castelello Sforzesco in Milan, near the palazzo where Eco lived, his wooden casket was completely covered in wildflowers.
Bringing Self Made Art to the Stage
Following the success of the pilot edition in 2013, Queens‐based performance company Mare Nostrum Elements, founded by Italian performer Nicola Iervasi and American actor/director Kevin Albert, and LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) partnered once again to present ECS#3, the Emerging Choreographer Series 2016. The ECS is a free a professional showcase in the Little Theater @ La Guardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City, designed to address the challenges of bringing self‐made art to the stage.
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