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New York. Andrea Mastrovito's pop-up books @ the Moroso showroom in New York. Comment by critic and curator Renato Miracco

Corto Maltese is Ready to Seize America

Natasha Lardera

One of the most popular characters from graphic literature in Europe appears in a new translation, by Hall Powell, now available in the USA for the first time in over 20 years.

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Amanda Knox’s Former Boyfriend to Visit Seattle

A reunion between Amanda knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, the man with whom she spent four years in an Italian prison on murder charges, could happen as early as this week.

Source: ABC news
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Sangiovese: Italy's Most Ubiquitous Grape

By Richard Jennings
Italian wines are really hot today. Italy became the world's biggest wine producing country in 2010, surpassing longtime world leader France. Meanwhile, Italian wine imports to important markets like the U.S., Britain and China have risen dramatically in the last several years.

Source: the Huffington Post

Jovanotti a Williamsburg: quando l’Ombelico del Mondo è Brooklyn

Francesca Giuliani

Il rapper e cantautore toscano ha fatto ballare Brooklyn tutta la note con la sua jam band di musicisti internazionali. Nella scaletta dell’esibizione, improvvisata al momento, successi di ieri e brani dagli ultimi album, “Safari” e “Ora”.

Bologna. A Statue to Remember Lucio Dalla?

N. L.

The late singer's hometown is busy planning different ways to honor him. The latest proposition involves a life-like statue in the middle of the street where anybody can see him and shake his extended hand.

Italian-American Students and Their Perspective on Ethnicity Issues: A Research Anthology

Chiara Morucci

Editor Nancy Ziehler presents at Calandra Institute a Research Anthology on "Italian-American Students in New York City, 1975-2000." The book is based on 10 research papers on Italian-American students in the New York City area, and focuses on how Italian-American students negotiated their ethnicity in a period where issues of gender and race were very urgent in the United States.

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Criminal Case on Cruise Ship Wreck Opens in Italy

By Gaia Pianigiani
Hundreds of lawyers, victims’ families and survivors of the wreck of the Cruise Ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off the Tuscan coast in January, converged on Grosseto, Italy, on Saturday for the first evidence hearing in the criminal investigation against the ship’s captain and others.

Source: the New York Times

Jovanotti in Williamsburg: when Brooklyn becomes the Ombelico del Mondo

Francesca Giuliani

The Tuscan singer-songwriter and rapper kept Brooklyn bouncing all night with his international jam band. New Yorkers as well as Italians danced and sang along to his newest hits and historical songs, defeating linguistic barriers with the power of music.

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Deaths barred in Italian village

Since the start of the month it has been illegal to die in Falciano del Massico, a village of 3,700 people some 30 miles from Naples in southern Italy.
 

Source: Fox news
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Tax Cheats Become Italy’s Public Enemy

By Elisabetta Povoledo
When five officials from Italy’s internal revenue service entered the Dal Duca restaurant in Rome’s trendy Trastevere neighborhood one night two weeks ago, they were not there to eat.

Source: the New York Times
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Mama's Boys of the Bronx

You've never seen "Mama's Boys" like these before. TLC's new series "Mama's Boys of the Bronx" (premieres Mon., April 9, 10 p.m. ET) follows five successful thirty-something Italian-American men who all grew up together and also all share an unusual living situation: They still live with their moms. And they're not ashamed of it.

Source: the Huffington Post
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