Fermi, Sinatra, DiMaggio — and Capone
The United States, between the 1880’s and 1924, admitted about 4 million Italian immigrants. As Leon Wieseltier, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, observed to me, “We got Enrico Fermi, Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Antonin Scalia — and Al Capone. Who in their right mind would suggest that the Italian immigration was not a great blessing for our country?”
2016: Try It Left-Handed
If you're looking to make a dramatic change and you really want to stir things up for the better here's how to begin.
January 25, 2016
2016: Try It Left-Handed
Fusaro 2016
If you're looking to make a dramatic change and you really want to stir things up for the better here's how to begin.
"Io non sapevo". Scarpe dipinte per coloro che negano la storia
Le scarpe sono appese ad un chiodo come gli impiccati ai lampioni di Belgrado, oppure sono vecchie, ma vorrebbero ancora calpestare il suolo mentre Eva le immagina nel cielo. Queste scarpe si ritrovano assieme per dare assieme forza alle loro punte e calciare ancora oggi coloro che negano la storia.
"Dopo la Shoah” con dipinti di Eva Fischer e di Georges de Canino si inaugurerà a Roma il prossimo 1° febbraio, in occasione del Giorno della Memoria 2016. (via Labicana 15/A – Roma)
The unbelievable story of Why Marlon Brando rejected his 1973 Oscar for 'The Godfather
The man who made offers others couldn't refuse once refused the movie industry's heftiest honor.
Westchester County District Attorney Janet M. DiFiore Confirmed Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals
DiFiore was nominated in December by Governor Andrew Cuomo and confirmed by the New York Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, January 21, 2016. DiFiore is the second woman to become chief judge in the history of the court.
Lo scrigno dei dialetti
Il dialetto possiede la nostra anima, è un bene culturale da proteggere; è la nostra patria.
Quel gioiello di Santa Maria del Colle
“Come si è potuta produrre e accumulare – per almeno tre secoli, dai primi del ’500 alla fine del ’700 – una raffinata e costosa creazione d’arte in un centro abitato così piccolo, Pescocostanzo (oscillante allora tra i 1000 e i 2000 abitanti; oggi circa 1200), incassato tra le montagne d’Abruzzo a 1400 m di altitudine?” È questa la domanda che pone il linguista e filologo Francesco Sabatini nel libro La Basilica di Santa Maria del Colle a Pescocostanzo, della casa editrice Edizioni Menabò.
Celebrate Italian Genius! THIS WEEKEND On i-ItalyTV / NYC Life
With our interviews
- Renzo Piano: World's most famous Italian architect.
By Stefano Albertini
- Carlo Petrini: Founder of the
International Slow Food Movement.
By Dino Borri
- Gaetano Pesce: Renowned Italian "radical designer."
By Letizia Airos
- Claudio Del vecchio: President and CEO of the Brooks Brothers Group.
By Letizia Airos
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A Museum-Style Sampling of Italian Futurism
A connoisseur’s love of Italian modernist painting, abstract in style and modest in scale, lies behind this compendious, museum-style exhibition, organized by the dealer Gian Enzo Sperone. It’s the sort of historical show that can take decades to pull together. And that this can be done on such a scale by a commercial gallery is surely only possible because the art in question still has a fairly limited set of of devotees and remains obtainable.
On Paper, Italy Allows Abortions, but Few Doctors Will Perform Them
After Benedetta, 35, found out 11 weeks into her pregnancy that the baby she wanted “with all myself” had extremely serious genetic problems, she made a painful decision, and asked her longtime gynecologist for an abortion.
5 Horrifying Mistakes You Can Make When Ordering Food In Italian
It's always a little funny listening to someone speak English as a second language. Their pronunciation of certain words and the roundabout sentences they use to express themselves seem adorable if not harmless. But how do we sound when speaking a second language? In many cases our mistakes are earth shattering for us and life scarring for them. Here are the top five mistakes Americans make after about a year of studying Italian.
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