All About Italy - New York - Fancy Food 2009
The variety of Italian products presented at Fancy Food 2009 (Javits Convention Center, June 28-30) is outstanding. From traditional favorites to new, trendy, organic goods, this 55th edition of the country's largest specialty food and beverage event ha sit all. Here you find the full list of the 250 exhibitors hosted in the Italian.
Javitscenter, 655 W 34th St
New York, NY 10001-1114
Venezuela to deport top Italian Mafia suspect
AP. A convicted European drug trafficker dubbed the "Mafia's foreign minister" will be deported to Italy after his capture in Caracas in a joint operation by Venezuelan and Italian police, authorities said Tuesday. Salvatore Miceli was caught at a Caracas hotel on Saturday, Venezuelan police said. He will be deported to Italy "in the coming days," Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami told reporters. Miceli was one of Europe's top five drug traffickers, said Capt. Antonello Parasiliti of the Carabinieri police in Trapani, who led the Italian police operation to arrest Miceli in Venezuela. (Read the Article)
Italian Court Postpones Trial of Four Google Execs
PCWORLD.COM The criminal trial of four senior Google executives in a court in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday was postponed until Sept. 29 because the translator failed to show up, Google said Tuesday. The executives are accused of defamation and violating the privacy rights of a boy with Down Syndrome who was filmed being bullied in 2006.(Read the Article)
Enrico Franceschini. "Voglio l'America" - A Story of Passion and Human Development
I met Franceschini after his book presentation at the Feltrinelli bookstore in Rome’s Galleria Colonna. I read the first passages as I waited for the presentation to begin, and I immediately decided that it would be worth interviewing him
Video Art - Federico Solmi's American Revenge
The Bolognese artist is awarded with the most prestigious prize for contemporary art. It helps him forget the scandals in which he got involved in Italy...
Abruzzo. Summer’s Springtime
In post-earthquake Abruzzi nature restores the faith of those who remained in the areas hit by tragedy. People’s response is the desire to continue living.
Chelsea Art Museum. The First Terna Prize Honors Contemporary Italian Artists
Terna, Italy’s major Energy Transmission Operator, and the Chelsea Art Museum announced an exhibition of artwork by Italian artists that were awarded the first Terna Prize for Contemporary Art. "Transmitting Energy: A Contemporary Metaphor - Winners of the Terna Prize for Contemporary Art" on display at the Chelsea Art Museum 6/25–7/12
Incontro con Silvio Orlando. "La comicità ti aiuta a scendere dal piedistallo"
Intervista all'attore protagonista del film "Il papà di Giovanna" di Pupi Avati presentato di recente al "Festival Open Roads"
Fancy Food 2009. Tasting the Italian Pavilion
In occasion of the NYC Summer Edition of Fancy Food 2009 i-Italy met Aniello Musella, Director of the Italian Trade Commission in North America, the major coordinator of the Italian Pavilion at the Show. The full interview is written, while the video is an extract
June 24, 2009
L’uomo Plasmon attraversa l’Adriatico in pattino da solo
"Gabriellino", al secolo Fioravante Palestini chiamato anche Uomo Plasmon
Un documentario sul successo,perdizione e rimonta di un uomo buono lusingato dal facile guadagno.
June 24, 2009
Boys will be boys. (I ragazzi saranno ragazzi)
Jerry Krase
I assumed that an image of sex-crazed Italian and American politicians in action or one of Obama smoking would be impossible to obtain, so I chose the next best thing; an allegorical scene from the Vucciria market in Palermo of fish caught in the act, so to speak (per cosi dire).
The fact that you can't change human nature is no excuse for ignoring it and since media coverage of politics is hardly natural there's even less reason for avoiding reality. As I have often said, the difference between American and Italian politics: is that, unfortunately (purtroppo), there is no difference in that on both sides of the Atlantic the trivial is deemed importance and the important is trivialized
Home Italian cooking with grandmas in the kitchen of S.I. joint
DAILY NEWS. A Staten Island restaurant with no head chef and no set menu is replacing "Bon Appetit" with "Mamma Mia!". The 35-seat Enoteca Maria takes home cooking to a whole new level by bringing in genuine Italian grandmothers to cook for customers. Each night, one of eight nonnas ties on an apron, checks out the ingredients in the refrigerator and rustles up a down-to-earth meal. The women are from different regions of the pasta-loving nation who have no problem cooking restaurant-style after years of feeding big families. (Read the Article by Christina Boyle)
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