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Storia e viaggio nelle parole. L'anno bisestile

Luigi Casale

Fino al tempo di Cesare, di questo spezzone di "quasi" 6 ore nessuno ci faceva caso. E così, a distanza di anni si notava che le stagioni si spostavano, arrivavano sempre prima. I diversi popoli antichi avevano trovato il loro modo per correggere questa discrepanza ...

Maestro Morricone Wins Best Original Score

Natasha Lardera

The 88th Academy Awards will be remembered in Italy as the year that Maestro Morricone won the coveted statuette for Best Original Score for Quentin Tarantino's film The Hateful Eight. The Maestro received a heartfelt standing ovation after his name was pronounced by Quincy Jones and Pharrell. He was led to the stage by his son Giovanni and, in Italian, he thanked the other nominees, singling out the great John Williams, and explained that “there is no great music without a great film that inspires it.

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Donald Trump is not a joke: A warning to Americans from an Italian who survived Berlusconi

 Both Trump and Berlusconi represent populism at its worst. And their tactics work.
 
Source: QZ.com
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White Wines From Southern Italy Are Leading a Revolution

When you think of Italian wine, what comes to mind? Ever-foaming prosecco, perhaps? Tanker ships of pinot grigio? Or maybe it’s big-deal reds from Tuscany and Piemonte, with three-digit price tags attached. It’s time for a fashion update.
 
Source: Bloomberg

Stolen marble statue tied to Mussolini going back to Italy

 A stolen marble statue belonging to a family with ties to Mussolini made its way to Manhattan after its theft in the 1980s – and the feds are now working to return it to its rightful owners.
 
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Tour and Resort News: Christo in Italy; Sharks in La Jolla

 The installation artist Christo will unveil his latest project, a series of buoyant polyethylene cubes laid across Italy’s Lake Iseo that will create a nearly two-mile-long walking path, in June. 
 
Source: New York Times
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Montepulciano: 7 Sommeliers Make The Case for Italy's Forgotten Wine

Their star product? Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, a complex, rustic red that helped secure their place as Italy’s first DOCG — the highest classification for Italian wines.
 
Source: Forbes
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Ennio Morricone gets a Walk of Fame star with his 7th Oscar

Film composer Ennio Morricone received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday. Morricone is up for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at this Sunday's Oscars for "The Hateful Eight," but he's been creating memorable movie music since the 1950s.
 
Source: Scpr.org

THIS WEEKEND on i-ItalyTV / NYC Life - Italy & the City!

Italy & the City!

Bronx, Brooklyn and Little Italy in Manhattan.
Iconic neighborhood in New York and people that would like to continuing to maintain Italian atmosphere.

And stay with us for New York City through the eyes of an Italian tour guide.

SUNDAY n i-italyTV/NYC Life.
1:00 pm on NYCLife
Channel 25 (HD Ch 525)

Talking Books with Dacia Maraini

Natasha Lardera

This past week one of Italy's leading intellectuals, writer Dacia Maraini, visited for the third time NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò not just to present her latest book, La Bambina e il Sognatore, but to “talk books” in a lively conversation. Led by the questions of Michelangelo La Luna (University of Rhode Island), Rebecca Falkoff (NYU) and Sole Anatrone (UC Berkeley), Maraini eagerly discussed her entire career, which started in the 1960s, and her body of work, which includes novels, plays, essays, articles and poetry.

Italian Jazz: Trumpet the Queen

Enzo Capua

Of all the instruments most commonly played in jazz, the oldest and noblest is without question the trumpet. Because it is a wind instrument, and therefore attached to the most direct form of communicating emotions (i.e., the voice), it often vies for the lead role with the saxophone.

San Gallicano a Trastevere. Il presidente della repubblica visita l'INMP

Il Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella sarà in visita ufficiale all’INMP - Istituto Nazionale per la promozione della Salute delle popolazioni Migranti e per il contrasto delle malattie della Povertà - giovedì 3 marzo 2016.

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