All About Italy, in Sixty Minutes
With Laura Caparrotti up and down the peninsula, among stereotypes, customs and dialects. We talked with Laura about her one-woman show “ABC.. L'Italiano Si Impara Così”
Lady Gaga flaunts 'ass and curves', Italian roots in Turin. American pop star stages first of three concerts in Italy
ANSA. American pop sensation Lady Gaga flaunted her Italian roots and her bigger ''ass and curves'' after some weight gain in the first of three Italian concerts on her Monsters Ball world tour in Turin Tuesday. (Read the article)
Movie mogul De Laurentiis dies. Producer moved from neo-realism to Hollywood blockbusters
ANSA. - Dino De Laurentiis, a mogul who moved from Italian postwar masterpieces to Oscar-winning Fellini films, cult flicks Barbarella and Conan the Barbarian and Hollywood smashes like Death Wish, King Kong and the Hannibal franchise, has died in his Los Angeles home at the age of 91. (Read the article)
AP Italian is Back on Track
Together at the Consulate General of Italy to celebrate the signing of the agreement that reinstates the Advanced Placement Program in Italian Language and Culture.
Carlo Lucarelli, the Italian "troublemaker"
During the event “Libri Come,” organized at the the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, we sat down with the popular giallo writer and television host to talk about Italy's politics, television, past and present history
“Music as Rebellion, the Italian American way”
The conference “Hybrid Moments: Independent Music in Italian America” at the Calandra Institute on Nov. 5th portrayed in a raw and unfiltered light an obscure chapter in New York’s music history, and how Italian American kids found a way to belong outside the Guido realm of the 1980s
NYU’s Casa Italiana Turns Twenty
A festive celebration marked the most anticipated cultural anniversary of the year: Casa Italiana’s twentieth birthday. A film depicting its history, a concert, and a gala dinner honored the best place in New York for Italian culture
Conversando con Carlo Lucarelli
Ci siamo seduti a parlare di romanzi gialli, "rompiscatole", televisione e politica italiana con il noto scrittore di noir e conduttore TV. Questa la nostra conversazione, quasi integrale...
November 9, 2010
Hannibal and Mussolini - “The South will rise again!”
What Hannibal destroyed - Mussolini restored
The great migration of southern Italians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was in large part the result of Hannibal’s third century B.C. devastation of southern Italy. And, Mussolini was the first Italian statesperson to systemically attempt to rectify Hannibal’s wrath.
Memory, History and the Literary Conscience
Radio3 Roma brings its popular "Libri come" program to NYC. Jonathan Galassi presents his new translation of Leopardi's "Canti" and Stefan Merrill Block and Benedetta Tobagi discuss memory, history, and literary style at the Italian Cultural Institute
Laid Back Fashion: a Unique Presentation of Four New Italian Designers
Models lounging on plush designer armchairs showcased creations of four new Italian designers. A surreal introduction to the USA market for fresh faces from the Italian fashion scene. Initiatives promoted by ITC and the Italian National Chamber of Fashion
November 9, 2010
Hey, Goomba! Exploring Formal Italian Language, Dialects & Slang Terminology
Every day should be ‘Seng-weech’ Day
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