How To Enjoy Art Like a Pro
Simply know this: the idea that you must be sophisticated or knowledgeable to appreciate fine art is erroneous.
August 3, 2010
How To Enjoy Art Like a Pro
Fusaro 2010
Simply know this: the idea that you must be sophisticated or knowledgeable to appreciate fine art is erroneous.
The Sicilian Girl. An Italian World Success at the Film Forum, NYC
Marco Amenta's "La Siciliana Ribelle" (The Sicilian Girl) will be on screen with English subtitles at the Film Forum in NY (August 4-17). We at i-Italy met director Amenta during the 2009 edition of the Open Roads Italian Film Festival and interviewed him about his work and his upcoming projects. Here we publish our chat once again... Enjoy it and go watch the movie... it's worth it!
Baggio to return as Italy technical director
REUTERS.COM Former Italy striker Roberto Baggio is poised to make a shock return to soccer as technical director at the Italian federation.
The shy 43-year-old, who shone at the 1990 and 1994 World Cups, has shunned the limelight since retiring in 2004 and has only just started his coaching badges. (Read the Article)
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi faces new 'four in a bed' sex allegations
NEWS.COM.AU. SILVIO Berlusconi faced fresh sex allegations today after a prostitute claimed she had shared a bed with the Italian prime minister and two other women. "I, the two girls from Rome and Berlusconi were in the bed," Maria Teresa De Nicolo, a 38-year-old escort, was quoted as telling a corruption inquiry in Italy, UK newspaper The Guardian reported. Read the article
August 3, 2010
Musica tra le sbarre di Locri
Un concerto nel carcere di Locri, una delle capitali della Ndrangheta
The Massacre of Bologna... 30 Years Later
On August 2, 1980 a bomb exploded at the Central Railway Station of Bologna killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. The attack, which had been attributed to a neo-fascist group of terrorists, was considered to be the culmination of a decade of violence by right and left extremist groups. Today, 30 years later, Prime Minister Berlusconi decided not to send ministers and other officials to attend to the ceremonies of commemoration
Divorce, Italian political style
Prime Minister Berlusconi ousts Gianfranco Fini, Speaker of the House, from the "Party of Liberty", which the two co-founded only two years ago. The chaotic breakup of the party has the Italian political class reeling, with no one certain of what is to come. Whether or not new elections are called in coming months, the likelihood that Berlusconi will become president of Italy, succeeding Napolitano, seems sorely reduced. For the country, this signals a failure of that biparty system which many hoped would replace the unstable coalitions that have characterized Italy for decades.
Hollywood, Italian Americans, and the Golden Coast
John Fante’s and Richard Quine’s 1956 film, "Full of Life," constructs California Italian culture, one brick at a time.
July 30, 2010
Hollywood, Italian Americans, and the Golden Coast
"Full of Life" Movie Poster, Richard Quine, 1956 (written by John Fante)
John Fante’s and Richard Quine’s 1956 film, "Full of Life," constructs California Italian culture, one brick at a time.
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