100-Year-Old Tradition Continues In Historic Italian-American Church
Brooklyneagle. CARROLL GARDENS . On Friday, April 2, beginning at 7 p.m., Italian-American Catholics from the tri-state area will return home to Brooklyn’s oldest Italian Parish, Sacred Hearts and St. Stephen Church, 125 Summit St., to solemnly process through the streets of Carroll Gardens marking the holy day of Good Friday. Last year, the society launched its own website www.mariaaddolorata.com in order to reach out to the many new residents of Carroll Gardens. (Read the article)
Germany, Italy Are Broadly On the Right Track
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Germany and Italy are broadly on the path of economic recovery but many risks remain, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.
Germany should continue to grow but there are substantial risks caused by weaknesses in the banking sector and global growth, the IMF said
Amid Desolate Lives and Pitched Battles, One Delicious Anomaly
THE NEW YORK TIMES. With its close-ups of beautiful people, exquisite cuisine and delirious lovemaking in the hills outside Milan, “I Am Love,” a voluptuous Italian melodrama directed by Luca Guadagnino, is the guilty pleasure of this year’s New Directors/New Films series. The movie, which wallows in luxury, has an elegant lead performance by Tilda Swinton and a throbbing musical score by John Adams. (Read the article)
'Emergency' seen after Domus Aurea collapse. Palatine Hill at serious risk, official says
ANSA. ost of the homes of Ancient Rome's rulers are at risk because of subsidence and rain seepage, an official said after a tunnel over Nero's Golden House collapsed Tuesday.
"The real emergency is on the Palatine," said Domus Aurea Commissioner Antonello Vodret, referring to the first and greatest of Rome's hills, where the city was born and where its emperors later built their residences. (Read the article)
"The real emergency is on the Palatine," said Domus Aurea Commissioner Antonello Vodret, referring to the first and greatest of Rome's hills, where the city was born and where its emperors later built their residences. (Read the article)
Italians revive ancient fresco. Ancient Roman funerary paintings restored in Lebanon
ANSA. A series of beautiful Ancient Roman paintings discovered in Lebanon seven decades ago are being returned to their original glory thanks to an Italian restoration project. The fresco was uncovered in 1937 by British excavators in a 2nd-century AD Roman tomb near the southern city of Tyre. It was removed from the cave in the 1940s and taken to the Beirut National Museum in order to keep it safe. (Read the article)
Back in the Saddle with Silvio
“We have given the left a lesson,” Berlusconi trumpeted from Rome Monday evening. Meanwhile, Umberto Bossi's populist right-wing, anti-immigrant Northern League will now control most of the wealthy industrial North. The political shellacking of the left can be put down to fragmentation and disaffection, but the real spoiler on the left were the stay-at-homes, or around 1.5 million who abstained.
March 30, 2010
Back in the Saddle with Silvio
Demonstration of PDL in Piazza San Giovanni, Rome
“We have given the left a lesson,” Berlusconi trumpeted from Rome Monday evening. Meanwhile, Umberto Bossi's populist right-wing, anti-immigrant Northern League will now control most of the wealthy industrial North. The political shellacking of the left can be put down to fragmentation and disaffection, but the real spoiler on the left were the stay-at-homes, or around 1.5 million who abstained.
March 30, 2010
Piero Bassetti's "Lezioni italiche"
As we look at Italy's contemporary immigration policies and the resultant challenges, we sometimes muse that, had Italy studied more profoundly its own historical emigration, perhaps it might better comprehend (read, be more sensitive to) its current situation. Now, as we ponder Bassetti's notion of Italicity, we might actually engage in an even exchange or sorts, and learn something from Italy in similar regard.
March 30, 2010
Italiani all’estero. Lettori e cittadini a metà
Incentivi all’editoria dimezzati solo per i quotidiani italiani all’estero. Una storia che si ripete. Disattenzione e pasticcio all’italiana? Ci rimettono giornali come America Oggi negli Usa, La Voce d'Italia in Venezuela, Gente d’Italia in Uruguay, il Corriere Canadese in Canada, il Globo di Melbourne e la Fiamma di Sidney in Australia che rischiano di chiudere
March 30, 2010
Italians abroad. Second-class Readers, Second-class Citizens
Funding to publishers is cut in half – but it only applies to Italian newspapers abroad. History repeats itself. Neglect and upheaval, Italian-style? Those newspapers affected include America Oggi in the U.S., La Voce d’Italia in Venezuela, Gente d’Italia in Uruguay, Il Corriere Canadese in Canada, Il Globo in Melbourne, and La Fiamma in Sidney, Australia. All are in danger of folding.
March 30, 2010
Gianfranco Fini and the Three Facets of Italy in the U.S.
An impressive dinner organized by the Italian community at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York concluded the official state visit of the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Gianfranco Fini addressed the diverse components of Italian emigration to the U.S. and earned once again the kind of bipartisan respect that Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed to him in Washington last week.
Comando e Controllo. The "State of Exception". Un anno dal terremoto dell'Aquila
Il 6 aprile la New School ospiterà la proiezione di "Comando & Controllo". Il documentario sul dopo-terremoto a L'Aquila sarà commentato da Anna Di Lellio, Alexander Stille ed il regista/autore Alberto Puliafito
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