Italian Fashion Industry To Receive Financial Bailout
AHN. Rome's couturiers are cash-strapped and the Italian government just might save them. Italy is planning a financial bailout for the struggling fashion industry. The Italian clothing industry began looking for a government bailout amidst a financial crisis where even the super-rich have cut back on their haute fashion. Now, the Italian minister of economic development Claudio Scajola says help is on the way. (Read the Article by Anthony Jones)
Italy: Women's Day concert a sell-out in Rome
ROME. A concert being held in the Italian capital, Rome, on Saturday ahead of International Women's Day has sold out, according to its organisers. Italy's Moroccan Women's Association sold over 1,000 tickets for the 'Thousand and One Women' concert in just two days (Read the article)
Italian in mad cow advance. Naples researcher tracks agent from stomach to brain
ANSA. Chiara Zurzolo, an associate professor in applied biology at Naples University, gained the front cover of the journal Nature Cell Biology thanks to her discovery. She has made an advance in the study of human mad cow disease, finding out how the disease-causing agent called a prion finds its way from the stomach to the human brain. (Read the article)
Blood Type: RAGU
TheatherMania. Laughter masks a wealth of pain in Frank Ingrasciotta's tonally unbalanced one-man show Blood Type: RAGU, now playing at the Actors Playhouse, in which he takes audiences on a whirlwind tour of his troubled life with Italian immigrant parents in Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s. (Read the article by Andy Propst)
March 5, 2009
Blessed Fascism
Forza Nuova poster: anti-drug, anti-immigrant, but pro God, Fatherland and Family
Right-wing extremists Forza Nuova march, and a priest gives the benediction
March 5, 2009
"Pasticciotto a Obama". Arriva a New York una storia tutta da raccontare
Mastro Angelo ed il suo assitente Andrea inventano un nuovo dolce. Nel giro di pochi giorni tutto il loro paese vuole assaggiare "Il Pasticciotto a Obama". Una versione del classico pasticciotto di Campi Salentina dedicato al Presidente americano. Lo scorso venerdì il "Pasticciotto a Obama' è atterrato a Manhattan nel ristorante "Brio". Il sogno dei due pasticceri è di andare a presentarlo alla Casa Bianca. Ci riusciranno?
New York. Porte aperte in Consolato al 'Pasticciotto a Obama'
Continua la storia del dolce di Campi Salentina che arriva in Consolato Generale, accolto con tutti gli onori del caso dal Console Generale Francesco Maria Talò, il vice Console Maurizio Antonini e alcuni studenti della Scuola d'italia Guglielmo Marconi
Italian sex-comedy director Salvatore Samperi dies
ASSOCIATED PRESS. Italian director Salvatore Samperi, best known for erotic comedies that challenged the morals of Italy's middle class, has died at age 64, his family said Thursday. Samperi died Wednesday, said his brother Jadran Samperi, declining to give the cause of the death. The director died in his house on Lake Bracciano, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Rome, according to the ANSA news agency. Among his most succesful movies, "Grazie, Zia" (Thank you, Aunt) and "Malizia" (Malice). (Read the Article)
Libya rescues 300 migrants from boat to Italy
REUTERS. Libyan coastguards rescued 300 migrants, including many women and children, when the rickety boat carrying them to Italy broke down off the coastal town of Tajura, near Tripoli, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. Libya, a popular departure point for African migrants trying to reach Europe, signed a new accord with Italy last month to strengthen their efforts to stem the flow of illegal migration to southern Europe (Read the Article by Lamine Ghamni)
Vatican Radio: 1943 document shows Pius XII worked to save Jews from Nazis
ASSOCIATED PRESS. Vatican Radio said Wednesday that a 1943 document found in a Rome convent bolsters church contentions that Pope Pius XII tried to save Jews from Nazis in World War II. Vatican Radio reported the discovery of a note, kept in a cloistered monastery near the Colosseum, which lists the names of 24 people who were taken in by the nuns "in accordance with Pius' desire." (Read the Article)
Public Preschool Program in Englewood uses Italian approach
NEW YORK TIMES. Children in Englewood’s Reggio Emilia-based prekindergarten use art studio as a laboratory to investigate ideas together with their teachers. The approach encourages children to explore and test new ideas that are expressed through different vocabularies, including language (both oral and written), clay, paint, dance, wood and music. Reggio Emilia teachers use observation and conversation with children to develop and deepen curriculum. (Read the Article)
Ms. Hilton collects Houses in Northern Italy
NEW YORK TIMES. Some people collect stamps, ornaments or miniatures, but Toni Hilton collects houses in the Monferrato region of northern Italy. “I’m a little bit of an obsessive,” she said, referring to the four properties that she and her husband own in and around Villa Sansecondo, a small town about 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Turin. (Read the Article)
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