Italian entertainment: Piero Angela, the most important edutainer Italy has ever had
Last August 13th was not only the day on which Piero Angela passed away at the age of 93. That date will always be remembered as the end of an era, the one when the Italian television educated the Italians via its edutainment programs. Piero Angela was not only a science journalist, a talented pianist, and a writer who sold millions of copies of h...
Italian wine: Cannonau and the Nuraghe of Sardinia with Surrau
Sardinia is Italy’s 2nd largest island located off the western coast of Italy separated by the Tyrhhenian Sea. Sardinia is one of the few regions I have yet to explore in Italy and I’m not sure why. It has a rugged, mountainous interior with forests and scrub covered land. It also has about 1,200 miles of coastline, some jagged, but the rest with...
Italian good news: Italian startup GES creates the first 100% green battery
The first generator for storing electricity, the battery, was made in Italy by Alessandro Volta. Today, with the very ambition to imitate Volta and bring Italy back to the center of the technological vanguard, there is Salvatore Pinto, charismatic founder of GES (Green Energy Storage). The young Italian company, founded in Trento in 2015, is a smal...
Italian culture and history: Reggio Calabria
Ancient Reghion, in modern times the city of Reggio Calabria, is universally known as the City of Bronzes. Indeed, it is the Museo della Magna Grecia. In the city center, it hosts the famous Riace Bronzes, the sculptures of two warriors from the 5th Century (found at the bottom of the Riace Marina 50 years ago, in 1972). Reggio Calabria boasts a...
Italian gardens and parks: Hanbury Botanical Gardens
The Hanbury Botanical Gardens stand on the Mortola promontory on the Ligurian coast, a few kilometers from the French border. They occupy an area of 18 hectares, included in the municipal territory of Ventimiglia, Mortola locality, in the province of Imperia. The landscape appearance is typically English, with irregular paths and romantic rustic pe...
Which Italian city you are, based on your zodiac sign!
ARIES – The first sign of the zodiac, these rams love to be number one and aren’t afraid to dive into challenging situations, no matter how hard they may be. The same is true of MATERA, a city dug into a rocky outcrop in Basilicata whose challenges are (quite literally) as hard as stone. Annoyed by excessive details and needless nuances, Aries woul...
Måneskin is ready to rock Global Citizen Festival, ‘antiquated’ VMA nipple censors be damned
Måneskin had a nude awakening when they showed a little too much skin at the MTV Video Music Awards last month. During the Italian rock band’s thumping performance of “Supermodel,” bassist Victoria De Angelis’ top fell off, causing her breast to be fully exposed and MTV censors to strangely cut away to empty seats for about 40 seconds. Meanwhile,...
Oscar Farinetti's advice for exporting to the U.S.: "Choose poetry"
Just hours after the official announcement of the sale of 52 percent of Eataly that myfruit.it reported on, Oscar Farinetti took part last night in the first American Culture Festival organized by the Centro Studi Americani in Rome from September 21-23. Eloquent was the title Farinetti chose for his speech: Eataly in the U.S., exporting true excell...
Barilla Is Gearing Up For National Pasta Month In A Big Way
The Italians have a stronghold on carbohydrates. Pizza, bread, and, above all, pasta, are central to the country's cuisine. Founded in 1877 in Parma, Italy, Barilla was ranked the number-one pasta brand worldwide by Bell Italia, making up more than 40% of the Italian market and 25% of the U.S. market for the pantry staple. Pasta is one of the most...
Who is Joe Mazzulla? Meet the interim head coach of the Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics will have an interim head coach on the sidelines this upcoming NBA season, and everyone outside of the Northeast may be wondering: Exactly who is Joe Mazzulla? In the wake of Celtics coach Ime Udoka being suspended for the entire 2022-23 season for having an intimate relationship with a female member of the franchise's staff, Maz...
Cinecittà: Rome’s factory of cinematic dreams
Some call it “the factory of dreams”. Federico Fellini described it as his “ideal place, the cosmic void before the Big Bang”. Through moments of glory, international fame and deep crisis, Cinecittà–the City of Italian Cinema–has shaped the perception of Italy around the world. And like many other modern cultural institutions in this country, its b...
Sapore Brings Polished Italian Steak House Fare to Littleton
As Denver’s great chefs go, so goes the city’s fine-dining scene—at least in the case of Sapore Prime Italian, which debuted in Littleton this past March. The kitchen is helmed by Brent Turnipseede, who honed his chops (and filets and strips) at downtown’s Guard & Grace and West Highland’s American Elm before moving from the Mile High City to Littl...
