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Bryn Mawr's Department of Italian and Italian Studies has been awarded a grant from Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for excellence in promoting and advancing Italian language/culture on American soil in its multiple historical and contemporary manifestations.   The funding will help the department expand opportunities for students, espec...

What's Made in Italy? The perfect combination of elegant taste, high quality products, and skilled craftsmanship, which is recognized and celebrated worldwide, has its roots in centuries old traditions from all across the Italian peninsula.   In our modern era, when everything is made just to be sold, knowledge and know-how can become the ne...

It's a discovery that is reverberating throughout the art world – a University of Cambridge-led research team believes that they have discovered the only surviving Michelangelo bronze statues.   Last fall, Paul Joannides, emeritus professor of art history at Cambridge, traced two three feet-high bronze male nude figures to a drawing by a Mic...

Dear Readers,In February we traditionally pause to celebrate lovers (Valentine's Day) and Presidents. Once Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) and George Washinton (Feb. 22) were honored individually; now they are collectively celebrated on Presidents' Day (Feb. 16.).   Our third President, Thomas Jefferson, had a life-long for Italy and things Italia...

Two years after the trade agreement allowing the export of Italian apples to America, the Italian industry is continuing the promotion of Italian apples in the United States.   On February 14th the Consortium FROM Italian Alps launched a promotion with Corrado's Supermarkets' 5 locations in New Jersey, where Italian Galas, Granny Smith and G...

Arancine e cannoli. Spiedini e ravioli. Malgrado ci sia un oceano di mezzo e quei ragazzini, probabilmente, in Sicilia non sono mai nemmeno andati. L'Italian Cultural e Community Center di Houston (www.iccchouston.com), diretto da Tiziana Ciacciofera, da qualche anno però punta sulle tradizioni e per questo "La piccola cucina" per i bambini dai 3 a...

April 1, 7 pm — 8:30 pmWestchester Italian Cultural Center24 Depot Square , Tuckahoe, NY   Cavalleria Rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play and short story written by Giovanni Verga. The great Italian stage and screen director Franco Zef...

In its heyday, Cinecitta was the land of Federico Fellini, who shot all of his films in its studios and claimed he was never more at home than in Studio 5. Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Hayward, Robert Taylor and Kirk Douglas shot popular sword-and-sandal films in the studios. Women like Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Monica Vitti rose t...

«Mi garba» ha aperto a Manhattan, nel cuore della più autentica vita newyorkese a due passi da Union Square e Broadway. Lo spazio che prima ospitava una galleria d'arte si trova al numero 129 della 4th Avenue.   Si tratta del primo store progettato dall'azienda Gastronomia Toscana che ha inaugurato da pochissimi giorni negli Stati Uniti.&nbs...

The Order Sons of Italy's Grand Lodge of Illinois and Wisconsin will host its 13th annual Leonardo da Vinci Award of Excellence Gala on May 4 at BeauJolie Banquets in Schiller Park.   Sharing the spotlight will be Lo Duca Brothers Inc., Michael A. Rizzo Insurance Agency and Giuffre Brothers Cranes Inc. (Business of Distinction.); Stan J. Mil...

Happy birthday, Al Pacino! The titan of American cinema, who's also a father of three, turns 75 on Saturday, April 25. Over the past five decades, Pacino has brought to life some of Hollywood's most memorable characters: Michael Corleone in "The Godfather," Frank Serpico in "Serpico," Big Boy Caprice in "Dick Tracy," Ricky Roma in "Glengarry G...

To walk down Ballard Ave is to notice that funny old green house. It looks like a home where Laura Ingalls Wilder and family might have hunkered down for a long prairie winter, dropped improbably in a tight-shouldered row of brick and stone storefronts otherwise pulsing with bars and boutiques.   The structure is actually two houses fitted t...