Exploring Cerveteri: In the Footsteps of the Ancient Etruscans in Lazio
Beyond Rome, the landscape of Lazio unfurls in a panorama of fertile fields dotted with cypresses and umbrella pines. Venturing north toward Tuscany, we move into the heart of ancient Etruscan lands. One of the most evocative testimonies of this ancient culture lies at Cerveteri, a quiet town an hour’s drive north of Rome. It’s an easy day trip fro...
Clean as a whistle
I think it must be part of the genetic makeup of Italian-American “housewives” over 50. If in fact it isn’t, I sure can site several cases that make this premise at least worth considering. The gene to which I refer causes these ladies to keep a spotless or near spotless home….inside and out. Take my wife, Luann, for example. We have been marri...
PMI Day: new more events in the USA with the Miami Scientific Italian Community for the 10th anniversary of the Piccola Industria Confindustria
The PMI DAY, the National Day of Small and Medium Enterprises, organized by Piccola Industria of Confindustria to promote the spread of Made in Italy business culture among young American students, is still growing in the United States thanks to the partnership with the Miami Scientific Italian Community and the small, medium-sized Italian companie...
Consul General of Los Angeles, Silvia Chiave, Visits San Diego
This week, Convivio was thrilled to host a luncheon to welcome the consul general of Italy, Los Angeles, to America's Finest City (and to introduce her to our stellar Italian community, of course). In addition, it is my immense privilege to announce my appointment as the honorary vice consul of San Diego, an honor the consul general officially conf...
Noseda, in his prime, lifting National Symphony Orchestra
After a piano rehearsal, two orchestra sessions and one concert performance together, soprano Christine Goerke gushed with praise for Gianandrea Noseda. “He doesn’t just use his hands and his arms. He conducts with his entire body,” she said. “And it is amazing, because when you see that kind of energetic physicality, there is no mistaking what he...
Antje Gamble: Marino Marini and the market for european sculpture in the USA after WWII
Tuesday 19 November 2019 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. C.I.M.A. 421 Broome St., 4TH FL, NEW YORK, NY 10013. In a 1950 interview for the New York Times, Marino Marini lamented that the plight of sculptors in Italy was “very bad […] and people have no place to put sculpture.” The sculptor’s woes connected the low market to the post-war reconstruction as well...
‘We said a prayer for him every night’: Family gathers in Italy to honor US pilot shot down in 1945
First Lt. Loren Hintz didn’t exactly disappear without a trace when he died. The P-47 Thunderbolt he was piloting on his 64th and final mission in April 1945 set an Italian farm house ablaze when it was brought down by German machine gun fire. But only a fraction of Hintz’s remains were recovered and buried under a marble cross bearing his name at...
Brooklyn Law School Italian-American Student Association honors Frank Carone
On Wednesday. the Brooklyn Law School Italian-American Student Association held its annual alumni dinner at the school where it honored alumnus Frank Carone, the president of the Brooklyn Bar Association. A crowd of about 50 students and alumni and their families, colleagues and friends joined together at the event to share a dinner and to present...
Italy's Parmitano embarks on unprecedented spacewalk
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, the current commander of the International Space Station (ISS), was leading one of the most challenging spacewalks ever on Friday. The spacewalk is the first of a series of at least four needed to service the cosmic-particle-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02). It is considered be toughest spacewalk series...
Allegrini named local honorary consul by San Marino
The Most Serene Republic of San Marino has named Robert Allegrini as its Honorary Consul in Chicago. The title was recently bestowed on Allegrini during a ceremony in San Marino presided over by the country’s co-heads of state, the Captains Regent. San Marino becomes the 88th country to have official diplomatic representation in Chicago. As consul,...
Italian tradition at the heart of LA: the San Antonio Winery and the history of the Riboli family
Family life is made of plenty of things: of simplicity and mundanity, of smiles and fights, of daily routine and special moments, of love and many, many memories. Family life, when you think of it, is at the very heart of everyone’s personal heritage and personal “traditions:” what we eat on Christmas Day, the way we fold shirts, the recipe of tagl...
Cinema Italian Style 2019
The glamorous showcase for Italian contemporary cinema returns to the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles with a rich and talented cast of actors, directors and producers. The 15th edition of Cinema Italian Style kicks into gear with Italy's official Oscar submission for Best International Film, THE TRAITOR. Veteran director Marco Bellocchio recei...