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In a famous prophesy a medieval monk known as Venerable Bede wrote that "Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does; when the Colosseum falls so will Rome; when Rome falls so will the world."   While that moment isn't at hand, the Colosseum is a mess. Traffic pollution has blackened the once colorful walls and pieces have fallen off. The...

Vista dall'Italia l'America, nel senso comune degli Stati Uniti, è qualcosa che mette insieme il miraggio, la speranza, il progresso, ma che offre anche le ragioni di un certo senso di superiorità se mettiamo a confronto la nostra cultura, le nostre tradizioni, magari anche la nostra capacità di mangiare e vivere bene. L'America ha creato le basi...

Rome's Trastevere neighborhood hosts The Italian Landscape Seen Through 134 Photos (January 24 - April 20). On view in the Museo di Roma in Trastevere are photos taken of Bell'Italia between 1950 and 2010; curation by Walter Liva has rendered the exhibition exceptional in its capacity to travel the panoramas of the Peninsuala temporally and creativ...

È stata convocata martedì prossimo, 18 febbraio, alle 19.00 nella sede del Consolato Generale una riunione del Comites di Philadelphia straordinariamente aperta alla partecipazione e al contributo attivo di tutti i giovani italiani residenti nella circoscrizione.   A darne notizia è il Consolato generale, sottolineando che "per raggiungere a...

Jim Damiano knows all about immigration and Alzheimer's.The McKinney author is touching both with library-worn hands and generational words. After decades untold, his family's life has found its way onto the pages. Both sets of grandparents came through Ellis Island as Italian immigrants in the early 1900s. His father brought home English from his...

There is no denying that us New Englanders, and especially us Bostonians, have a language all our own. We have an accent, an attitude, and a way of doing business that is specific to each of our neighborhoods.   In the North End, the Connah Store is the place that everyone goes for late night snacks, iced tea and ice cream that speaks to tou...

On a recent visit with Lydia Vivante, the writer Arturo Vivante's daughter, we sat in his old-fashioned kitchen in Wellfleet, Mass., drinking iced tea and eating cut sandwiches, talking about her father, who died six years ago this week.   "Yes," Lydia said, speaking of her father's internment as an enemy alien and as if to explain the airy...

Gli Stati Uniti, alla luce del futuro accordo di libero scambio con l'Unione europea, attualmente in fase di negoziazione, si ripropongono come un mercato target privilegiato per le nostre PMI dei settori tradizionali del Made in Italy. Prepararsi a cogliere le opportunità, che questa ampia area di libero scambio dischiuderà per le nostre imprese,...

  WTI Magazine #27    2014 Apr, 25Author : folclore.it      Translation by:   Since a few years Ascoli Piceno in the Marche region, homeland of the famous "olive ascolane" (fried olives from Ascoli), it has become the Italian capital of every variety of deep-fried food, in particular the fried food Italian style, welcoming every year a wide audi...

The newly released ranking from The Time reveals the best universities in the world with less than fifty years. The criteria of evaluation remain the same thirteen as those for the more notorious World University Ranking. However, the indicators have a greater focus on innovation and potential, rather than history and prestige. The countries with t...

Sappiamo a livello di aneddoti quanto sia difficile rimanere a vivere e lavorare negli Stati Uniti.Non tanto andare ma rimanere. Ma davvero è così?   Utilizziamo statistiche invece di 'sentito dire' per comprendere meglio di quanti sogni si trasformano in realtà. Pochissimi Italiani riescono a raggiungere lo status di residenti per...

By: Anna Ferrari   Italian Community Services (ICS), invites the participation of the all golfers in their annual Golf Tournament to be held Wednesday June 4th at Harding Park. This year, players affiliated with our friends at Immaculate Conception Academy will be partnering with ICS on this fun and worthwhile event. Check-in and lunch begi...