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Un ritorno a casa: questo per l'architetto Renzo Piano rappresenta il trasferimento del Whitney Museum dalla sede sulla Madison Avenue al nuovo edificio nel cuore del Meatpacking District, a New York. Il nuovo Whitney, a cui sono stati tolti i veli alla presenza dell'archistar genovese che lo ha progettato, della curatrice Donna De Salvo, e del di...

by Ethan Rothstein   Despite a weekend where neighbors came by and were served free pizza, The Italian Store isn't opening in Westover for another two weeks.    Owner Robert Tramonte said the two soft openings were meant as a "thank you" to the neighborhood– and a chance to break in the new pizza ovens — but the store, at 5837 Wa...

Summer is quickly approaching, which means some of the most popular festivals in the area will be coming up, like the Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival. One of the very first events to get things underway this year was held Tuesday night to announce the 2015 Italian-American of the year.   Tonight the Italian-American has been...

Thank you Robert for sharing with us your wonderful pictures of this year's Feast of Our Lady of the Audience (May 24th). Each year devotees gather at Holy Rosary Church in Kansas City, Missouri to celebrate the Feast of the Madonna dell'Udienza, patroness of Sambuca, Sicily.   Festivities included live music, refreshments and the highly ant...

by Vincenza Di Maggio   "He who loves cannot help but create better societies," said Luigi De Magistris, mayor of Naples, on Thursday evening at the Calandra Italian American Institute of the City of New York, directed by Dean Anthony Tamburri and where Italian-Americans gathered to hear him speak about the controversial issue of immigration...

Are you considering learning a new language, but you're not sure which one to choose? For many people, the hardest step in learning a foreign language is actually choosing which language to learn. We'll make it easy for you—choose Italian!   Italian is a romance language spoken by over 60 million people around the world. Not only is it...

La lotta ai cambiamenti climatici e alla fame nel mondo: due sfide sulle quali l'Italia vuole agire da protagonista. Questo il messaggio del ministro dell'ambiente, Gian Luca Galletti, nel corso della sua missione a New York, dove ha visitato il Fancy Food 2015 e partecipato a una serie di incontri all'Onu.   "Con Expo abbiamo fatto vedere a...

di Antonio Galluzzo "Ho cominciato a cucinare quando ho capito che non avrei più rivisto la mia casa in Istria" Lidia Bastianich racconta la sua vita e carriera con parole semplici e intense. Simbolo della cucina regionale italiana negli USA, chef e star della televisione americana, martedì 7 luglio è stata ospite del Padiglione USA di Expo Milano...

The 37th annual Roma Lodge Italian Festival returns to Festival Park, 5 Fifth St., Friday through Sunday, July 24-26. This year's festival is again all about traditional Italian foods and live entertainment. To show their gratitude for 37 years of support by the community, the Roma Lodge will again present fireworks from the Bartolatta Firewor...

An Italian family is opening a new restaurant on Eighth Avenue that will serve authentic "piadina," the owner said.   Piadina is an Italian flatbread that hails from Rimini, the same Italian town where film director Federico Fellini was born, owner Alessandra Pasqualini explained.   Read more   Source: https://www.dnainfo....

How does one of the most popular Italian festivals in the area celebrate its 25th anniversary? With lots of "great Italian food, rides, games and live entertainment," said Peter Lucia, spokesman for the St. Jude Festival in Monroe. The event — which runs Wednesday, Aug. 26, through Saturday, Aug. 29 — has grown from a two-day carnival to the c...

by Alessia Tripodi   Gone are the days when Italian architecture overseas was only represented by Renzo Piano and Massimiliano Fuksas: today, exported Italian design has many faces, including those of designers younger than 40 and 50 whom are known in Europe and throughout the world.   Among successful designers, Fabrizio Barozzi shou...