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Virginia Di Falco(March 03, 2021)
Few cities in Italy or the world possess a patrimony as extraordinary as Naples. Our recommended travel itinerary approaches this marvelous city from three different angles, starting with Naples’ scenic side, as beautiful today as it was ages ago, when 16th Century travelers on the Grand Tour arrived seeking beauty and gradeur. Next up is the rich, majestic Naples, capital of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, known for its monuments and squares, its culture and truly popular side streets. Finally, we’ll introduce you to a hidden Naples, which has existed underground for centuries. This may be the most mysterious and spectacular side of Naples, spanning two millennia and conti- nuing to look to the future: from catacombs to under- ground art, with the most beautiful train stations in Europe designed by 14 “archi-stars” and adorned with 200 works of art by over ninety artists.
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Dacia Maraini *(October 26, 2020)
“Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,/ mi ritrovai in una selva oscura (Midway upon the journey of our life,/ I found myself within a dark forest).” This powerful beginning could be enough to fall in love with the Italian language. With its musicality, its verbal intelligence, its expressive force...
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Fred Plotkin(July 23, 2023)
Andrea and I met on the first day of school. I had just returned to my native New York after years of living in Italy and, frankly, my language skills in Italian were better than my English. Members of the talented, ambitious and idiosyncratic class of 1980 of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University are mourning the death of our beloved friend and colleague.
Dining in & out: Articles & Reviews
G. M.(January 31, 2021)
Baci, the most famous Italian praline in the world has a secret. Or two. With each and every one you’ll find a love note inspired by a real love story. Few people know that behind this small piece of chocolate there is a great woman who, incidentally, was also a renowned stylist: Luisa Spagnoli. This is her story.
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Goffredo Palmerini(June 11, 2021)
A journey through the “spur of Italy’s boot,” tracing the path of transhumance in discovery of ancient and evocative sites. The journey begins in Abruzzo and passes through Molise before reaching the rolling hills of Tavoliere delle Puglie, where you will find the Gargano Promontory overlooking the sea. A place of wonderful little villages, ancient cathedrals and deep spirituality, today Gargano is a flourishing tourist destination – a seaside resort with an artistic and gastronomic itinerary of exceptional interest.
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Edvige Giunta(March 24, 2021)
We do not meet on the island where we were born, the island that after thirty-seven years in the United States I still call home, the island of her music. We do not meet at a bar on the lungomare of my hometown of Gela or in Aci Castello, another place in Sicily I call home, or in her native Enna, the navel of Sicily. Instead, we meet on Zoom, the salotto of COVID times: 4:00 in the afternoon for her, 10:00 in the morning for me. Women, the women who are no longer with us, bridge the time/space divide. They are the women she calls “dark fallen comets” in her song “No Name,” a mournful chant...
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Stefano Dominella(January 21, 2021)
From Florence on down, craftsmanship reigns. Up north is the reign of finance, industry, and media, with Milan at the helm. And at the center presides Rome, like a classy patrician, the ancient capital of Italian couture. Leading us on this first...
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Italy as a haven of gay liberty: a grand tour with Oscar Wilde, featuring previously unseen photographs and archival materials. Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900 by Renato Miracco, Philip Kennicott
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Monica Straniero(November 25, 2019)
Between suggestive reconstruction, letters, diaries, and private confessions, Giovanni Troli’s documentary reveals the essence of a double-sided icon.
The Eternal City has been a source of inspiration for artists of all times. On March 11th, join for a one-of-a-kind historical, artistic, and emotional virtual tour of Rome as seen through the creations of Bulgari
Art & Culture

Venice Against the Grain

With so many possible ways to visit Venice, we decided to take you for a tour that runs against conventional views of the city.
Life & People

NIAF Mourns the Passing of Former Board Member Jeffrey M. Capaccio (Washington, D.C. – March 24, 2021)

Jeff Capaccio’s passion for Italy and Italian American heritage was astounding,” said NIAF Chairman Patricia de Stacy Harrison. “His tireless effort to promote Italian and Italian Americans in hi-tech and innovation truly empowered exceptional leadership in our community and was of extraordinary value to our Board of Directors. The NIAF family is deeply saddened by this untimely loss. He will always be admired and remembered.”
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“No Name”: Sicilian Singer Francesca Incudine Evokes the Memory of the Triangle Fire

We do not meet on the island where we were born, the island that after thirty-seven years in the United States I still call home, the island of her music. We do not meet at a bar on the lungomare of my hometown of Gela or in Aci Castello, another place in Sicily I call home, or in her native Enna, the navel of Sicily. Instead, we meet on Zoom, the salotto of COVID times: 4:00 in the afternoon for her, 10:00 in the morning for me. Women, the women who are no longer with us, bridge the time/space divide. They are the women she calls “dark fallen comets” in her song “No Name,” a mournful chant for the Triangle workers, twenty-four of them fellow women islanders, Sicilians who left the island at the beginning of the twentieth century for the mythical “Merica,” only to find death in the fire that burned the Triangle Waist Company in New York City on March 25, 1911.
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Roma: Travel Tales for Beauty Lovers

The Eternal City has been a source of inspiration for artists of all times. On March 11th, join for a one-of-a-kind historical, artistic, and emotional virtual tour of Rome as seen through the creations of Bulgari
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Celebrate "Festa della donna", International Women’s Day

On March 8, people across the world will honor the achievements of women and continue to fight for gender equality.
Art & Culture

Naples: Three Cities in One Beauty, Grandeur, and Mystery

Few cities in Italy or the world possess a patrimony as extraordinary as Naples. Our recommended travel itinerary approaches this marvelous city from three different angles, starting with Naples’ scenic side, as beautiful today as it was ages ago, when 16th Century travelers on the Grand Tour arrived seeking beauty and gradeur. Next up is the rich, majestic Naples, capital of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, known for its monuments and squares, its culture and truly popular side streets. Finally, we’ll introduce you to a hidden Naples, which has existed underground for centuries. This may be the most mysterious and spectacular side of Naples, spanning two millennia and conti- nuing to look to the future: from catacombs to under- ground art, with the most beautiful train stations in Europe designed by 14 “archi-stars” and adorned with 200 works of art by over ninety artists.
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The first Annual Scholarship to Italian American Students Who Exemplify the Values and Determination of Dr. Fauci

DR. ANTHONY S. FAUCI SCHOLARSHIP – CREATED FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH FIELDS – NOW ACCEPTING APPLICANTS. Columbus Citizens Foundation to award the first $25,000 Annual Scholarship to Italian American Students Who Exemplify the Values and Determination of Dr. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden
Life & People

Your Valentine's Italian

What a wonderful surprise to discover that the legend of St. Valentine is not limited to romantic love.
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Mardi Gras or Martedì Grasso?

This is a difficult year for Carnival parties all over the world. But let's dream together next year.. In the United States when we think of Mardi Gras we think New Orleans with floats, fried food, and colorful plastic beaded necklaces. In Italy, Martedì Grasso means Venice's Carnivale, complete with ornate masks, theatric performances, and a parade through Piazza San Marco.
Life & People

Celebrate Carnevale with Cannoli!

Let's Make Cannoli from Scratch! Join Alison Scola online from her kitchen to yours, when together, you will make cannoli. She will teach you how to bake this beloved pastry from scratch: the cream and the shells -- and you'll learn insider, expert tips too! - Sunday, February 7, 12 Noon to 2PM (Eastern) - Online on Zoom
Giorno della Memoria 2021 - New York
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Giorno della Memoria 2021. A Long 'Digital Day' in New York

January 27, 2021 will mark twenty years since the first commemoration of Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Italy. In New York, each year, the Consulate General of Italy has held the ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories. This year, due to the pandemic, there will not be the usual events in person but you can virtually participate many initiatives during the day organized by the Italian Consulate in New York with Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi.
Life & People

Thinking about Carnival in Italy

Carnival this year ends on Shrove Tuesday, February 16th. It is very early this year. Of course, due to the pandemic, there are no celebrations in Italy. The party is practically postponed to 2022, but we want to publish a list of events usually taking place in Italy anyway. It is a way to dream and overcome this period.
Life & People

Umbria. Exploring Italy’s Greenest Spot

Rich in environmental, cultural, and gastronomic diversity, Italy’s greenest region offers tourists unforgettable experiences. 
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Recipe. Sweet “Coal” ... Befana is Coming!

On January 6th, children and adults across Italy celebrate the epiphany by stuffing their stockings (and their faces) with various sweet treats, supposedly gifts from “La Befana,” a mythical old lady who comes down the chimney to bring candy to those who have been good and coal to those who misbehaved. But sometimes what looks like a punishment can reveal to be a tasty treat in disguise. That’s exactly the case with “carbone dolce” or sweet coal, for which you will find a recipe below.
Life & People

And Befana Comes by Night with her Stockings All Tattered

The old good witch who brings candies and coal to the Italian children. Its origin and multifarious celebrations. January 6 is approaching so don't forget to hang up your stockings.
Messaggio di fine anno del Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella
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Messaggio di fine anno del Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella

Dal Palazzo del Quirinale di Roma, il discorso di fine anno del Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella
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Happy New Year and Superstitions Italian Style

Italians are a fairly superstitious people, especially when the new year comes around. Here are some seasonal traditions, beliefs and superstitions from across the country, ranging from the most common, such as eating lentils and wearing red, to rather unusual ones. It is a terrible year because of the pandemic but certainly while respecting the rules the Italians will try to keep some traditions, the possible ones
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Christmas. When I Was Nine

Postwar Christmas in America. Memories of a nine-year-old boy raised in a household of Italian immigrants in New York. A Christmas story that Professor Robert Viscusi generously offered us for publication years ago. We propose it again in this difficult Christmas also as a tribute to Bob’s memory, who sadly left us a few months ago. Thanks Bob, and buona lettura to you all.
Life & People

The Origin of the Feast of the Seven Fishes

Every year in the U.S., many people celebrate the Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve. Although it is unclear when the dinner became so popular, this celebration is considered one of the most Italian traditions. Typically, the family gathers around a feast of seven different seafood dishes or one or two different types of fish prepared in seven different ways.
Life & People

Christmas in Naples, Then and Now

The Neapolitan nativity is The Word made flesh, wedded to the myths, fables, stories and splendors of a culture that continues to preserve the past. And the Neapolitan nativity, now as then, goes beyond religion. Thanks to this identification of our day-to-day lives with God, the sacred and profane, the past and present, history and legend fuse together.
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ANSA. Ferrara wn has opened its doors on a new exhibition exploring the early years of Giovanni Boldini, a local boy who later made it big painting flashy portraits of high-society Paris. (Read the article)

ANSA. Recent masterpieces by celebrated Canadian-born architect Frank O. Gehry are spotlighted in a new exhibition at the Triennale museum in Milan. California-based Gehry, 80, has worked in the industry for over four decades but the exhibit focuses exclusively on designs produced during the last 12 years. (Read the article)

TIME MAGAZINE. Jeff Israely writes about the danger of racism in Italy after the last gaffe of Premier Berlusconi, who recently repeated his world-known 'joke' about Obama (and the First Lady) being "tanned." "In many ways," notes Israely, "mainstream Italian society is several generations behind the rest of the West when it comes to race. ... In Italy, where immigration has skyrocketed in the past decade, racism is becoming a front-burner issue." The journalist quotes Aly Baba Faye, regional director in Rome of the Anti-Racism Observatory and the head of Italy's first pro-Obama initiative during the 2008 campaign, as saying he understands the President's not wanting to turn the issue into a diplomatic affair. "But someone has to make him stop. Maybe just a private note through the embassy?" Or maybe the next time he sees Berlusconi, Obama himself can lean over and say, "Hey Silvio, you know the tan jokes? Basta." (Read the article)

THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL. The faculty voted Tuesday to drop Columbus Day in favor of “Fall Weekend” when a student group urged the change “after controversy arose over the nature of Christopher Columbus’ conquests and treatment of Native Americans.”
The school will celebrate Fall Weekend on the same day as Columbus Day, according to the student group Native Americans at Brown. That name may change in future years, the group said in a news release announcing the development on Wednesday.
Read the article on the Providence Journal and different opinions on The Brown University's Alumni Magazine
One of the Alumni (Robert M. Wigod) actually brings up an interesting point when he says "If the Brown faculty really felt compelled to make a change, rather than run the risk of antagonizing thousands of Italian American alumni, including the mayor of Providence, perhaps it could have renamed the day for Garibaldi."
Since 1971, the Columbus Day holiday has been commemorated in the U.S. on the second Monday in October, the same day as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada. It is generally observed today by banks, the bond market, the U.S. Postal Service and other federal agencies, most state government offices, and some school districts; however, most businesses and stock exchanges remain open.

States and city observations

Alaska
The State of Alaska, which has a large indigenous population, does not recognize Columbus Day.

Arkansas
Some public schools throughout the state are closed in observance of Columbus Day.

California
The city of Berkeley celebrates Indigenous People's Day instead of Columbus Day every year with a pow wow and Native American market.

Cleveland
The Columbus Day parade in Cleveland takes place in the Little Italy neighborhood near University Circle. The day begins with Mass at Holy Rosary Church which features the combined choirs of the four historically Italian Cleveland area churches - Holy Rosary, Holy Redeemer, St. Rocco and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. The parade then goes down Murray Hill featuring over 100 units and a dozen marching bands.

Colorado
The Columbus Day parade in Denver has been protested by Native American groups and their supporters for nearly two decades.

Hawaii
Hawaii does not officially honor Columbus day and instead celebrates Discoverer's Day on the same day, i.e., on the second Monday of each October. The day is "in recognition of the Polynesian discoverers of the Hawaiian Islands". Neither Columbus Day nor Discoverer's Day is regarded as a holiday by State government; state, city and county government offices and schools are open for business on Columbus Day, while Federal government offices are closed.
In Hawaii, the Discoverer's Day celebration has become a day of protest for some advocacy groups. A popular protest site is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace and the Chancery building of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Such advocacy groups have been commemorating the Discoverer's Day holiday as their own alternative, Indigenous Peoples Day. The week is called Indigenous Peoples Week.

Massachusetts
The city of Boston, which has a large Italian population, marks the occasion on the Sunday before Columbus Day with a parade through the city that alternates each year between East Boston and the North End.
All state agencies are closed, and parking at meters is free in the city of Boston.

New York
In New York State, Columbus Day is a holiday, as government offices and public schools are closed. However, the stock markets remain open. Not all universities in the state university system, SUNY, choose to observe the holiday.

Nevada
Columbus Day is not a legal holiday in Nevada, but it is a day of observance. Schools and state, city and county government offices are open for business on Columbus Day.

Puerto Rico
As in the mainland U.S., Columbus Day is a legal holiday in the unincorporated U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

South Dakota
In the state of South Dakota, the day is officially a state holiday known as "Native American Day", not Columbus Day.

U.S. Virgin Islands
Due to opposition against Columbus Day, in the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the day is celebrated as "Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Friendship Day."

Virginia
The second Monday in October is a legal holiday in Virginia: Columbus Day and Yorktown Victory Day, honoring Christopher Columbus, and the final victory at Yorktown in the Revolutionary War.

(Source: Wikipedia)

NYT. Fashion and design may be two of Italy’s high-profile exports, but according to the new coffee-table tome ‘‘Italian Touch,’’ published this month by Skira and commissioned by the Italian luxury goods company Tod’s, style is less a business than a way of life (Read the article)

AP.  Rescue workers dug for a second day Saturday through piles of mud and debris as they searched for about 30 missing people from a mudslide that has killed at least 21 in Sicily.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi said he feared the death toll from Italy's worst mudslides in a decade could rise to 50.  (Read the article)

THE NEW YORK TIMES. John T. Edge continues his journey through American cuisine and its ongoing evolution. Yesterday he visited the northern reaches of West Virginia and stopped in Clarksburg, a town where over 40% of the residents claim some Italian ancestry. In the early 1900s - Edge writes - West Virginia coal companies sought “a more docile, controllable work force than their American-born counterparts.” They recruited Italian immigrants in large numbers, especially from Calabria; but they soon found out, to their bitter disappointment, that these laborers "were just as inclined, if not more so, toward union affiliation and action." Among the many legacies of that massive Italian influx was, besides class struggle, "a hybridized food that owed as much to West Virginia as it did to Calabria." (Read the article)

ANSA. Cheesemakers in a small town near Naples beat their own record on Sunday by making the world's longest ever braid of mozzarella. The team of 40 mozzarella makers from the town of Sala Consilina churned and twisted a weave 78.8m long and 10cm thick winning their third Guinness World Record in three years. (Read the article)

ANSA. Giuseppe Tornatore's Sicilian epic Baaria was picked Tuesday as Italy's candidate for next year's foreign film Oscar. ''I'm very happy but also intimidated...it's a big responsibility to defend the Italian colours because every country is represented by interesting films, there is so much variety,'' said Tornatore, who won the Oscar in 1990 with Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. (Read the article)

ANSA. Three Italian entries including Ferrari's best season and the world's biggest peace rally appear in a special ten-year edition of the Guinness Book of Records out this week The iconic Formula One team amassed an amazing 262 points thanks to F1 legend Michael Schumacher in 2004, miles ahead of any other tallies. (Read the article)

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