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Calabria sits at the toe of the Italian boot. This relatively undiscovered region is bathed in a stark pristine beauty from its sea through to its granite covered mountains. The crystal clear Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast is beyond breathtaking. …

Bologna is famous for its towers, among other things. In fact, it is also known as “la turrita”, the town with many towers. Of the 100 that dotted the historical center in the Middle Ages, only 20 remain today. One …

La vignetta fece storia: raffigurava negli anni Settanta una cabina telefonica rigorosamente a gettoni (all’epoca cellulari, Iphone e tablet erano pura astrazione) con, affisso sulla cornetta, il cartello “chiuso per ferie”. Un’esagerazione, ovviamente, ma che, all’epoca, rendeva l’idea. Le ferie …

Not many people can lay claim to the distinction of being honored by their city with a day being named after them.  You can if you are an extraordinary person like James Cardinale Hill.  On June 30, 2004 the city …

Street festivals in San Francisco are not rare.  On any given weekend in the spring and summer, at least a couple of them are happening somewhere in the City.  They range from the extreme (like the Folsom Street Fair) to …

Dear Readers, An August “abbondanza” of admiration for those arrivals who reached our shores in the early 1900’s… ***   America, where “noses fun and feet smell”, is a land loaded with linguistic lumps in the road for new arrivals …

I stand in a small square at the end of Via del Governo Vecchio, a stone’s throw from Piazza Navona. Poised on blocks of ancient concrete, I lean against a corner of Palazzo Braschi, home to the Museo di Roma. …

Invitato al festival cinematografico di Brussels dal produttore esecutivo Franz Esterházy per la visione di “Heute bin ich blond” o “La ragazza dalle nove parrucche”, mi preparo a vedere il film con uno stato d’animo ostinatamente impreciso.    Questa la …

On the occasion of Ferragosto celebrations at Casa Barbera, we met the representative of Italian coffee in Los Angeles, Matteo Pasquini, and learned about his family business while enjoying a delicious cappuccino.    Let’s start from the beginning… In 1955 …

Sulla scia della grande retrospettiva al MOMA di New York, alla UCLA e Cineteca Americana di Los Angeles, Cinecittà Luce e Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini / Cineteca di Bologna, in collaborazione con la Colpa Press Cinema e l’Istituto Italiano di …