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On February 2nd, the shooting of the most anticipated Ben-Hur’s remake, directed by the Kazakh Timur Bekmambetov, started in Matera, Basilicata. The so-called “Subterranean City”, whose center, named “Sassi”, was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1993, has been …

The history of the fortuitous archaeological discovery resembles plenty of other similar ones: Normandy – March 1830, a farmer, named Prosper Taurin, while plowing a field, one kilometer west of Berthouville (the Roman Canetonum), chanced upon a Roman treasure, made …

On Saturday, January 17th, it took place the third edition of the Italian National Dialect and Local Languages’ Day, jointly organized by The National Union: Pro Loco, Lazio Legautonomie, the Documentation Center For Dialect Poetry “Vincenzo Scarpellino”, the International Center …

Angelina Jolie, born in L.A. 39 years ago, was recently nominated the highest-income actress three times by Forbes, but also “Special Envoy” and former “Goodwill Ambassador” for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).   Upon meeting with Queen …

Pino Daniele (born in Naples on March 19th, 1955), one of the most beloved Italian singer-songwriters and self-taught guitarist, died of a heart attack at age 59 on January 4th, on route from his house in the Tuscan countryside towards …

Mirella Bentivoglio, visual artist and poetess, was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1922 to Italian parents: Margherita Cavalli and the scientist, Ernesto Bertarelli. She spent her childhood in Milan and, then, she moved to study in the German-speaking part of …

On Saturday, February 7th, a very special event for the entire Italian community took place: L’Italo-Americano Annual Fundraising Gala Dinner. Several representatives of local Italian-American societies, besides the newspaper’s patrons and supporters, have enthusiastically attended to the gala. Very meaningful …

For our readers, who are not yet familiar with the Italian-American, very talented, young  filmmaker, Justin Ambrosino, it is enough to say that his thesis short film, The 8th Samurai, won more than 20 jury awards worldwide and qualified for …