Culture

The power of the Oscars is in their celebration not only of world famous actors, but also of all the amazing professionals who work behind the scene to make our beloved movies so real and credible. The sounds, effects, and …

The two lands designated in the title of Joseph Luzzi’s new non-fiction book My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) are embodied, on the one hand, in the rural southern traditions that his two Calabrian immigrant parents maintained in suburban …

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 …

Intervista a Enzo Caffarelli, direttore editoriale, ma anche co-curatore e autore del Dizionario Enciclopedico delle Migrazioni Italiane nel Mondo, un’opera dedicata alla Grande Emigrazione italiana tra Otto e Novecento che l’ex presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano, nel suo saluto a …

Dear Readers, In February we traditionally pause to celebrate lovers (Valentine’s Day) and Presidents. Once Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) and George Washinton (Feb. 22) were honored individually; now they are collectively celebrated on Presidents’ Day (Feb. 16.). Our third President, …

“Pasquino, my man!” booms Tyrell. Once a sound engineer for Earth, Wind, and Fire, he now lives in the Parione district and works in the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The only city with more soul than Rome, he jokes, is …

Between naturalism and real life, between dream and reality: walking through the Santa Maria della Scala museum will take you into a special world where the art and history of one of Europe’s oldest hospitals are brought to light. Located …

Many years ago the famous British writer Elizabeth Bowen announced to her friends that she intended to write a travel book on Rome. They warned her that better writers than she had tried to write about Italy and failed. To …

“Oh, it’s not hard to die well. It’s hard to live well.” These are the famous words pronounced by the priest Don Pietro Pellegrini (played by Aldo Fabrizi) at the end of Roberto Rossellini’s “Roma città aperta” (“Rome Open City”), …

Recently, while commuting to work in New York City and walking through another snow pile of slush and ice in temperatures not above twenty degrees Fahrenheit, I found myself daydreaming about the warm and tranquil summers I would spend in …