Culture

Even statues need sleep. The lucky ones recline on their pediments and snooze in the sun. The rest of us are carthorses, napping on our feet in the wee hours. Thus refreshed, we can better shoulder the burden of time. …

Veloce come il vento, forte come una roccia.  Louis Zamperini, “Torrance Tornado”, è stato molto più di un semplice eroe di guerra.  Perché prima ancora di riuscire a scampare miracolosamente dalla prigionia giapponese inorgogliendo gli Stati Uniti per il suo …

Oltre ad essere un critico letterario, un critico d’arte, uno scrittore, un giornalista, Emilio Cecchi era anche un consumato ed appassionato viaggiatore.    Quando nel 1930 l’Università della California di Berkeley lo invitò a trascorrere un anno presso il Dipartimento …

For the last decade, the QS Global Academy Advisory Board, through its QS World University Rankings, has helped millions of ambitious students choose the best university to become what they want and develop their future careers.    The QS rankings …

If you visit the New York City Transit Museum, (located at Schermerhorn Street & Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY) organizers from the museum recognize many of the races and ethnicities that contributed to the building of the subway tunnels during the …

If you are a fan of La Dolce Vita and dream of the Italian hill landscape, the perfect house for you has just been put on the market. Of course, you must be able to afford the over $1.5-million price. …

Last week, Google celebrated its 16th anniversary. Behind the creation of the web giant, as well as of others the likes of Amazon and Wikipedia, there is a generation of brilliant Montessori-educated founders. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, …

Dear Readers, Author Goffredo Palmerini, who hails from the land of the “forte ma gentile” people in Abruzzi, Italy, has recently gifted the Italian reading public around the world with another gem of a book “L’Italia Dei Sogni” and his …

Many people around the world today want to learn Italian. Some because they have Italian origins, maybe their grand parents were Italian; others because they like to travel and be able to speak while they visit Italy. Italian is one …

National Italian American Heritage Month. In the United States, the month of October celebrates the Italian and Italian American contribution to the Country’s progress. And L’Italo-Americano, which has been giving voice to the Italian-American community of the West Coast since …