Culture

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 …

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, …

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 …

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. …

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 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. …

The ancient Roman city of Pompeii has received a lot of coverage recently. From exhibits to a song by the band Bastille, Pompeii has surely been a popular topic of discussion.   The city will now present an opera festival …

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 …

Dear Readers, A September selection of Italian connections: Andrews Sisters Patty, Maxene and LaVerne were in Naples, Italy, on a U.S.O. tour in August 1945. The Andrews Sisters were about to perform for some 5,000 weary GI’s, gathered in the …

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 …