Culture

As part of the United States’ ongoing consultations with its allies and partners in Europe and beyond, President Barack Obama will travel to Italy in March, after the Netherlands and Belgium. In the Netherlands, he will participate in the Nuclear …

During one of my visits to Sicily, as I sat across the dinner table from my host Francesco, his wife Pina dished out mounds of spaghetti.  She seemed determined to fill her husband’s plate to capacity, but before she could …

Dear Readers, More January jottings with an Italian connection: Avanti…Our Italian Heritage New Year resolutions should include becoming more active in Italo-American organizations. Admittedly, some of the sparkly has dimmed due to the fact that many of our beloved leadership …

Cern scientists have succeeded, for the first time in history, in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms. They reported the unambiguous detection of 80 antihydrogen atoms 2.7 metres downstream of their production, where the perturbing influence of the magnetic fields …

Dear Readers, Abruzzesi e Molisani Club officers and members throughout the U.S.A. should note that a great activity for their calendar would be a Mario Lanza themed event because both of Mario Lanza’s parents had “roots” in Abruzzi and Mario …

Last year New York City sports fans rooted for a potpourri of teams that were dull, inauspicious and almost comical in their athletic abilities.  From the New York Mets, Yankees, Giants, Jets, Nets, Knicks, Rangers, and Islanders, fans were greatly …

 From Bologna came the news of Claudio Abbado’s death, at 80, following a long illness. He had suffered health problems for many years, resigning from the Vienna Opera for health reasons in 1991 and later undergoing surgery for stomach cancer. …

Si è inaugurato all’Istituto Balassi-Accademia d’Ungheria di Roma, la mostra “Camminando nella valle dell’ombra”, in memoria della Shoah. Quest’anno si celebra il 70° anniversario della Shoah in Ungheria e tra gli artisti presenti non poteva mancare Eva Fischer.   Nata …

No amount of foreign tourism seems to affect Rome’s classical and vital atmosphere and culture. While millions of international visitors flock to Rome each year, the Eternal City marches to its own drum.    The Colosseum, the largest and most …

By providing interesting insights into a culture, idioms and sayings add color to a language. Obviously, this also happens with the Italian Language. L’Italiano presents many common proverbs and idiomatic expressions, used so often by people in everyday talk that …