Culture

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 …

Rome, Florence, Pisa, Volterra, and Venice suffered heavy  consequences from days of heavy rain: Venice submerged, Pisan towns partially evacuated, medieval walls collapsed, and Romans escaping to rooftops following landslides and floods of the rivers Tiber and Arno. The severe …

She said she felt she had been “hit by a train” and “could not believe” what was happening. Once again, Amanda Knox was found guilty for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, when both were there …

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 …

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 …

Il firmamento di Hollywood è coperto di stelle tra le quali tante di cognome italiano, e solo per citare qualche esempio: Rodolfo Valentino, Capra, Minelli,  Sinatra, Pacino, De Niro, Stallone,  Scorsese, Coppola, Travolta,  Di Caprio, Ida Lupino, Tea Leoni, Marisa …

“We are honest Italians”, Tuscan olive oil producers replied, sending bottles of their extra virgin olive oil to the New York Times after its campaign against the quality (and credibility) of one of the most famous products associated with the …

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 …

Dear Readers, The San Francisco 49ers’ quest for their first Super Bowl title in nearly two decades evaporated a few Sundays ago when they came up 18 yards short, in a 23-17 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC …

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 …