LIFE & PEOPLE

While you surf the net, you will run into many platforms made by Italians for Italians: you won’t find it hard to run into blogs and websites collecting information and stories about Italians moving abroad. But, when we first met …

With Fantastic Four currently in theatres actress Kate Mara, who plays Susan Storm, the Invisible Woman, is finally getting her spot in the sun among Hollywood stars, after years of supporting roles. Despite the heavy criticism the movie has received …

“Italians say that someone who acquires a new language ‘possesses’ it. In my case, Italian possesses me. With Italian racing like blood through my veins, I do indeed see with different eyes, hear with different ears, and drink in the …

The beautiful southern Italian city of L’Aquila, in Abruzzo region, is still struggling to recover from the devastating earthquake that hit the area in 2009, causing over 300 casualties. Among other initiatives, aimed at supporting and redeveloping L’Aquila, a 12-hour …

For the Italian Catholic community of Los Angeles, St. Peter’s Church on Broadway has been representing a sanctuary of peace and fraternity for over a hundred years. Thanks to the generous gift of a parish family and to the mastery …

Have you ever wanted to walk the streets?  For arts’sake?  Italy’s immeasurable collection of public art is a forgone conclusion.  You stumble over it, walk around it, and view it from afar in just about every locale.  Rome, for example, could …

Bringing the art of classic Italian cinema to Los Angeles, the Grazie Cinema Series hosted a screening of a cinematic Italian film, prefaced by the premiere of an original short film directed by Tracy Antonopoulos. The series had a grand …

Renzo Piano called it the “stone with a light inside”. These poetic words used by the Italian architect to refer to the pietra leccese have become a way to describe the uniqueness of the stone which can be found around …

A few weeks ago, the NASA mission called New Horizons performed the closest approach to Pluto, the “ice dwarf,” unexplored planet in the Solar System. Among the scientists, who are investigating the mysteries of our Universe, are brilliant Italian minds …

Imago Mundi is a unique artistic map of the world that Luciano Benetton devised during his travels around the world, after his retirement in 2008. He happened to be in South America in the studio of an emerging artist and …