LIFE & PEOPLE

For over forty years, I have been living in both Italy and the US. I feel Italian and American, Italiana and Americana, sounds almost like a Starbucks drink! The difference with being Italian-American is that I feel the two cultures …

Most of us have heard of Casanova. The name is often used to describe a man who has many lovers or a man who is a promiscuous and unscrupulous lover. But who was he really? Where did he come from …

Perhaps no movement, at least in the 21st century, has globally galvanized the masses more than #MeToo.  The anti-sexual harassment campaign, fanned by the digital age, has created a gyre around the topic of gender equality and simultaneously sparked the …

Cinema Italia keeps its Spring tradition alive with a five-film retrospective on Michelangelo Antonioni. The one-day program, co-curated by Luce Cinecittà and The Museum of Modern Art ​in New York City, is meant to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the …

Pinned like a medieval brooch on the slopes of Mount Milocca, Castelbuono is the leading producer of manna in all the Mediterranean region. In this small corner of the Madonie Park near Cefalù, manna does not fall from the sky …

The craft of rope makers, funaio or cordaro, is as old as Man: a thousands-year long art, based on an easy manual technique, where two only apparently simple factors join forces: the rush (which in Italian is called giunco and …

Naming a child is usually one of two things: a matter of trends or a matter of tradition. Every year, parents all over the world let celebrities and VIPs inspire their choices, just as it happened in 2017, when “Rumi”  …

Being deaf is like having a super power. Emilio Insolera, deaf from his birth, was so sure about this concept that he turned it into a feature film, Sign Gene. Sign Gene is, in fact, the first superhero film featuring deaf …

It might well be the next “Greatest Show on Earth,” even if the monkeys and clowns are missing. It’s no circus, however.   The first “artainment” of its kind, Giudizio Universale brings to life the narrative of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel …

The expression Made in Italy itself is almost perfectly synonymous with Italian craftsmanship, or artigianato, to say it as we do. From culinary products to clothing, from jewelry to leather goods and fabrics, the importance of human hands and of …