LIFE & PEOPLE

A recent survey carried out by Best Countries and Published by US News ranked the world’s countries from best to worst. Finding places like Switzerland, Canada and Germany among the highest ranking is not surprising just as, all in all, …

“The first time, my mother brought me here in a stroller,” council-member Joe Buscaino recalls during the Saint Joseph’s celebration in San Pedro, a feast that has had a profound meaning for his family for a long time. His grandmother, …

Italian design was only recently celebrated in LA with the Italian Design Day and it is once again time to talk about Italy’s most creative minds and their ties with the US. What’s really striking, in the case we’re about …

On March 8, the Italian Cultural Institute observed International Women’s Day with best-selling author, Dianne Hales. Ms. Hales’ revealing presentation about the life and achievements of Luisa Spagnoli was a perfect complement to International Women’s Day. This story is actually …

“It seems sometimes as if San Francisco were about half an Italian city.  There are only about 60,000 Italian in the city but they are such a progressive group of citizens that they have made an impression upon the life …

The glossy, celebrity-filled cologne counters of modern shopping malls hide a fascinating, if odd history. Today’s fragrances offer heady punches of patchouli, sweet vanilla, amber and candy floss, but their ancient counterparts called for deer musk, the anal secretions of …

Nevermind how long you have lived in Rome, you’ll always find something new to discover, or so do its lucky residents say. Of course, Rome is art, history and good food. It’s tradition and the very heart of Italian identity. …

The road into the Hyblaean Mountains snakes left and right, hugging the hillsides as the flora turns from spartan scrubland to holm-oak forest. It’s hard to not notice, after the 40 km drive up from the gem city of Siracusa, …

There’s a new public park in south King County that owes its existence to Italian immigrants and a truck-farming enterprise once called Duwamish Gardens. In 2008, city officials in Tukwila, Wash., purchased an historic homestead inhabited for nearly 100 years …

Exploring the relationship between design and sustainability with an exhibit and a round table among design experts. This was the Italian Design Day in the World’s goal, an initiative created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Cooperation (MAECI), …