Life + Style

The grey Roman skies overhead unleashed a torrent of rain as I reached Torre Argentina near the Pantheon. Dashing across the street for cover underneath a red awning, I bought the first umbrella that a passing vendor handed me. I …

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi holds a unique place in the history of science and education in the Western world: she was the first woman to be offered, in 1732 at the University of Bologna,  an official, salaried teaching position at …

Three Academy Award winners, Sophia Loren, Ennio Morricone, and Giuseppe Tornatore, will feature in a Dolce & Gabbana perfume commercial in the next week.  The commercial has been directed by Tornatore with Ennio Morricone’s score is set in the Sicilian …

Olive oil lovers are glad to put the old year behind them. Between drought and disease, the 2014 olive harvest was catastrophic for Italy—the worst in twenty years, according to the International Olive Oil Council. Everywhere I traveled throughout the …

“To see the city through the eyes of Dominic Angerame is to see an organic beast of concrete that sifts and breathes in rich shades of black and white.”  – Silke Tudor, SF Weekly Since 1969, Dominic Angerame has made …

American company based in San Francisco, Airbnb, has just released a listing of the most desirable houses rented by its costumers. Many travelers look to book rentals outside of the typical hotel and they prefer to have more untraditional temporary …

The Italian language is full of and colorful expressions, just like the English language. When we become more familiar with the language and we get to know Italian customs and practices we come to appreciate and better understand these surprising …

Italian Director Ettore Scola died today in Rome at the age of 84. He was considered one of the greatest masters of the Italian cinema. He directed 40 films over 40 years and had international success winning prizes at Cannes, …

During the past ten years, Los Angeles-born rock guitarist, Dweezil Zappa (September 5, 1969), has put aside his own songwriting. Instead, perhaps also responding to a primordial impulse inscribed into his Sicilian DNA, he has been zealously honoring his father, …

There has been big demand for historic Italian lighthouses put up for restoration and redevelopment by the Italian State.   At the end of a three-month tender some 39 offers have come in from Italy and abroad, the ‘Demanio’ State-owned …