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A new exhibition takes us back to the post-WWII glory days of Italian Alta Moda
Launching today, it uses augmented reality to superimpose historical images
A BALDING government clerk in his late 30s has one true love: “il posto fisso,” a job for life. He doesn’t want to compete in the labor market; he has no urge to move on. He doesn’t even want to earn more. Give him a desk, a chair and a 9-to-5 job in the “pubblica amministrazione,” and he’s happy.
Richard Libertini, a character actor best known for his antic turn as a deranged Latin American general in the 1979 film comedy “The In-Laws,” died on Thursday at his home in Venice, Calif. He was 82.
Bob Consiglio, an owner of Sally’s Apizza in New Haven. The prospective sale of the pizzeria has generated two lawsuits
On Jan. 14, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Presidential Proclamation No. 2537, which required Americans of Japanese, German and Italian descent to register with the U.S. Department of Justice. This was a precursor to the imprisonment of people who had committed no crime, based solely on their ancestry.
François Brunet’s take on the classic pain au chocolat is unreasonably delicious
As the last Bloomberg Ranking’s analysis of global health report, Italy is the second healthiest country in the world. If the old italian proverb, “la salute prima di tutto” (“Health first”) is right, this is the perfect first Italian Good News of this 2016.
Silvana Pampanini, an Italian actress and beauty who was one of the country's leading post-war cinema stars, has died at the age of 90, local media reported on Wednesday.
Six years ago, Steve Sando was scrolling through mail orders at his specialty-food company, Rancho Gordo, when he spotted one that stopped him short. He fulfilled the order — for several pounds of beans and a copy of his first cookbook — and inscribed the book. “I was a little gushy,” he admitted.