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Culture
by Alexa Ahern | Sun, 05/14/2023 - 17:00
Piazzale Loreto in the north of Milan is an eyesore of the excessive cementificazione of Italian cityscapes. An intersection of seven major thoroughfares, it…
Culture
by Laurence Connell | Wed, 05/10/2023 - 09:00
In Italy, drill music — a subgenre of hip hop — has broken into the mainstream. It’s been barely three years since the release of the genre’s first viral…
Lifestyle
by Joseph Harshbarger | Sun, 05/07/2023 - 07:00
The world watched transfixed this weekend as King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey on May 6, succeeding his mother as monarch and becoming King of…
Culture
by Lucy McCabe | Fri, 05/05/2023 - 08:25
“I played with great seriousness. At some point they began to call my games art.” – Maria Lai I first “met” Maria Lai while visiting Cagliari, the capital of…
Culture
by Amy Gulick | Wed, 04/26/2023 - 06:20
The perennially popular Italian folk tune “Bella Ciao” has roots in 19th-century farm laborer protests in northern Italy, but this simple yet stirring hymn has…
Culture
by Katherine Wilson | Thu, 04/20/2023 - 15:00
This spring, the city at the base of Vesuvius is ready to erupt.  Abuzz with adrenaline and already spray-painted blue, Naples is anticipating a national…
Culture
by Alexa Ahern | Thu, 03/30/2023 - 14:25
I think it’s safe to say no cuisine kindles such universal love quite like Italian food.  When the Italian Ministries of Agriculture and Culture nominated “…
Culture
by Toni DeBella | Wed, 03/29/2023 - 14:07
Art historian, Yale-educated scholar and bestselling author Laura Morelli has said she avoids controversy like the plague. But when Tallahassee, Florida’s “…
Culture
by Miranda Mullings | Wed, 03/22/2023 - 08:00
The Arab alimentari El Zayat in Rome’s Marconi neighborhood has the familiar din of a minimarket in Cairo. Twinkling lights curtain the facade and a plastic…
Culture
by Jessica Lionnel | Sat, 03/18/2023 - 03:30
Imagine you’re watching a key episode in your favorite series, on the edge of your seat, desperate to know what happens next.  Now imagine all of the…