Mario Bava’s Black Sunday: Halloween, Italian Style
The Italian take on horror started back in 1960 with this classic. This year, let it rise from the dead again!
L’Attesa: Art As Matrix
L’Attesa falls into that category of films that cast Italy as a place where the essential substance of life is found.
A Lesson In Italian Grit: Amo DeBernardis
Amo DeBernardis came from an immigrant Italian family and, despite adversity, went on to found Portland Community College.
Osteria Francescana, Reopened
Summer 2020 and restaurants across Italy have reopened. How has an experience at Osteria Francescana, the world's best restaurant, changed?
Pills Of Italian Daily Life: The Criteria Of The Poplar
How a man built a sustainable house with a poplar tree in the yard and did so following criteria that shape construction even today.
Why Do Italians Only Watch Dubbed Movies?
Are we sure we are watching movies with the same eyes?
The Anomaly Of The Occitan Community In Calabria
That a variety of Occitan has been spoken in the small town of Guardia Piemontese in Calabria, is testimony to the tenacity of a community in the face of almost impossible odds.
Why Do Italians Only Watch Dubbed Movies?
Dubbing movies in Italy is systematic. Why is that and are there potential implications for this?
Pills Of Italian Daily Life: The Discos
Or why you feel tired and poor — from all points of view — only thinking about discos.
Ask An Italian: Dyslexia In Italian And English
We encouraged readers to send us stories about dyslexia. One did writing that dyslexia is more common with speakers of certain languages.