2007 - September
New York Itinerary
Doing business and praying in Spanglish, in the Hispanic “Nueva York”
The Hispanic community is growing in New York, changing the colors, music and speech in Harlem and the Bronx. It boasts three million new residents, whose political and economic power is bound to grow.
Is there anyone today who hasn’t heard about quinceañera celebrations or has never danced to the pulsating beat of reggaeton? Hispanic vocabulary and tradition have become part of everyday life in most American cities. While the Hispanic community is growing fast in and around urban centers. Full Story
New York Itinerary
Italian cooking school for New York
It is called the “Italian Culinary Experience” and it is a training course for a new generation of chefs for Italian restaurants in New York, offered as a collaboration between the International Culinary Center and the Alma International School for Italian Cooking of Colorno (Parma).
Touch with your fingers the Italian culinary tradition and its regional flavors. Make the preparation of dishes the final goal in a course that begins with learning about Italian history and territory. These are the guiding concepts at the Alma International School for Italian Cooking, of Colorno in the province of Parma, which opened a new course in 2007 entitled “Italian Culinary Experience” (www.ItalianCulinaryTraining.com), offered in collaboration with the French Culinary Institute of New York, today the International Culinary Center. Full Story
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The Naval Staff Standard Course
Rapidly changing international scenarios require constantly updated military training. That is why the Italian Navy has an advanced course providing training and a professional culture aimed at enhancing the already excellent skills of its personnel.
Today there is a deeply felt need to endow officers in all the Armed Forces with a wide-ranging professional culture to be grafted onto their technical operational skills for “service in the General Staff.” The evolution of the international political scenarios, and the attendant directives from political leaders have led to a different kind of involvement of the military apparatus in pursuing national and international interests than in the past. Full Story
Culture
“Painting for oneself, salvation from chaos”
Interview with the Painter Gaspare Manos.
You sign your works Gaspare. Why not use your family name?
“Well, because Gaspare is My name. Family names with a history can be heavy. Canvases are rather thin”.
Its is said that you are inherently gifted.
“You want to know if its God’s gift or a result of free choice? I would think its not through genious but through tenacity. On average I work ten hours per day, every day. The real gift is my innate curiosity for things concerning life. This motivates my painting, even if it has a cost involved” Full Story
Venetian Itinerary
Emilio Vedova: The Last Show
On display through September 30 at the Torre Massimiliana on the Island of Sant’Erasmo, “Emilio Vedova” is a farewell exhibition offered by Venice to its great son.
Viewing an Emilio Vedova work means baring your soul, watching yourself in the mirror without pretense, without masks or trappings. Studying the melancholy in the Venetian master’s canvases is like a psychological deciphering of a larger semantic discourse. A trip into memories of the Lagoon area, fed by symbols and wrecks, didactic motifs and sensitive combined forms. Full Story
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The Arsenale, a forging center for the Venetian maritime navigation
At the times of the Doges, the Arsenale churned out sailing boats for the Venetian Serenissima Republic. Today, what was once the great shipyard of Venice, houses the Historical Naval Museum of the Italian Navy.
The origins of the Arsenale date back to 1104, when Doge Falier had the State shipyard set-up near Saint Mark’s Square. In the thirteenth century the yard, moved to the current location for a more protected position, was instrumental in influencing the urban development of the city around its walls and residential building in the area.
The commercial expansion of Venice continued non-stop and, at the end of the fifteenth Century, the Venice Senate, well aware of the strategic importance of the yard for the thriving maritime trades, decides to expand it. Full Story
New York Itinerary
New York: The world’s shopping capital
Young Americans prefer shopping at the big designer store chains, which are accused of standardizing personal styles. And Italian fashion seems caught in a crisis.
“I love shopping in New York” is the title of a humorous Sophie Kinsella book which recounts the adventures of a young journalist who has moved to New York and developed an insatiable shopping mania. Well, really, how can one resist buying anything when strolling the streets of New York City? Full Story
Viewpoint
What’s American about American movies?
The American film industry, despite its critics, continues to dominate the world market for movies. The author discusses why this is and relates the impact of several recent movies in the United States and abroad.
“The Americans have colonized our subconscious,” says a character in Wim Wenders’s Kings of the Road (1976), speaking as much in admiration as complaint, which only makes sense in a road movie by a German director who, first chance he got, rushed to shoot a picture on location in Monument Valley, Utah, an area frequently used by famed Hollywood director John Ford. Full Story
Culture
From Vedova to Rosso: from the sculpture to the “Transient Form”
Sculpture lovers will not want to miss the Autumn program with an exhibition dedicated to Medardo Rosso. From September 22nd, 2007 until January 6th, 2008 it will be possible to admire an extraordinary selection of works on view in the exhibition Rosso. Full Story
Dossier
U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute focus on the Middle East
The Middle East is a the new priority at the Strategic Studies Institute. The “most prominent” institute providing independent strategic analyses of national security issues.
“The U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute conducts research and publishes studies on national security issues of value to the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, and the Nation. The Institute’s mission is to conduct and disseminate independent strategic analysis that develops recommendations for addressing key national security issues”. It’s “indipendent analysis” the key concept in the definition is of Douglas C. Lovelace, director of the institute. Full Story
