The first festival of the year at EPCOT runs through Feb. 24, with artistic (and edible) touches at every turn.

In 1966, they relocated to Rome, Italy, where their stylish young bassist, Wess Johnson, took over leadership of the group. Johnson was born in North Carolina in 1945 and spent much of his childhood ...

The Italian release of James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” is prompting local media to claim that, unlike in the movie, Dylan traveled to Italy in 1962 in pursuit of Suze ...

Verdi was born in the heyday of Beethoven. In a golden age of great music he was the contemporary of Wagner, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, all of whom he outlived. Verdi had lived through the creation of ...

Artist Dave Avanzino has returned to the 2025 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts with several new parks-inspired pieces, including new wood prints and paper sculptures. Dave Avanzino Art Dave ...

Each summer, the remote Italian island of Alicudi attracts a slow drip of tourists looking to escape the trappings of modernity. There are no cars or even roads on the two-square-mile volcanic ...

There are many ways to compare Italian cities: food, wine, art, architecture, culture, scenery and the intangibles of charm and crowd-free streets. But what if simple size had a role? What if we ...

Italy has reduced the number of migrant boats from reaching the country with one main tactic. Giorgia Meloni has used money to cut the number of illegal immigrants and refugees from North Africa ...

As someone who’s spent the last decade exploring EPCOT festivals, here’s why Festival of the Arts is one of my favorites… The four festivals held annually at EPCOT each have something ...

Cecilia Sala found herself in the middle of Iran’s hostage diplomacy. Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, in Rome this month after being released from a prison in ...