Alexa Ahern
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Alexa is a journalist and translator and has been a contributing writer for Italy Magazine since 2022. After trading in Missouri for Milan nearly a decade ago, she feels fully “Italianized,” using allora with unironic enthusiasm and complaining about bureaucracy like a veteran. Her academic background is in Journalism, Italian and Mediterranean Studies, and she is interested in human-driven stories about the land, food culture and society.
Articles by Alexa Ahern
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 06:10
All eyes were on the United States this week in anticipation of the presidential election results. Italy was no exception.
A lot was at stake for Eu…
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 15:00
The push to criminalize surrogacy for Italian citizens who seek it abroad has been front and center since July 2023 when Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni…
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 15:00
It’s Italian-American Heritage Month and our celebration wouldn’t be complete without acknowledging those musical anthems heard ‘round the world — thi…
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:25
There’s a gorge between what we consider Italian-American food and the cucina italiana that we know today, but there’s a throughline that connects the…
Sun, 09/22/2024 - 05:00
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The northwestern region of Liguria, which slivers up from the Tuscan border toward southern France, brushing Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and…
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 06:50
If you’ve watched any Italian athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics in recent days, you may have noticed a recurring thread: The color blue. U…
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 06:15
As Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomes world leaders to Borgo Egnazia, Puglia for the G7 Summit from June 13-15, the results of the European Parlia…
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 05:00
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 05:45
Maybe you’ve heard of Gianni Agnelli. You’ve most likely heard of car manufacturer Fiat. But you might not know the rest of the Agnelli family — Giova…
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 04:26
Between June 6 and 9, the 27 member states of the European Union will vote for new members of European Parliament. The elections are held every five y…
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 13:12
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is ge…
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 03:45
The trailer for the new Netflix series Ripley begins with a man walking down a damp street under a train overpass. The scene, in black and white, evok…
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 05:40
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 13:30
On the northeastern coast of Italy, it’s not just the locals who are enjoying the sunshine and higher temperatures lately: Invasive blue crabs in the…
Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:40
Every day is an exercise in creativity for the chefs of the Rome Sustainable Food Project, whether they’re dreaming up ways to get diners to eat beef…
Sat, 02/17/2024 - 10:40
During the first week of February, a dairy cow named Ercolina found herself before Milan’s Duomo being milked for passersby to the cry of “Drink real…
Fri, 07/28/2023 - 10:10
It’s not only Greece that’s burning. From the tip of Puglia to the island of Sicily, the beautiful macchia mediterranea — Mediterranean scrub — of sou…
Thu, 07/27/2023 - 06:50
John Steinbeck did warn us about the stairs.
In his 1953 essay “Positano” in Harper’s Bazaar, the author depicted an Amalfi Coast that in some ways i…
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 15:20
Silvio Berlusconi once called himself the “Jesus Christ of politics.” It seemed he never cared much about weighing his words as a public figure. But a…
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 14:15
Emilia-Romagna and parts of Le Marche have been submerged in devastating floods over the past week. Highways are now rivers, fields of crops are lakes…