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
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 f…
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…
It’s Italian-American Heritage Month and our celebration wouldn’t be complete without acknowledging those musical anthems heard ‘round the world…
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…
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The northwestern region of Liguria, which slivers up from the Tuscan border toward southern France, brushing Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy…
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…
As Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomes world leaders to Borgo Egnazia, Puglia for the G7 Summit from June 13-15, the results of the Europ…
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
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…
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…
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who…
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…
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
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…
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…
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…
It’s not only Greece that’s burning. From the tip of Puglia to the island of Sicily, the beautiful macchia mediterranea — Mediterranean scrub…
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…
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…
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…