An Evening of Culture: Celebrating Opera Carolina
When: Wed, April 26, 2017 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT - Where: Founders Hall, 100 N. Tryon Street, Mezzanine Level, Charlotte, NC 28255 An Evening of Culture is being hosted by the Honorary Consul of Italy to North Carolina, Dr. Claudio Carpano, in collaboration with Casa della Cultura Italiana - North Carolina (CCI-NC). CCI-NC's mission is to buil...
Cesare Berlingeri opens in Miami a great season of Italian Art
From April 19 to May 19 Valli Art Gallery - 1924 N Miami Ave, Miami. From April 20, May 19 General Consulate of Italy - 4000 Ponce De Leon Blvd # 590, Coral Gables. From 20 April at 3.30pm University of Miami - 320 S Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables With a double exhibition and a lecture at the University of Miami, Cesare Berlingeri opens a great season of...
You don’t have to be Italian, but you do need talent to compete for ‘Idol’ show
Come to the annual Italian Festival for the food, but stay for the entertainment. Don’t let the “Italian Idol” name fool you, however — you don’t have to be Italian to win, assured competition Chairperson Roberta Whitaker. For the past 10 years, St. Philip Neri Catholic Church has been hosting the annual talent show. Whitaker wanted a way to showca...
Stanley Tucci discusses career at Sarasota Film Festival
To close out this year, Sarasota Film Festival had one of its most famous frequent visitors speak at length about his career. Oscar-nominated actor and director Stanley Tucci, who has attended the festival numerous times including Saturday’s closing ceremony, participated in an hourlong conversation Sunday at Florida Studio Theatre. David Edelstein...
Foursome claims victory in eighth annual Benvenuto Americans of Italian Heritage bocce tourney
The 8th Annual Benvenuto Americans of Italian Heritage Charity Bocce Tournament was held on March 18, with all proceeds benefitting Combat Veterans to Careers. A total of 128 players participated at bocce courts at four different locations in The Villages with the finals being played and a delicious lunch served at Hibiscus Recreation Center. The w...
Biloxi loses jitterbugging, bingo-playing former councilman, justice
While his brothers hunted, Roy Mattina Sr. danced. The 92-year-old Biloxi native was always one of a kind. He was from a tight-knit generation born and raised on Point Cadet, a peninsula settled by immigrants on Biloxi’s eastern tip. Mattina was proud of his Italian heritage in a neighborhood where there were societies for residents of French, Ital...
Festa Italiana returns to Ybor for 20th year
For 20 years, Festa Italiana has filled the streets of historic Ybor City, celebrating Italian culture and heritage by showcasing cuisine from area restaurants, live entertainment, a variety of wines and spirits and an assortment of activities. It was in the spring of 1997 that people first gathered in Centennial Park, 1800 E 8th Ave. for the inaug...
BWW Review: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI at Sarasota Opera House
The opera, L'italiana in Algeri, (The Italian Girl in Algiers), by Gioachino Rossini, (The Barber of Seville, William Tell, Ivanhoé), bears an avant-garde theme contemporary to the struggle women are still facing today - some sense of equality. The opera buffa, (comic opera), written in 1813, when Rossini was 21 years old, was reportedly completed...
Experience Little Italy at Feast of St. Mark
In its first five years, St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church’s annual Italian festival has grown into an event that draws people from outside Alabama and sells out tickets each year. The Feast of St. Mark, held on the church grounds, is a celebration of Italian music, food and culture that honors the Italian community that started the church. ...
A Miami l'Intercomites Usa
Si è riunito a Miami, in Florida, l’Intercomites Usa cui hanno partecipato i rappresentanti dei dieci Comites negli Stati Uniti, il Consigliere CGIE Usa Vincenzo Arcobelli ed i rappresentanti diplomatici della rete consolare, il Primo Consigliere d'Ambasciata Catherine Flumiani e la Console Generale a Miami Gloria M. Bellelli. Collegata in video co...
Auburn's CIAO group to lead St. Joseph's Day Feast Celebration
The Cultural Italian American Organization's annual St. Joseph's Day Feast Celebration is set for 6 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at the Springside Inn, 6141 W. Lake Road, Fleming. A small religious ceremony, the custom of the Tavola di San Giuseppe, will begin the event. It will be led by the Rev. Eric Viloria. The statue of St. Joseph will be carrie...
Room for more than one flag in country
In a recent letter to the editor related to the controversy surrounding flags flown at Greenwood High School, one writer stated, “Only the American flag should be allowed to fly (in the U.S.). No other.” I disagree and, in fact I proudly fly the flag of Italy on Oct. 12, in observance of Columbus Day. It is not meant to slight the American flag or...