Alessandro Lanzoni Trio
When: Tuesday, June 04, 2019 From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York - What: Alessandro Lanzoni, young and talented Italian pianist, performs in trio with Ben Street (double bass) and Eric McPherson (drums). Alessandro Lanzoni has, from a very young age, performed in many of the most important Jazz Festivals both in...
Fiore review: All-day Italian delights blossom in Queen Village
New York is where young chefs go to prove themselves. Philly? This is where many come to find a home. It’s a familiar story line now, and it’s unfolding once again, deliciously, in the airy space of Fiore in Queen Village, where live fires perfume the room and the dreams of another talented chef couple are playing out in the flaky spirals of mornin...
Explore the story of Pompeii at the Science Museum of Virginia
This summer, you can visit the ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii without ever leaving Richmond. The North American premiere of "Pompeii: The Immortal City" opens at the Science Museum of Virginia June 8 and runs through September 3. The Italian city was devastated by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. According to the museum, "this touring exhibition plun...
Maria DiNota’s New Book “Tempo Di Mangiare” is an Easy-to-follow Cookbook Offering Delectable Recipes for Both Family Dinners and Festive Occasions
Maria DiNota, a married mother of three who and is thankful to her Sicilian-born parents for raising her with a deep appreciation for her Italian heritage and loves cooking, entertaining, exercising, and spending time at the beach with her family, has completed her book “Tempo Di Mangiare”: a collection of delicious recipes for all tastes. Welcome...
American Academy in Rome establishes new prize with $3 million gift
The American Academy in Rome has received a $3 million gift from Musa and Thomas Mayer. The donation was made in honor of Musa’s father, artist Philip Guston, a former Rome Prize winner. With the funds, the academy will establish a new fellowship, the Philip Guston Rome Prize in Visual Arts. “When my father was awarded the Rome Prize in 1948, he wa...
7 Different Types of Italian Pizza
Pizza is pizza, right? Not so fast. If you've ever visited Italy (or Eataly for that matter!), you might have noticed that there are many different types of Italian pizza, from la pizza Napoletana to la pizza Romana. Just like America has New York-style pizza, Chicago-style deep dish pizza, and so on, so do we have many different varieties in Italy...
Face-to-face with John Carpino
Santa Clara student life and the professional sports world often seem overwhelmingly disconnected. Most of us weren’t blessed with the raw talent to give us a chance to play in the big leagues, and, for many of us, the business side of sports may seem even more complex. We constantly hear of big-name, recordbreaking contracts or large marketing dea...
Italian Cars History 1
As the field of science progressed throughout the Renaissance, it took an Italian, the first engineer, the famous Leonardo da Vinci, to think in concrete terms of an idea similar to that of modern era automobile. Then in 1769, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, a French engineer, invented the steam dray, a low, strong cart used for transporting heavy loads. Th...
Borders: A Flash of Italian Fashion – Sustainability, Inclusivity, Individuality
The opening of Borders: A flash of New Italian Fashion took place above the Chelsea Market Passage on the Highline. The exhibition, in collaboration with the Italian Consulate General, Italian Trade Commission in New York (ICE) and Italian Embassy in Washington DC, is open to the general public all of May 17th. Bordersis part of a series of events...
How to try your hand at half-ball, the old-school Philly street game
Smack in the middle of the annual Italian Market Festival in South Philadelphia Saturday, some 30 men gathered to play half-ball — a game with a local history spanning about 70 years that calls for a broomstick, a three-story building, and half of a squishy ball. Split into teams of five people, these men comprised the 10th annual John Marzano Half...
A Lercara Friddi apre il museo dedicato a Frank Sinatra
Ha aperto oggi al pubblico il museo dedicato a Frank Sinatra e ai migranti d'America, realizzato a Lercara Friddi, nel Palermitano, paese d'origine dei nonni paterni di "The Voice". L'iniziativa dell'associazione "Life & Art Promotion" cade nel ventunesimo anniversario dalla scomparsa di Sinatra. Il museo raccoglie cimeli appartenuti all'artista. "...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 115
Ciao from Rome to all the friends of We the Italians! There are some very important news coming up! The first, officially, we can announce now: on October 12, 2019 in Siena, Tuscany, we will organize the first Columbus Day in Italy! We don't know yet what it will be: certainly not a parade like the ones that are organized in America. It's a first t...