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Every year, about a month before Christmas, my sister, my mother and I sit down at the kitchen table (headquarters in an Italian family) and plan Christmas Eve dinner. Every year, my sister counts the number of fish I’m serving. (Seven are required to make Christmas Eve one of the hap happiest evenings of all.) One year, I tried to pull a fast one....

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Salini Impregilo and Fincantieri Infrastructure, subsidiary of Fincantieri, were awarded the contract to rebuild the bridge across the Polcevera River in Genoa according to a design by architect Renzo Piano. The two companies will work together by creating a new company called “PERGENOVA” with the aim of completing the structure in 12 months from t...

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Il 16 dicembre 1965 muore a New York il tenore Tito Schipa. Pur nella lontananza dei generi, il mondo del rock statunitense ne onora la figura più di quanto non faccia la lirica italiana. Aperto alle novità, quello che è stato considerato il più grande tenore “di grazia” del mondo da tempo segue con simpatia le innovazioni musicali seguite all’espl...

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There hasn’t been a more decent and selfless movie hero this year than the title character of Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro, a sublime new Italian movie released directly to Netflix last month. As with Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma and Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the film’s broadly mainstream digital platform is at once at odd...

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Another new restaurant is arriving in the heart of Fort Greene. Fradei, an Italian bistro located at 99 South Portland Avenue, will have its “soft opening” on Thursday, December 20. A new sign for the restaurant recently went up on the awning, after weeks of interior work. The name is a play on an Italian slang word for the word brothers. The space...

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Applications for 2019 Program. Your Opportunity to Volunteer in Italy! Summer Camps organized by the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan in partnership with the Oratories of Lombardy Two Programs offered: 3 weeks and 6 weeks3 weeks – Plan to arrive in Milan Saturday, June 8, 2019 - Activities from June 10 to June 30, 2019! Plan your  return to USA...

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Let’s take it from the end, when Cupid and Psyche finally got married with a rich wedding banquet to which all the gods were invited. It’s exactly when “The Three Graces” are featured while spreading the intoxicating scent of balsam around the heavenly feast. A common thread connects this and another famous carving by Canova: the same classical the...

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For the first time ever in all of Eataly's history, we are introducing a new concept in Las Vegas that no Eataly has ever done before: Cucina del Mercato. Literally meaning “kitchen of the market,” Cucina del Mercato is our first open counter-to-table concept. It is comprised of six different fresh counters where you can eat what you shop and shop...

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We are on the terrace of Hotel La Costa in the 13th century hilltop village of Montefollonico, situated about 100 kilometres south of of Florence. George, along with his wife Linda and their daughter Whitney, are our wonderful hosts of Cook in Tuscany, a week of gourmet cooking classes run by local women, fine dining and excursions. We step inside...

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A local brother and sister have teamed up to tell the story of their grandfather, who was wrongly accused of murder in 1933. “Mixed-Up Innocence: Murder at the Spaghetti House” examines “age-old problems of bigotry and corruption,” according to authors Julie “Ju-Ju” DeLillo and Michael Natale Jr. Their grandfather, Frank A. Natale, who was accused...

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After visiting Teatro San Carlo, Stendhal wrote in his 1817 travel journal, “Rome, Naples and Florence”, “There is nothing in all of Europe comparable to this theatre, that gives the slightest idea of what it is like. It dazzles the eyes, enraptures the soul”. The theater is, indeed, an overwhelming triumph of beauty. Built in 1737 by King Charles...

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Investire nel mercato americano vuol dire fare i conti con un mercato diverso, ma non per questo più difficile. Anzi: dal 10 Marzo 2016 sulle spedizioni di ordini di valore inferiore a 800 dollari non è previsto alcun dazio e hanno una procedura doganale di importazione semplificata. Una regola doganale perfetta per l’e-commerce. Si risparmia tempo...

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