Amanda Pascali Invites Listeners to Follow Love, Resistance and Truth on Still It Moves
Maybe you don’t recognize it, but Amanda Pascali says there’s a love song at the heart of any good political song. “I like to think of my music, especially the political songs, as more of an internal journey than an external one. A lot of folk musicians think they have some duty to speak on issues of human rights and, during this period, immigratio...
Cirque Italia Water Circus performs under tent adjacent to South Plains Mall
Cirque Italia, the first traveling Italian Water Circus, will perform Thursday through Sunday under a large blue and white tent outdoors, located west of the South Plains Mall, 6002 Slide Road, between Premiere Cinemas and Sears. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday; and 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Early...
The definitive guide to pairing italian wine, cheese, and charcuterie
You might want to drink your glass (or two!) of Moscati d’Asti unadorned, with nothing but your stemware and a smile as accompaniment. In that case, drink on! Enjoyment is the name of the game, and there’s no wrong way to savor your favorite sip. But sometimes, you want to make that Moscati d’Asti really sing. Why not pair it with La Tur, a cloud-l...
A First Look Inside Eataly Las Vegas
On Dec. 27, at 5 p.m., Las Vegas lands its very first Eataly, which not only plans to let customers taste 50 wines before they purchase one, but intends to stay open for 24 hours. Granted, the marketplace opening at the front of the Park MGM with two full-service restaurants, numerous quick-service restaurants, and several bars won’t entirely be op...
Bella Italia Market Brings Best of Italy to Casa Italiana Sociocultural Center
It took a village to make the Bella Italia Market a huge success — nearly 50 members of the community volunteered hundreds of hours of their time toward organizing and assisting at the event, held to benefit future heritage, educational and cultural programs sponsored by the Casa Italiana Sociocultural Center, Inc. From an idea initiated and execut...
See this year’s completely outrageous Dyker Heights Christmas lights
Where else can you see 25-foot toy soldiers, a two-story Santa, or a house decked out with 30,000 lights other than Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. The suburban neighborhood, historically a quiet, Italian-American enclave, has been putting on its legendary holiday spectacle since 1986, when Lucy Spata moved to the area. Her over-the-top Christmas displays...
Baking memories: Classic Italian cookie is a lovely Christmas treat
Being the son and grandson of two excellent home and professional bakers, my mother and grandmother, I probably have a unique perspective on the Christmas season. As I've shared many times before, beginning in the first week of December those two wonderful cooks started their holiday baking, an expression of their philosophy that you could never ha...
BWW Review: A BRONX TALE Is a Trip To A Very Familiar 'Hood at the SHN Golden Gate
As several of the characters tell you several times, "This is a Bronx tale." It's also a bit of a West Side Story, with a toke of Jersey Boys, but that comes later. Whatever it is, it's at the Golden Gate Theatre through December 23. A Bronx Tale has been a "family" affair for decades. This musical adaptation is its next evolutionary step following...
Vatican's St. Peter's Square Gets 720-Ton Sand Nativity Scene
The traditional nativity scene in St. Peter's Square won't be so traditional this year. For the first time, it is made of sand - 720 tons of it. For the past two weeks, Rich Varano, a professional sand artist, has been guiding three sculptors from the Netherlands, Russia and the Czech Republic, to craft the work, which measures about 5.5 meters hi...
Cleveland Museum of Art acquires rare Italian Baroque sculpture of the ‘Sleeping Christ Child’
Just in time for Christmas, the Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired a circa-1675 marble sculpture, “Sleeping Christ Child’’ by Filippo Parodi, an associate of the great Italian Baroque sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini. The Parodi is on view today for the first time in the museum’s Gallery 217, the Reid Gallery, alongside the museum’s late altarpiece b...
Sicilian restaurant in Ozone Park celebrates first year under new management on New Year’s Eve
Aldo’s Pizza, an Italian pizzeria and restaurant in Ozone Park, will celebrate its first year under new management on New Year’s Eve, according to manager Santino Livreri. The restaurant was originally established in 1964, but changed hands in January 2018, according to Livreri, the cousin of new owners Anthony Livreri and Joe Livreri, who reside i...
Valeria Robecco eletta presidente dei giornalisti corrispondenti dall’ONU
La giornalista italiana Valeria Robecco, 37 anni, è stata eletta nuova presidente della United Nations Correspondents Association, (UNCA) l’associazione dei corrispondenti alle Nazioni Unite. E’ la prima donna italiana a ricoprire l’incarico e subentra a Sherwin Bryce Peace, bureau chief di South African Broadcasting Corp. Il mandato annuale di Rob...