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Italian Cultural Foundation to honor James Gruccio Sr., Aldo Falasca and Danielle Sne...

James J. Gruccio Sr., Aldo Falasca and Danielle (Falasca) Sneathen are this year’s Spirit of Achievement Award winners, selected by the Italian Cultural Foundation of South Jersey. The accolades will be presented during the 32nd Annual Gala Ball set for Nov. 23 at the Greenview Inn at Eastlyn. Honorees are selected from nominations submitted by the public, said Piera Gravenor, a foundation member....

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Fabio Frizzi performing ‘The Beyond’ score & more on ‘Frizzi 2 Fulci’ tour

Italian composer Fabio Frizzi is best known for his collaborations with horror great Lucio Fulci and he’s currently on tour in North America, where he’s performing a live score to a new “Composer’s Cut” of Fulci’s 1981 classic, The Beyond, as well as a “FRIZZI 2 FULCI” tribute set featuring music/scenes from many of their other collaborations. He did a similar tour back in 2017. That tour hits Det...

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Russo Brothers Deliver Rebuttal to Scorsese’s Sour Marvel Critique

In early October, director Martin Scorsese compared Marvel movies to theme parks, he felt they lacked risk and said they weren’t cinema. His comments to Empire Magazine rippled throughout the entertainment industry, and drew reactions from fellow A-list actors and directors. In an interview on Monday with The Hollywood Reporter, Joe and Anthony Russo — both lifelong ISDA members who directed four...

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Dr. Mary Rorro, The Violin Doc, Performs At Marine Birthday Commemoration And At 100t...

Dr. Mary Rorrro, the “Violin doc” who was previously interviewed by us, had the honor to perform several selections with her viola at the Governor’s Mansion Drumthwacket in Princeton, New Jersey, for the commemoration of the 244th birthday of the Marine Corps. The program included a wonderfully coordinated parade of the Color Guard, led by CWO Nick D’Andrea, USMC Adjutant, G Battery 4th Battalion...

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Elezioni COMITES: Nissoli (FI) interroga Di Maio

Nel 2020 dovrebbero tenersi le elezioni dei Comites. Condizionale d’obbligo visto che nel bilancio della Farnesina non c’è traccia delle risorse necessarie per lo svolgimento delle elezioni e perché in molti – ultimo in ordine di tempo il senatore Petrocelli in Svizzera – hanno sostenuto che il voto sarà rinviato. A fronte di questa situazione, Fucsia Nissoli, deputata di Forza Italia eletta in Ce...

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Kids Day

In order to facilitate the issue of passports for children under the age of 18, during the school year, the Consulate General of Italy will dedicate Wednesday afternoons from 3 pm to 5 pm to our younger citizens! For minors it will no longer be necessary to book an appointment online however it will be necessary to send an email request to passaporti.miami@esteri.it with the subject “KIDS DAY” and...

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The Cleveland Opera plans rare local production of Puccini’s ‘Manon Lescaut’

The Cleveland Opera is doing it again. Setting aside mainstream repertoire, it’s producing an opera largely unknown in Northeast Ohio. This Friday and Sunday, at the Tudor Arms Hotel in Cleveland, the company led by Dorota Sobieska will stage Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut,” in collaboration with the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra. The chamber-style performance will take place in the hotel’s Crystal Ballro...

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Italian quality for store brands shines at PLMA show

Italian manufacturers flocked to PLMA 2019, the US private label event of the year taking place in Chicago, to showcase quality, innovation and expertise in serving an industry that virtually accounts for half of all growth in retail stores in 2018. With a total of 62 exhibitors in the official Italian pavilions, Italy confirms itself as the largest foreign country at the trade show (November 17-1...

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“Sýrma,” an entirely female identifying one act play inspired by greek mythology and...

Alchemical Studios, 104 W 14th Street, New York, NY. Wednesday December 11th, 8pm; Thursday December 12th, 8pm; Friday December 13th, 8pm. For tickets visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/syrma Carolina de’ Castiglioni and Federica Borlenghi, two Italian multidisciplinary artists, have joined forces to present Sýrma, a unique contemporary myth, inspired by greek mythology and Dante’s Divine Comedy. D...

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The Leonardo starts unpacking artifacts from Pompeii, for exhibition opening Saturday

With the help of three Italian workmen, Aphrodite made a grand entrance at The Leonardo Museum of Creativity and Innovation on Monday — and she didn’t move an inch. A 1,200-pound, 2,000-year-old statue of the Greek goddess — excavated nearly a century ago from the ruins of the volcano-stricken Italian town of Pompeii — was ceremonially uncrated Monday, as crews started setting up “Pompeii: The Ex...

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New England

L’On. La Marca (PD) al 25° anniversario dello Juventus Club di Boston

L’On. Francesca La Marca ha partecipato sabato 16 novembre al 25° anniversario dello Juventus Club di Boston, che si è celebrato presso il Watertown Sons of Italy. Accolta dal Presidente del Club Ross Zagami, dal Cav. Domenico Susi e da Alberto Musto... Read More

New York

Italian Academy roundtable questions artistic and historical truth after Council of Trent

Italian artist Caravaggio’s painting “The Incredulity of St. Thomas” features his characteristic use of chiaroscuro, or the dramatic use of light and shadow. But what is most remarkable about the image is not only the artist’s rendering of the scene... Read More

East

Dr. Mary Rorro, The Violin Doc, Performs At Marine Birthday Commemoration And At 100th Anniversary O...

Dr. Mary Rorrro, the “Violin doc” who was previously interviewed by us, had the honor to perform several selections with her viola at the Governor’s Mansion Drumthwacket in Princeton, New Jersey, for the commemoration of the 244th birthday of the Mar... Read More

South East

Miami Dade College’s Miami Culinary Institute to Host 4th Week of Italian Cuisine in the World Maste...

Miami Dade College (MDC), in collaboration with the Consul General of Italy in Miami and the Italy America Chamber of Commerce South East, present the 4th Edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, featuring dishes by Michelin Star Chef Lui... Read More

Great Lakes

A look at Joe’s Pizza

“I’m going to tell you, like, the true story. Nobody got the story right yet. We haven’t told any press this whole thing yet,” said Ian Lafkowitz, co-owner of Joe’s Pizza (all five New York City locations and the new Ann Arbor one). This is just what... Read More

Midwest

Looking Back: Downtown couldn't support an Italian restaurant in the 1980s

Downtown Sioux Falls has made an incredible recovery from the state it was in in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The downtown pedestrian mall, which itself was an effort to breathe life back into the area, not only failed, but made an alread... Read More

South

FIBS Academy graduate Lorenzo Moressi receives scholarship from New Mexico Junior College

After being invited to participate in the fourth annual MLB College Showcase in Arizona last month, FIBS Academy graduate and Team Italy U18 catcher Lorenzo Moressi has received a scholarship from New Mexico Junior College to begin his journey abroad... Read More

West

The Leonardo starts unpacking artifacts from Pompeii, for exhibition opening Saturday

With the help of three Italian workmen, Aphrodite made a grand entrance at The Leonardo Museum of Creativity and Innovation on Monday — and she didn’t move an inch. A 1,200-pound, 2,000-year-old statue of the Greek goddess — excavated nearly a centu... Read More

California

Italian Excellence: Illustrators For Gianni Rodari. SF, December 2 – February 20

The year 2020 marks the centennial of the birth, on October 23, 1920, of Gianni Rodari, one of the most innovative children’s authors and the first Italian to win the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1970. The Italian Cultural Institute o... Read More

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