In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY - year three
Torna per il terzo anno In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, l'unico festival di teatro italiano che si muove fra i cinque distretti di New York e dall'anno scorso anche in altri centri e stati degli Stati Uniti. Varie le novità di quest'anno fra cui lo spostamento a maggio – dal 4 al 20 - del Festival per soddisfare la richiesta di scuo...
From Florence to Garda Lake, discovering the homes of Italy’s literary masters
by Andrea Carli Understanding Italy through its literary gems, starting off from the places inhabited by its poets and writers. Florence, Arquà, Certaldo Alto, Recanati, Milan, Gardone Rivera: all essential pins on the map to discover the home-museums, sources of literary inspiration. Let's begin with "the Supreme Poet," Dante Alighieri (...
Luigi's Italian Restaurant in Liberty: great food, good prices
A lot of new restaurants opened in the Kansas City metro in 2014, including the eight-month-old Luigi's Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar at 8 East Franklin in downtown Liberty. I'm sorry that it took me so long to stumble into owner Ari Dreshaj's Italian bistro. It's truly one of the restaurant discoveries of the year. Why? The Italian cu...
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Mario Batali
by Dan Meyers Mario Francesco Batali was born in 1960 in Seattle and spent his high school years studying in Madrid before attending Rutgers University. He threw himself headfirst into the culinary world after college, and before long he was head chef at the Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore, and soon after that he opened his first restaurant i...
Osia: Buona Fortuna Lodge #2835
The Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) is the oldest and largest organization of Italian American men and women in the United States and represents an estimated 26 million Americans of Italian heritage who are dedicated to promoting Italian culture, traditions and language. Originally called "Figli d'Italia," the Order Sons of Italy in America®...
New York’s Tiny Museums Are Labors of Love
by Anne Kadet Uptown, the Metropolitan Museum of Art rules the museum world with its $362 million annual budget and $70 million gift-shop business. Across the park, the sprawling, world-famous American Museum of Natural History collects $47 million a year from its 5 million visitors. And downtown? At the corner of Mulberry and Gra...
S.F. Vanni bookstore: Grand Reopening
S.F. Vanni, the oldest running Italian bookstore in the United States, has released news of its end-of-January reopening in New York City. The bookstore was first founded in 1884 by the Sicilian (Caltagirone) Sante Fortunato Vanni in Greenwich Village at the height of Italian immigration, and continued to stay in business until 2004; it ha...
I’m a frontman for a lot of beautiful people, says Alex Zanardi, Paralympic gold medalist, iron man, comeback kid and much more
by Giovanni Minoli Alex Zanardi, 48 years old, a Formula 1 pilot in the first phase of his life, then a writer, television host, now a winner in the Paralympic Games. In 2001, he lost his lower limbs in a terrible accident on the racetrack in Lausitz, Germany but he quickly bounced back, wiped out London, and triumphed in the New York mara...
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Italian lifestyle: With Roy Roger's the denim attitude becomes elegance
WTI Magazine #55 2015 March, 6Author : Living Adamis Translation by: Roy Roger's, the iconic brand that since 1952 has written the history of Italian jeans, presents the new spring-summer 2015 campaign taken by photographer Philip Gay. Set in a former twentieth-century Brooklyn factory, today converted in the exclusive Wythe Hotel, t...
Buccellati Celebrates New York Flagship with Impressionist-inspired Collection
by Michelle Tay For almost a century, Milanese jeweler Buccellati has kept the art of the Italian Renaissance at the core of their design philosophy, but with the opening of their Madison Avenue flagship on March 12, the house's designers have found themselves dipping into a new creative pool: Impressionism. Entitled "Timeless Blu...
Vogue helps welcome Giuseppe Zanotti to Dallas' Highland Park Village
Giuseppe Zanotti received a high-fashion welcome to Highland Park Village when Vogue stepped in to host its recent grand opening soiree. Judging by the well-heeled attendees, it's no wonder the brand decided to open a standalone shop in Dallas. Fashionable VIPs — including Lynn McBee, Capera Ryan, Anna-Sophia van Zweden, Elisa Summers, Hea...