Alfa Romeo graduates with beautiful vehicles, better quality in return to U.S.
Allfa Romeo conjures romantic images of winning races, screaming sports cars, and finely tuned sedans, but also reminds older generations of questionable quality that helped dislodge the Italian brand from the U.S. market 20 years ago. Alfa is back with a new generation of sports cars and crossovers and an ambitious plan to distinguish it from Germ...
John Turturro talks acting, roots and latest TV role at Montclair Film Festival
There's good news for fans of “The Big Lebowski.” John Turturro, who played Jesus Quintana in the 1998 comedy, will be reprising the role for a spin-off comedy Turturro is directing called “Going Places,” based on a French film of the same name, about a trio of guys who go on a road trip together. Turturro shared the news during an interview with S...
Gina Barreca on staying true to your roots and being unabashedly Italian American
In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we talk with Gina Barreca, an Italian American author and humorist. She is the editor of two books that our audience may find interesting: DON’T TELL MAMA: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITING and of A SIT-DOWN WITH THE SOPRANOS: Watching Italian American Culture on TVs Most Talked-About Ser...
Behind Quality Italian's Cinnamon Roll-Shaped Lasagna Buns
As the Denver food scene continues to grow, we are seeing a lot of restaurants come from other cities. And Cherry Creek seems to be a hub for these transplants: Departure came from Portland, Matsuhisa came from Aspen (and Vail and California), and now Quality Italian came from the Big Apple. Most of these restaurants have given their menu a Colorad...
Italians around the world applaud: William Alliata’s talent, professionalism and success from Italy to the USA
The Metropolitan Opera in New York opens its doors to William – a privilege reserved to great characters including, not least among Italians, the late master, Pavarotti. Five seasons at the Metropolitan confirm William’s dancing talent in a country that is not easy to conquer, but William’s success has been confirmed by a public who has always give...
Il 2016 anno record (40 miliardi) per l'export italiano negli USA
Secondo dati diffusi dall’ambasciata italiana il 2 febbraio scorso, il 2016 è stato l’anno in cui lo scambio commerciale ha superato il valore dei 40 miliardi di euro l’anno con un incremento del 18% rispetto al periodo precedente. Già nel 2015 l’asticella era stata valicata, complice soprattutto l’andamento favorevole del cambio dollaro - euro. Gl...
Little Italy Street Art Project: Enlivening the Streets of a Historic Neighborhood, One Mural at a Time
Walking down Mulberry Street, gelato alla nocciola in hand, I couldn’t help but watch the old man wearing a vest and a coppola animatedly talking to his friend in Sicilian. If I had snapped a picture, you would have guessed that they were in Italy, but the background gave it away. They were in Little Italy in New York City. Behind them was a colorf...
The Godfather director and cast reunite to discuss struggle of making the film
The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in Hollywood history. At an epic night at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, director Francis Ford Coppola and members of his cast – including Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and James Caan, with Robert De Niro, who appeared in the 1974 sequel – g...
Brevettano i tramezzini negli Usa, tre veneti conquistano New York
L’inizio è stato una battuta: «Ma perché in America nessuno fa i tramezzini?». Perché, pur essendoci migliaia di bar, paninoteche o simili, non si vede quel «sorriso» di ingredienti tra le due fette di pane bianco del famoso «sandwich» che deve il suo nome addirittura a Gabriele D’Annunzio? E così il 38enne Filippo Paccagnella, da dieci a New York,...
Pirandellian Los Angeles
When: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024- Organized by : IIC In collaboration with : University of Texas, Austin and UCLA Departments of Italian. Entrance : Free. RSVP mandatory. RSVP HERE. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Pirand...
Vito Acconci, Audacious Artist and Experimental Architect, Dies at 77
Artist and architect Vito Acconci died today from a stroke at the age of 77. For a little under two decades, Acconci produced strikingly original and impressionable art, before abandoning it for experimental architecture and design. Later in life, Acconci would say he hated the word “artist.” Last year, in a New York Times profile ahead of his 2016...
Sacred Concerts: the Life of Alessandro Scarlatti, The “Grandfather” of Classical Music
Alessandro Scarlatti was born on May 2, 1660 in either Palermo or Trapani, Sicily, at that time part of the Kingdom of Sicily. Nothing is known of his early musical education. In 1672 he was sent to live with a relative in Rome. It is generally believed by modern scholars that while there he was schooled by the composer Giacomo Cassini. It is also...