27th Bard Music Festival 'Puccini and His World' to Open This Friday
The 27th annual Bard Music Festival - an exploration of "Puccini and His World" - opens this Friday, August 5 with Weekend One: Puccini and Italian Musical Culture. The first of the weekend's five themed concerts, Program 1: "Opera, Politics, and the Italian," examines the ways Italians perceived their newly unified homeland in the compara...
Fall 2016 Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies
Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 6pm. Italian Mobilities - Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University; Stephanie Malia Hom, Acus Foundation The Italian nation-state has been defined in part by practices of mobility. Tourists have flowed into the country from the Grand Tour era to the present, and Italians left in massive numbers in the late nine...
New Navy Destroyer To Be Named After World War II Hero Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone
Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus announced on Tuesday that a United States Destroyer will be named after Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, a Medal of Honor recipient for his act of heroism during the Battle for Henderson Field at Guadalcanal. "It is a great honor to name this ship in recognition of John Basilone," Mabus said in a statemen...
Il genetista italiano che disarmò l’Hiv guida la ricerca per il colosso Usa
«Potrebbe sembrare fantascienza, ma ormai è scienza» aveva scritto l'Economist, solo l'anno scorso, citando il lavoro del genetista Luigi Naldini, 57 anni, direttore del Tiget e fondatore, con Pierluigi Paracchi, di Genenta Sciences. Che non fosse fantascienza lo devono avere pensato anche i manager di Amgen, la più grande società indipend...
Immigrant Stories: Robert Zarlingo’s Italian grandparents worked in the coal mines
By Robert Zarlingo My grandfather, Antonio Cozza, my mom's dad, came to work in the coal mines in New Castle in 1881. He was a well-educated man who was outspoken, and that didn't go over so well in Italy at that time. The government was very unstable, and, after a while, Grandpa knew that if he stayed he would be drafted and end up as cannon fodd...
SF celebrates 148th Italian Heritage Parade
Local marching bands beat drums and twirled batons, a 93-year-old in a chicken suit danced atop an Italian Catholic Federation float, and a 1938 motor bus decked out in Giants colors drove through cheering crowds Sunday in the 148th Italian Heritage Parade in North Beach. Run by a local nonprofit called the Columbus Day Parade, the parade started...
The light is on and glowing in 'The Light in the Piazza' from Brick Road Theatre
The aptly named The Light in the Piazza has a lot to say about how light -- actual and felt -- can change a person's life by letting you see possibilities that weren't apparent before. It makes this challenging 2005 Broadway musical a particularly fitting one for Brick Road Theatre to pull off at the start of its second year. By all reasoning, a s...
Laval's Gino Durante part of new Italian Bad Boyz of Comedy show
Laval resident Gino Durante is one funny fellow. St. Léonard impresario Ralph Buttino knows that, which is why he booked him to perform in the highly anticipated Italian Bad Boyz of Comedy XII "Ethnic Invasion on Sat. Nov. 12, at Plaza Centre Ville. He'll be on stage with the likes of Angelo Tsarouchas, Joe Cacchione, Ahmed Ahmed and Ruben Paul. &...
italianissimo! 2016 Celebrates at Eataly to Raise Funds for Italian Cultural Center
by Matt Conti It was a celebration of "all things Italian" to benefit The Friends of the Italian Cultural Center of Boston (FICCB) at italianissimo! 2016 on November 19, 2016. Several hundred attendees were treated to a sneak peek at the new Eataly Boston on Boylston Street, before it opens to the public on November 29th. The annual FICCB...
Louis Prima's Big Night
Louis Prima's Big Night dinner will serve as an ode to the movie Big Night and a birthday celebration of the great jazz musician from New Orleans, Louis Prima, who would have been 106 this year on Dec. 7. L'Oca d'Oro will look back at Italian-American fare from the WWII era for inspiration, a time when Americans were first being introduced to...
Home Touch: Italian style spices up today’s kitchens
After the holidays, bid your home a vibrant "Happy New Year!" – or "Felice Anno Nuovo!" – by bringing a little Italy into your kitchen. America's midcentury modern movement is making a comeback with the flowing curves and dramatic angles of Italian design that never went out of style in Europe, says Amir Ilin, director of North American sales...
L’esposizione “Discovering Columbus”, di Tatzu Nishi, estesa fino al 2 dicembre
NEW YORK- La statua di Cristoforo Colombo, che domina Columbus Circle, dal 20 settembre scorso è stata circondata da un monolocale. Un appartamento moderno e attrezzato, con una vista mozzafiato, ed interni confortevoli. Ottantamila visitatori lo hanno visitato in questi ultimi due mesi, salendo diverse rampe di scale, e trovandosi a tu per tu con...