SFIAC hosts its 94th Annual Statuto Race in North Beach
By: Francesco Romano For the 94th time, the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC) hosted the Statuto Race in North Beach. The Statuto Race commemorates the Statuto Albertino, the Italian "constitution" that laid the ground work for the unification of Italy in the nineteenth century. Each year since 1920, the race has been ru...
Torino, "lifting del cuore" dopo l'infarto: era in attesa di trapianto, dimesso dopo quattro giorni
Una tecnica mini-invasiva, senza circolazione extracorporea e senza aprire il torace del paziente, per il rimodellamento del ventricolo. L'ha sperimentata con successo l'équipe del professor Mauro Rinaldi alle Molinette di Torino su un paziente di 54 anni che, dopo un infarto esteso, era affetto da cardiomiopatia ischemico-dilatativa e da...
From July 18th to August 3rd, Martina Franca hosts the famous music festival
From July 18th to August 3rd, Martina Franca hosts the new edition of the Festival della Valle d'Itria, an event that for forty years has brought opera, drama and classical music to the splendid baroque town in Puglia. On the occasion of its fortieth year, the Festival presents a program that aims to combine the three key elements that hav...
Cinema Made in Italy porta a Los Angeles “Io e Te”, l’ultima fatica di Bernando Bertolucci
Lo scorso 4 luglio, oltre ai festeggiamenti per il Giorno dell'Indipendenza, gli Stati Uniti hanno anche celebrato il ritorno dietro la cinepresa del maestro del cinema italiano contemporaneo, Bernardo Bertolucci. Dopo quasi dieci anni di assenza dalle scene ed oltre trenta dal suo ultimo film in lingua italiana ("La tragedia di un uomo ri...
City Issues Last-Minute Denial For 18th Avenue Feast Date Change, Jeopardizing Event
The Festa di Santa Rosalia, popularly known as the 18th Avenue feast, should be a go this year – but the dates are still up in the air. Organizers and Community Board 11 requested that the 11-day festival be pushed up by one week to avoid ending on Labor Day weekend, which would mean a quicker cleanup after the event. But despite the reque...
Italian royalty to appear in Proper Manors
Proper Manors, the award-winning hit Online drama from Creator Pietro D'Alessio and Head Writer Brandyn Cross, has secured Italian royalty to make an appearance on the hit show. The show, currently available on Blip.tv, Propermanors.tv and Youtube, will see the arrival of "Contessa" Aurora DePatris Fraggiani, playing herself, from Italy, i...
Learn Italian on a gondola ride in Central Park
Sip Italian wine in Central Park on a Venetian Gondola and enjoy an Italian lesson from a native Italian teacher! Price: $60 per student (maximum 5 students) - Reservations required. Fridays at 5pm - 'Conversational' level italian Also available on Thursdays at 7pm -'Everyday Italian Phrases' Placement Tests: Because the Italia...
October Is National Italian Heritage Month, Get Ready to Celebrate Italian Style!
The National Italian American Heritage and Culture Month of October was designated by United States Presidential Proclamation. Coinciding with the festivities surrounding Columbus Day, the proclamation is in recognition of the many achievements, contributions, and successes of Americans of Italian descent as well as Italians in America. Ov...
Union County Columbus Day Flag Raising is Oct. 10 at Courthouse in Elizabeth
Union County Freeholder Chairman Christopher Hudak announced the county's sixth annual Columbus Day Flag Raising event is set for Friday, Oct. 10, at 1 p.m., on the steps of the historic Union County Courthouse. The keynote speaker/guest of honor is Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-06) who has represented central New Jersey in Congress si...
Cranston’s Christiana Rodi stars in Boston production of ‘Aida’
Cranston's Christiana Rodi would love to have appeared at last weekend's Columbus Day Festival on Federal Hill fronting for Ambrosiani, the Italian band she sings with. But she had to be in Boston for a 12-hour tech rehearsal for Tim Rice and Elton John's "Aida," which opens tomorrow for a six-show run at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester. ...
Presentation of "The other Italians" by David Mercaldo - November 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm
"David Mercaldo has a daring new book: ...a herculean task... An important book we must read with a healthy curiosity." -MARIO FRATTI Playwright ("NINE") International Theater Critic "Mercaldo's pen has gone where no other Italian author's pen has ever gone before!" -Italian American Magazine "Among the most controve...
Italy's Ancient Medical Schools: Anatomical Theatres
If you're interested in anatomy, work in the medical profession or, like me, you're always looking for somewhere different to visit, then here's an idea. How would you feel about visiting an anatomical theatre? The anatomical theatre was an institution used in teaching anatomy at early modern universities: vast rooms where students could o...