On Italy’s Republic Day, Italian Joy and Pride
by Mauro Battocchi Sometimes we Italians complain that we don't have enough of a sense of national identity because of our relatively recent political unification (1861). Yet I believe that we are developing a sense of belonging to a national community. There are several indicators that point to that reality. One of them is rather visual: more and...
Frank Sinatra exhibit coming to the Grammy museum in October
Following its highly acclaimed debut in New York in March, the multimedia exhibit exploring the life and career of multiple GRAMMY Award winner Frank Sinatra will get its Los Angeles premiere at the GRAMMY Museum on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. As the official exhibit of the 2015 Frank Sinatra Centennial, Sinatra: An American Icon traces 100...
Italian language: Eataly-IACE student competition winners
WTI Magazine #63 2015 June, 27Author : Berardo Paradiso Translation by: This past November, Eataly and the Italian American Committee on Education (IACE) launched the contest initiative "Short Food Movie at Eataly," an extension of the EXPO Milan 2015 "Short Food Movie" program themed "Feed Your Mind, Film Your Planet." Our IACE student...
New Italian Restaurant Opens Up in Branford
By Brian Maccready The former SBC location in Branford has a new use, and if you're a fan of Italian cuisine and brick oven pizza you'll love this news. Burrata Italian Kitchen & Pizzeria opened on June 30 at 850 W. Main Street, according to its website. The Branford Seven reports that the same owners have opened Burrata...
Leo Buscaglia: Italian of the Week
Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia was born on March 31, 1924, to Italian immigrants. The family moved back to Aosta, Italy, for the first five years of Leo's life before returning to California. After graduating high school, Leo joined the U.S. Navy. He never saw direct combat and was assigned to a military hospital. Thanks to the G.I. Bill,...
La Magnani a Hollywood Vita randagia di una tigre
di Cinzia Romani Le star internazionali, da Brigitte Bardot a Sophia Loren, prima d'essere attrici erano donne sexy e attraenti. Fa eccezione Anna Magnani, che non era né glamour, né seducente, pur essendo arrivata in vetta, a Hollywood: fu la prima attrice italiana a vincere l'Oscar con La rosa tatuata (1955), film scritto per lei dal com...
Fountain Square’s new Italian restaurant, Restaurant Pioneer
by Liz Biro An uncommon take on Italian food lands in Fountain Square in early September, or maybe as soon as late August. Restaurant Pioneer, at the crossroads of Shelby Street and Virginia Avenue, features the food of northeastern Italy and its Alpine neighbors Austria, Germany and Switzerland. That means homemade bratwurst...
The Renaissance: Michelangelo Buonarroti by ‘Maestro d’Arte” Francesco Santoro
Thursday, August 13, 2015 the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum went back to the past to the Renaissance period with a compelling presentation, focused on Michelangelo Buonarroti, by Ph. D Francesco Santoro. The event organized and sponsored in collaboration with the National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW), had been attended by almost th...
Festa Italiana brings food and tradition to Poughkeepsie
by Geoffrey Wilson In Italy, towns would compete every summer, holding large feasts dedicated to the town's patron saint.For the Italian-American community in Dutchess County and the surrounding area, this tradition is kept alive through Festa Italiana. "This is a carry-over from that tradition," said John Mazzetti, secretary with the...
Giada De Laurentiis' book tour to stop in Houston
by Syd Kearney Emmy Award-winning cook and author Giada De Laurentiis is bringing her "Happy Cooking" book tour to Houston Nov. 14. Joined by a moderator on stage at the Cullen Performance Hall, De Laurentiis will share her inspiration for her latest cookbook and then take questions from the audience. De Laurentiis is the host of thr...
Alessandro Deljavan Recital
Wednesday, 30 Sep 2015 – 7:30 PMThursday, 01 Oct 2015 – 7:30 PMVenue: PianoForte Studios, 1335 S. Michigan Ave. Born of an Italian mother and Persian father, Alessandro Deljavan began learning to play piano before the age of two and gave his first performances at age three. He has since performed around the world including in Austria, Belgium...
Romantic places in Italy for the perfect marriage proposal
by Claudia Baroncelli If you are planning to pop the question to your sweetheart, but don't know how to do it and (above all) where to do it, you should know that Italy has plenty of romantic places to act as the perfect setting for your proposal. Here are Swide's suggestions. Perhaps secondo only to your wedding day and the arriv...