Va pensiero.. L’importanza dell’opera di Giuseppe Verdi per le comunità italo americane
Roma, 10 ottobre 2013200esimo anniversario della nascita di Giuseppe Verdi Va pensiero.. L'importanza dell'opera di Giuseppe Verdi per le comunità italoamericaneLiceo Classico e Linguistico "G. Mazzini" di Genova Nell'anno del duecentesimo ann...
Looking at Italian history brings focus on forgotten American author
Countries often become embattled over territory disputes, political turmoil and controversial leadership, and neighboring countries question their role in assisting the citizens in the warring country. In the mid-19th century, Italy experienced such a struggle, called the Risorgimento, which Dr. Etta Madden, professor of English at Missouri State U...
Staten Island's Anthony Wilkinson to star in 'My Big Gay Italian Wedding' at the St. Luke's Theatre in Manhattan
Ten years ago, "My Big Gay Italian Wedding," a production by playwright/actor Anthony J. Wilkinson that satirizes the controversy surrounding same-sex marriage while drawing on larger-than-life gay and Italian characters, was signed for a six-week run at the Actors' Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Six months became a year, then the show...
L'Umbria secondo Steve McCurry
di Beatrice Bondi L'Italian Trade Commission inaugura la mostra fotografica Sensational Umbria, che raccoglie un'accurata selezione di scatti attraverso i quali il fotografo di fama mondiale, Steve McCurry (indimenticabile la sua fotografia della ragazza afgana pubblicata come copertina del National Geografic nel 1985), ha catturato l'anim...
2013 Miss Italia Peekskill Winners
On Saturday, Young ladies of Italian Descent competed for the Miss Italia Peekskill title at the Harbor at Charles Point in Peekskill, NY. The pageant was open to young ladies between the ages of 16 and 26 from all areas, not just Peekskill. The categories they competed in was photogenic appeal, casual wear, evening wear and intervie...
Italian art: Adalberto Libera
WTI Magazine #9 2013 Dec, 13Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti I want to start my column by immediately admitting that to me Adalberto Libera represents the Italian Rationalism. In his pure geometric forms, in his space development solutions with the alternation of horizontal and...
A Sandwich A Day: Spicy Italian at Chop Shop
by Tessa McLean There's no shortage of good Italian sandwiches in Chicago, so if you plan to serve one, it better be good. Now that that public service announcement is out of the way, please go get a Spicy Italian (12" for $12) from Chop Shop in Bucktown. This new butcher/deli/bar/restaurant/event space (seriously) is still gettin...
Raffaella De Vita, la scienziata di 37 anni che verrà premiata da Obama: «Vi racconto come ce l'ho fatta»
«Mio padre lavorava alla Olivetti come operaio, mia mamma era una casalinga. Io sono andata avanti grazie alle borse di studio. Poi un professore degli Stati Uniti è venuto in Italia, ha chiesto se qualcuno era interessato a fare esperienze all'estero. Da lì è nato tutto». Raffaella De Vita, 37 anni, sta per ricevere dalle mani di Barack O...
Italian Food in Crisis? Italians, Their Food, and the Foreign Press
Over the past few days, a couple of pieces in the American press -- later translated in Italian media -- have drawn attention to some of the least glamorous aspects of the culinary trend "Made in Italy." In The New York Times, a graphic piece by Nicholas Blechman entitled "Extra Virgin Suicide: The Adulteration of Italian Olive Oil" illust...
Bryan Voltaggio to open restaurant in Baltimore
By Richard Gorelick Bryan Voltaggio, the chef behind the acclaimed restaurants Volt and Family Meal in his hometown of Frederick, and Range in Washington, will open his first restaurant in Baltimore. The restaurant, Aggio, will be Voltaggio's second Italian fine-dining restaurant. It will open at 616 Water St., in the space now occupied by Tatu A...
Franciscan priest celebrates last Mass at Little Italy's Most Precious Blood Church
A Franciscan priest celebrated his last Mass Sunday after decades at the helm of Most Precious Blood Church at the heart of what was once teeming Little Italy. The Rev. Fabian Grifone, 88, bade farewell to his now tiny, teary-eyed congregation at the Mulberry St. Catholic church. "It was very bittersweet," he said after celebrating morning Ma...
Ferlinghetti to publish his travel journals
There's no letting up for Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The dean of San Francisco booksellers, who co-founded City Lights Bookstore in 1953 and helped launch the Beat movement, published a book of poetry, "Time of Useful Consciousness," in 2012. When he's not at City Lights, Ferlinghetti is at work on his paintings at his art studio in Hunters Point....