Dennis Farina, star of 'Law & Order,' dead at 69
by Frazier Moore Dennis Farina, a onetime Chicago cop who as a popular character actor played a TV cop on "Law & Order" during his wide-ranging career, has died. Death came Monday morning in a Scottsdale, Ariz., hospital after Farina suffered a blood clot in his lung, according to his publicist, Lori De Waal. He was 69. F...
The Feast Of The Assumption In Little Italy Cleveland
The Feast of the Assumption will take place August 15th-18th in Little Italy. This will mark the 115th year of celebrating the feast on the historic streets. The feast is a Catholic Holy Day that celebrates The Virgin Mary going to Heaven. A service is celebrated At Holy Rosary Church at 10:00 a.m. after a statue of Mary is taken in proces...
Rebirth of Rome. Echoes and origins: interwar italian design
For its fall 2013 exhibition season, on the occasion of the Year of Italian culture in the US, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents a program of independent though interrelated exhibitions, entitled Rebirth of Rome, that examine the aesthetics of dictatorship in interwar Italy September 27, 2013 (opening) - Miami Beach -&n...
The art of Italian dining
The Panaretto Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale organized a 5 week Italian course for those interested in learning the Italian language and culture. From October 8th, for 5 weeks, the ones wishing to learn Italian culture and language will have the chance to participate to different kind of classes, from basic to intermediate ones, choosing betwee...
Saying Arrivederci to N.J.'s Consulate
New Jersey is well known as a U.S. bastion of Italian and Italian-American heritage, but it doesn't appear that Rome got the message. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to close its consulate in Newark, the only full-fledged office in a state renowned as the home of Italian-American pop-culture fixtures such as Frank Sinatra and "...
Fairfield Library -- Celebrate Italian Heritage Month at the library
October is Italian Heritage Month. The Fairfield library invites you to join them at their many special programs this month to celebrate Italian culture.Italian Folk SongsListen to Italian ballads from all regions of Italy at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10. Fun for the whole family! Italian CheeseBring your appetite to this class where Hannah...
Nominata ambasciatrice nel mondo, Lidia Bastianich apre dal Metropolitan la "Fiera del tartufo bianco di Alba"
di Riccardo Chioni L'edizione 2013 della "Fiera del tartufo bianco di Alba" è stata inaugurata ieri sui due lati dell'Atlantico con il tradizionale taglio del nastro tricolore in diretta televisiva nella città piemontese e in contemporanea dal Metropolitan Museum of Art dalla regina della cucina Lidia Bastianich. Alba ha sicuramente volut...
America chiama Italia: Quagliarella e Gilardino tentati dalla MLS, il loro agente li propone a vari club
Una volta ci andavano i vari Chinaglia e Donadoni. Da un po' di tempo, la strada che dall'Italia porta verso l'America calcistica è nuovamente riaperta. E il via vai potrebbe continuare ben presto con due illustri attaccanti della nostra Serie A: Fabio Quagliarella e Alberto Gilardino. Secondo 'Sky Sport', esiste infatti un progetto per po...
From Muskegon to Italy: Girl Scouts trip produces environmental, cultural experiences
by Megan Wenzl On the Italian countryside, outside the city of Turin, nine Girl Scouts from the Muskegon area slept inside a convent. The Girl Scouts, all from Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore, were the first Americans to sleep inside the convent. Sleeping on rolled-out mats, the girls were locked inside the convent fro...
New building expands Kimbell's gallery space
by Jamie Stengle The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is expanding its gallery space with a new building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano that is a nod to the museum's original Louis Kahn-designed building. "There are so many echoes of the Khan building here," said museum director Eric M. Lee as he stood in one of the new...
La Voce-Violino di Matteo Setti incanta New York
di Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Matteo Setti, fin dall'infanzia ha coltivato la sua ugola d'oro, che non solo ha calcato diversi palcoscenici, ma è stata identificata dal Dottor Claudio De Felice - neonatologo del Policlinico Le Scotte di Siena, che studia gli effetti della musica sui disturbi di tipo autistico, come la sindrome di Rett - come...
Cari italiani e italiane all'estero, vi racconterò la mia esperienza
Fucsia Nissoli, eletta nella circoscrizione Centro Nord America, inaugura la sua rubrica per La VOCE di New York: "Vi scrivo con la sensibilità di una madre di tre figli, di una italiana che vive negli Stati Uniti e che ha sempre cercato di essere al servizio della comunità" Care amiche, cari amici,Inauguro questa rubrica su La VOCE di New...