Stephano's Ristorante makes Italian-American classics sing
On weekends, the small gravel parking lot in front of Stephano's Ristorante can barely accommodate the dozens of vehicles that converge on this Wappingers Falls favorite. The modest place fills up quickly, creating a rubbernecking bottleneck of would-be diners speculating on the next available table as they stand in the foyer. Ambience is...
Italia in pole per la missione Cygnus
Continua la grande tradizione dei moduli pressurizzati "made in Italy", realizzati nello stabilimento torinese di Thales Alenia Space. Dopo l'Mplm, le componenti dei moduli della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale, i cargo europei Atv, adesso tocca ai moduli del cargo spaziale "privato" statunitense Cygnus. Il 17 settembre, infatti, dalla ba...
Best new calzones in NYC: Fresh takes on the Italian turnover
In recent years, pizza has gotten plenty of au courant twists, with offbeat toppings, local ingredients and deep-fried modernizations dominating the scene, but calzones have largely been neglected in the pie case. Now, a few ballsy pizzerias—including Roberta's, Motorino and Brooklyn Central—are defying the tired cheese-sauce-dough norm, s...
A wreath for Columbus and three crowns for three beauties
The Columbus Day Committee of Atlantic City along with the Bonnie Blue Foundation annually honors Christopher Columbus and celebrates Italian heritage. The Christopher Columbus Commemorative Celebration 2013 runs Thursday Oct. 10 through Monday, Oct 14. A big component of the weekend is the Miss Columbus Day-Miss Atlantic County pageants, being hel...
NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli to Host St. John's University Salutes Italian Heritage & Culture Salute, 10/24
NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli will host a special Salute to Italian Heritage and Culture in conjunction with the 2013 Year of Italian Culture In the United States at a special Awards Ceremony and live concert at St. John's University, Manhattan Campus, 101 Murray Street at West Street,New York, 10007 at 6 PM on Thursday, October 24. T...
Cucina italiana, shopping e cultura nel Bronx
NYC & Company, ente del turismo di New York, annuncia la nuova tappa dell'iniziativa Neighborhood X Neighborhood su due quartieri del Bronx: Arthur Avenue, con la sua tradizione italo-americana, e Fordham Road, sede di importanti attrazioni turistiche come lo zoo e i giardini botanici. "Arthur Avenue e Fordham Road, nel Bronx, sono una meta pe...
Former enemies, now allies, gather to honor dead from World War II
by Roy Wenzl Carsten Treder, an officer wearing the gray uniform of the German army, stepped forward Thursday and spoke to other soldiers freezing in the Kansas wind near him. At his feet were two neat rows of the graves of 62 German soldiers, decorated on this day with the red, gold and black flags of the German nation. Nearby were the g...
Metropolitan. Maestri protagonista del Fallstaff
Dopo il clamoroso trionfo dell'Otello alla Scala (5 febbraio 1887), ancora una volta fu Boito a spronare Verdi, perché si decidesse a scrivere un'altra opera, possibilmente un'opera comica. Grazie al suo librettista e collaboratore Arrigo Boito, Verdi potè lavorare ancora meglio che per Otello.E aveva ragione per amare il personaggio di Falstaff:...
The Italian Consulate in San Francisco now has a Facebook page
by Mauro Battocchi To those of you who have not heard the news yet, I'm happy to announce that the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco now also has a Facebook page. Please follow it here and join the discussion. For starters, we have uploaded all the most salient events of 2013, the Year of the Italian Culture in the US, a...
Italy's Great Beauty nominated for Oscar
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) was among the films nominated for the best foreign film Academy Award on Thursday, just three days after winning the best foreign film award at the Golden Globes.Italians are now hoping the movie will give the country its first Oscar since Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful...
Ricerca: scienziato tricolore al top, Italia non perda guerra dei cervelli
E' il recordman italiano della scienza, il camice bianco da 77 mila citazioni che si è guadagnato la posizione più alta, fra i cervelli del Belpaese, nella nuova classifica Usa sui primi 400 scienziati più influenti al mondo. Ma per Alberto Mantovani, direttore scientifico dell'Irccs Humanitas di Rozzano e docente dell'università degli Stu...
Italian fashion: Raffaella Frasca’s Big Debut
WTI Magazine #17 2014 Feb, 14Author : Nadiah Ahmad Shukri for PoisonDrops.com Translation by: Raffaella FrascaAfter her stellar baptism dressing Milly Carlucci on Ballando con le Stelle, Raffaella Frasca makes her debut on the Altaroma runway with her couture 2014 collection. Her esthetic is especiallyfeminine and extravagant, findin...