Via al restauro del pulpito di Giovanni Pisano
Il pulpito della chiesa di Sant'Andrea, capolavoro di Giovanni Pisano datato 1301, sarà restaurato grazie alla donazione dell'associazione americana Friends of Florence, che dopo il restauro del Cenacolo di Ghirlandaio alla Badia a Passignano, si impegna in questo nuovo progetto. Il pulpito sarà anche sottoposto ad una analisi della struttura, che...
From Italy to Redwood City with Strings Attached: The Aurora Mandolin Orchestra
From behind the double doors of an annex to the Veterans Memorial Senior Center comes the disembodied whiff of music that can’t be – but it is – right out of “The Godfather.” Or is it back to Sorrento that this river of lush and romantic sound carries off someone who’s only gone out to walk the dog — and come within earshot of the Aurora Mandolin O...
Jupiter restaurant celebrates 30 years of Italian fare
A heaping scoop of hard work, a dash of consistency and a sprinkle of affordability are some key ingredients that have helped Angelo’s Pizza last for three decades. But Mike Furfaro said it never would have happened without Jupiter’s abysmal Italian food scene in the late 1980s. Last month, Mike and Lisa Furfaro’s restaurant celebrated its 30th ann...
The beauty of the Italian Fall
Fall in Italy is a beautiful time of the year, where nature gently falls asleep after the glorious plentifulness of Summer, and does so by offering some of the most astonishing colors in existence. Full palettes of yellows, purples, reds and oranges, along with dark greens and browns grace the earth, up to the highest point of the horizon, where cr...
Sensual fresco discovered in ancient Pompeii bedroom
Archaeologists have found a fresco in an ancient Pompeii bedroom that depicts a sensual scene of the Roman god Jupiter, disguised as a swan, and a legendary queen of Sparta from Greek mythology. The figure of Leda being impregnated by the god in swan form was a fairly common home decoration theme in Pompeii and Herculaneum, another town destroyed i...
Panettone Festa at Eataly L.A.
Rich, sweet, and fluffy, panettone is Italy's most famous holiday cake. Get into the holiday spirit and find your favorite one during our Panettone Festa on Saturday, December 1 from 12-6 p.m. Enjoy complimentary panettone tastings, along with specially-paired wines by the glass from our wine cart. Literally translating to "big bread," panettone i...
November 30-December 2: Ifigenia in Aulide
Friday, November 30 & Saturday, December 1 | 7:30pm. ODC Theater, 3153 17th St, San Francisco, CA. Ifigenia in Aulide is an opera composed by Giovanni Porta in 1738 for the Carnival of Munich with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno. Despite the beauty of the music, Ifigenia in Aulide has not been played since its creation. The story of this opera is inspi...
NYC Prep School Debt Boom Leaves Italian Academy in Crisis
Steve Acunto, the chairman of La Scuola d’Italia, a bilingual English-Italian private school in Manhattan, stood on a dais at its annual gala in March 2016 and pointed to an 8-foot model of the school’s new 11-story home near Columbus Circle. The building on West 58th Street would have a nursery school, theater, gymnasium, specialized science facil...
Diego Di Franco e Angela Valentino lanciano negli Stati Uniti “Diego Cortez NYC”
Diego Cortez e Angela Valentino firmano il loro sodalizio professionale all’interno del nuovo brand Diego Cortez New York, che lo scorso ottobre ha esordito alla Los Angeles Fashion Week con la nuova linea donna di costumi da bagno. Una collezione luxury, per il lancio del brand durante la sfilata al The Majestics di Los Angeles, realizzata dall’es...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to replace Columbus Day with holiday for Election day
Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday proposed getting rid of Columbus Day as a holiday and replacing it with a day off for Election Day. It started when Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday night, “how is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?” The Daily Mail’s U.S. political editor David Martosko quote tweeted Ocasio-Cortez on Su...
Soccer history: USMNT VS Italy
It's possible to calculate the USMNT's progress and success through a series of games and milestones tied to various nations around the world. The rivalry with Mexico has defined the US’s growth and success over the past two decades. Games against others such as England, Colombia, and Costa Rica have also come to define the program over the years....
A Haunting Crime: Piazza and Grassadonia's 'Sicilian Ghost Story' recalls a notorious kidnapping
Antonio Piazza was a Palermo-based journalist and Fabio Grassadonia an author and college professor when the two men met at a screenwriting workshop in Turin, Italy. Both were seeking a career change. After collaborating on a project at the workshop, their instructor, an established veteran, invited them to join him in Rome. The duo worked in Itali...