'Tosca' to Air as Part of Met Opera's 'Live in HD' Series
You've probably heard how all three original stars dropped out of the Metropolitan Opera's new "Tosca" and how the conductor had to be replaced twice. But did you know about the flap over the angel's wings? A replica of the bronze statue of Archangel Michael that stands on the roof of Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo sword in hand was supposed to dominat...
Date Night in Umbria!
Let us transport you to a romantic evening in enchanting Umbria! Friday, February 9, 2018 at 7:00 pm. Cost: $50 ICCC members | $55 non-members. Registration deadline is February 7, 2018. Reserve today - Eventbrite or call 713-524-4222 ext. 7. Want more information? Click here. Join us for a hands-on cooking class with special guest Letizia Mattiacc...
Bonci Pizza Confirms its Second Chicago Location
It’s official: world-famous Italian pizzeria Bonci will open a second restaurant in Chicago. Popular due to the eclectic topping combinations from founder/chef Gabriele Bonci, the owners of Bonci’s American division plan to open this spring at 1566 N. Damen Avenue, the former home of Dox Quality Greek. Eater Chicago previously reported that Bonci...
Call Me By Your Name gets 4 Oscar nods
Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name on Tuesday obtained four Oscar nominations - best film, best actor for Timothée Chalamet, best adapted screenplay by James Ivory from André Aciman's novel, and best original song (Sufjan Stevens - Mistery of love). The film, a tale of male homosexual desire in an idyllic northern Italian setting, has generated...
I Only Wanted to Live
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Italian Cultural Institute - 601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F - San Francisco (CA). Free Admission | RSVP. I Only Wanted to Live. In Commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance DayNine Italian citizens survive deportation and internment in the Auschwitz death camps. Nine stories through which we...
Columbus Day Is Out, Indigenous Peoples Day Is In
San Francisco joined a nationwide movement to honor Native Americans in lieu of the explorer whose arrival brought on many of their deaths. The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 on Tuesday afternoon to bump out Columbus Day on the second Monday of October and edge in Indigenous Peoples Day, the San Franciso Examiner reports. It took after the San Fra...
Marco's Pizza Promotes Tony Libardi to President, Inches Toward 1,000 Stores
Marco's Pizza, the nation's fastest-growing pizza franchise, announced today the promotion of Chief Operations Officer Tony Libardi to President, effective as of the first of the year. The move comes at a pivotal time as the brand rapidly approaches the opening of its 1,000th store and celebrates its 40thanniversary year. Libardi, a firm believer i...
Lorenzo Mattotti. Covers for the New Yorker
Twenty years of collaboration, illustrations on current events created at lightning speed, little glitches to solve, curious coincidences, sudden inspirations... all this can happen when one of the most renowned magazines in the world meets an amazing artist like Mattotti. In the prestigious headquarters of the Italian Cultural Institute of New Yor...
York Beach restaurateur Mimmo Basileo remembered
Kim Trafton, a former waitress at Mimmo’s Italian restaurant, said her old boss Mimmo Basileo is probably cooking up a storm for all of his friends in heaven, sitting down with them at the dinner table and enjoying good conversation and a good glass of wine. Certainly, that is what he did in life, this “local legend” who held forth at his restauran...
A Three-Day Trek Along Prosecco Road Is Italy's Bubbliest, Best-Kept Secret
There has never been a better time to get into bubbles. Sommeliers almost universally love Champagne, and, across America, our collective thirst for Proseccois growing at record speed. Sales of Prosecco are expected to surpass both rosé wineand “discounted Champagne” by 2020, according to Vinexpo CEO Guillaume Deglise. This presents a compelling ca...
Nick L. Girimonte: 1920 – 2017
As a young boy growing up in Dunsmuir during the Great Depression, Nicola “Nick” Girimonte helped put food on the family table by selling fruit to Southern Pacific railroad passengers. That initiative, work ethic and an early understanding of customer service emerged as hallmarks of Nick’s long and productive life. Nick, who partnered with his brot...
Puccini and Bechet in parlor
At the Millbrook Library last Saturday Millbrook Arts Group in conjunction with Catskill Jazz Factory presented Puccini Meets Bechet: Parallels in Opera & Jazz with Aaron Johnson Trio. The parallel dimensions of jazz and opera collide with this condensed chamber group featuring operatic vocals, piano, clarinet and soprano saxophone. Multi-instrumen...