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Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, and its Italian partner KIT Italia, will present a special fall edition of its yearly festival IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY, which marked its fifth edition in May 2017. Festival founder Laura Caparrotti notes: "Since 2013, In Scena! has been bringing contempora...

About nine months ago I received an email from Lou Del Bianco telling me that he was looking for a publisher to publish the story of his family’s 25-year fight to gain recognition for his late grandfather Luigi Del Bianco, who they believed was the Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore.  I read the email and was intrigued. I had remembered interviewing Lo...

A 25-year-old woman was arrested Friday in connection with the vandalism of a controversial Christopher Columbus statue at City Hall, San Jose police confirmed on Sunday. The suspect, Gina Darlene Gonzales, was arrested, issued a citation for vandalism and released at the scene, according to police Sgt. Enrique Garcia, a spokesman for the departmen...

For the seventh consecutive year, families and car enthusiasts alike joined to celebrate Italian heritage at Casa Belvedere on Grymes Hill for the annual Festa & Motori D'Italia. The mosaic of Italian culture present on the grounds of the cultural institute gave attendees of the event  a look at the rich Italian heritage on Staten Island in all for...

With its non-intimidating, welcoming style, Opera Southwest has been converting down-to-earth, everyday folks into serious opera fans since 1972. There’s nothing elitist about New Mexico’s acclaimed Italian opera company. There’s nothing stuffy about it. And there’s nothing pretentious about its celebrated Artistic Director and Principal Conductor,...

On the third day of Milan Fashion Week, past and present merged at Donatella Versace's joyous, celebratory, healing runway tribute Friday to her brother Gianni Versace, 20 years after his slaying in Miami. And it culminated with her own reckoning with how she has born the weight of her brother's creative legacy. The show brought together the superm...

A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema – which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the...

We are pleased to invite you to IALOC’s annual cooking demonstration at Il Barone. We are excited to see the recipes and skills of masterful Chef and Owner Franco Barone. Social Hour to begin at 6:00PM with monthly meeting and cooking demonstration to follow.Space is limited so register quickly. This event is subject to sell-out and will be availab...

The American Academy in Rome (www.aarome.org), an American overseas center for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities, seeks a dynamic, resourceful, and highly organized Communications Manager for the New York office. The position is based in New York and responsible for supporting, managing, and executing a full range o...

Please join us for an Italian night out sponsored by the Gulf Coast Italian American Cultural Society on Monday, October 9, 2017 at 5:30 pm. The event will take place at the Silver Slipper Casino in Bay St. Louis, MS.  Keynote speaker will be the Honorable Frank M. Maselli, Honorary Consul of Italy at New Orleans, LA. Great entertainment by Zac Cra...

After a remarkable, successful $250,000 Kickstarter campaign, CIMA is thrilled to announce that the BOLTED BOOK has arrived! Join us this weekend at MoMA PS1 for a special talk about the book with Steven Heller and Raffaele Bedarida and a rare chance to see an original copy of Depero Futurista. Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair. Sunday, September 2...

Dear San Gennaro Community, we regret to announce that we will not be having the Feast of San Gennaro in Los Angeles this weekend. Unfortunately, we were not able to provide the same level of service we always aim to deliver when hosting our annual street festival in Hollywood and are exploring options to bring the Feast back to the community again...