Un ponte di sviluppo tra Stati Uniti e Italia
Siglato nei giorni scorsi alla Camera dei Deputati un accordo economico storico tra Italia e Stati Uniti. Il primo accordo di cooperazione, con l’uso dei Fondi europei, si profila come una grande opportunità, anche per il Sud Italia, di ricevere importanti finanziamenti. Nuovi impulsi per l’industria, il turismo, l’agricoltura, la ricerca e l’innov...
Excellence in Business Award a Joe Pasquesi
Familiari di emigranti e emigranti ‘di ritorno’ si ritroveranno stasera (giovedì) a S.Annapelago per la Festa del Ringraziamento (‘Thankgiving Day’) uno dei più tradizionali appuntamenti statunitensi che da 37 anni si tiene anche in quest’angolo d’Appennino dove l’emigrazione ha interessato un po’ tutte le famiglie. Uno degli argomenti di cui si pa...
‘Rocky’ superfan ranks the franchise, from worst to best
Today, “Creed II” hits theaters. And who — in 1976, when Sylvester Stallone’s original “Rocky” was released — could have imagined that a “little movie that could” would still be delivering box-office knockouts well into the 21st century? The long-awaited sequel revisits the Cold War Ivan Drago rivalry from 1985’s “Rocky IV” — and its very existence...
Italian Art Heritage Abroad: The Mona Lisa
The most popular and valuable painting in the world is one of the only four portraits done by the Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci: the Mona Lisa, a world-famous masterpiece of the Italian Reinassance and a can’t miss symbol of Paris. Leonardo da Vinci started the artwork on commission by the nobleman Francesco Di Bartolomeo Del Giocondo, who lived...
Il Novara Gospel Choir è in trasferta a New York
In attesa della Winter Edition del Novara Gospel Festival, in programma il 15 e il 16 dicembre a Borgomanero, il Novara Gospel Choir si prepara a partire per il New York International Gospel Festival, organizzato da Richard Hartley. Acclamato cantante, musicista e compositore, l’artista era stato ospite della kermesse novarese nel 2016, dove aveva...
Pasta e Basta boasts interesting environment
Pasta e Basta is an Amherst restaurant with two personalities. The first floor is given over to a casual pizzeria space where one orders at the counter, while the second and third floors are set up for bistro-style dining. Those upper floors also feature an open kitchen where one can watch the culinary goings-on; both also offer tables with fine vi...
“Sopranos” Prequel Taps Alessandro Nivola for Lead Role
Actor Alessandro Nivola is currently in talks to play the lead in the upcoming Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark. Nivola will likely play Dickey Moltisanti, according to The Hollywood Reporter, “a charismatic but violent made man who falls in love with his father’s much younger bride, a recent immigrant from Italy.” Moltisanti is chi...
Borders in the Ocean: identity and otherness in the Italian navy ocean diaries
Thursday December 6, 6 pm, Hamilton 501. Columbia University - Department of Italian, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027. Emilio Cocco (Università degli studi di Teramo, Italy-American University of Rome). Respondent: Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University). Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University). In this talk—based on my book “...
A New, Old-School Italian Bar Arrives in the Pearl District
Negronis, Italian wine-by-the-glass, and old-school martini glasses have hit NW Portland in the form of Bar Rione, the new casual bar from the folks behind red sauce hangout Piazza Italia. In February, the Portland Mercury broke the news that the Pearl District restaurant would open a bar in the space next door, a sort-of waiting room for the resta...
New Italian Cinema San Francisco: Join us for a fabulous weekend of Italian films!
November 30 - December 2, 2018. Vogue Theatre - 3290 Sacramento St. San Francisco, CA 94115. Make a date to view the best in Italian contemporary cinema and brush up on your language skills at the same time! Bring friends and family--group tickets and discounted passes available. Click here to browse all of this year's films and see the complete sc...
Riccardo Levi-Setti, Holocaust survivor who uncovered trilobites and subatomic particles, dies at 91
Riccardo Levi-Setti, an Italian-born Holocaust survivor who became a pathbreaking physicist at the University of Chicago, uncovering subatomic particles while traveling the world in search of trilobites, ancient arthropods he called “the butterflies of the seas,” died Nov. 8 at a nursing home in Chicago. He was 91. His son Emile Levi Setti said the...
La settimana della cucina italiana a Miami
La Puglia è stata al centro della programmazione della Settimana della cucina italiana nel mondo che a Miami, in anticipo rispetto alla programmazione ufficiale, si è svolta dal 12 al 18 novembre. La rassegna è stata articolata in una serie di eventi che hanno spaziato da seminari a masterclass con la chef Cristina Bowerman, da degustazioni di cibi...