Next Stop VicenzaOro: New Jewelry Designs—But Not Only From the Italians
I leave tonight for VicenzaOro, taking place Jan. 23–28 in Vicenza, Italy, and while it's long been an event to see new designs from Italian manufacturers, it's increasingly becoming a livelier international destination. Some American firms are in the mix: Great Neck, N.Y.–based Le Vian is exhibiting for the second consecutive year, and He...
41 Parallelo Double Bill: Homage to Vittorio De Sica (2 Screenings and Panel) - February 12, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Presented by Associazione Napolicinema and supported by MiBACT DG Cinema 5:00pmI bambini ci guardano (The Children Are Watching Us)Italy, 1944 • 84 minutes • Italian (English subtitles)director Vittorio De Sicascreenplay Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Gherardo Gherardi, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Zavattini and Margherita Maglionewith Emilio Cig...
Welcome to the Italia-America Bocce Club
The St. Louis Bocce Club officially began to function in 1975 at 5627 Manchester Avenue. However, for several years its original group obscurely placed bocce at "John and Rose's on the Hill". Their camaraderie, keen pleasure in singing together, and many good times gave birth to the idea of forming a club of their own! Enthusiasm grew to a high pit...
Restaurant shakeup: Longtime French place to shutter and make way for an ambitious new Italian seafood spot
A Tex-Mex restaurant in Uptown Park won't be the only new restaurant created by Lasco Enterprises' decision to open Anejo in the space previously occupied by Arturo's Uptown Italiano. Now longtime Arturo's general manager Shanon Scott is setting off on his own to open Sud Italia Ristorante, which will take over the space currently occupied by Frenc...
Italian eatery, Macchialina, still set for Asheville
What’s going into the first floor of the former Windsor Hotel has long been a source of speculation. Nearly a year ago, we reported that Macchialina, a Miami-based Italian restaurant, would set up shop on the corner of Broadway and Walnut streets. Then, rumors circulated that the restaurant wasn’t coming. Now the restaurant partners, Micha...
Il gala newyorkese della NIAF
La National Italian American Foundation di Washington torna con il gala annuale sotto le volte rinascimentali di Cipriani a 42nd Street il prossimo 8 aprile portando all'appuntamento newyorkese popolari nomi del piccolo schermo e di Broadway. La Niaf ha anticipato che durante il New York Gala saranno consegnati riconoscimenti a due volti t...
Mayor de Blasio plays hometown hero for sandwich shop from kin’s Italy village
Only in New York could an Italian-American mayor find a piece of the minuscule mountain village his family left a century ago just steps from City Hall. Mayor de Blasio frequently grabs lunch at Pisillo Italian Panini shop on Nassau St. , which Antonella Silvio opened in November 2012 — the same month de Blasio was elected mayor. She...
Apulia's architectural wonders: the old cathedral in Molfetta
The Old Cathedral (or Duomo di San Corrado, as it is called in Italian) in Molfetta, Bari, is one of Apulia's magnificent cathedrals. The April 1949 issue of Touring Club Italiano's glorious "Vie d'Italia" included a moving, poetic description of such beautiful churches, "some anchored to rock spurs like great ships looking out to the inte...
Arriva Hollywood a Firenze. Inferno, affare milionario
Due settimane di riprese, un affare milionario per Firenze. Il primo ciak di Inferno, colossal diretto da Ron Howard, è fissato per il 2 maggio a Palazzo Vecchio, dove le macchine da presa lavoreranno fino al 7 maggio. Solo di affitto il Comune incasserà una cifra molto importante, già calcolando al rialzo l'indennizzo per il mancato incasso dei bi...
La Scuola d'Italia Hosts 2015 Benefit Dinner
It was a record-breaking night for La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi, with over 500 guests celebrating the night's theme "Building the Future Today". John Michael Viola, President and Chief Operating Officer of NIAF, was honored. He praised the school for being the only school where a child can learn "not only the Italian language but they'll le...
Abetone/Florence set to become sister city
by Karl Herchenroeder Following three years of courtship, Abetone, Italy, is set to become Aspen's seventh sister city. City officials and representatives from the Sister Cities program will travel to Italy on Friday with the expectation of signing an agreement May 12. Mayor Steve Skadron, City Manager Steve Barwick and spoke...
Italian language world-wide: a rapidly evolving situation, where is it heading?
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue- New York, NYPaolo E. Balboni, Director of the Venice University Research Centre on Italian as a Foreign Language Italian language world-wide: a rapidly evolving situation, where is it heading?In October 2014 the Italian government organised a co...