Bill of Fare: Cugino's Italian Market thriving in Pennington
Sometime next year cousins Joe Egetti and Ben Sanford will open a restaurant called Grace at the site of the former Za Restaurant in Pennington. In the meantime, Cugino's Italian Market occupies part of the former Za dining room, offering mostly takeout foods and limited counter seating for those who wish to dine in. Cugino's is a popular...
Massimiliano Fuksas’ Rome conference center Nuvola now a reality
by Massimo Frontera The endless construction site of the new Convention Center in Rome's EUR district has closed at last. The "Nuvola" ["Cloud"] imagined by Massimiliano Fuksas 18 years ago has become a reality, launched on October 29 with live television coverage of a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The first actual eve...
Freddy and Dolly: Not even in death did they part
She called him Freddy. He called her Dolly. They met in a small town near Naples, Italy. She was on vacation from the states. He had served in the Italian Army, a tank commander brandishing a snappy uniform. They fell in love, married, came to New York and raised a family. On Friday, they observed their 65th wedding anniversary,...
Sparta UNICO Donates Food to Local Organizations
Sparta UNICO distributed hams, turkeys and canned goods to local food banks. The recipients included the Sparta Ecumenical Food Bank at the Sparta Presbyterian Church, Project Self-Sufficiency, Salvation Army at Saint Joseph's in Newton and Roxbury Social Services. Italian American service organization distributed more than 40 hams and tur...
Italian Artists Bring 'Theater of Feet' to Beverly Arts Center
By Lorraine Swanson Italy's Teatro dei Piedi -- "Theatre of Feet" -- is bringing its family-friendly entertainment to the Beverly Arts Center this weekend, Jan. 20 through Jan. 22. Part mime and part contortion, Teatro dei Piedi stages characters whose stories are by turn romantic, ironic, poetic and ridiculous with their feet. Th...
Washington - Italia ancora protagonista al Summer Fancy Food Show
L'Italia è il Paese più rappresentato anche quest'anno al Summer Fancy Food Show, la più importante fiera commerciale del settore alimentare nel Nord America. Oltre 230 espositori italiani partecipano alla 58ma edizione, che si svolge per il secondo anno consecutivo a Washington DC.2.300 espositori da 80 paesiSummer Fancy Food, specializzata nel se...
Il Console Generale Marco Nobili a Grand Rapids-Michigan per la promozione di lingua e cultura d’Italia
Il Console d'Italia a Detroit Marco Nobili insieme al professore Iaderosa, direttore dell'Ente Gestore "NOI – Nuovi Orizzonti Italiani" ieri 30 novembre 2012 hanno incontrato a Grand Rapids, in Michigan, la professoressa Gisella Licari ed i suoi collaboratori della Grand Valley State Gli studenti di italiano dei corsi 101 e 201 dell'ateneo hanno pr...
Workshop: Italian Interdisciplinary Modernism at NYU
The workshop Italian Interdisciplinary Modernism will take place on Friday, February 22 at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University, 24 West, 12th Street, New York NY. http://www.casaitaliananyu.org/.The first in a series of workshops funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK as part of the Research Networking Grants proj...
Yo movie buffs! Rocky Balboa’s house in South Philadelphia is for sale
PHILADELPHIA — Want to live like Rocky Balboa? The Italian Stallion's house is on the market. The home in South Philadelphia was featured in the 1979 movie "Rocky II." In the sequel to the Oscar-winning smash, the fictional boxer played by Sylvester Stallone buys the house after he loses a bout to Apollo Creed but gains renown for his toughness....
“Italia a prezzi di saldo è il momento di investire”
Investite in Italia ora, perché conviene. Evitate di farvi condizionare dalle cronache politiche, perché tanto il paese è stato sempre un macello, e cercate i titoli in forte ribasso che sono destinati a risalire. Questo consiglio, decisamente controcorrente, viene dall'autorevole Wall Street Journal. L'Italia non riesce a formare un governo, la Ca...
Besame Mucho, a documentary project
NEW YORK ITALIANS is very happy to invite you to: " Besame Mucho " Thursday, May 9 at 6:30 PM at Fordham UniversityLincoln Center Campus 113 W 60th St.Room 109, 1th Floor
L'Ameriqua del piccolo Kennedy. Stereotipi, risate, e un produttore coraggioso
di Cristina Sivieri Tagliabue "Quello che voi italiani intendete quando dite 'ho trovato l'America, io l'ho trovato Qua'". La perfetta sintesi di Ameriqua sta nelle parole del suo sceneggiatore e protagonista, Robert Kenney III. Ameriqua è un film nato da un sogno. Il sogno tutto italiano di un ragazzo americano che vive una rocambolesca a...