2013 Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti: Opera in the Heights presenta il "Don Pasquale" di Doninzetti a Houston
Opera in the Heights presenta dal 15 al 24 novembre il "Don Pasquale" di Gaetano Doninzetti al Lambert Hall nel quartiere storico di Houston Heights. Preparatevi a rimanere incantati dal canto, e a ridere al vedere come Don Pasquale si rende ridicolo per amore ! Don Pasquale, al vedere suo nipote Ernesto rifiutare la sposa che questi aveva...
Italy's Cinque Terre: Exquisite scenery and tasty seafood
A yellow bell tower that warned of pirates in past centuries stands sentinel in Italy's seaside village of Manarola. A bit farther down the hill in a town is a house with a water-wheel, which gives the town its name in the local dialect. The sunny walk across the hillside above town is spread with olive groves and vineyards of glistening green...
New Books
Some new and forthcoming titles that may be of interest to our readers. All are available at Amazon.com • Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 by Paul Oldfield Publisher: Cambridge UniversityPublication Date: March 31, 2014Hardcover: $89.10Language: EnglishPages: 320 Read more Fonte: Magna...
Italian Premier Letta reiterates support for 2024 Olympic bid with Rome as likely candidate
Italian Premier Enrico Letta reiterated his support Wednesday for a possible bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics and promoted a new law to help build football stadiums. "The Olympics in Italy is an objective within reach and a game we have to play," Letta said. "We must have lofty ambitions." While Rome has not yet been officially selected,...
The Cloisters in Naples, restoring ..a way of life.
"Two years ago we came across the Cloisters of the Church of Santa Caterina a Formiello, in Naples' historic town center, says Davide de Blasio and his wife Rosa Alba Impronta founders of Fondazione Tramontano Arte, we were walking through hidden sites with our friend Antonio Martiniello, and we discovered this amazing complex, built in the 16th ce...
Taking Stock of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture (Part 1)
by Mauro Battocchi As we watch 2013 edge to a close, let's take a look back at the outstanding events that brought many dimensions of Italy's rich culture to the Bay as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture. We've been truly graced to have such a delightful schedule of engagements and I offer my heartfelt thanks to all who made...
The Tragic Story of Italian / American Player: Tony Conigliaro (1964-1971/ 1975)
Anthony Richard Conigliaro, was born on January 7, 1945 in Revere, Massachusetts. The six foot three, right hand hitting outfielder was signed out of St. Mary's High School in Lynn, Massachusetts by the home town Boston Red Sox in 1962. The highly touted prospect came up to the big leagues in 1964 at age 19, getting the starting left fiel...
Beretta to highlight wholesale
After 20 years honing its apparel skills in Europe, Beretta is taking aim at the American market. According to WWD, the 500-plus-year-old company, whose primary business is firearms, has offered apparel targeted to hunters and outdoorsmen in its own stores for more than 20 years. For fall, Beretta is expanding its offering to a full lifest...
Italy is Served - New ICCC Chef's Cooking Demo and Dinner Series
The Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston launched this January, with great enthusiasm of the public, a new series of educational cooking demonstration and dinner aimed to promote and to guide the public through the history, the tradition and the flavors of the Italian-American Cuisine. The second appointment of this new and exciting...
Grandi donne... all’Italiana
Le donne nella storia italiana, se si eccettuano rare personalità celebri, sono state una sorta di lato oscuro della luna: presenti, spesso attivissime, ma ancor più spesso pressoché invisibili. Eppure la storia italiana ci ha dato personalità femminili di spicco in tutti i campi. Per quanto riguarda il mondo dell'arte, già nel Cinquecento troviam...
Italia-Usa: under 30 italiani più propensi a mettersi in proprio, ma il 92% è frenato da paura fallimento
Sono i giovani sotto i 30 anni i più propensi a mettersi in proprio l'atteggiamento più favorevole, con una percentuale più alta in Italia che negli Usa (78% contro il 52%). A fare la differenza tra i due Paesi è però la paura di fallire (92% il dato italiano rispetto al 46% degli under 30 americani). Sono questi i dati più significativi c...
Italian D.J. Fights to Keep Culinary Traditions
Daniele De Michele, a bearded and boisterous D.J. and performance artist who is one of Italy's most inventive food activists, is on a yearlong journey to explore and document the country's working-class and peasant culinary traditions. Mr. De Michele, who is 40 and goes by the nom d'art D.J. Donpasta, is concerned that some of Italy's age-...