Cartapesta
Do you remember art projects as a child that involved strips of newspaper and paste made from flour and water? The practice of the cartapesta (paper mache) has been an art form in Lecce, Italy for centuries. Used as an inexpensive substitute for plaster, stone or wood, paper carvings were popular for church statues and embellishments. A mu...
Lady Gaga Climbs Ev'ry High Note in 'Sound of Music' Tribute
by Brittany Spanos For the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music, Lady Gaga belted out a gorgeous medley of songs from the film at the 2015 Oscars. Clad in white and accompanied by a string section, Gaga sang four tracks from the film and musical's soundtrack — "The Sound of Music," "My Favorite Things," "Edelweiss" and "Climb Ev'ry Mount...
Che futuro per i Comites? Il bilancio dal Nord America
Dopo 11 anni dalle elezioni del 2004 ad Aprile si voterà per corrispondenza per il rinnovo degli organi di Rappresentanza di base per gli Italiani residenti all’estero, i Comites. Negli ultimi anni diverse volte ci si è posto il quesito se fossero utili, così come gli altri due organi di Rappresentanza consultiva del CGIE e quella dei Parlamentari...
Parm Brings Classic Italian Uptown
The team at Parm has a lot more elbow room at its new uptown outpost. The Columbus Avenue spot serves all the classic Italian sandwiches and platters its Mulberry Street location is known for, but has room for 100 guests, more than twice as many as the original. The space not only allows for more diners, but also a bigger menu. “There’s a...
US (PA): Tarocco blood oranges available
"Tarocco blood oranges are in from Sicily, Italy", says Kara Wilson with John Vena Produce, Inc. They are grown on the volcanic plain of Mt. Etna, where the fertile soil gives the oranges their deep color and unique flavor. "Tarocco oranges contain the highest level of vitamin C of any orange variety in the world with a medium size providi...
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi will present her book The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy – April 10
A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's unique, captivating narrative promises-and delivers. The Other Side of the Tiber brings Italy to life in an entirely new way, treating the peninsula as a series of distinct places, subjects, histories, and geographies bound together by a shared sens...
The imperial beauty of the Spring of Juturna in Rome
In March, an exhibition titled "Lacus Iuturnae. The sacred fountain of the Roman Forum" opened in Rome, at the Temple of Romolo along the "Sacra Via Summa", near the Via dei Fori Imperiali. The highlight of the event is a group of seven marble sculptures dating back to the late 2nd and early 1st century BC, found in 1900, which originally...
Ferrari Interiors for a Miami Condo
The color of the walls, floors and ceilings is a dead giveaway. If there was any doubt that the Italian designers known for sculpting the sleek forms of Ferraris, Maseratis and other sports cars — many of them vibrantly red — were responsible for the interiors of a new 42-story condominium tower developed by the Related Group, one glance at th...
Streets of Little Italy Host 31st Annual Art Walk
by Robert Gallo Artists from across the United States and Mexico came together to display their creativity, art and special talents in San Diego's 31st Annual Art Walk, bringing throngs of visitors, tourists and native Californians to the festively decorated streets of Little Italy. The production covered an area from Fir Street to Beech S...
Vintage cars come to Rome
A fleet of vintage cars arrives in Rome on the night of Friday 15 May, as part of the Mille Miglia race between the northern Italian city of Brescia and the capital. One of the world's oldest car races, the Mille Miglia began in 1927, taking place 24 times until 1957 and bringing international fame to luxury sports cars such as Alfa Romeo, BMW...
Why Vito Marcantonio Matters - Civil Rights
WHAT: Congressman Vito Marcantonio (1934 to 1950): Champion for Civil Rights (panel and dramatization) WHO: Vito Marcantonio Forum members Gerald Meyer, Roberto Ragone and Gil Fagiani will lead a panel discussion on Congressman Vito Marcantonio's unheralded leadership focused on civil rights both in Congress and in his political work. WHEN: Satur...
Birds of Passage, An Italian Immigrant Coming of Age Story - The romantic, debut novel by Joe Giordano
What turns the gentle mean, and the mean brutal? The thirst for wealth? The demand for respect? Vying for a woman? Birds of Passage recalls the Italian immigration experience at the turn of the twentieth-century when New York's streets were paved with violence and disappointment. Leonardo Robustelli leaves Naples in 1905 to seek his fort...