Colori tra Cielo e Terra
Thursday, May 10, 2018 | 5:30-7:30pm. Museo Italo Americano, 2 Marina Blvd, Building C. Opening Reception with Artist Angela Sepe Novara. Free Admission | RSVP. Piedmontese artist Angela Sepe Novara was born and raised in the province of Torino. Graduating from Fine Arts High School, she went on to take classes in nude art at Albertina Academy in T...
Italian theater festival spreads across five boroughs in NYC
The In Scena! Theater Festival kicks off its sixth year of programming tonight, May 7 with a special performance of We Are Not Alone, a play about a psychiatric inmate facing struggles in the outside world. Other theater offerings throughout the course of the 15-day festival run from thrilling to dramatic to comedic and tragic. The best bit of news...
Italian director Ermanno Olmi, winner of 1978 Palme d'Or, dies at 86
Ermanno Olmi, one of the giants of Italian cinema who won the top award at Cannes for The Tree of Wooden Clogs, has died at age 86. Olmi died Monday in the northern Italian city of Asiago, where a day of mourning is planned for his funeral, Mayor Roberto Rigoni Stern told the ANSA news agency. Condolences poured in from Italian Premier Paolo Gentil...
Vincenzo Esposito, chiamatelo pure il pioniere
Marco Belinelli sta disputando un’ottima, l’ennesima, stagione in NBA. Probabilmente non vincerà l’anenonllo e non riceverà, ancora una volta, i complimenti dal Presidente ma si sta togliendo parecchie soddisfazioni. E noi di tutto questo non possiamo che gioire. Il ragazzo di San Giovanni in Persiceto, come saprete, non è stato però il primo itali...
Una Pizza Napoletana Returns 9 Years After Saying So Long to New York
Anthony Mangieri is one of those rare sorts of the restaurant world known for devoting his life to a single noble pursuit: In his case, making the best pizza he can from the best ingredients he can get. He has chased this seemingly simple but elusive goal since 1996, when he opened his first pizzeria in his native New Jersey, followed by ever more...
IAP 62: Introducing the Italian American Power Hour
In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we will be introducing a brand new segment of the show called the Italian American Power Hour. The hosts of this segment will be John Viola and Patrick O’Boyle. They are both very passionate and active members of the Italian-American community and will be talking about Italian American related issues...
Ninalee Allen Craig, subject of iconic ‘American Girl in Italy’ photos, dies at 90
One morning in August 1951, at a $1-a-night hotel in Florence, Italy, two American women came face to face in the hallway. One was Ruth Orkin, a promising 29-year-old photojournalist who was seeking a subject for a magazine photo spread about the experiences of women traveling abroad alone — a rare thing to do at the time. The other was Ninalee All...
Modern languages department cuts Italian language courses
As a result of the university-wide budget recalls in October, the Department of Modern Languages will offer only one Italian course in fall 2018. Courses typically scheduled for the fall semester like Italian I and Italian III have been canceled. The discontinuation of Italian courses will cause the loss of one faculty member: Alessia Salamina, a v...
This Springfield restaurant is celebrating 30 years. Here’s what still makes it unique.
Background/Overview: Michael Downing gives much of the credit for his restaurant experience to Jim Lopez, a prominent local entrepreneur for decades. Jim was the franchise owner of the first Taco Bell in town, and then owned and managed Jim’s Coney Island. Michael (“Mike” or “Mic”) earned the title of restaurateur on March 15, 1988, the day he purc...
Forming the Future: New language, new perspective at St. Mary's School in Winchester
Many of the students at St. Mary's School in Winchester have likely never been to Italy, are likely not of Italian descent, yet, sometimes when they say their prayers, they say them in Italian. For years, the parochial elementary school has offered its students classes on Italian language and culture, giving them a better understanding of life outs...
I Comites si riuniscono a New York, tra polemiche e il caos del voto estero
Si è tenuta sabato 5 maggio alle ore alle 11, presso il Consolato Generale d’Italia a New York, la riunione dell’Intercomites, e la Voce di New York c’era. C’era, ma non ha potuto assistere ai lavori, che si sono svolti, inaspettatamente, a porte chiuse. Una decisione della Presidente del Comites di Washington – Olga Mancuso -, ci hanno fatto saper...
“Fare Cinema” - The First Week of Italian Cinema in the World
Italy has a great tradition of quality cinema, and its contemporary film production must be supported as it is an integral part of the promotion of 'Brand Italy' throughout the world. The Italian film industry also has a positive direct and indirect economic and tourist effect and enhances the image of Italy abroad. "Fare cinema" is part of a conce...