Exhibition showcasing artwork of ancient Rome debuts at the San Antonio Museum of Art this week
The San Antonio Museum of Art's latest exhibition features 65 wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, silver vessels and pieces of cameo glass created in Roman Italy between 100 B.C. and A.D. 250. "Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii" aims to introduce visitors to the cultural and archaeological contexts of Roman art, de...
Spas in Campania: discover which are the most famous and charming ones
Spas in Campania are good for your health and help you relax. Fortunately, there are many in this southern region. Why not take advantage of them? Unique in its kind, a place of relaxation par excellence, where in addition to relaxing you can have a treatment that is good for your health. The ancient Romans knew this, in fact they took advantage of...
Donne al Centro An Evening with with Cristiana Pegoraro - Friday, March 10
If you missed Cristiana Pegoraro in the fall, make sure you put Friday, March 10 on your calendar. The evening of music and poetry influenced & inspired by women begins with a reception at 6:15 PM. Columbus Citizens Foundation - 8 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021 RSVP Here. Cristiana's return to the Townhouse is dedicated to women and passion,...
NIAF congratulates Italian American actress Ellen Pompeo
NIAF congratulates Italian American actress Ellen Pompeo as her 19-year’s playing Dr. Meredith Grey on the award winning drama Grey’s Anatomy comes to a close. Her last episode as a series regular aired Thursday, February 23rd. In 2007, Ellen Pompeo was awarded the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Entertainment at our 32nd Anniversary Gala in Wash...
Sicily is the EU's new strategic energy pivot
"Sicily can become a clean energy hub for Europe. Not only does this island have sun and wind in abundance: it also has a solid industrial base in the clean technologies. Sicily is crucial for energy transition also for another reason. A few miles from your coastlines there is what may become another giant for clean energy: the African continent"....
Buffalo’s Galbani Italian Heritage Festival announces 2023 dates
The Galbani Italian Heritage Festival will be held on Hertel Avenue once again this summer, with organizers on Wednesday officially announcing the dates of the 2023 event. The beloved street festival will bring Buffalo’s robust Italian dining scene back to North Buffalo in mid-July, running Friday through Sunday, July 14-16. The three-day event is...
Gina Lollobrigida and nine other divas and anti-divas from Italy’s golden age of cinema
Gina Lollobrigida’s death on January 16, 2023, inspired us to look back and reflect on an extraordinary era of Italian cinema that spans the neorealism of the 1940s to the early 1970s. During that time, numerous directors with different styles brought Italy to life on the big screen, and the actresses became as well-known around the world as any Ho...
Cotoletta, an Italian-American casual restaurant, now open in Elm Ridge Center
The Town of Greece has a new restaurant, Cotoletta. It’s open everyday except Monday. The Italian restaurant is in Elm Ridge Center in Greece, a plaza that has seen significant revitalization in the past two years. Cotoletta is a throwback Italian casual eatery. The owner of the new restaurant, Jay Speranza, also owns Rochester staple Tony D’s. “I...
The True Story of Lidia Poët
Netflix's new period drama, The Law According to Lidia Poët, follows Lidia Poët (Matilda De Angelis), the first woman attorney in Italy. Did Lidia Poët really exist? Is the Italian show a true story? The answers: Yes and kinda! Poët was born in 1855 in Traverse, Italy, the youngest of four brothers and three sisters. She attended the University of...
New Italian restaurant set to open in South Norwalk in early March
A new Italian restaurant is opening in a SoNo space that has been empty since 2020. Ciao! Ristorante and Bar SoNo, which is set to open during the first week of March at 68 Washington St., offers a variety of Italian specialties. The restaurant replaces Local Kitchen & Beer Bar's Norwalk location, which closed on July 31, 2020. The menu includes it...
She's the only woman living on an island of convicted criminals
When Giulia Manca traveled to Pianosa, a former Italian prison island, back in 2011, she was looking forward to a relaxing sunshine break before returning home. But 12 years after checking into the beachfront Hotel Milena, which is staffed by supervised convicts on probation, Manca has remained on the island known as the Alcatraz of the Tyrrhenian...
Pitt-Johnstown's Pecora named regional coach of the year for 21st time
Pitt-Johnstown’s Pat Pecora, the winningest coach in all levels of collegiate wrestling, was named the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Super Region I coach of the year for the 21st time in his career at East Stroudsburg University. Pecora led his Mountain Cats to a 15-0 dual meet record and a share of the program’s seventh consecutive...