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The 2014 edition of Cinema Italian Style, the Los Angeles glamorous showcase for Italian contemporary cinema, will be dedicated to the producer Franco Cristaldi and his masterpiece Cinema Paradiso, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its theatrical release. CIS 2014 will present a film and a documentary selection of Italy's best and most recent prod...

Tickets are now on sale to the general public for "Pompeii: The Exhibition," opening Feb. 7, 2015, at Pacific Science Center.   Produced by Premier Exhibitions and the heritage administrators of Pompeii and Naples, the show tells the tale of an ancient city hidden until its rediscovery more than 250 years ago.   Read more   Sou...

The Italian American Collection's 33 piece presepio was originally amassed by the Albini family of Vandergrift, Pa.. A tradition originating in 13th century Italy, a typical presepio consists of a manger scene surrounded by a miniature village reminiscent of the regional landscape. Though Neapolitan variations are the most well-known, the custom is...

  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Living Adamis      Translation by:   Dolce & Gabbana celebrates the timeless elegance of The One and The One for Men with a valuable collector's edition. The One is interpreted as deep Dolce & Gabbana red, while The One for Men is in a dark brown, rich and deep.  

by Aaron Carnes   Apparently, there can never be enough Italian food in Seabright. Tramonti Pizza, which opened in 2012, positioned itself right next to two much-loved Seabright fixtures, La Posta and Engfer Pizza Works, and yet it seems to be doing just fine.   The restaurant aims for an authentic Italian style pizza and pasta, in a...

The Detroit Institute of Arts starting next month will offer a chance to see marble carvings and other Italian Renaissance works by sculptor Luca della Robbia.   "Make a Joyful Noise: Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral" opens Feb. 6 and runs through May 17 at the museum.   Read more   Source: http://www.kentuc...

San Diego's India Street, in Little Italy, houses at least 4 houses that are listed in the National Registry, and although the hay day of their era ended long ago, the Italian legacy that they spawned lives on.   Little Italy became densely populated in the early 1900s as a result of the many Italian fisherman and their families who relocate...

Dal primo febbraio al 3 maggio, la National Gallery of Art di Washington ospiterà la prima importante retrospettiva mai realizzata sul grande artista fiorentino Piero di Cosimo. Titolo: "Piero di Cosimo: La Poesia della pittura nella Firenze rinascimentale". In una versione diversa, la mostra si sposterà poi alla Galleria degli Uffizi dal 23 giugno...

by Andrea Carli   From the small tower located in the "Cortile d'onore" –literally the "Honour Courtyard" –with its distinctive clock standing right next to the Italian flag, to Carlo Maratta's famous painting of Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus or the 17th century staircase designed by Flaminio Pozzo, the Quirinal Palace is not short of maste...

Celebrity came late to Emma Morano. Her routine life, in fact, might have raised barely an eyebrow were it not for the fact that she's managed to hold on to it for so long.   At 115 years and nearly three months, Ms. Morano is the oldest person in Europe, the fifth oldest in the world and one of only a handful of people whose lives have stra...

2015 will mark the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri in 1265, and the 31st year since the first Lectura Dantis Newberrania.   This lecture examines Dante’s description of the shape, motion, size, color, and configuration of the three giri (“rounds”) of the Trinity in Paradiso 33.115-120, in order to envision what the Pilgrim...

Italian Cultural Center events Springfield - The Italian Cultural Center of western Massachusetts, Inc. announces the publication of its very own homemade cookbook, "Mangia! Ci fa bene!" It is a cookbook with over 160 tried and tested family recipes contributed by its members and friends, many of which have been prepared for generations.   Y...