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By Mauro Battocchi   The momentum of cultural exchange between Naples and San Francisco has been going strong for some time. The exchange has included rare jewels and costumes, cooperation on human rights, the startup scene and, of course, the historic joint performance of Verdi's Requiem by the SF Opera and Naple's Teatro di San Carlo. &nb...

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The Nigerian woman told a familiar tale. Fleeing poverty, with few prospects at home and lured by the promise of legal employment, she became one of the tens of thousands of migrants who have been braving the Mediterranean in crowded boats, bound for Europe.   After she landed, the traffickers who arranged her journey told her she owed them...

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by Peter Jon Lindberg It's all here, looking entirely as it should, as it always has. The cove-hidden beaches reached only by boat. The terraced lemon and olive groves on near-vertical hillsides.   The glittering cliff-top resorts, the pier-side tavernas, and the Cubist-painting townscapes—Ravello, Amalfi, Praiano, Positano, Nerano—overlook...

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È stato un grande successo l'anteprima ad Avellino del docufilm "Un viaggio elettorale di Francesco De Sanctis" – che andrà in onda su Raiuno sabato prossimo 1° dicembre 2012 alle ore 00:30 per la regia di Pino Tordiglione. Alla proiezione, tenutasi presso il liceo classico statale "Pietro Colleta", luogo tanto amato dal grande critico letterario,...

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by Nickolas Marinelli   The word "gala" is often employed to describe anything from costume parties to affairs where most of the men wear a tie and the napkins are made of cloth. In our fast-paced and informal society, it is seldom that any function achieves the level of sophistication and glamour that truly rises to the level of "gala." &n...

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Donatus Buongiorno was a late-19th- and early-20th-century Italian and American artist of Naples and New York. Born in 1865 in Solofra, Avellino, he moved to Naples in the 1800s to attend the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Academy of Fine Arts of Napoli, formerly known as the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Napoli), from which he graduated,...

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by Mauro Battocchi   Naples is in the limelight these days in the Bay Area. In honor of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture, the San Francisco Jazz Festival is hosting Pino Daniele at the SF Jazz Center this Friday June 21st from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. The popular singer, songwriter and guitarist that influenced the Neopolitan sound in the 70's w...

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The South or Southern d'Italy is a macro-economic region comprising the Southern Italy and the Islands. Historically it corresponds to a good approximation to the regions in the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sicily, Sardinia and portions of Lazio.   Membership of the island...

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by Jennifer Martin   It's always a pleasure to speak with folks of Italian heritage, but when they come from the same region as your own family — Campania — and even the same province and town, Candida, then it gets very exciting. I recently had the pleasure to meet Filippo de Magistris, one of the restaurant owners of Il Casale in Lexingto...

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Nearly every Italian town has a Presepe but after the events of 9/11, New York received its very own. Named "Il Presepe della Pace" (The Nativity of Peace), craftsmen at the famed Ferrigno workshop in Naples created this 18th century style Presepe that represents everyday Neapolitan life symbolically surrounding the Holy Family. Naples has been th...

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