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  WTI Magazine #39    2014 July, 16Author : Cookie Curci      Translation by:   In an era of fast cars, flappers and bathtub gin, a restless and liberated generation searched for a hero. They found him in silent screen star Rudolph Valentino who, a decade earlier, was among the influx of poor Europeans who came to America. Like most Italian immi...

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  WTI Magazine #42    2014 September, 3Author : Tiziana Ciacciofera Triolo      Translation by:   The celebration was highly contagious at the "ITALIAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER'S REACHING OUR VISION, GALA AND CASINO NIGHT", held at Westin Houston Memorial City Hotel on august 23. The evening, organized by the Italian Cultural & Community Cent...

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  WTI Magazine #6    2013 Nov, 22Author : Barclays Center      Translation by:   It is without doubt that classical music, including opera, has the ability to tell a divine story to its listener. It can empower the listener with deep emotion through the passion in which the artist performs. This genre is one of...

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  WTI Magazine #25    2014 Apr, 11Author : Montisi Italian Film Festival      Translation by:   The Montisi Italian Film Festival 2014 invites film lovers or just Italophiles to immerse themselves in Italian culture – village style. Montisi is a Tuscan hill town that is friendly and loves cinema. This year's festival offers 16 films from classic...

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  WTI Magazine #77    2016 March 18Author : Dolores Alfieri      Translation by:   November 2015 marked the launch of The Italian American Podcast – the first podcast dedicated to helping Italian Americans learn about and celebrate their brilliant heritage. Recent guest Lidia Bastianich, famed chef and host of "Lidia's Italy," said this on an ep...

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  WTI Magazine #85    2016 November 21Author : Agnese Tortosa      Translation by:   It was really touching. I witnessed several parades in my life, some of them in New York, but to march representing my own country, well... it has been completely different. I am writing this article to express with more details what I experienced, trying to des...

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  WTI Magazine #37    2014 July, 2Author : Biblioteca Italiana Seattle      Translation by:   How can you promote Italian culture in the United States? A group of volunteers in Seattle, WA, believes that books can offer a great contribution in this direction. Therefore, a few months ago, they decided to start a library and collect books written...

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  WTI Magazine #21    2014 Mar, 14Author : Italytheatre      Translation by:   There is a new workshop for schools in town!Created by italytheater, with the extraordinary partnership of the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi and based on a new script by Paolo Tartamella, Pinocchio in Manhattan is the first workshop where kids of the age 6-11 get...

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  WTI Magazine #19    2014 Feb, 28Author : Vincent Romano      Translation by:   Taylor Street lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop. At the turn of the 20th century, a band of tribes from southern Italy (Campania/Napoli, Sicillia/Palermo, Apuglia/Bari, Calabria/Reggio, Bassilicata, Molise, Abruzzi, ...) immigr...

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WTI Magazine #52    2015 January, 23Author : Laura Bellusci      Translation by:   The Original Mrs Drinkwater Presents is a one-woman show, a comedy about family and friends set in Boston's Little Italy in the 1950's. Laura Bellusci, creator and performer, portrays Josie Drinkwater as a feisty, outgoing lady who goes "gallivanting around" town d...

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