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You can’t beat being there. There is nothing quite like the bellow of the Olimpico as the crowd roars “Tottiiii” or the last chorus of Venditti’s ‘Roma Roma’. And don’t forget the ritual groping from the local police as you make your way through those two layers of bizarre turnstile security gates. But the fact is if you’re reading this, there’s a...

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East Harlem’s hot spot for political players received an official city honor Sunday for one of the neighborhood’s most prominent leaders. The east side of Lexington Avenue and East 116th Street is now called Vito Marcantonio Lucky Corner, after the seven-term U.S. congressman who served the neighborhood between 1935 and 1951. City Council Speaker M...

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I live in Manhattan. I drink gallons of espresso in Manhattan every year (even though each pour is very, very small!). Over the years, I have developed a list of my favorite Manhattan cafés for espresso—always remaining open, of course, to new places, in what can only be described as a post-Seattle Manhattan espresso boom. But one big espresso deta...

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With “operatic” now a synonym for excessive grandiosity, and the demanding diva de rigueur for any opera, it is easy to forget the primal, visceral nature of the early years of the art. To paraphrase what is said in the fascinating new Broadway play “Farinelli and the King,” which opened here Sunday night, opera once was a much dirtier business. No...

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“La mia mente, la mia anima venivano trasportate dalla sua bellezza, dalla sua musica, dal suo essere interiore, dimostrando che la sua voce angelica può toccare e ispirare chiunque la ascolti”. Fu Elizabeth Taylor a pronunciare queste parole su Andrea Bocelli, e nessuna definizione come questa sarebbe in grado di riassumere più efficacemente quell...

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When Joseph Guagliardo was a street kid growing up in Red Hook in Brooklyn, the statue of Christopher Columbus at the southwest corner of Central Park in Manhattan made him swell with pride. His grandmother, Giavanna, who arrived from Sicily near the turn of the century and, like many immigrants, Anglicized her name and went by Jenny, would take hi...

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Lucio Caputo, presidente del Gei e di varie altre società, è stato premiato con la “Gold Medal” della Foreign Policy Association, al Gala della prestigiosa Associazione, tenutosi martedì 12 dicembre nella Ballroom del St. Regis Hotel di New York City. Il premio è stato assegnato dal Presidente e Ceo della Fpa, Noel Lateef in segno di apprezzamento...

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In Jon Snyder’s laboratory, the science experiments result in delicious gelato and sorbet flavors. Il Laboratorio del Gelato — designed to look like a lab with stark white walls and gleaming chrome machinery — has been churning out new flavors since opening in 2002 in the Lower East Side, racking up more than 300 and counting. That kind of work mea...

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Sulle musiche di Alessandro Cicognini e Carlo Savina, i titoli di testa creati dal color co-ordinator e fotografo Hoyningen-Huene, tratti dai dipinti della pittrice caprese Carmelina Alberino, con le sue vedute naif dell'isola, ha inizio la serie Roman Hollywood (American Movies Go To Italy), al Film Forum di New York fino al 21 dicembre. La progra...

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The successful journey of the Cipriani family from the legendary Harry’s Bar opened in Venice in 1931 to the contemporary world of fine dining and food retail has been driven by one timeless mission: serving authentic Italian food made with the best locally-sourced ingredients to customers looking for that same simple but impeccable quality during...

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