“Amavo l’Italia ma non lo sapevo”: la storia di Valentina a Miami
Valentina è una bella milanese di 34 anni trasferitasi da qualche anno a Miami, in Florida, insieme al marito Fabio ed ai due figli maschi, Leonardo di 6 anni ed il piccolo Samuel di 3. Si presenta a noi con un gran sorriso e due occhi chiari vivaci e curiosi, pronta per raccontarci la storia del suo grande cambiamento di vita e di una riscoperta c...
Have dinner with a jolly Goodfella, actor Paul Sorvino
Italian-American actor Paul Sorvino and his Emmy-Award-winning wife Dee Dee Sorvino are the authors of a cookbook of authentic Italian recipes “Pinot, Pasta, and Parties,” so it’s no surprise they’re lending their culinary chops to charity. Together the Sorvinos and Angel’s Envy bourbon are offering a dining and bourbon package that will be auction...
Agrigento, delegazione di Tampa in visita al Comune: si festeggia il ventisettesimo anno del gemellaggio tra le due città
Una delegazione di venticinque cittadini americani proveniente da Tampa, in Florida, guidata dal sindaco, Robert Buckhorn, ha fatto visita questa mattina al sindaco di Agrigento, Lillo Firetto in occasione del ventisettesimo anno del gemellaggio tra le due città. Della delegazione facevano parte alcuni amministratori locali, imprenditori, agenti di...
Canonici tells stories of the Delta Italians
Room 234 in McCool Hall was full of attendants last week, both students and spectators, as Paul Canonici told the stories of Italian immigrant families who moved to the southern United States for a better life many years ago. Canonici is the son of Italian immigrants who moved to Mississippi in the early 1900s to work on cotton plantations. A Missi...
Dine on Italian fare at Bella Notte fundraiser
Keep Tallahassee Beautiful as you experience the tastes of Italy in Tallahassee at the Bella Notte fundraiser from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24. Highlighting the evening will be live music and fine foods: pizzas, pastas, meats and cheeses, wine tasting, and desserts from the restaurants of the Urban Food Market at the Centre of Tallahassee. Presente...
Barbara Cornacchia: "A Miami, c'è spazio per un festival italiano"
“South Florida, Miami, una delle più numerose comunità italiane negli Stati Uniti. Una delle più complicate. Non c’è infatti un numero preciso, non si sa quanti siano esattamente i connazionali che hanno scelto questa parte degli States. Ecco allora che anche l’impegno del Comites diventa più difficile. Anche qui per una questione numerica pur non...
Mark Famiglio talks 20 years of Sarasota Film Festival, plus don't-miss screenings and events
Sarasota Film Festival president Mark Famiglio remembers going to the movie theater as a child. It was a cool respite from the noon-day sun where he and his friends could pay a dime, get some popcorn or ice cream and enjoy themselves. They might see a Fred MacMurray movie or a musical. Later, he was drawn to director Francis Ford Coppola, partly be...
Rossini Festival brings international sounds and flavors to downtown Knoxville
The 17th annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair will take over downtown Knoxville on April 14 as the Knoxville Opera celebrates its 40th season with this signature event. “This thing has taken on a life of its own,” says Michael Torano, Knoxville Opera marketing director. “It is nothing, really, compared to what the original organizers o...
Art History Course: Rome, From Foundation to Constantine
Tuesdays, May 1, 8, and 15, 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Location: Frist Rechter Room - Frist Art Museum. 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203-3822. Presented by G. Edward Gaffney, PhD, senior lecturer (retired), Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Vanderbilt University, and James Womack, MA, Jackson Family Chair, Visual & Performing Arts, Montgomery Bell Aca...
Pranzo-Vino-Bocce - Last Sunday's Event at Arturo's
Il Circolo, the Italian Cultural Society, enjoyed an afternoon of learning, eating, music, sports and celebrations, all in one day. “Pranzo,Vino, Bocce”. The genesis of the event was a culinary demonstration to commemorate the establishment of a new Il Circolo scholarship fund in the culinary arts. In collaboration with our friends at Arturo’s Rist...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Columnist remembers an Italian master artist
Taking the morning train from Florence, we disembarked at the station in Orvieto and boarded the funicular transporting visitors from the floor of the Tiber Valley to the heart of the city perched atop an extinct volcanic plateau. The end of the line was the Piazza del Duomo or Cathedral Square. The distinctive façade of the travertine and granite...
IAA to Honor George Bernard Wiggins at Vintage Fire Museum on 04/14/18
Saturday, April 14, 2018, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Vintage Fire Museum, 723 Spring St, Jeffersonville, IN 47130. Please join IAA members and their family and friends at the Vintage Fire Museum as we recognize the late George Bernard Wiggins as the only non-Italian-American member to hold the office of President of the IAA. In addition to being an active...