A Navy coat tradition, made in East Boston
By Megan Woolhouse Massachusetts has its share of peacoat industry contractors, but none like this. By the end of the month, Sterlingwear Boston will have stitched about 40,000 peacoats this year for the Navy at the company's East Boston factory, where scores of workers sit at rows of sewing machines on a cement factory floor nearly the size of a...
Marco Paoli Photography
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2015; Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065 Organized by: ICI In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia. The works take as raw material th...
Italian Filmmaker Francesco Rosi, Palme d’Or Winner, Dead at 92
Acclaimed Italian director Francesco Rosi, best known for his films about corruption and organized crime, died Saturday at his home in this capital. He was 92. The winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for "The Mattei Affair" died in his sleep after a recent bout with bronchitis, local media reported. Born in Naple...
Le auto da sogno ora si fanno a Napoli
In quella pianura napoletana dove un secolo fa il geniale ingegnere Nicola Romeo immaginava quei motori che avrebbero scritto la gloria dell'Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili («Quando passa un'Alfa mi tolgo il cappello», diceva il vecchio Ford, in omaggio alla creazione del suo collega italiano), proprio lì sta nascendo una nuova casa automobili...
Tarantata spider dance - February 3, 2015
Extraordinary vocalist, hand-percussionist and dancer Alessandra Belloni creates a voluptuous exploration of Tarantella— the frenzied ritual dances that enact the release of built-up erotic desire— in a contemporary incarnation of the southern Italian folk form. In the traditional "Pizzica Tarantata" healing rite, performers suffering the...
Gli italiani d'America: in bilico tra Sangiovese e Coca Zero
"We made it!", ce l'abbiamo fatta. A fare che cosa? L'Italian American Country tour: 35 giorni di viaggio negli States, 10.100 km al volante, 16 tappe e 25 stati attraversati dalla East alla West Coast, 130 ore di guida e 130 di sonno, 6 aerei, 105 persone intervistate originarie di 19 regioni italiane, 60 ore di materiale video girato e più di 8.0...
Gala Italia. Gli Usa terra di conquista
Il Gala Italia compie 30 anni con una rassegna al Pierre Hotel che racconta lo straordinario successo del vino italiano che negli ultimi tre decenni ha visto passare le proprie esportazioni da 44 milioni di dollari ad oltre un miliardo e trecento milioni. Organizzato dall'Italian Wine & Food Institute diretto da Lucio Caputo sotto l'alto patro...
Comedian Rocco Deserto Talks Italian Parents, Growing Up In Bensonhurst & Being Fat
The last time we wrote about Rocco Deserto, his wedding party had just been photobombed by a giant plume of smoke. Most of the time, Deserto’s life is not that eventful. The Xaverian High School alum and proud six-time college dropout spends his the bulk of days at a boring office job in Manhattan, and evenings with...
Buongiorno Los Angeles - Lavazza's mobile cafe is in town! in Los Angeles
Buongiorno Los Angeles - The Italians are coming! Lavazza, Italy's favorite coffee, will be perking up LA by touring the streets with the Lavazza mobile café, the company's first and brand new state-of-the-art sampling truck. From March 13 to 15, the Lavazza mobile café will be surprising locals and visitors of LA with complimentary cups o...
Will Amanda Knox Be Dragged Back to Italy in Murder Case?
by Nina barleigh The scene in Perugia played out like a colorized version of that harrowing mob scene in Frankenstein—outraged villagers storming the castle to slay the monster who has been terrorizing them. But this bogeyman was a pretty American exchange student sometimes known as Foxy Knoxy, and the villagers were modern-day Italians wh...
Ferraris, Maseratis, Bentleys and Bugattis all on display at annual Dallas Auto Show
Big money rolls down the streets of Dallas - literally. Bentleys, Ferraris, Maseratis and even a Bugatti or two regularly grace some of Dallas' more gilded boulevards. Long known as a city sweet on luxury cars, Dallas' fascination with six-and even seven-figure vehicles is reflected in the high-end area of the Dallas Auto Show, which opened...
Maserati adds dealers, awaits Levante
Although it is moving more slowly than expected, Maserati plans to increase its U.S. dealership count to 125 as it prepares to launch the Levante full-size crossover. Christian Gobber, CEO of Maserati North America, said the brand has begun adding points from the 100 it had last year, bringing its current count to 107 stores. The Leva...