Italian Festival gets cooking this weekend
The Sons of Italy will serve up their usual assortment of food, games and music this weekend at the annual Summer Italian Festival. Organized by the Order Sons of Italy in America Geneva Lodge 2397, the festival runs from 4 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with bands and bar service through midnight. "There's going to be lots of food, band...
Vico and Naples. The Urban Origins of Moden Social Theory
Barbara Naddeo's Vico and Naples provides an intellectual portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) that reveals the politics and motivations of one of Europe's first scientists of society, or philosophers of social justice. Rich with period detail and attentive to Vico's historical, rhetorical, and jurisprudential texts,...
The Working Class Made Colorful ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ at the American Folk Art Museum
The self-taught artist Ralph Fasanella (1914-97), born in the Bronx to Italian immigrants, believed that painting could be a form of labor advocacy. He worked as an ice delivery man, a truck driver, a gas station owner and a union organizer, all the while developing his colorful and detailed scenes of working-class life (as in "Family Supper," whic...
Il programma di Renzi negli Stati Uniti, tra Silicon Valley e ricordi personali
di Mario Platero Prima tappa americana, la California: il Presidente del Consiglio Matteo Renzi ha organizzato la sua visita a San Francisco con lo spirito e l'attivismo della nuova frontiera. Domenica, alla cena alla Stanford University ci saranno investitori e leggende della Silicon Valley ma anche della politica americana (dovr...
Miss Italian Saint Louis 2014
by Marianne Peri-Sack The selection of Miss Italian St. Louis and Miss Junior Miss Italian St. Louis was held at an annual pageant on Sunday, July 27, at St. Ambrose Church basement. The requirements included being of ¼ Italian descent and submission of an essay on the subject – "Why do I want to be crowned Miss Italian St. Louis...
Sons of Italy to host movie screening
The Geneva Sons of Italy lodge will continue its celebration of Italian Culture and Heritage Month this week with a special screening of a classic movie. The Friday evening event, dubbed "Paradise Italian-style: A Night of Culture, Entertainment, Food and Wine," is centered around the Academy Award-winning film Cinema Paradiso, which was named Bes...
Il soprano italo-americano Cristina Fontanelli canta al Museo Diocesano di Molfetta di J.Rocco Ferrara
Si tratta, senza ombra di dubbio, di un concerto-evento. Cristina Fontanelli attrice e cantante lirica statunitense (è nata a Brooklyn) di fama mondiale, definita "genio vocale" dal The New York Sun, giovedì, 30 ottobre prossimo, alle 20, si esibisce nell'Aula Magna del Museo Diocesano. Regala a Molfetta, città da cui provengono i nonni, i...
TU VUO' FA' L'AMERICANO @ Osteria del Principe NYC // Wednesday November 12th
Jazz, folk, blues and swing notes will entertain you all night while the chef serves up some delicious and authentic Italian food. Olivia Foschi's Italian Swing Trio, led by the talented Italian-American singer Olivia Foschi will play a live jazz session. Olivia Foschi has become an iconic voice in the New York jazz scene. Her debut album...
Simone Moro, Italian climber famous for winter ascents, to appear in Portland
by Terry Richard Simone Moro, an elite among a very rare breed that climbs the world's highest mountains in winter, will make a presentation in Portland on Tuesday, Dec. 2. Here's what Ed Viesturs says about such endeavors in the foreword of Moro's book, "The Call of the Ice," recently translated from Italian to English and published...
Fiera Milano porta in America l'italian style con Homi
Homi, il salone degli stili di vita organizzato da Fiera Milano, allarga le frontiere della sua attività internazionale e, dopo il successo della prima edizione russa che si è tenuta il 14 ottobre a Mosca, presenta il 4 dicembre a Miami, alla stampa internazionale, la sua prima edizione negli Stati Uniti. L'appuntamento è dal 16 al 19 maggio 2015...
The concept of womanhood represented by the Virgin Mary
"Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea" is the title of an exhibition recently opened at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington with a mass celebrated by Cardinal Wuerl. The exhibition, organised as part of the American celebrations for the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, will run until 12 April 2015....
Why Bury Fig Trees? A Curious Tradition Preserves A Taste Of Italy
by Hal Klein On a gray, chilly December morning in Sewickley, Pa., Michele Vaccaro and his assistant are digging a trench in a garden. "It looks like we're burying somebody over here — a body," Vaccaro says. Cast your old Godfather stereotypes aside, because this Calabrian immigrant is carrying on a much more wholesome tradit...