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di Marta Veltri   Ormai un piccolo classico del teatro italiano, Marathon (La Maratona di New York) del milanese Edoardo Erba, approda al Dicapo Opera Theatre per la sua prima mise en scène a New York dopo essere stato tradotto in diciassette lingue e pubblicato in otto. Lo spettacolo ha debuttato nel 1993 al Teatro Due di Parma, con una per...

Saturday, October 5th & Sunday, October 6th, 2013 (10AM — 10PM) Good Ground RoadHampton Bays, NY 11945 Opening ceremony parade Saturday, October 5th at 10:30 am   There will be plenty of delicious food, fun carnival rides, games, and fantastic live entertainment, including the "voice of romance" Franco Corso and the "smooth voice" of J...

Ospite d'eccezione all'appuntamento 'Un caffe' con...' organizzato dalla Rappresentanza permanente d'Italia alle Nazioni Unite: a prendere la parola e' stato lo scrittore e filosofo Umberto Eco che, di fronte a un gruppo di corrispondenti italiani e stranieri all'Onu, ha presentato Encyclomedia, un'opera digitale di nuova concezione che attraverso...

By Riccardo Chioni   È orgogliosamente calabrese il neo presidente del New York Athletic Club, il primo eletto nato in Italia, Dominic Bruzzese originario di Mammola in provincia di Reggio Calabria, la cui recente nomina è stata festeggiata giovedì alla townhouse della Columbus Citizens Foundation nella Upper East Side. Lo dice subito quand...

Presentation of the book: Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2014), by Anthony Julian Tamburri. Divided into three sections, the first deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. Section two con...

Guiseppe's Restaurant, now Perlo's Restaurant on N. Washington St., opened in 1986. Proprietor Joseph Parvano, a former contractor, turned the building into a family restaurant, featuring authentic Italian cuisine based on family recipes.   Despatch Junction, which sells and repairs toy trains, is housed in one of the oldest standing structu...

Porto Empedocle è una ridente cittadina ai piedi di Agrigento, in Sicilia. Un posto fantastico, con il suo mare, la sua costa, il suo porto, è uno di quei luoghi che fanno sognare. Reso celebre dalla penna del famoso scrittore Andrea Camilleri che a Porto Empedocle, "Vigata" nella finzione, ha ambientato le celeberrime vicende del Commissario Monta...

NYPD officials and NYC Parks to dedicate bronze markers honoring heroic police officer Lt. Joseph Petrosino.   The project has been sponsored by the Columbia Association of the NYPD and the Lt. Joseph Petrosino Association of America, Inc., in collaboration with the Italian American Museum and the New York City Parks' division of Art & A...

By Molly Karr   This month, couple Sam Epps and Kami Drake will open Gola Osteria, a new restaurant in Collegetown focusing on local ingredients and Italian tastes.   "We will cook in a way that an Italian would: with Upstate New York ingredients," Epps said. "The difference between our restaurant and others [around the area] is that...

Edited by Teodolinda Barolini - Translated by Richard Lansing. The editor in conversation with Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU). The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante's early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante's Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c....

710 WOR-AM, The New York Mets flagship radio station, today announced that Wayne Randazzo will join the radio broadcast team for Mets games broadcasts.   Randazzo is a seasoned sports broadcaster from Chicago, with more than 10 years of experience and will join play-by-play announcer Howie Rose and Josh Lewin. He will host a 30-minute pre-ga...

My congratulations to Mike Fiore, the Maryland winemaker who received the lifetime achievement award at the Eastern Wineries Exposition in Syracuse, N.Y., on Tuesday. Fiore and his wife, Rose, have turned their namesake winery in Pylesville into one of the region's best. If you want to taste excellent red wine made in an Old World style, make Fiore...