Veteran midfielder loves MLS style of football
Andrea Pirlo has revealed his love for the style of football played in MLS. The former Italy international, whose New York City side are second in the Eastern Conference, is in his second year in the league. Pirlo revealed his desire to move to the United States was his primary reason for signing City, but the midfielder has grown to love MLS...
The Work of De Chirico and Paolini at New York
Giorgio de Chirico and Giulio Paolini, two Italian artists, are together for the first time at an exhibition in New York at Center of Italian Modern Art (CIMA), until June 24. The title of the exhibition is Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico, a title chiasmus, which creates an imaginary cross between two great...
Il teatro irriverente di un (grande) italiano a New York
di Maurita Cardone Quando si dice teatro italiano a New York si dice Mario Fratti. Noto alle scene newyorchesi fin dagli anni '60, il commediografo di origini aquilane, autore di più di 90 opere, oltre che columnist de La Voce, scrive ormai quasi esclusivamente in inglese (una lingua di cui non fa che elogiare ricchezza e libertà), ma ha c...
Crooning to the Crowd, With Notes Held
By Vivien Schweizer Shouts of "Andrea, we love you!" and "Forza Italia!" rang out through the enormous Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening, when thousands of fans gathered to listen to the Italian crossover tenor Andrea Bocelli. Mr. Bocelli's concerts often follow a similar format, with half the program dedicated to operatic exce...
Bites & Sips - Traditional Italian fare can be found close to home
By Paul Stephen If you've felt out of sorts since "Italian food" started meaning tapas-style plates of broccoli rabe with a balsamic reduction instead of grapefruit-sized meatballs or zesty sausage and peppers on a jumbo platter, it looks like your bout of uncertainty is coming to an end. A new wave of restaurants is reviving what many di...
'Night on The Town' Fundraiser in Mineola Remembers Plainview Resident
Pasquale Lubrano, a Plainview resident, emigrated from Italy to the United States in 1957, he was seeking the American dream. He realized his dream in 1980 when he opened La Bussola Ristorante, a restaurant in Glen Cove. As business grew, he opened additional locations in Huntington and Mineola, and his four sons joined the family restaura...
Alessandra Rotondi, la narrastorie del vino che seduce gli americani
di Liliana Rosano Il mondo del vino entra nella sua vita per un senso di colpa. Il ricordo della vigna del padre, nella zona del Chianti, ha accompagnato la sua infanzia e adolescenza. Delle giornate trascorse insieme al papà e al rito autunnale del vino, le rimane un profumo indelebile. E pensare che lei il vino non lo beveva proprio. Ex...
Jehovah’s Witnesses Invite All to Attend “Keep Seeking First God’s Kingdom!” Convention
Jehovah's Witnesses are inviting all of their neighbors to attend their annual convention in the Italian language to be held at Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 23 Unity Pl, Newburgh NY, 12550-6715. The theme of this year's program is "Keep Seeking First God's Kingdom!" Raffaele Palazzolo, a convention spokesman, states: "People of many faith...
Dopo 38 anni, Burri torna in America: La grande retrospettiva al Guggenheim di New York
Le iniziative per celebrare il Centenario della nascita di Alberto Burri (1915 – 2015) arrivano oltreoceano. Il 15 ottobre 2015 aprirà infatti al Solomon Guggenheim Museum di New York la mostra antologica retrospettiva delle opere di Alberto Burri, a cura di Emily Braun. La mostra, con oltre cento opere, è la più ampia ed esauriente mai re...
Concert - MARCO BATTAGLIA
Italian music for guitar from the 19th century the Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini's guitar A concert by Marco Battaglia who will play a 19th century guitar once belonged to Italian Patriot Giuseppe Mazzini. Marco Battaglia was born in 1969 in Milan (Italy) where his high school studies were concentrated in the classics and afterwards he studied l...
IACC hosts annual Christmas gala
The Italian American Community Center will celebrate its 23rd annual Christmas Gala on Dec. 6 in its Grand Ballroom, 150 Frank DiMino Way. The event is open to the public and proceeds from the event will be donated to SIS (Sustain. Inspire. Survive.), an organization committed to improving the quality of life of those battling breast cancer....
Fabrizio Gifuni's award-winning political theater comes to Harvard - April 25-27
by Federica G. Pedriali I am delighted to announce that Italian actor and playwright Fabrizio Gifuni will come to Harvard, April 25-27 2015, as part of the Cambridge Edition of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize. Events on Sunday April 26 and Monday April 27 will be of great interest to the wider Italo-American, particularly tho...