Alessandra Ciuffo, 12 anni d'età, dai fornelli di casa alla prima della sfida televisiva tra kid-chef su Food Network
By Riccardo Chioni Silenzio, oggi si gira in casa Ciuffo a Whitestone. La troupe è al completo: Francesco è alla videocamera, il coach Giovanni è al via e Angela, la regista è pronta per la scena, al suo ciack entra la protagonista, Alessandra che con innata naturalezza va ai forrnelli e prepara con maestria una ricetta, raccontando all'audience d...
Verdi Re-Imagined - Fantasias from Verdi's Operas
Composers in the 19th century produced a panoply of fantasies, paraphrases and transcriptions designed to bring the world of opera into the household - but what about the concert hall? Cameristi della Scala explores Giuseppe Verdi's music in instrumental adaptations by his contemporaries, all featuring a string soloist with chamber orchestra. These...
Amanda Knox says she won't return to Italy for murder retrial
Amanda Knox, the American student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy in 2007, said on Friday that "common sense" told her not to return to Italy for a retrial due to begin on September 30."It's not a possibility," Knox said in an interview on NBC television's "Today" show. It is the first time she has said she will not go back to It...
Pasquale Esposito Canta Napoli benefit concert for Teatro San Carlo
Among the events in preparation for the memorable Verdi's Requiem coming up on October 25th at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Italian Tenor Pasquale Esposito, sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, and Com.It.Es., will perform Opera Arias and Neapolitan Songs to benefit Teatro San Carlo in Naple...
San Francisco's Tosca and Alamo's Izzy's open
By Jackie Burrell Tosca redux: We don't usually write too much about San Francisco restaurant openings -- there are too many exciting things going on this side of the bay. But we're making an exception for the resurrection of North Beach's iconic Tosca Cafe, which has just reopened under the direction of New York City's James Beard award-winning c...
Visiting Italy for Cibrèo happy hour: Kristel's CLE
Lately, a trip to Italy might not be as pricey as we imagined it would be. At least, a little taste of what Italy would be like is what you'll find at Cibrèo. This newly opened, Italian-themed restaurant holds happy hour from 3-6 p.m. every Monday-Friday offering guests a wide array of appetizers, beer, wine, and signature cocktails. After enterin...
Laura DiNello cultivates a family mosaic in Charleston
The story of Laura DiNello is as layered as the mosaic masterpieces that she's known for. The self-taught Italian-American artist grew up in Chicago in a culture that frowned upon visual art as a valid profession, especially for women. Most family and friends saw DiNello's drawings and paintings as a cute hobby. When she announced that sh...
East side, West side, all around the town ...
If you haven't yet heard Opera Per Tutti in performance, it isn't because they've not yet been to your part of the city. Since their first formal appearance in March, 2007, the company has performed in Beachwood, Solon, Akron, Chagrin Falls, Cleveland Hts., Bainbridge, Rocky River and multiple sites in Cleveland, including Little Italy. St...
St. Patrick's school in Little Italy attended by Martin Scorsese put on sale for $29M
by Corinne Letsch The Catholic Church is peddling a piece of history — the oldest Catholic school in the city. The cash-strapped Archdiocese of New York is selling off the St. Patrick's Old Cathedral School on Prince St., on the grounds of the original St. Patrick's Cathedral in Little Italy, according to papers filed in Manhattan Sup...
At American Visionary Art Museum - FRANK BRUNO: A Life Devoted to THE END
Extended thru February 2, 2014Third Floor Gallery, Zanvyl A. Krieger Main Building This summer, the American Visionary Art Museum presents FRANK BRUNO: A Life Devoted to THE END—a hot hellfire and damnation exhibition featuring 14 masterworks created over the last five decades by visionary true believer Frank Bruno, with mind-blowing atten...
Italian lifestyle: “Ti amo Italia”: this is how Collistar declares his love for Italy!
WTI Magazine #15 2014 Jan, 31Author : Francesca Favotto Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti A tribute to Italy and its excellences: this is the aim of Collistar's new beauty project, with designer Antonio Marras. "Ti amo Italia": a slogan without a big preamble. It's a love and goal...
Lavazza e il futurismo Italiano al Guggenheim Museum di New York
Si intitola "Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe", la mostra dedicata al movimento Futurista Italiano che inaugura il 21 febbraio al Guggenheim Museum di New York. Un evento che vede raddoppiare l'orgoglio italiano in quanto sponsorizzata da Lavazza, azienda portabandiera a livello globale del caffè made in Italy, e mecena...