Tuckahoe, Eastchester Celebrate Italian Culture With Festival, Scholarship
by Zak Failla The Eastchester-Tuckahoe Columbus Day Committee is set to again celebrate Italian heritage and culture at the annual Columbus Day-St. Pio Festival. This year's festival will feature food vendors, a parade and celebrity guest appearances. The event will begin on Friday, Sept. 19, and continue through the weekend. The Eas...
San Gennaro Feast Brings Little Italy to Las Vegas
by Nikki Artale The San Gennaro Feast took place on Sept. 9-14, 2014 at the Grand Canyon Shopping Center to celebrate its 35th Annual Feast. It featured 80 Amusement rides, over 70 food booths that included pasta, calamari, calzones, clams, pizza, stuffed artichokes, Italian sausage, corn on the cob and lots more that I can't remember to l...
From Italy to Taos
In 2011 TJ Mabrey closed her carving studio (est. 1980) in Pietrasanto, Italy and moved to Taos where she opened Studio Santiago in May of this year. On October 4th and 5th she celebrates this new chapter of her artistic expression with an Open House Studio Visit from 11a to 4p each day. Mabrey's sculptures reflect her remarkable life that took her...
Orangette Lunches With Italy's Most Famous Chef
Molly Wizenberg is co-owner of the Delancey and Essex restaurants in Seattle, founder of the popular Orangette blog, author of A Homemade Life and Delancey, and host of the "Spilled Milk" podcast. She took an afternoon out of her busy schedule to eat a rather unique 16-course lunch, hang with Italy's coolest and most famous chef, and repor...
Ozpetek e Virzì guidano gli italiani al Film Festival di Chicago
Ferzan Ozpetek e Paolo Virzì hanno 'guidato' la pattuglia italiana presente in forze al Chicago International Film Festival, importante appuntamento arrivato alla cinquantesima edizione. Insieme ad "Allacciate le cinture" del regista nato in Turchia ma naturalizzato italiano, e "Il capitale umano" di Virzì, sono stati proiettati anche "Tir" di Albe...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 47
WTI Magazine #47 2014 November, 12Author : Umberto Mucci Translation by: Hello everybody from We the Italians. First of all, let us celebrate together with all of you a particularly significant day for us: Veterans Day means paying respect to all those brave and exceptional American men and women who fought for the freedom of all of...
The Flavors of Tuscany with Sandra Lotti at Eataly Chicago on Dec. 09
by Elena Pinceti Sandra Lotti, chef-owner of Toscana Saporita, embodies the essence of the Italian spirit in her warmth, her zest for life, and her passion for great food. These qualities, combined with her outstanding skill as an enthusiastic teacher, make Toscana Saporita the perfect place to learn the art of Tuscan cooking. Cel...
La coperta dello zaino americano esposta a Sant’Anna di Stazzema
Inaugurata ieri al Museo Storico della Resistenza la collocazione di una coperta rinvenuta nello zaino di un soldato americano della Buffalo caduto in Lucchesia. Il Sindaco Verona: "Ricostruire la storia per insegnarla ai giovani' Si è svolta presso il Museo Storico della Resistenza di Sant'Anna di Stazzema la cerimonia di esposizione di u...
Francesco Piu in San Francisco
February 4, 2015/Wednesday 5:30 PM - 11:30 PMBiscuits and Blues - 401 Mason Street - San Francisco, California 94102 An explosive mixture of blues, funk and soul music in acoustic: this is the formula of the sound of Francesco Piu, Sardinian singer and guitarist born in 1981. Accompanying their voices with instruments like acoustic guita...
An Altarpiece by Ugolino da Siena
Visitors to the Cleveland Museum of Art's Italian Trecento gallery will notice that it is dominated by a painting from Tuscany. An altarpiece painted by the Sienese artist, Ugolino di Nerio da Siena (about 1280-1349), forms a major sightline object in that gallery. Dating to about 1317, the altarpiece has survived nearly 700 years relative...
Great Italians of the Past: Margherita di Savoia
WTI Magazine #52 2015 January, 23Author : Giovanni Verde Translation by: Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna of Savoy was born in Turin on November 20, 1851, daughter of Ferdinand, the first Duke of Genoa, and Elizabeth of Saxony. She was the first Italian Queen consort, a character of great charm, a woman who has profoundly influenced...
Student Ambassadors to serve at the USA Pavilion for the Next World's Fair in Italy
Today, Friends of the USA Pavilion Milano 2015, in partnership with the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, announced the selection of 120 American college students who will serve as on-the-ground ambassadors for the USA Pavilion at the next world's fair in Milan, Italy. As part of the USA Pavilion Student Ambass...