The NM Italian film & culture Festival announces its most dynamic program ever - 2014 film line-up - opening gala - program features
The NM Italian Film & Culture Festival, produced by the nonprofit Italian Festivals of New Mexico for the primary benefit of the UNM Children's Hospital today announced its film selections for the 2014 eight day run of the popular festival. Io Sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet) a 2011 winner at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, is the...
La compagnia italiana "Spellbound Contemporary ballet" al Dance Salad Festival di Houston
Il 28-30 marzo il Dance Salad Festival ospitera' una rappresentazione della compagnia italiana "Spellbound Contemporary Ballet". La compagnia, basata a Roma, ritorna al Dance Salad Festival con la prima rappresentazione negli Stati Uniti di una nuova coreografia di Mauro Astolfi, fondatore e Direttore Artistico della compagnia, che presentera' degl...
Presentazione di Sofia Loren a Houston
Sofia Loren, già definita come uno dei più grandi tesori del cinema mondiale, si presenterà al pubblico nell'ambito della Brilliant Lecture Series il 10 maggio 2013. La sua presentazione si svolgerà al Brown Theater, Wortham Center, nelll'ambito della serie "Conversations with Brilliance" nella quale personalità di rilievo internazionale parlano de...
Texan Italian Stories Screening at The Festa Italiana!
Sunday October 12 2.30 - 4.30 pm - HoustonITAL Austin will be traveling to Houston for Italian Cultural and Community Center's FESTA ITALIANA! We will be screening 3 episodes and Q&A with the filmmakers of the series. The screening will take place at the cultural movie theater inside the festival.We will be selling DVD's of the series for...
Classic Italian movies to be followed by dinner at Scalo’s
By Adrian Gomez Take two classic Italian films. Add some traditional Italian food. And it's a party. This is what Maria Berry has been working on for months. The result is "Firing Up Italian Classics on Route 66." The two-day event takes place beginning Saturday, Sept. 17. Berry, managing director of the Italian Fi...
New Mexico musicians weigh in on performing with Frank Sinatra
by Kathaleen Roberts You couldn't wear brown shoes with the Chairman at the microphone. Frank Sinatra was a swirl of quirks and contradictions orbited by women, public battles and allegations of mob connections, all grounded by The Voice. With his birthday centennial looming Saturday, Dec. 12, celebrations are erupting across...
Sophia Loren reflects on life, career ahead of Dallas appearance
by Mark Lowry For someone whose name has been synonymous with "glamour" for more than half a century, Italian actress Sophia Loren doesn't remember herself as beautiful as a young girl growing up in Pozzuoli, a suburb of Naples. Her mother, however, was apparently drop-dead gorgeous. "My mother was so beautiful, she looked so much...
Rockets' Mike D'Antoni maintains youthful approach to coaching
Mike D'Antoni joked that 65 is the new 50. He didn't exactly come up with it on his own. I kind of backed the new Rockets coach into a corner as we chatted on the podcast "Bring It To Jerome." He mentioned his age, so I asked if he knew the oldest coach to win an NBA title. "I do not, I'm sorry," he said. "(He was) youn...
Andrea Bocelli returns to Houston for one-night only performance
On Dec. 10, world-renowned and beloved Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will return to Houston by popular demand to perform with the Houston Symphony and Houston Symphony Chorus in a special, one-night-only concert at the Toyota Center. The evening's program will celebrate much of the repertoire the classical crossover singer has made world-famous ove...
Black comedy features family loyalty, betrayal
by Kathaleen Roberts The Gavones are an Italian family just trying to get through a funeral between embezzling, fighting and eating. "I would hesitate to call them dysfunctional because within their psychosis, they're functioning quite well," said James Cady,director of "The Gavones of Philadelphia," opening at the Adobe Theater on Fr...
Final Episode Premiere of the Texan Italian Stories
Saturday October 18 - 4 pm Our final episode titled "TexMex Italians" will be premiering at the Buena Vista Theater BV 1.326 in San Antonio. This screening will include a panel discussion at the end of the documentary. 501 W. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. 78207UTSA downtown campus. Come out and support this community building series.Free Admiss...
Welcome Back to the ICCC, Dr. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder - From Wise Guys to Good Guys: Food as Aphrodisiac in Bob Grimaldi's Dinner Rush (2000)
Tuesday, January 12, 2016----6:15pm - Italian Cultural & Community Center, 1101 Milford"The picture is a mouth-watering display of talent, technique and patience. It seems astonishing that a young filmmaker knows exactly how photogenic the flamboyant shots of cooks making their skillets dance over flames bursting from the stoves are." (for comp...