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By Edie Crabtree   Former Harbor Day teacher and local author, Margo Sorenson has done it again. To celebrate the release of her new picture book, "Spaghetti Smiles," Sorenson paid a special visit to a group of lucky students at Andersen Elementary School this week. Although I am just a few years north of the target demographic, I was a...

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The success of the New York Tech community – which is the subject of our book – is studied abroad by entrepreneurs, investors, scholars, and policy makers. It happens especially in Italy, where there are a lot of brilliant young people, including great engineers from the best "Politecnici", who cannot find funding for their business ideas nor a reg...

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In un personalissimo testo, Martin Scorsese rievoca la New York e l'America della sua infanzia: feste, rituali e cibo in arrivo dal Sud Italia, il matrimonio dei genitori combinato per unire le famiglie provenienti dai paesini di Polizzi Generosa e Cimmina, la scelta/necessità del giovane Martin di varcare "il confine di Houston Street" per raccont...

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By Riccardo Giumelli È freschissimo di stampa, edito da pochissimi giorni. Si tratta di un testo che racconta l'italicità – e già da questo si capisce perché ne parliamo –, che traccia un percorso temporale dalle prime intuizioni di Piero Bassetti, nel 1995, fino alle rielaborazioni più evolute e recenti del 2013.   Il libro si chiama La re...

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By Pamela Dorazio Dean and Serena Scaiola, Consul of Italy in Cleveland USA Today bestselling author Pamela Schoenewaldt will host two events in June at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The success of her first book presentation in 2011 prompted Hon.   Consul Serena Scaiola and WRHS Curator for Italian American History Pamela Dorazio...

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On one hand, there is this romanticized notion of Italy," says Joseph Luzzi, professor of Italian at Bard College and author of the recently published My Two Italies. "It's a place where you go for the Tuscan sun, to fall in love; an antidote to a modern world's problems.   On the other hand, you have The Sopranos and Jersey Shore, the glamo...

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Award winning writer and playwright Dacia Maraini will talk about and read from her most recent novel, Chiara di Assisi. Elogio della disobbedienza (Rizzoli, 2013), a vivid portrait of Saint Clare, one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi and the author of the Rule of Life—the first monastic rule known to have been written by a woman.P...

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Thursday, March 5th, 6:30PM Italian American Museum - 155 Mulberry Street (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) - New York, NY 10013 Acclaimed author, Anthony Vigorito presents a retrospective of his works including excerpts from Pier 48 South Brooklyn, 17 West and Seeing in 17 at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, March 5th...

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Long before "Rocky Balboa" and Sylvester Stallone of "Rocky" fame, there was a long list of Italian Americans in boxing, including a few from Connecticut. The three "local" guys, Middletown native and Hartford hero Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as "Willie Pep," Bridgeport's Luigi Buccassi, professionally known as "Lou Bogash" and Hartford's...

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Titles by Italian authors Elena Ferrante and the late Primo Levi have both made it into the top 100 books of the year compiled by the New York Times, it emerged on Monday.   The books in question - The Story of the Lost Child by the elusive Ferrante (a pseudonym), which is the fourth and final volume in her quartet of Neapolitan novels, and...

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