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By Francesca Berardi   Un grattacielo da 700 milioni di dollari nel cuore di Manhattan che batte bandiera italiana. E' questo il protagonista di un libro appena edito da Rizzoli, un grande volume di 216 pagine che attraverso le fotografie di Evan Joseph esplora, dai dintorni dell'edificio ai dettagli degli interni, un gioiello del modernis...

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In Christopher Castellani's "All This Talk of Love," Italian immigrant parents raise American offspring, mirroring the author's own life. Although the novel, Castellani's third, isn't drawn entirely from personal experience, he offered that "certain dynamics in the book are resonant to my family," including the complex idea of home.   "There...

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Esce oggi "La meglio Italia. Le mobilità italiane nel XXI secolo", volume di Maddalena Tirabassi e Alvise del Pra' (Torino, aAccademia University Press, 2014).   Il libro scrive l'ultimo capitolo della storia migratoria italiana che è ripresa con cifre a cinque zeri: 106.000 nel 2012, con un incremento del 115% rispetto al 2002 e un aumento...

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The Roaring Twenties was a time when the mafia crime bosses reigned supreme in the American underworld.   It was a time of glitz, glamour and blood. In "ME AND THE GENERAL", author Rosemary Valenti Guarnera has written an eye-opening read that delves into this era and looks into the life of Ralph Liguori, a man whose entire life was based on...

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When I first moved to Birmingham in 1980, I was asked by several people if I were Italian. I would say "no, why?" ...and the person asking would say something like, "well, you have such dark eyes and dark hair."   I had no idea at the time that there was a large Italian community in Birmingham and that this community has been present since t...

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Enjoy an evening of authentic Sicilian food and wine, traditional Sicilian music and dance while learning about the culture and history of Sicily.   Michela Musolino will be joined by the amazing musician and folklorist, Phil Passantino for a presentation of the story of Sicilian folk music. They'll also present some traditional dance and a...

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Last fall the pugilistic Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave an interview to Jennifer Senior in New York Magazine so playful and revealing that the transcript could nearly be made into a stage play and movie, in the manner of "Frost/Nixon."   Justice Scalia, 78, and Ms. Senior, 44, faced off across a generational, political and religio...

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Anthony Riccio, author, photographer and oral historian, will speak about his book Farms, Factories and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut Farms, Factories and Families.   This book documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing.   Re...

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There's a brand-new white Whirlpool refrigerator in Cara Nicoletti's apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Ms. Nicoletti, a butcher, a baker and the creator of the literary food blog Yummy Books, is grateful to her landlord for the appliance.   Its predecessor "was gross and old and didn't have any shelf space, and I'd been asking for a reall...

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The love for Made in Italy often comes from the admiration for the many wonderful things done in the past by the Italians. That's fine, but let's not forget the great things that nowadays Italy does in the world of innovation: and there are very good stories to be told. This time we want to talk about Italian Innovation not with a Silicon Valley h...

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