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Ted Bacino has had a long and diverse career. In October 1954, he served as editor to the Northern Star – the brand new student-produced paper at Northern Illinois University (NIU). He graduated from the University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1955.   He would later say of his experience as an editor: "It wasn't always good for grades, but it...

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Lecturers Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art CASVA) will present Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired. The National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble with Rosa Lamoreaux, artistic director, soprano and the National Gallery of Art Chamber Players will perform the Comb...

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In the 1960s, East New York, Brooklyn made the Wild West look like Disney World. East New York was in such a lawless state. Street gangs dominated Brooklyn like the New Lots Boys, Fulton and Rockaway, the Crescents, Liberty Park Boys, Fountain and Pitkin, and Hemlock and Sutter. The black and Puerto Rican gangs took cool names, like the Chaplains,...

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This presentation uses Paolo Sorrentino's La grande bellezza (2013) and Rosi's Sacro Gra (2013) to frame a selective deconstruction of the Eternal City.   Paragraphs include Genius of Rome (broadly based on a long view of the city's primary logistics: place and time), Grand Narratives (focusing on an evolving Roman mythology driven by polari...

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APRIL 29, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 Eppur si muove / And Yet It Moves is a series dedicated to Italians in and outside of Italy who give us hope for the future.   Books in comparison:The Country where Anything is Possible and Far from Us A conversation with the author...

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Joseph Sciorra, director of academic and cultural programs at Queen College's John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City, presents Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora (University Press of Mississippi, 2014), an interdisciplinary collection co-edited with Edvige Giunta that includ...

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By Kelli Kennedy   Before there were Food Network icons and cultish produce, before farm-to-table was a philosophy and cake decorating became a competitive sport, there was Emeril Lagasse. And his is a life story best told by the kitchens that formed and informed him.   There was the Portuguese bakery where he washed dishes as a...

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di Emanuele Pettener   Questa conversazione, svoltasi tramite un fitto scambio di email in inglese e da me tradotta, venne pubblicata nel 2006 sul blog Vibrisse; da anni ormai l'intervista non esiste in rete, ed è un peccato, essendo una straordinaria esplorazione di quello che l'Italia ha rappresentato per gli intellettuali americani lungo...

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di Niccolò d'Aquino, giornalista e corrispondente dall'Italia di "America Oggi", il più importante quotidiano italiano all'estero.Martedì, 15 Luglio 2014, ore 17.00Istituto Italiano per gli Studi FilosoficiPalazzo Serra di Cassano, Via Monte di Dio, NapoliSaranno presenti l'autore e Piero Bassetti Nel suo libro, Niccolò d'Aquino racconta la genesi...

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Eighteen years after first visiting Venice, Locktov still remembers the moment: "When I first stepped foot on Venetian soil I had this overwhelming feeling of falling in love with a place on earth, which took me by surprise. "I loved it like a living, breathing entity."   The American publicist thereafter made sure she kept coming back,...

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