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The government of Italy will bestow its prestigious Ufficiale nell'Ordine al Merito decoration on Italian American Museum (IAM) president Joseph V. Scelsa, it was announced by Natalia Qunitavalle, the Italian Consul General in New York. A formal ceremony will take place at the Italian Consulate in New York City on Monday, June 2, 2014. The Order o...

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di Alberto Magnani   A volte bastano due numeri. Anzi, uno: 90 anni di storia, 90 secondi di cottura. Rustichella d'Abruzzo, il pastificio artigianale fondato nel 1924 da Gaetano Sergiacomo, ha scelto New York per presentare la sua rilettura "futuristica" degli spaghetti: "90 Secondi Rapida", una pasta di grano duro che si cuoce in un minuto...

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The luxury Italian watch brand, a division of Compagnie Financière Richemont, currently operates 10 stores in the U.S. and 64 around the world. Having recently opened stores in Paris, Hong Kong and Florence, the company is now readying a relocation of its New York City boutique, which is set to open early next year, followed by a Miami opening in F...

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Can't get a table at iconic celebrity eatery Rao's? Now, you can buy the whole building. That's right. The home of America's most hard to get into restaurant has hit the market for $10.48 million, the Daily News has learned. The property, at 265 Pleasant Ave. in East Harlem, has 22 luxury rental apartments upstairs.   Rao's, a favorite of A...

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In 1954 Alan Lomax made a historic year long trip through Italy making ethnographic field recordings of the music that defined every-day Italians' identity and way of life.   These documentations were the first of their kind for Italy, and stand as a valuable testimony of an extremely rich diversity of expression that was already beginning t...

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by Sophia Hollander   The industrial edge of lower Manhattan might seem unlikely inspiration for the sun-soaked splash of Santina, a seaside Italian restaurant somehow tucked under the High Line. But when Major Food Group signed a lease for the space, their research uncovered a surprising fact: The land was the site of one of the c...

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November 19 (Thursday) 6:30 pmAuthor and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi StoryRefreshments, Reception Preview Screening, Talk.Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story portrays a life-affirming struggle to make art of civil rights, democratic equality and climate justice. Produced and directed by Anton Evangelista, the docu-drama tells of the...

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Roger Armbruster's Three Marias is an engrossing family saga that focuses on the lives of three remarkable women sharing the name Maria. It begins in Sicily near the end of the nineteenth century, a world in which lives are shaped, often violently, by prevailing customs and traditions.

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Elica, in collaborazione con Design-Apart, organizza un workshop aperto a designer e architetti e promuove una borsa di studio in Italia dedicata ai migliori studenti di design, presentando per la prima volta a New York Pescecappa, la straordinaria opera di Gaetano Pesce.   Elica e la Fondazione Ermanno Casoli sono partner del progetto Desig...

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Perhaps in no other novel of the twentieth century has the sense of time and place had such a central role and profound significance as in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's masterpiece, The Leopard - a work which captures Sicilian traditional society in a period of transition when faced with modernity and political upheaval.   Written by Lamped...

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