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Former NBA All-Star Metta World Peace has signed for Italian team Pallacanestro Cantu for the remainder of the season. After a series of teasing tweets from the 35-year-old World Peace — such as "whatever you can do I Cantu better" — Cantu confirmed the news, calling it "the coup of the century."   "When Daniele (sporting director Danie...

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di Ada Masoero   Milano. È stata presentata ieri a Milano, sotto l'affresco di Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Palazzo Clerici, la mostra curata da Emily Braun (con Megan Fontanella e Carol Stringari) che il Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum di New York dedica dal 9 ottobre al 6 gennaio prossimi ad Alberto Burri (1915-95), nel centenario della nasci...

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By Fred Plotkin   I am writing this on a quick work trip that has me immersed in Italian conversation but, for the purposes of this article, my mind is back home in New York. Specifically at the Metropolitan Opera House. The first four operas of the Met season were Anna Bolena, Otello, Il Trovatore and Turandot.   All operas had two t...

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NEW YORK- Buone notizie per chi vuole andare a New York. Delta Air Lines riprenderà i suoi voli da sabato 23 marzo, con volo diretto nonstop dall'aeroporto di Roma Fiumicino a New York-Jfk in codeshare con Alitalia. Il volo stagionale, che si aggiunge a quello giornaliero per Atlanta, offre tante coincidenze per numerose destinazioni negli Stati Un...

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di Francesca Tarantino   Incontriamo Roberto Bolle - Étoile presso il Teatro alla Scala di Milano dal 2004 e Principal Dancer presso l'American Ballet Theatre di New York dal 2009- indaffaratissimo con la stagione ballettistica del Metropolitan Opera House, ed in procinto di rappresentare l'Italia il prossimo Settembre con il suo spettacolo-...

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Father and son duo Michael and Jason Brunetti opened their Neopolitan pizza joint Pizzetteria Brunetti on Long Island in 2009, turning out a dozen pies in a tiny space in the town of Westhampton Beach. This week they opened their second location in the West Village with an expanded selection of pizzas and other light dishes in a space on Jane and H...

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Dr. Rosemary Serra, a leading research sociologist from the University of Trieste in Italy, has come to New York as a visiting research scholar at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, City University of New York, to investigate the status of Italian American identity within the greater New York area.   The tool...

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By Giovanni di Napoli   Since beginning this exercise in ethnic self-awareness I've intermittently written about New York City's public monuments by Sicilian Americans, specifically the works of Anthony de Francisci and Pietro Montana.   However, no discussion of Sicilian-American sculptors would be complete without mentioning Arturo...

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On Saturday, September 13 at 2 pm, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will present a very special guest speaker. Nancy Petralia, along with her husband John, is author of "Not in a Tuscan Villa," which is currently a bestseller in the travel book section on Amazon.com.   The book tells the real-life story of this middle-aged American couple who wen...

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by Silvia Simonetti   Artistic director of the New Museum in New York since 2007 and of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan since 2003, among other professional experiences and projects, Massimiliano Gioni was the youngest curator ever of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.   Living between the U.S. and Italy - where he was born in...

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