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Rosa Tatuata Returns to the Goddard Riverside’s Bernie Wohl Center (647 Columbus Avenue at West 91st Street - New York, NY 10025) April 6th, 2018 from 8:00pm - 10:30pm. $20. advanced sales at Eventbrite. $25 at the door. Rosa Tatuata present the 4th Annual La Primavera Vinni!/ Spring Has Come - Rosa Tatuata’s Sicilian & Southern Italian Dance Party...

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Following the traces of the Italian emigration to the US, we discovered that many fellow Italians went to Lackawanna County, in Pennsylvania. The Keystone State is home to more than 1,5 million Italian Americans, according to the 2010 census bureau: the 12,2% of the entire population of the State.  Starting today, March 12, a new book will be avail...

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La gastronomia siciliana “vola” in America in occasione del “Columbus Day”, il Giorno di Colombo, previsto il 12 Ottobre di ogni anno in molti Paesi delle Americhe. Si tratta di un evento di caratura mondiale, istituito per la prima volta nel 1869, che commemora il giorno dell’arrivo di Cristoforo Colombo nel Nuovo Mondo, ovvero il 12 Ottobre del 1...

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The moment it first occurs to me that Catania is Italy’s most underrated city, I’m zooming along the Ionian coast on the back of a silver scooter as my new friend Daniele steers us toward a stretch of shoreline called the Cyclops Riviera. Daniele is a philosophy grad student I met while wandering around the University of Catania, part of which is h...

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What sounds like the title of an antique print from the Renaissance becomes a reality in Los Angeles. In the setting of the unique and charming Beverly Hills Hotel one of the most antique arts of Sicily, interpreted by Di Pasquale Guthmann in a contemporary joyful style, will be presented on March 20-21 from 3-8 pm.  Each piece is unique and handcr...

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Sauternes, Tokay, Vin Santo. The great dessert wines of the world all offer inimitable charms. While I’ve had occasion to enjoy many in their place of creation, I’ve seldom tasted one that sung so firmly and sweetly of its homeland as Ben Ryé by Donnafugata. From an island positioned between Sicily and North Africa, comes this white passito-style w...

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For some reason, I like to compare cities to beautiful female figures: Turin, which I know very well, is an elegant and haughty princess with a knack for the occult. Venice is coquette, colorful and well aware of her unequalled beauty and Rome, well, Rome is the Empress: with dark-silk hair and covered in gold, she has no age and leaves us all beso...

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The discovery of 6,000-year-old wine traces in a Sicilian cave captured public attention, but for experts the find was even more exciting. Professor Davide Tanasi, who led the team that analyzed the wine, explains why it changes our understanding of ancient Sicilian culture. Monte Kronio rises 1,300 feet above the geothermally active landscape of s...

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Vito LaFata III wants to capture Sicily in a box. Though his first restaurant, Vito's Sicilian Pizzeria & Ristorante, has become an institution in its 23 years of existence, the second-generation pizzaiolo just doesn't feel it fully encapsulates what it's like to be on the island off Italy's boot. The hustle and bustle of casual cafes, the banter w...

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Independent filmmaker Mark Spano, writer, producer, and director of “Sicily: Land of Love and Strife,” has announced the U.S. premiere of his feature-length documentary. The premiere screening will be held in the filmmaker’s hometown, Kansas City, MO., on Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 7:30 p.m., at the Screenland Armour theater. The event is co-sponso...

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