"Le donne italo-americane del Connecticut", l'ultimo libro del fotografo Anthony Riccio
Lo scrittore e fotografo italo-americano Anthony V. Riccio, dedica il suo ultimo libro alle donne. Da sempre impegnato nel recupero di quella memoria storica di donne e di uomini, soprattutto del nostro Sud, strappati ai loro territori da povertà e fame e delle loro nuove vite in America, Anthony Riccio, si concentra in questo ultimo lavor...
Alla Farnesina “Lazio International” con il Ministro Mogherini
Mercoledì prossimo, 26 marzo, la Farnesina ospiterà l'evento "Lazio International", promosso dalla Regione Lazio per la presentazione delle linee guida delle politiche regionali di internazionalizzazione del proprio sistema produttivo. I lavori saranno aperti dagli interventi del Ministro degli Esteri Federica Mogherini e del Presidente de...
Two Stolen Paintings Are Found in Italy
In 1975, a factory worker at Fiat, the Italian carmaker, bought two colorful paintings for about $70 at an auction in Turin of objects left unclaimed by train passengers. For years, they hung on his kitchen wall. One was a still life with fruit and a small dog, the other showed a woman in white seated in a verdant garden. Read mor...
Italian navigator Christopher Columbus named world's greatest explorer
Christopher Columbus, the Italian-born navigator who initiated European exploration and colonization of the American continents, has been named the world's greatest expolrer according to Daily Mail. Widely credited with the discovery of America, Columbus gained financing for the voyage through the Queen of Spain. Read more Fonte:...
Carnevale with the Vaudo Clan
by James Pasto "Ravioli, meatballs and sausage, holy smoke.Carnevale, scunzalata and Grampa's donkey joke.Oh, we eat a lot and we laugh a lot and do everything that we can,A credit to old Carnevale is Grampa Vaudo's clan". The above refrain is recited every year as part the pre-Lenten celebratory meal of the multi-generational Vaudo clan....
Initial Town Halls completed
The first signatures of the incorporation petition were gathered last week after hosting 3 back-to-back town halls in the proposed Little Italy boundary at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Martindale Church, and Soul's Anchor Church and is a good, solid start to this historic petitioning process. Forty-seven voters living in the area...
345 Caffe Italiano: Casual Italian Fare in Coral Gables
by Cassie Glenn As seems to be the trend these days, 345 Caffe Italiano opened almost a year ago but celebrated its official "grand opening" last month. From the outside, it looks almost too manufactured to be decent. With the restaurant logo and pictures of food plastered across the red and white tables and walls, it resembles a...
Alberto Mesirca on classical guitar
This voyage through the world of the classical guitar, taking us from the discovery of a very important manuscript dating from 1565 found in the archive of the Cathedral of Castelfranco to Angelo Gilardino's contemporary music, sheds light on the many souls of the guitar. Among the most fascinating, mysterious and introspective of instrume...
Italian startup Authorea brings sexy back to science
«I want to bring sexy back to science», says Alberto Pepe, the 34 year old co-founder of Authorea, a startup based in New York City. It's «the collaborative platform for research», reads its website. It's also the first startup created by an Italian that is able to raise money among NYC investors, thanks to the VentureOutNY program that every mont...
Fendi Opens a Soho Pop-Up Shop With Custom Vending Machines
First the myBaguette app, and now a studio apartment-size pop-up shop in Soho with hashtag neon signs: looks like Fendi has finally figured out how to translate their Italian luxury roots into a language millennials speak. The brand nonchalantly opened a pop-up inside Wolford's former spot on the corner of Greene and Prince Streets this we...
America's Frank Sinatra Tribute Concert New Jersey
Celebrating the Music of our Band's Encore Reprise Tribute to The USA's - FIRST AMERICAN IDOL, The World's First - International Entertainment ICON&Our Own Garden State NJ - Favorite Son of Music a Jersey Kid from Hoboken with a Dream, Desire, Resilience & Work Ethic DeLauro & Swing Quartet of Hoboken's - The RAT PA...
Joseph Luzzi reads from My Two Italies
Monday, September 22 Luzzi creates a personal portrait of Italy that leaps past clichés, delving into why Italian Americans have complicated relationships with the "old country" and how it is that Italy has produced astonishing and significant art while suffering from corruption, political fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. Wi...