America's Little Italys
A unique book that details the Italian American immigration experience and the creation of Italian neighborhoods throughout the United States with special emphasis on the recipes and traditions. Includes 83 coveted family recipes of favorite dishes and desserts from some of the best Italian restaurants and specialty shops in America. The presentat...
L'Italo-Americano 2nd Annual Golf Tournament
Join us for our2013 Golf Tournament !Last year's tournament was a huge success! With the help of our Sponsors and Players, we raised over $10,000!!! The proceeds helped L'Italo-Americano recreate a new product open to a new readership. Thanks to you, we created a new, user-friendly website, so you can access the news whenever you want; we gathered...
Celebrating Italian-American Women in History
Did you know that March is Women's History Month? In honor of all the Italian-American women that have shaped the people we've become, whether it be mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters or friends, we're dedicating this blog to the matriarchs that have continued to push our families forward and make the world a better place. To add to the...
Group promotes Italian heritage at open house
PORTSMOUTH — A new association dedicated to promoting Italian-American heritage is hoping for a strong turnout at an open house Sunday, aimed at introducing the group to the public. The Italian-American Heritage Association of Greater Portsmouth will meet in the Levenson Room of the city library from 2 to 4 p.m. April 7. Membership is not...
Italia-Usa: Anno Cultura, Washington celebra De Chirico alla Phillips Collection
Le sculture in bronzo di De Chirico sbarcano alla Phillips Collection di Washington, il primo museo di arte moderna della Capitale. Dopo la mostra di fotografie abbinate alle poesie italiane 'Next Stop Italy', 'Mito e Archeologia nell'opera di Giorgio De Chirico', appena inaugurata, e' stata presentata come un evento di sicuro richiamo nell'ambito...
New York, Erika Dagnino porta il suo “Poetric Music Tour”
NEW YORK – Tre tappe a giugno ed una a luglio. Tutte a New York. Erika Dagnino annuncia il suo "Poetry music tour" oltreoceano, che la vedrà esibirsi il 9 giugno alla Downtown Music Gallery di Lower Manhattan e poi il 15 giugno al Silvana Club di Harlem insieme ai Red Microphone; è invece una formazione diversa quella con cui la cantante e artista...
Jazz musician and educator Marco Pignataro finds his place in Boston
di Briana Palma After 20 years away from his native Bologna, jazz saxophonist and composer Marco Pignataro is finally feeling at home in Boston. But as he discusses his latest album Sofia's Heart – released in late 2011 to critical acclaim – it becomes clear that hasn't always been the case. On an album that Pignataro describes as a "personal musi...
Mona Lisa Restaurant: An Institution for Italian Food and Culture in Little Italy
by Andrew Bagley Known in Italy as La Gioconda, which means "the happy one", Leonardo da Vinci's most famously acclaimed portrait is the Mona Lisa. Interestingly, Mona is a contraction of the formal form Madonna, the equivalent to Madam or My Lady in English. While Leonardo's original masterpiece hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris, y...
Sicily Cancels Major Cleveland Show of Ancient Treasures
Authorities in Sicily have canceled their loan of a collection of important antiquities for a U.S. tour, upending the Cleveland Museum of Art's plans for a major exhibition set to open in September, The Plain Dealer reports. The move comes several weeks after cultural officials in the Italian island province complained to the Getty Museum...
Mario Batali launches Mario by Mary catering line
By Jeanette Settembre Mario Batali's latest venture involves weddings and cocktail parties.Batali has teamed up with New York celebrity catering chef Mary Giuliani to launch Mario by Mary, a customized catering line."Mary and her team make perfecto food all of the time, and I am honored to work with such a savvy and tasty squadron." Batali said in...
Feast fear! 18th Avenue fair faces second cancellation
The 18th Avenue Feast could be on the verge of becoming a famine! Organizers of Bensonhurst's annual Festa di Santa Rosalia say that paperwork problems might cause the last-minute cancellation of the summer-capping street fair this year — and the end of the festival as we know it! Read more Source: http://www.brookly...
Muti conducts Verdi's Macbeth
September 28 - October 6, 2013Chicago Symphony Center ScheduleSaturday, September 28, 7:00pmTuesday, October 1, 7:00pmFriday, October 4, 7:00pmSunday, October 6, 3:00pm Revering Shakespeare above all other playwrights, Giuseppe Verdi based three operas on the Bard's works. His electrifying psychodrama Macbeth was the first, a blood-s...