Basket, Datome e la sua America «Un mondo speciale. Roma? Vincerà»
Datome, com'è stato l'impatto con la Nba sul campo?«Bellissimo. Quando si gioca a basket è sempre meraviglioso. Poi farlo in queste arene e in mezzo a tanti campioni è assolutamente fantastico». Cosa prova, anche se lo aveva preventivato, a non giocare tanti minuti?«Non piace a nessuno guardare, tantomeno a me. So però per certo che tanti giocator...
Casey Urges Italy to Keep Philadelphia's Italian Consulate Open
U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced that he has sent letters to Italian officials, especially President Napolitano and Foreign Minister Bonino, urging the country to keep its Philadelphia consulate open. Recently, Italy announced that it was considering closing the consulate. In his letter, Senator Casey cited the critical role that th...
Verdi's Greatest Hits
Ciao, Amici, here are the details of the Santa Barbara Symphony's concert dedicated to the music of Giuseppe Verdi. It will be a lovely event. Lots of good melodious and passionate music and, VERDIto make things even better, incredibly low ticket prices. We thought we would add the option of a lovely pre-concert dinner at the well-known Santa Barba...
Late Canova sparkles at New York Met
By Emily Backus The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is exhibiting the spiritual side of two Italian masters this month. After the January 14 opening of a show of four private devotional paintings by Piero della Francesca (1412-1492) - called Close Encounters - the Met just put on show the last seven works of the iconic neoclass...
Write the story of the neighborhood!
History Press, a traditional book publisher of local and regional history, has contacted the Promotion Center for Little Italy in the hopes of finding a writer who is an integral part of the Little Italy community to pen a book on the history of the neighborhood. They seek an historian/author and are open to first-time authors. "Hopefully...
Carmella food truck dishes out good Italian on the streets of Jersey City
Specialty food trucks have not always been welcomed in New Jersey; good luck finding one in Bergen County, for example. Jersey City, Newark, Hoboken and Montclair have the most active food truck scenes, but food trucks in general have run into opposition from officials and brick-and-mortar restaurants around the state. Read more...
Internazionalizzazione delle imprese pugliesi: il mercato USA
Si svolge mercoledì 12 marzo a Bari nella sala convegni di Confindustria Bari e BAT il workshop "Stati Uniti d'America: un mercato in forte ripresa sul quale investire" promosso dall'American Chamber of Commerce in Italy e dal Consolato Generale degli Stati Uniti d'America e organizzato in collaborazione con il Council of American States in Europe...
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival welcomes Gabriele Carcano
Gotta be Italy, right?After all, Gabriele Carcano, if you haven't guessed from the name, is Italian. And, although he's not Italian, Newburyport Chamber Music Festival artistic director David Yang has been flying over to Italy usually at least twice a year, performing at Incontri a Canna and Ischia, two international chamber music festivals, both i...
Come Here, Look Back, Move Forward
The choreographer Stephen Petronio does not like to go backward. He says that moving in reverse — say, on a train — makes him feel mentally disturbed and physically ill. Nevertheless, there is a lot of backward in his life these days. At 58, he has written a memoir. A lovingly rendered account of an Italian-American childhood in suburban N...
Italian flavors: Asparagus festival, Mesola
WTI Magazine #26 2014 Apr, 18Author : folclore.it Translation by: The green asparagus from Mesola, in the Po Delta, is one of the finest in the area. The land of sand with little humus on the surface and the climate have created the ideal environment for the spread of the asparagus in these territories.
Fun, charity the hallmarks of May's Italian-American Fishing Rodeo in Hopedale
By Todd Masson, NOLA.com The Italian-American Fishing Rodeo is one of the few things in life that is truly a win-win. Participants get to catch some fish, eat good food and have a blast, and Children's Hospital gets some money out of the deal. This year's rodeo is scheduled for May 16-17 at Breton Sound Marina in Hopedale. The cap...
New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera to Hold Open Auditions for La Bohème, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor
New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Artistic Director Lucine Amara invites soloists in all vocal categories to audition for roles in the professional opera company's 2014-2015 productions. New Jersey residents are encouraged to apply.Solo roles are available in the company's new productions of Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, Georges Bizet's Carmen...