'An Unlikely Union': Paul Moses on the urban drama of New York's Irish and Italians
Few American cities, with the possible exception of Chicago, do urban ethnic drama like New York. In the late 19th century and into the 20th, Gotham's Italians and Irish mixed it up in a prizefight for power, influence and access. Pint-size pol Fiorello La Guardia battled debonair James W. Walker in mayoral politics, while Frank Sinatra jo...
City hosting Italian festival
by Dave Lavender On any given Saturday, Huntington gets all rolled up in the green and white. Make that the green, white and red this Saturday. Downtown Huntington will be the Italian place to be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday as the Italiano! Italian Festival will roll out the meatballs, the pasta and family fun on 4th...
Local Veteran Is Honored By Avon UNICO Chapter
by Ken Byron William "Bill" Newman, a resident and veteran who has devoted many hours to recording the histories of people from Avon who have served their country in wars overseas, has been named by the town chapter of UNICO as its citizen of the year. UNICO announced on Friday that the annual award is going to Newman and he will...
I 10 paesi fantasma più suggestivi d’Italia
Nel 1950 le località di Resia e Curon vengono artificialmente allagate per creare un lago atto alla produzione d'energia idroelettrica. Tutti gli edifici vengono rasi al suolo eccetto il campanile della Chiesa di Santa Caterina, che ancora oggi emerge dalle acque del Lago di Resia, diventando una famosa attrazione turistica. Curiosità: Il vec...
Cena di benvenuto per il nuovo console generale d’Italia a Miami, Gloria Marina Bellelli
Nell'elegante ristorante italiano "Arturo's" di Boca Raton si è svolta la manifestazione in onore del nuovo console generale d'Italia a Miami, la dott.ssa Gloria Marina Bellelli. Erano presenti la senatrice Maria Sachs, col marito Peter, il prof. Luigi Tommasini, marito della console generale, l'ex console Pasquale Centracchio e circa un centi...
Nuovo orario al Consolato di Miami
Novità nell'orario di apertura del Consolato italiano a Miami. Dal 1 ottobre il Consolato rimarrà chiuso al pubblico il giovedì. Per i restanti giorni della settimana è confermato l'orario di apertura attualmente in vigore: Lunedi, Martedì e Venerdì - dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 12.00; Mercoledì - dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 12.00 e dalle ore 15.00 alle o...
Learning Italian at the Metropolitan Opera
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...
What is a Vernacular? How Dante invented Italian
Albert Russell Ascoli, Terrill Dis-tinguished Professor, teaches in the Department of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley. His principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and Early Modern Italian culture from the 13th to the 16th centuries. He is the author of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge University Press, 2008).&nb...
Ferlinghetti graces opening of new Italian center digs
by Tony Bravo With real estate at a premium in San Francisco, there's been a lot of creative repurposing of spaces in the city of late, especially in the arts. This was evident at the grand reopening of the Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) on Wednesday in Opera Plaza. Previously in North Beach, this center...
The Search for our Ancestry (XVIII)
By Angelo Coniglio Often, I have had more luck finding facts in the Mormon microfilms than I've had by trying to contact Sicilian towns or churches by mail, e-mail, or even by personally visiting the town. But after a trip to Sicily, I learned a lesson about primary records. The names below have been changed, but the story is factual. &nb...
UNICO to induct five into Baseball and Softball Hall of Fame
UNICO of Pittsfield, a non-profit Italian-American service organization, will induct five Berkshire County athletes into the UNICO Berkshire County Baseball and Softball Hall of Fame on Friday at 6 p.m. at the Berkshire Hills Country Club. Those to be inducted include Randy Driscoll, a four-year member of the Lee High School baseball team...
AUR’s first ‘Parents’ Weekend’ and Thanksgiving Dinner a huge success
AUR hosted it's first (of many, we hope) annual Parents' Weekend and Thanksgiving Dinner between the 26th and 28th of November and it was a truly rewarding and enjoyable undertaking. It's not just us saying that either; ""It is great to see" said Michael Hook (parent to Lindsey) "how AUR has organized itself in providing not only good education to...