Giro d’Italia & Il Giro di San Francisc
It doesn't seem to matter what the occasion might be, Italian culture can enrich everything from bicycle tours and races to local community festas all around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Take for instance two bicycle races, Il Giro di San Francisco and Giro d'Italia. (Giro is the Italian word for "Tour".) Bicycle racing and touri...
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine to open at Muscarelle in February
One of only two of Sandro Botticelli's paintings of an isolated Venus will be on view for the first time in the United States, together with other Botticelli mythologies and portraits, in Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting Between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities, a major international loan exhibition organized...
Italian wine: Campania's Volcanic Wines with Fratelli Urciuolo
WTI Magazine #84 2016 October 17Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com Translation by: This month we are exploring volcanic wines from Campania, which I've mentioned before is where my dad's side of the family is from. I have yet to go to his home town of Candida in the village of Avellino, but I will make it t...
Italy is the favorite destination for Chinese, Japanese and Russians
by Silvia Pieraccini Italy has great opportunities for growth in the tourist sector that still need to be exploited, in the south in particular. The level it starts from, however, as figures testify, is not as low as often believed. Our country ranks second in Europe (within the EU-28) in nights spent by international tourists: wi...
This Italian Brand of Distinctive, Lightning-Strike Heels Is Opening New Stores in the U.S.
By Sandra Salibian Baldinini is known for the distinctive lightning strike heels of its premium line, Gimmy Baldinini, and favored by Milan street-stylist stars such as Clara Racz and fashioneditors alike. The Italian shoe and apparel brand that launched in 1910 is continuing to expand into the American market. Closely following t...
Where to eat the Feast of the Seven Fishes in NYC
While a boring old baked ham is traditional Christmas day fare for many, Christmas Eve's eats offer more variety —at least in Italian-American culture. We're referring to The Feast of the Seven Fishes, the traditional Southern Italian, seafood-studded affair served on Christmas Eve. The name is up for interpretation; whether that means sev...
Grande festa di Natale per l'associazione D.I.V.E. di Los Angeles
L'associazione D.I.V.E. di Los Angeles (Donne Italiane che Vivono all'Estero) ha tenuto l'annuale Festa di Natale domenica 11 dicembre presso la sede del Beverly Hills Women's Club (BHWC). Ha inaugurato la serata la cantante jazz Paulette Dozier, accompagnata dal pianista Rich Eames in un repertorio "Gospel" e di classici di Natale, come la cel...
Orsetto gets old-style Italian dishes right
While enjoying Orsetto the other evening I stated emphatically, at least a few times, "I want to eat here every night." I could be exaggerating, but not by much. Partners Joshua Governale and Fred Peightal have given the whimsical pig of Cafe Genevieve a stylish new bear brother at Orsetto. What a delight. The location on Center Street now shines....
Los Angeles: italian and american animated cinema meet
Italian animated cinema meets its American counterpart during a special evening organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles in collaboration with the Animation Department of the California Art Institute of Los Angeles and Cinema Without Borders magazine. A series of Italian shorts, showing the most recent advances in our production,...
Florence: Christmas Music of the Trecento
As the second program of their 2012/13 season, City Ayre: Music of City, Court, and Countryside, the Folger Consort visits Toscana's capital. Hear stirring laude performed along with cheerful dances and polyphonic works of 14th century Florence and Northern Italy in joyous celebration of the season. With vocal ensemble TRIO EOS and guest instrume...
New York, ora Little Italy è nel Bronx
Little Italy, fatti da parte. Il nuovo quartiere dove andare a New York per trovare il sapore autentico dell'Italia è il Bronx. Per la precisione, la zona di Arthur Avenue, nel quartiere Belmont, che secondo i suoi leader ambisce a diventare il prossimo "Village" della città. Per decenni Little Italy ha significato l'area di Manhattan intorno a Mu...
Ravenna after fifteen centuries, march 7th in New York
The city of Ravenna in collaboration with The Italian Academy of New York presents the conference "Ravenna after Fifteen Centuries", a unique initiative on March 7th 2013 to support the city's candidacy for becoming European Capital of Culture in 2019. Ravenna, with a history of more than fifteen centuries and eight UNESCO monuments, is no...