'Love of Pesto' presentation at The Center for Italian American Culture
A love of pesto turned into a thriving business for one couple from Clifton. Robert Silvestri and his wife, Mary, will give a presentation on pesto at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 28, at The Center for Italian & Italian American Culture, 411 Pompton Avenue, lower level, Cedar Grove. The community is invited to the presentation and to sample some...
Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945
The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012). Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-photographer, documented the exhausted, disoriented populations and war-ravaged arch...
A strange road of Materials: An exhibition of the avant-garde work of Licio Isolani
by Eleonora Del Federico The Department of Mathematics and Science at Pratt Institute has organized an exhibition of the avant-garde work of Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, Licio Isolani that he recently donated to the department fulfilling one of his passions: the intersection of Science and Art. Mr. Isolani is a pioneer in the explorati...
Italian Street Painting Marin, CA
By Alysia Gray Painter The heart of Carnevale in Venice is art, and all of art's attending qualities: mystery, beauty, history, joy, mirth, depth. Revelers don colorful, ribbon-bedecked masks as part of the highly visual scene, and feasts for the eyes reign. It can be difficult to summon the spirit of the canal-beautiful town to o...
Frank Lollino - Exceptionally talented coach and renowned high school teacher.
Frank Lollino has always been somebody that was considered as being an overachiever. Chicago native is a very proud Italian-American who was raised in the Galewood community a popular area in northwest Chicago. He and his sister were always raised to be very focused on completing goals in life. His parents Frank and Anna Marie always gav...
Italian stallions: Alfa Romeo rally draws a loyal crowd to Rowley
They arrived Saturday morning, their elegant bodies, chiseled lines and graceful curves harkening back to days gone by as they cruised down local roads on their way to Glynn Motor Sports in Rowley. They are vintage Alfa Romeos, with legendary names like Giulietta, Milano, Spider Veloce, Giulia, and the round-tailed Duetto that made Dustin Hoff...
Ennio Morricone is back for Tarantino’s The Hateful 8 score
by Ben Taylor During this year's massive Comic-Con event, cinema's hero Quentin Tarantino took a moment to announce that he's changing his methods for his upcoming 8th film, spaghetti western The Hateful 8, and rather than taking scores from other films, he has enlisted the help of the legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone to write an...
Vino: crolla la Russia, risorge la Cina, ma l’Italia ringrazia gli Stati Uniti
Trattandosi di vino la battuta potrebbe venire spontanea: rischio bolla per il mercato mondiale? Qualche dubbio produttori e addetti ai lavori cominciano ad averlo. Soprattutto sembra essersi interrotta la cavalcata epocale che in appena cinque anni – tra il 2009 e il 2014 – aveva visto il mercato mondiale crescere addirittura del 122%. Or...
Expo 2015: Cascina Triulza - Civil Society Pavilion
WTI Magazine #66 2015 August, 21Author : Expo 2015 Translation by: The Cascina Triulza is a typical historical architectural structure of the Lombardy region that has been completely restructured. The Cascina Triulza is an ancient farmhouse which was already standing in that part of the territory where the Exposition Site is built. T...
Westlake shoe repairman celebrated as best cobbler in North America: My Ohio
by Leon Bibb In a little shop in Westlake, Ohio, the hands of Glenn DiMauro seem to never stop. He is surrounded by mountains of shoes of all types. One by one, his hands pick up items which have been on many hundreds of sets of feet. DiMauro is a cobbler of extraordinary ability. So much so, he has been recognized by the Sho...
VMF Stages 3rd Annual Commemoration of Congressman Vito Marcantonio’s Life and Work with a People’s Pilgrimage to East Harlem on the Occasion of Pope Francis’ Visit on Saturday, Sept. 19 at noon on Lucky Corner
Join the Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF) for A Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Vito Marcantonio that brings the legacy of the progressive seven-term U.S. Congressman home to East Harlem on our 3rd Annual Commemoration of his life and work on Saturday, September 19 at noon (raindate: Sunday, September 20, 2015). Within a 20-block radius of what was Ita...
Food Notes: Mercer County Italian American Festival slated for Sept. 25-27
By Susan Sprague Yeske Great Italian food is just about everywhere in Mercer County, but finding a large variety of options in one place is rare. But you can find just that for three days during the Mercer County Italian American Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Mercer County Park in West Windsor. Casual foods will include...