Curzio Malaparte: The cruelty of literature book launch
Tuesday September 24 2019 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. Center for MOdern Italian Art - 421 Broome Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013. CIMA is thrilled to host a book launch and conversation with the author of “Curzio Malaparte: The cruelty of Literature,” Franco Baldasso and NYRB translator and novelist Jenny McPhee. Curzio Malaparte is today at the cen...
IL VOLO Announce New Album 10 Years - The Best Of, To Be Released November 8 - Available Now For Preorder
IL VOLO announce the global release of their new album 10 Years – The Best of (Sony Music) on November 8. Available for preorder now, the new album celebrates the trio's 10-year anniversary and pays homage to the career of three unique voices that have crossed national borders, selling millions of records, and climbed rankings worldwide. The albu...
Trattoria Romana raises the bar in Johnston
Chef Luciano Canova has raised the bar for fine Italian dining in Rhode Island, taking his high standards and homemade Italian recipes to Johnston. I told two friends who had eaten at Trattoria Romana in Lincoln and they both described the restaurant as “authentic.” They moment you walk through the door, you know that you are in a special place, a...
L’Erasmus delle startup promosso a New York
Le startup italiane crescono a NewYork. Migliora la loro qualità: idee, business plan, atteggiamento. Lo dimostra l’esperienza delle sette startup che da luglio si stanno “allenando” all’ERA, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator di New York. Partecipano al Global Startup Program, creato mesi fa dal Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico italiano e dall...
EWTN's "Mother Cabrini" Film To Be Screened at Italian Parliament
"Mother Cabrini," an EWTN original film produced by CRISTIANA Video, will be screened by the Chamber of Deputies at the Palazzo Montecitrorio in Rome at 4 p.m. local time, Sept. 24. (Italy's Chamber of Deputies is equivalent to the U.S. House of Representatives or Britain's House of Commons.) The event will feature the premiere of the Italian-dubbe...
Rustico Italian brick oven pizza a find in Mattapoisett
I got a find for you. I’m sure many have beaten me to the punch, but Rustico, which has been open for some 15 months in some incarnation, provided my wife and I, and even our little dude Cooper, with our best meal in several months. Rustico -- pronounced Roo-stico -- first started offering takeout brick-oven pizza along with salads, sandwiches and...
From Brooklyn to Jersey: A Reading & Talk on Memoir and Place
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 7:00pm. The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301. Register Now. Bordighera Press Authors Kathy Curto (Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood) and Maria Giura (What My Father Taught Me) Will Read From Their Books About Growing Up Italian-American And Discuss th...
No License Required For This Tiny Vespa
Vespa has launched a new set of mini scooters aimed at bringing more people into the two-wheeled fold. The lineup of 50 cc scooters will be speed limited to 30 mph, allowing them to be ridden with only a driver’s license in 16 states. That means if you live in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ne...
Pizza & Pasta Northeast 2019 Offers Aisles of Profit Strategies At Atlantic City Event
As an avid golfer who travels the world, Bill Oakley understands the nuances of course management. In each case as he has traversed the challenges of Scotland’s toughest links or navigating the challenges of Pebble Beach, the veteran show executive knows that on the course, success is based on reacting to change. It is with that very same spirit th...
Roberto Ferri's masterful eye
Caravaggio, David, Ingres, Girodet, Géricault, Gleyre, Bouguereau… these are only some of the artists Roberto Ferri considers as his inspiration. Born in Taranto in 1978, according to Maurizio Calvesi – one of the many critics he has deeply impressed – this Sicilian painter “truly has a striking ability to build, even technically, his icons of phys...
Musical "They Call it Gravy; WE Call it SAUCE!
The original musical about Sicilians, Neapolitans and Jewish Businessmen titled, "They Call it Gravy; WE Call it SAUCE!" has scheduled its final three performances in New Jersey on October 11-13 at the Brook Arts Center before it crosses the Hudson. "They Call it Gravy; WE Call it SAUCE!" tells the story of Rosa, a second-generation Sicilian living...
Cabaret queen Marieann Meringolo
The mere mention of New York City, Broadway and cabaret conjures a world of glitz, entertainment and glamor. Perhaps that’s why, despite the ascent of digital forms of entertainment, the cabaret tradition has continued to thrive in what Frank Sinatra so proudly sang about as the “city that doesn’t sleep.” As much as anyone, Marieann Meringolo repre...