Cinema Made in Italy porta a Los Angeles “Io e Te”, l’ultima fatica di Bernando Bertolucci
Lo scorso 4 luglio, oltre ai festeggiamenti per il Giorno dell'Indipendenza, gli Stati Uniti hanno anche celebrato il ritorno dietro la cinepresa del maestro del cinema italiano contemporaneo, Bernardo Bertolucci. Dopo quasi dieci anni di assenza dalle scene ed oltre trenta dal suo ultimo film in lingua italiana ("La tragedia di un uomo ri...
City Issues Last-Minute Denial For 18th Avenue Feast Date Change, Jeopardizing Event
The Festa di Santa Rosalia, popularly known as the 18th Avenue feast, should be a go this year – but the dates are still up in the air. Organizers and Community Board 11 requested that the 11-day festival be pushed up by one week to avoid ending on Labor Day weekend, which would mean a quicker cleanup after the event. But despite the reque...
Italian royalty to appear in Proper Manors
Proper Manors, the award-winning hit Online drama from Creator Pietro D'Alessio and Head Writer Brandyn Cross, has secured Italian royalty to make an appearance on the hit show. The show, currently available on Blip.tv, Propermanors.tv and Youtube, will see the arrival of "Contessa" Aurora DePatris Fraggiani, playing herself, from Italy, i...
Learn Italian on a gondola ride in Central Park
Sip Italian wine in Central Park on a Venetian Gondola and enjoy an Italian lesson from a native Italian teacher! Price: $60 per student (maximum 5 students) - Reservations required. Fridays at 5pm - 'Conversational' level italian Also available on Thursdays at 7pm -'Everyday Italian Phrases' Placement Tests: Because the Italia...
October Is National Italian Heritage Month, Get Ready to Celebrate Italian Style!
The National Italian American Heritage and Culture Month of October was designated by United States Presidential Proclamation. Coinciding with the festivities surrounding Columbus Day, the proclamation is in recognition of the many achievements, contributions, and successes of Americans of Italian descent as well as Italians in America. Ov...
Union County Columbus Day Flag Raising is Oct. 10 at Courthouse in Elizabeth
Union County Freeholder Chairman Christopher Hudak announced the county's sixth annual Columbus Day Flag Raising event is set for Friday, Oct. 10, at 1 p.m., on the steps of the historic Union County Courthouse. The keynote speaker/guest of honor is Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-06) who has represented central New Jersey in Congress si...
Cranston’s Christiana Rodi stars in Boston production of ‘Aida’
Cranston's Christiana Rodi would love to have appeared at last weekend's Columbus Day Festival on Federal Hill fronting for Ambrosiani, the Italian band she sings with. But she had to be in Boston for a 12-hour tech rehearsal for Tim Rice and Elton John's "Aida," which opens tomorrow for a six-show run at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester. ...
Presentation of "The other Italians" by David Mercaldo - November 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm
"David Mercaldo has a daring new book: ...a herculean task... An important book we must read with a healthy curiosity." -MARIO FRATTI Playwright ("NINE") International Theater Critic "Mercaldo's pen has gone where no other Italian author's pen has ever gone before!" -Italian American Magazine "Among the most controve...
Italy's Ancient Medical Schools: Anatomical Theatres
If you're interested in anatomy, work in the medical profession or, like me, you're always looking for somewhere different to visit, then here's an idea. How would you feel about visiting an anatomical theatre? The anatomical theatre was an institution used in teaching anatomy at early modern universities: vast rooms where students could o...
Italian wine: The blends of Orvieto Classico and Ruffino's history with this wine
WTI Magazine #48 2014 November, 26Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin Translation by: I purchased a bottle of 2012 Orvieto Classico from the well-known producer, Ruffino. This wine is produced in the region of Umbria in the town of Orvieto. Orvieto is located in the southwestern part of the region close to the Lazio region. I was able t...
De Robertis, a New York Great, Bids Farewell
by Lizzie Crocker It is impossible not to feel nostalgic when visiting De Robertis, an Italian pasticceria and cafe in Manhattan's East Village that has been serving coffee, cannoli, and various other powdered sugar-dusted pastries for 114 years. Its charming, storied interior—hand-cut mosaic wall tiles and pressed-tin ceiling; a half-dol...
The Bookstore That Bewitched Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Greta Garbo
When Rizzoli bookshop closed this past year on 57th Street, many people lamented its loss. It was the last really elegant shop of its kind left in Manhattan. But for some of us, while its closing was sad, it was a tempered sadness. After all it wasn't the real Rizzoli bookstore that had opened at 712 Fifth Avenue in the 1960s. That particu...