Brevettano i tramezzini negli Usa, tre veneti conquistano New York
L’inizio è stato una battuta: «Ma perché in America nessuno fa i tramezzini?». Perché, pur essendoci migliaia di bar, paninoteche o simili, non si vede quel «sorriso» di ingredienti tra le due fette di pane bianco del famoso «sandwich» che deve il suo nome addirittura a Gabriele D’Annunzio? E così il 38enne Filippo Paccagnella, da dieci a New York,...
Pirandellian Los Angeles
When: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024- Organized by : IIC In collaboration with : University of Texas, Austin and UCLA Departments of Italian. Entrance : Free. RSVP mandatory. RSVP HERE. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Pirand...
Vito Acconci, Audacious Artist and Experimental Architect, Dies at 77
Artist and architect Vito Acconci died today from a stroke at the age of 77. For a little under two decades, Acconci produced strikingly original and impressionable art, before abandoning it for experimental architecture and design. Later in life, Acconci would say he hated the word “artist.” Last year, in a New York Times profile ahead of his 2016...
Sacred Concerts: the Life of Alessandro Scarlatti, The “Grandfather” of Classical Music
Alessandro Scarlatti was born on May 2, 1660 in either Palermo or Trapani, Sicily, at that time part of the Kingdom of Sicily. Nothing is known of his early musical education. In 1672 he was sent to live with a relative in Rome. It is generally believed by modern scholars that while there he was schooled by the composer Giacomo Cassini. It is also...
Sat, May 20 - Italian Family History Day with New England Historic Genealogical Society
Italian Family History Day. Saturday, May 20, 2017. 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, Inc., 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Featuring keynote speaker, Mary Tedesco,co-host of Genealogy Roadshow Knowing our ancestors is essential to knowing ourselves. As Italian-Americans, we each inherit a rich personal family h...
Deana Martin Brings Dean While Sal Scognamillo Brings Patsy's Italian Restaurant To The Ciccone Theatre
Deana Martin performs this tribute show to her father Dean Martin all over the country, but last night it was a special performance at The Ciccone Theatre in New Jersey. The evening also honored the Scognamillo family's world famous Patsy's Italian Restaurant, the place that Frank, Dean, and families called their New York City home. The evening was...
Eugenia Paulicelli (Director of Fashion Studies tracks in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at CUNY)
When we think about Made in Italy, the first word that comes to our mind is Fashion. It is an important part of the Italian lifestyle, and it represents some of the best talents of we, the Italians. I've been searching for somebody who could explain to us and our readers why is that, and how this influenced the relationship between Italy and the US...
Leonardo da Vinci awards celebrate Italian heritage
Two Kankakee County Italian-Americans residents, Jeff Bruno and Joe Armenise, will be honored with Leonardo da Vinci awards. The da Vinci awards, given by the Sons of Italy in America, honor Italian-Americans for achievement. This year, Bruno and Armenise are among a dozen recipients from Illinois and Wisconsin to be honored at a ceremony at White...
Vice President Jerry Onnembo to be Honored by National Council
Wood Ridge Police Sergeant and Italian American Police Society of New Jersey Vice President Jerry Onnembo will be honored at the National Council Awards Dinner on May 9th in Brooklyn. The National Council is comprised of organizations like the Italian American Police Society of New Jersey from throughout the nation representing more than 100,000 It...
Brothers bring Italian authenticity to Pappalecco cafes
Ten years ago today, Pappalecco was born in San Diego with its first cafe in Little Italy. This month, the company’s founders — Tuscany-raised brothers Francesco and Lorenzo Bucci — are celebrating their company’s recent expansion into North County. In January, they opened a location in Del Mar Heights and on May 3, they’ll host a grand opening par...
Joe Mantegna — life has been lucky for him, and us by association
The first time I saw Joe Mantegna in the flesh he was in the flesh, naked as a newborn baby on stage at the Shubert Theatre in a 1969 production of "Hair." It was his first professional acting job in what is now nearly 50 years of steady and acclaimed work on stage, in films and on television. "I have been very lucky," he says on the phone from Cal...
Genoa Isn’t Rome or Florence. That’s Part of Its Charm.
Why do so few people visit Genoa? I ask this question every time I visit the Italian city. Two summers ago, I heard one of the best answers from Mitchell Wolfson Jr., an American who moved to Genoa in 1968 and is the founder of the Wolfsoniana, a museum of decorative and propaganda arts in nearby Nervi. “Verdi put it best,” Mr. Wolfson said. “‘Popo...