November 30-December 2: Ifigenia in Aulide
Friday, November 30 & Saturday, December 1 | 7:30pm. ODC Theater, 3153 17th St, San Francisco, CA. Ifigenia in Aulide is an opera composed by Giovanni Porta in 1738 for the Carnival of Munich with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno. Despite the beauty of the music, Ifigenia in Aulide has not been played since its creation. The story of this opera is inspi...
NYC Prep School Debt Boom Leaves Italian Academy in Crisis
Steve Acunto, the chairman of La Scuola d’Italia, a bilingual English-Italian private school in Manhattan, stood on a dais at its annual gala in March 2016 and pointed to an 8-foot model of the school’s new 11-story home near Columbus Circle. The building on West 58th Street would have a nursery school, theater, gymnasium, specialized science facil...
Diego Di Franco e Angela Valentino lanciano negli Stati Uniti “Diego Cortez NYC”
Diego Cortez e Angela Valentino firmano il loro sodalizio professionale all’interno del nuovo brand Diego Cortez New York, che lo scorso ottobre ha esordito alla Los Angeles Fashion Week con la nuova linea donna di costumi da bagno. Una collezione luxury, per il lancio del brand durante la sfilata al The Majestics di Los Angeles, realizzata dall’es...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to replace Columbus Day with holiday for Election day
Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday proposed getting rid of Columbus Day as a holiday and replacing it with a day off for Election Day. It started when Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday night, “how is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?” The Daily Mail’s U.S. political editor David Martosko quote tweeted Ocasio-Cortez on Su...
Soccer history: USMNT VS Italy
It's possible to calculate the USMNT's progress and success through a series of games and milestones tied to various nations around the world. The rivalry with Mexico has defined the US’s growth and success over the past two decades. Games against others such as England, Colombia, and Costa Rica have also come to define the program over the years....
A Haunting Crime: Piazza and Grassadonia's 'Sicilian Ghost Story' recalls a notorious kidnapping
Antonio Piazza was a Palermo-based journalist and Fabio Grassadonia an author and college professor when the two men met at a screenwriting workshop in Turin, Italy. Both were seeking a career change. After collaborating on a project at the workshop, their instructor, an established veteran, invited them to join him in Rome. The duo worked in Itali...
The Art of Cappuccino
Frothy and rich, cappuccino is one of the most popular coffee drinks to date. But how did this beloved coffee get its start? Read on coffee lovers! In Italian, cappuccino literally means "little hood." Legend has it that the popular drink gets its name from the Capuchin friars, who wore hooded robes. Their humble attire had a distinctive reddish-br...
Ducati Names Hudson Valley Motorcycles U.S. Dealer Of The Year
At EICMA 2018, Ducati Motor Holding is pleased to announce that Hudson Valley Motorcycles has been selected as the 2018 Dealer of the Year, America’s region. Located in Ossining, New York, the dealership was chosen based on a commitment to success across sales, service, customer engagement and comprehensive marketing activities. The dealership has...
Friends of the North End Wrap Up Fall Bocce Season
The championship team for the Fall 2018 season was made up of Angelo DiGirolamo, Anthony Gaeta, Richie Delliago and Gaspar Ostuni. Awards were presented to the winning team at a banquet held on Tuesday, November 6th at the Flaming Grill Restaurant in Revere. The Friends are carrying on a long time tradition of playing bocce at the North End Park, t...
North Italia Delivers the Flavor of the Season in Everything, Including Cocktails
If you don’t have the budget to go to Italy to mangia, you can still find unique Italian dishes here in Southern California. North Italia, the modern Italian concept from restaurateur Sam Fox, has locations in Santa Monica, El Segundo and Irvine. Regional brand chef Sam Sleman oversees the innovative menus. He says, “I love to cook because food is...
Navy Corpsman Sam Scardino (Vietnam)
In the thick of battle during the Vietnam War, Sam Scardino was so severely wounded in a landmine explosion that doctors initially thought he had perished in the blast. The second of five children, Samuel Scardino was born in Chicago to Samuel and Doris (Marquardt) Scardino. The family lived in the Italian neighborhood of California and Arthington...
Italian American Fathers and Daughters: Love and Loss
What images come to mind when you think about Italian American fathers? When you think of your dad, the dads you knew around you growing up, and the dads you see today, who is that man? And what does he bring to fatherhood from his own Italian or Italian American culture and tradition? Do you see men actively involved with their kids, playing baseb...