Tormenta bringing back Micaletto
Italian midfielder Marco Micaletto has signed with South Georgia Tormenta FC’s USL League One team, pending league and federation approval. As a starting midfielder for Tormenta’s 2018 League Two team, the Rome native helped the team clinch the Deep South Division championships, scoring 4 goals and completing 2 assists throughout the season. "Marco...
Texas music legend Alejandro Escovedo performs with Italian group this Sunday in Houston
Sunday, January 6, 7:00 p.m., Heights Theater - 339 W. 19th St. - Houston TX 77008. Click here for ticket info. Texas music legend Alejandro Escovedo (above, third from left) is often hailed as one of the greatest singer-songwriters and performers associated with the Austin music scene. His most recent album, "The Crossing," was written and recorde...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Primo Levi's Journey
Thursday, January 24, 2019. 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST. Italian Cultural & Community Center, 1101 Milford St., Houston, TX 77006. RSVP here. The ICCC will present a short lecture and screening of the film "Primo Levi's Journey" as we remember the victims of the Holocaust. Each year on January 27, the United Nations remembers the many people of Jewish or...
2019 Contemporary Italian Film Series
First screening: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 7:00 pm - Fortunata (Lucky) $10 ICCC Members | $15 Non-members. Italian Cultural & Community Center - 1101 Milford St. - Houston, TX 77006. Join us in 2019 for the return of our Contemporary Italian Film Series, recent releases from Italy screened in Italian with English subtitles, all premiering in T...
Q&A: Chazz Palminteri. The actor and writer on the musical version of A Bronx Tale, opening this week at AT&T Performing Arts Center
Proud Italian-American actor, writer and Academy award nominee Chazz Palminteri is excited to have North Texas audiences see the new musical version of A Bronx Tale, the latest incarnation of a personal story that’s become, over the past two decades, his life’s work and legacy. Lucky for us, the musical opens just as the turkey coma should be weari...
The Guild Cinema’s Spaghetti Western Series roars on with the action-packed thriller "The big gundown" (La resa dei conti)
With yet another stunning score by Ennio Morricone! Unofficial lawman John Corbett (the legendary Lee Van Cleef) hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl. Corbett leaves on a long, relentless manhunt during which he gets to know his adversary better and discovers a variation on the crime for wh...
Il documentario ‘Dallas in Prizzi’ del siciliano Luca Vullo premiato al West Texas Film Festival
Dal Texas un riconoscimento per Dallas in Prizzi: il documentario diretto dal regista siciliano Luca Vullo e prodotto dallo psichiatra americano Dave Atkinson, sull’esperienza di contaminazione culturale tra la Sicilia e il Texas, è stato premiato come Best Documentary Film al West Texas Film Festival di Odessa. La giuria della manifestazione cinem...
Gymnast Christina Desiderio
Eighteen-year-old gymnast Christina Desiderio says competing at the 2016 Olympic trials after earning a spot twice on the U.S. national team was by far the highlight of her career. “19,000 people, not a seat empty! Two days that I will never forget,” she says. “I worked for 10 years of my life to try to make it to the 2016 Olympics,” she says. “Tha...
Amanda Pascali Invites Listeners to Follow Love, Resistance and Truth on Still It Moves
Maybe you don’t recognize it, but Amanda Pascali says there’s a love song at the heart of any good political song. “I like to think of my music, especially the political songs, as more of an internal journey than an external one. A lot of folk musicians think they have some duty to speak on issues of human rights and, during this period, immigratio...
Cirque Italia Water Circus performs under tent adjacent to South Plains Mall
Cirque Italia, the first traveling Italian Water Circus, will perform Thursday through Sunday under a large blue and white tent outdoors, located west of the South Plains Mall, 6002 Slide Road, between Premiere Cinemas and Sears. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday; and 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Early...
The Rockets Take Over Giuseppe Zanotti for P.J. Tucker’s Sneaker Launch
THE GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI BOUTIQUE in River Oaks District is already small, but it felt positively cramped Sunday night when some of Houston’s biggest—and tallest—stars came out for the Urchin Rocks sneaker launch. The new special-edition sneaker is a collaboration between the famed Italian luxury designer and Houston Rockets forward P.J. Tucker, a self...
The Dallas Opera Presents FABIANO, HYMEL & POLENZANI
The Dallas Opera is proud to present three of the most sought-after tenors of the 21st century as they perform a tremendously exciting program of classic opera arias, Broadway favorites and American standards. "Fabiano, Hymel, and Polenzani" will take place this spring on Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. (please note special time) in the Margot...