Italian artist’s first solo show in Stamford explores life’s journey
For local artist Anna Badini, life is about constantly seeking, though not for anything in particular. Instead, Badini said it’s the journey, searching and seeing where life takes her, that she finds most fulfilling. “I search as if searching is living, is life,” she said. “And, I am attracted to anything that is meaningful, that has an emotional o...
Villa Tronco: Historic Italian (and Oldest) Restaurant in South Carolina
My new book, Authentic Italian: The Real Story of Italy’s Food and Its People, debunks myths about Italian food in the United States. One of those myths is that returning GIs from World War II brought pizza back from Italy to America and that’s how pizza became popular in America. DEBUNKED. Pizza was already here–brought by the Italian immigrants o...
How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing
Among the Italian filmmakers who achieved international prominence in the decades after World War II, Luchino Visconti possessed perhaps the sharpest historical insight and the keenest literary appetite. The 14 features he directed between 1942 and his death, in 1976, included adaptations of books by Dostoyevsky, Camus and Mann, a biopic about King...
The IAA to Celebrate Father’s Day with the 2nd Annual “Big Four Bridge Walk & Brunch”—June 16, 2018
Come out and get some fresh air and exercise while walking the Big Four Bridge with members of the IAA and their family members and friends. On June 16, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., the IAA will be gathering at the base of the Big Four Bridge in Jeffersonville, IN. Our plan is to start the walk at 10:00 a.m. The bridge has various benches along the way...
Raddoppia il turismo enogastronomico in Italia: impatto economico oltre i 12 miliardi
Raddoppia in un anno il turismo enogastronomico in Italia. Oltre 110 milioni di presenze nel 2017, il doppio rispetto al 2016, motivate proprio dal turismo enogastronomico. La loro spesa ha superato i 10 miliardi. Il punto sull’argomento è arrivato da Isnart-Unioncamere, che nel rapporto presentato a Bari all'open day Coldiretti, ha stimato un impa...
St. Anthony's Feast Days returns to Endicott's Northside this weekend
The food is prepped, the flags are flying and the party for northside paisans is about to get underway. The 28th annual Saint Anthony's Bazaar takes place Friday through Sunday at the church located at 306 Odell Avenue in Endicott. The event pays homage to the Patron Saint, and includes a street festival celebrating the Italian heritage. New this y...
Dr. Mary C. Rorro and Dr. Gilda Rorro are recipients of the prestigious New Jersey State Governor's Jefferson awards
Each year the New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Awards highlight the spirit of civic engagement among New Jersey’s 1.5 million volunteers and provide Jefferson Awards medals in 22 categories of volunteer service. The 2018 New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Awards presentation ceremony and celebration of volunteerism was held at the War Mem...
Fresco Pasta brings Italian fare to Logan Square
A new Italian spot has opened its doors in the neighborhood. Located at 3706 W. Armitage (between Lawndale and Ridgeway avenues) in Logan Square, the new arrival is called Fresco Pasta.This new addition offers pizzas by the slice or the pie. Try the Louisiana Spicy Barbecue Chicken pizza, with bacon, onions and spicy barbecue sauce, or the Deliciou...
La Dante per l'opera lirica patrimonio UNESCO
La Dante promuove la petizione "Il Belcanto e l'Opera Lirica Italiana" a Patrimonio Unesco, lanciata dall’on. Pecoraro Scanio. La candidatura verrà lanciata per la prima volta all’estero oggi, giovedì 7 giugno, alle ore 11.30, presso la Scuola Italiana a Tirana, in Albania, primo Centro della Società Dante Alighieri nel mondo. A Tirana ci sarà lo s...
Little Italy Festa takes the place of Festa Italiana
Festa Italiana on Taylor Street is being replaced this year by Little Italy Festa (Aug. 16-19), presented by Onesti Entertainment. Star Events, which puts on festivals around the city, took over Festa Italiana in 2014 from Onesti Entertainment, which is run by events producer and Little Italy native Ron Onesti. Onesti created the original festival...
The Ferrari Collector’s Art Edition Book
The Art Edition, of which only 250 exists, is raised by a specially designed sculpture inspired by the 12-cylinder engine in hand-bent, flared chromed steel. This visual masterpiece has been designed by Marc Newson, and will retail at $30,000. For those who can’t get their hands on the hefty Art Edition, there is also a production of leather-bound...
Dante and The Divine Comedy: He took us on a tour of Hell
“All hope abandon ye who enter here.” That’s the inscription on the gate to Hell in one of the first English translations of The Divine Comedy, by Henry Francis Cary, in 1814. You probably know it as the less tongue-twisting “Abandon hope all ye who enter here,” which is the epigraph for Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, hangs as a warning above...