Calvino's Letters: Insight into the Mind of Italy's Novelist
"Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985" (Princeton University Press, 2013), was presented at NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo in a special program developed by Calvino's daughter, Giovanna Calvino. The 650 letters are filled with insights about Calvino's writing and that of others; about Italian, American, English, and French literature; about literary criticism and literature in general; and about culture and politics.
Berlusconi Expelled From Senate in Italy
ROME — Having spent months manufacturing procedural delays or conjuring political melodrama in hopes of saving himself, Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday could no longer stave off the inevitable: Italy’s Senate resoundingly stripped him of his parliamentary seat, a dramatic and humiliating expulsion, even as other potential troubles await him.
The Joy of Pasta
Food authority Francine Segan comes out with a new book "Pasta Modern, New & Inspired Recipes from Italy", that sets the scene in an Italy that is vibrant, ever-changing, and moving forward and where the hottest, newest, and most unusual pasta dishes, 100 recipes in total, are provided by food bloggers, home cooks, artisan pasta makers, and vanguard chefs
November 27, 2013
"The Johnny Meatballs Experience" Reality Show Coming Soon!
Join Johnny Meatballs, Frankie Antipasto and the rest of his New Jersey foodie friends and family members as they build Johnny's new food truck in hopes of rolling it out for Super Bowl Sunday in The JOHNNY MEATBALLS Experience! This video is a VLOG (video blog) detailing upcoming webisode plots of this hilarious and heartwarming youtube series which will be pitched to major TV networks as a reality show and developed into an independent docu-MEAT-ary. A MOY MOTIONS Production
Ferite a Morte: Serena Dandini scuote New York
Il libro di Serena Dandini “Ferite a Morte” nasce dalla volontà di raccontare storie di donne di tutto il mondo vittime di femminicidio. Vicende con epilogo drammatico, ma narrate anche con un leggero tocco di ironia, per ricordare la quotidianità di queste donne dalla vita tragicamente interrotta. Il volume è stato presentato, con una grande presa sul pubblico, alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò e i monologhi sono stati recitati, da donne provenienti da diversi mondi, in occasione della Giornata Internazionale per l’Eliminazione della Violenza Contro le Donne alle Nazioni Unite
Lella Golfo , Story of a Woman Supporting Other Women
In occasion of the International Day for the elimination of violence against women, Lella Golfo presented at The Italian Cultural Institute of New York “Ad Alta Quota,” the book in which she talks about her battles to support women in affirming themselves at the workplace.
The Politics of Decadence
It has happened. Despite his kicking and screaming that he is the
victim of a coup d'etat promulgated by "red judges", Silvio Berlusconi,
77, was today voted out of the Italian Senate, in a tense roll-call vote late
Wednesday afternoon. "It is a day of mourning for democracy," he declared.
But it is also the opening gambit in a future election campaign, and already
his party, Forza Italia, has formally quit the governing coalition headed by
Premier Enrico Letta of the Partito Democratico (PD).
November 26, 2013
Return to Fiornao
Charles Scicolone
Alessia Antinori in the Wine Celler
Alessia Antinori has Restored Her Grandfathers' Estate
L’amore di Goffredo Palmerini per l’altra Italia
Nota d’introduzione al nuovo volume di Goffredo Palmerini “L’Italia dei Sogni” (One Group Edizioni) del docente in un’università del Colorado (Usa)
In Search of the Italian Identity
Ilica, Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance, organized a conference at John Jay College about the Italian identity and its significance in today’s world
November 24, 2013
A Day, or so, in the Life of Jerry Krase, De Blasio Campaign Volunteer
Jerry Krase
Park Slope Bill De Blasio Get Out the Vote Campaign Headquarters
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn began Ivan’s bitterly cold and dark day as a forced laborer in a Gulag camp; mine began a bit more leisurely on a brilliantly warm and sunny Tuesday morning in Super-gentrified Park Slope, and there the similarity almost ends. Spending even a little time to help my fellow half-Italian Park Slope neighbor become at least the fourth Mayor with Brooklyn roots was well worth the effort. This is the third in what will be a continuing series of more and less critical observations of how promised progressive policies will or will not remake The Big Apple.
Miss Italia finalist busted in Milan for drug trafficking
A Miss Italia beauty queen was busted as part of an alleged international cocaine trafficking ring, police said. Samantha Scarlino, 32, was detained in a Milan hotel this week after being accused of delivering cash from Italy to drug cartel bosses in Peru.
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