October 12, 2013
Italiese: It's Not Just for Immigrants Anymore
As the use of italiese continues to increase in contemporary Italy, it's important to reflect on the humbler origins of this fascinating and often amusing language form.
New York ricorda Luciano Pavarotti
E' prima di una serie di iniziative culturali prodotte da ArtsLab OnStage. Il 19 prossimo, con “Voices of Italy”, Nicoletta Mantovani, vedova del grande tenore, porta al New York City Center (31 W. 55th St. ore 8 pm) “Belcanto: the Luciano Pavarotti Heritage”. Abbiamo parlato con lei dell'evento e della fondazione che lei stessa ha fondato
October 11, 2013
Stereotypes of Death
An extraordinary circumstance that reveals the myth making is death. It is the clashing cymbals of who we are in the eyes of the world. It is also a time when the cultural stereotypes we choose seep through the diverse manifestations of self.
New York Remembers Luciano Pavarotti
Nicoletta Mantovani, widow of the Italian opera legend, who in 2007 established the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation, brings a special event titled “Voices of Italy,” to New York. I-Italy interviewed her
Enzo Avitabile - Music Life
Now in New York Cinemas, Enzo Avitabile Music Life, a documentary film directed by Jonathan Demme, produced by Davide Azzolini for Dazzle Communication and co-produced by Antonio Monda, is a must see. The film tells the story of the Neapolitan multifaceted artist, Enzo Avitabile. His eclectic background is explored through the streets of his native Naples. We asked Antonio Monda for some details.
October 9, 2013
Johnny Meatballs Coming To Overpeck Park This Sunday Oct. 13
Breakfast & Lunch at the Horse Stables
Mario Balotelli Is Italy's Natural Heir to Roberto Baggio
The more you observe the two Italian superstars, the more you start to see all of their uncanny resemblances. Mario Balotelli is the natural heir to Roberto Baggio both domestically and on the Italian national team.
Much ado about Italy
What's the attraction?
In all likelihood, Shakespeare never set foot in Italy. Yet the country exerted a powerful hold on his imagination and of his 38 plays, 13 are either wholly or partially set on Italian soil: Romeo and Juliet act out their tragic passions in Verona, Shylock demands his pound of flesh in Venice, Julius Caesar conspires and falls in Rome.
In all likelihood, Shakespeare never set foot in Italy. Yet the country exerted a powerful hold on his imagination and of his 38 plays, 13 are either wholly or partially set on Italian soil: Romeo and Juliet act out their tragic passions in Verona, Shylock demands his pound of flesh in Venice, Julius Caesar conspires and falls in Rome.
Back on Italy squad, Rossi taking it step by step
Now that Giuseppe Rossi is back on Italy's squad, he doesn't plan to make the same mistake he made two seasons ago.Rossi acknowledged on Tuesday that one of the reasons why he re-injured his right knee in April 2012, was because he was pushing too hard to return from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in time for that year's European Championship.
Hundreds of bodies unpacked from sunken migrant ship in Italy
Deep sea divers "unpacked a wall of people" from the hull of a smuggler's trawler on the sea floor near this Italian island on Monday, gingerly untangling the dead would-be migrants in the latest and most painstaking phase of a recovery operation following the ship's fiery capsizing.
On the Path of Abstract Realism
A student of Gastone Biggi, Giorgio Kiaris continues his master’s manifesto, experimenting with the synthesis of abstract and figurative painting, through swirling weaves of marks and colors. The paintings of Giorgio Kiaris will be exhibited for the first time in New York at the S. Artspace Gallery, 345 Broome Street. The exhibit, titled "Cromografie" will be open to the public from 9 October 2013 to 31 October 2013, from 6PM to 8PM.
Fratti's The Vatican Knows (About the Kidnapping of that Young Woman)
Playing at the the Theater for the New City until October 20, Mario Fratti's latest is a personal vision of a possible scenario in which terrorists plot to kidnap a young woman who lives at the Vatican to blackmail the Pope
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