Patti Page, Honey-Voiced ’50s Pop Sensation, Dies at 85
Patti Page, the apple-cheeked, honey-voiced alto whose sentimental, soothing, sometimes silly hits like “Tennessee Waltz,” “Old Cape Cod” and “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?” made her one of the most successful pop singers of the 1950s, died on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif. She was 85.
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January 1, 2013
“2013 Year of (north) Italian Culture in the United States”... Northern Italian Cultural Hegemony foisted on American Terroni
Neapolitan Pino Aprile wrote, in his ground breaking cultural history of southern Italy “Terroni” ....“Through a cultural lobotomy, the South was deprived of its self-awareness.” ....Similarly, ‘Italy in US 2013’ is the most recent incision in the ongoing Southern Italian historical and cultural lobectomy.
Addio, signora d'altri tempi. Nostra Italia ideale
Si è spenta Roma Rita Levi Montalcini, premio Nobel per la Medicina nel 1986. Nominata senatrice a vita nel 2001, aveva 103 anni. Con lei se ne va una figura esile e forte allo stesso tempo, quanto mai attuale e proiettata al futuro, cosmopolita e innamorata del suo Paese
Happy New Italian Year in an Auspicius Way...
Families and friends usually gather to await the new year and have a merry feast all together. Of course food plays an important role. Lentils are always present in the traditional Italian Cenone di Capodanno; in fact they symbolize money and good fortune for the coming year... and an important piece of advice: don’t forget to wear your red underwear on New Year’s Eve!
IAWA Welcomes Jonathan Galassi and Jane Tylus on Saturday, January 12, 2013
The three rules of IAWA: Read One Another, Write or Be Written,
and Buy Our Books.
The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) presents writers Jonathan Galassi and Jane Tylus on Saturday, January 12, 2013, at the Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street in New York City’s West Village, (212-989-9319); www.corneliastreetcafe.com. The reading takes place from 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. and kicks off with Open Mic readings of five minutes after which the featured writers take the stage.
Happy New Year with Rosanna's Lentils Recipe
In Italy, eating lentils on New Year's Eve traditionally symbolizes the hope for a prosperous new year. So are you ready to cook with Rosanna?
Italian New Year’s Eve’s menu: zampone or cotechino and other lucky recipes
After panettone vs pandoro, in these days, in Italy, there’s a new challenge, the one between sausages and pig’s trotters. It seems that Italians prefer the first one, by the way, we are talking about two equal historical dishes (porks’meat called in Italy “zampone” was invented by a chef in 1511!) really loved in Bel Paese. But it’s not all: in Italy, make a chose between one of the two recipes is really important and, in very way, they both have to be accompanied by lentils. The reason? Alwalys in Italy, they bring “good luck“. Finally, in Italian tradition also eating grapes and pomegranate is foundamental to begin at the best 2013, but this is another story…
Silvio Berlusconi agrees £80,000-a-day divorce deal
The former Italian prime minister agreed to payments totalling €36 million a year (£29.4 million) to Miss Lario but successfully argued against her claims on the bulk of his fortune, including the family property portfolio and his business interests.
Nobel Scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini Dies in Rome
Italian neurologist Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986 died at her home in Rome. She was 103. Rome's mayor says biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution, and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, has died at her home in the city. She was 103.
It's A Wonderful (Italian-American) Life
We think of It's a Wonderful Life as a great American movie, a great Jimmy Stewart movie, a great Frank Capra movie — and, of course, as a great Christmas movie. We don't think of it as a great Italian-American movie.
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