A Difficult Hunt For Authentic Pizza, Even In Italy
One evening in Florence, I had some bold and important investigations to undertake. Namely, I needed to have some pizza. Purely for journalistic purposes, understand. Solely to examine the authentic version in comparison to its American counterpart.
Emotions Ran Deep in Chinaglia's Family
LONDON — It was hard to tell if the sweat running down the chef’s face was from the heat of the kitchen, or from the emotions of watching television, following his son as he played World Cup soccer, far away.
Inventing an Italian Landscape @ Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies Distinguished Visiting Professorship
Italian Academy Distinguished Visiting Professorship in art history, archaeology, and Italian studies at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies is made possible by the Compagnia di San Paolo.
Antonioni 1912/2012: An Homage
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York, the Museum of Moving Image, the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Queens College City University of New York and Cinecittà Luce mark the centenary of the birth of the Italian director with a series of film screenings and educational talks.
April 2, 2012
Seeing Cities Change: Shameless Promotion of My Books Part I
Jerry Krase Carroll Street, Brooklyn 1998
Somethings don't change. Here, at the turn of the 21st Century, is an Italian American village on Carroll Street, Brooklyn near the Gowanus Canal. It is not far from where my wife Suzanne's grandparents, the Giordanos, lived at the turn of the 20th Century.
Seeing Cities Change is one of two of my recently published books that deal in large part with Italy and Italian America.
A Career That Moves in Mysterious Ways
THERE are few things more beautiful than watching Anna Caterina Antonacci suffer. In a production of Berlioz’s “Troyens” filmed in Paris in 2003, Ms. Antonacci, the Italian soprano, plays the haunted Trojan prophetess Cassandra. After the celebratory opening chorus the mood abruptly changes.
Italian mobster condemned by daughter's evidence
Six Italian mobsters have been given life sentences for murdering and dissolving in acid a woman who courageously shared secrets of clan life with the police.
Lea Garofalo, 35, was lured to Milan in 2009 by members of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta – among them her ex-partner and father of her daughter – before being tortured, shot dead and dumped in 50 litres of acid at a rural warehouse.
Italy's Mafia boss caught hiding in 'magic mirror' den
A Mafia fugitive has been caught in Naples after police found him hiding behind a "magic mirror" in a wardrobe that led to a secret hiding place inside his luxury villa.Antonio Cardillo, a 34-year-old alleged crime boss affiliated with the Lo Russo clan of the Naples Camorra, was arrested by officers of the Carabinieri in a raid early Saturday after they discovered a ruse reminiscent of a spy novel. Cardillo had been at large for 18 months but had apparently been living at home with his family in Marano di Napoli on the outskirts of the city.
Italy's Kostner captures gold at Worlds
Carolina Kostner won the gold medal on Saturday at the World Figure Skating Championships.Kostner's victory allowed Italy to win its first-ever women's figure skating gold at Worlds. The 25-year-old Kostner posted a mark of 128.94 in Saturday's free skate to jump from third to first in the overall standings. She won the bronze medal last year and is the reigning European champion.
Filmmakers Look to Change Italy's Treatment of Migrants
ROME — Because it is real, the video is all the more touching. Because it was taken with a mobile phone, the images are jumpy and all-over-the-place, but it’s unlikely that a professionally shot movie would have captured the spontaneity of the joy — and relief — of the boatload of mostly Eritrean migrants rescued by the Italian navy in the Mediterranean after a harrowing four-day crossing from Libya.
PASSINGS: Giorgio Chinaglia
Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, an Italian soccer great who was a star with the New York Cosmos in the 1970s, died Sunday at his home in Naples, Fla., after suffering a heart attack, his family announced.
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