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War on Christmas reaches Italy: Parents, Prime Minister furious after principal cancels holiday concert

The War on Christmas has reached Italy’s shores.

An Italian school principal was forced to resign amid a flurry of controversy after he replaced the annual Christmas concert with a winter recital — a move even the prime minister and the predominantly Catholic country’s non-Christians have condemned.

Source: NyDailynews
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Italian Baby Names You'll Want to Grab Right Now

Buongiorno! Are you someone with Italian roots who would like to keep the tradition going in your family? Do you just love the sound of Italian names or have memories of a lovely trip there? MooseRoots collected data from the Social Security Administration, as well as Oxford University Press to find the top 25 Italian names trending in the U.S.
Source: Mooseroots
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Review: Stars Pay Tribute to Frank Sinatra

Everything that was good and bad about Lincoln Center’s underwhelming fund-raising gala timed to Frank Sinatra’s centennial, “Sinatra: Voice for a Century” at David Geffen Hall on Thursday, converged late in the evening in a moment of disturbing clarity.
Source: NYT
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Review: In ‘The Wannabe,’ Drugs, Money and Aspirations to Join the Gotti Circle

“Boardwalk Empire” fans can celebrate that “The Wannabe,” Nick Sandow’s modest, assured and cautionary gangland character study, has players they may have been missing (if not the post-World War I setting).
Source: NYT
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Police Uncover 7,000-Ton Olive Oil Fraud in Italy

The oil was sold on the Italian and international markets, in US and Japan, with the statement '100 percent Italian' on the label for an illicit turnover estimated to be in the "tens of millions of euros," according to the State Forestry Corps
Source: OliveOilTimes
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WHY SINATRA STILL MATTERS — A Frank Discussion with Author Pete Hamill

Over the years, Frank Sinatra had his issues with the press. One night in 1947, he spotted newspaper columnist Lee Mortimer in Ciro’s Restaurant on LA’s Sunset Strip and cracked him in the mouth. With all the nasty things Mortimer had to say about Sinatra, most people agree he had it coming.
Source: hMag

On Translating and Being Translated

Held in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and the Center for Fiction. Reading and conversation on On Translating and Being Translated, (Other People’s Trades) Ann Goldstein (editor of Primo Levi’s Complete Works) and Esther Allen (Baruch College)

Books. Furto alle cascate del Niagara

Traci Andrighetti

An International Children's Mystery Series from Bologna

Part II: Italian Women. La Mamma, But not Only

Judith Harris

Italy has always loomed as a bastion of "la mamma" -- that pasta-cooking, loving and forceful woman exemplified by the mother and retired teacher in Nanni Moretti's recent movie, "Mia Madre." But there is more to the story. Here is a sampler of fascinating, successful Italian career women, some famous names, others new to many readers.

Italian Christmas in New York City

P. O.

Make sure you visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street this Christmas season.

Piercing Eyes | Distilled Art Pieces

Mila Tenaglia

The first Italian distillery for contemporary applied arts – between stories and market. Piercing Eyes | Distilled Art Pieces is a unique curatorial project that showcases selected contemporary art pieces made by some of the best Italian artists and designers.

December 3, 2015

Sorbillo e la pizza per raccontare Napoli

Alessandro Milone

La storia della pizza e della famiglia Sorbillo raccontata nel libro cult "La pizza di Napoli" di Angelo Cerulo e curato da Francesco Aiello

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