Silone's Bitter Spring: A Conversation with Stanislao Pugliese
i-Italy interviews professor Stanislao G. Pugliese about his latest book "Bitter Spring. A Life of Ignazio Silone."
Italics. The Italian American TV Magazine interviews NY State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 2009, The Italian American TV Magazine "Italics" interviews NY State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Joseph Sciame, Chairman of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee. The show, hosted by Anthony J. Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College/CUNY) airs at 10am, 4pm & 10pm, City University Television Cable Channel # 75 (RCN Ch.77).
Part One presents an in-depth interview with The Honorable Thomas P. DiNapoli, Comptroller of the State of New York. In his role as Comptroller, Mr. DiNapoli audits one of the largest and most complicated state budgets in the Nation, and oversees the growth and stability of the NY State Employees Retirement and Pension Fund, second only to California's.
Part Two has an interview with Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, Chairman of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Founders of the Culture Month Celebrations. Mr. Sciame discusses the 2009 celebrationąs two co-honorees: Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist, on the 400th Anniversary of his 'refinement' of the Telescope, and NYPD Officer Detective Joseph Petrosino, Founder of the Italian Squad and famed anti-mafia crusader on the 100th observation of his assassination, in Palermo, Sicily.
Anthony Julian Tamburri, conducts both interviews.
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Part Two has an interview with Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, Chairman of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Founders of the Culture Month Celebrations. Mr. Sciame discusses the 2009 celebrationąs two co-honorees: Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist, on the 400th Anniversary of his 'refinement' of the Telescope, and NYPD Officer Detective Joseph Petrosino, Founder of the Italian Squad and famed anti-mafia crusader on the 100th observation of his assassination, in Palermo, Sicily.
Anthony Julian Tamburri, conducts both interviews.
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Grasso a New York: «Sulle stragi pronti ad accettare novità»
Pietro Grasso e don Luigi Ciotti al John Jay College a Manhattan. Con loro anche George Grasso, capo del New York Police Department
La Statua della Libertá é veramente italiana
La Statua della Libertá potrebbe essere stata copiata da un artista italiano
SDIFF—The San Diego Italian Film Festival Brings Italian Culture to Southern California
October 16-November 7. The San Diego Italian Film Festival (SDIFF) has an ambitious goal: To make San Diego a high spot for Italian culture. They show great, award-winning, recent Italian movies, all with interesting stories of relationships, love, hate, work, food, identity, all the passions of life. Two of the SDIFF founders, Roberto Ruocco and Victor Laruccia, tell i-Italy how they started and where they are headed.
Roy Paci, gli Aretuska ed i Sun. Musica da non dimenticare a Brooklyn
Grande concerto nell'High Schol di Seth Low JHS. Grazie all' ANFE Sicilia, il Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York e la Fiao
Petrosino. A Park Is Renewed, the Better to Honor the Hero in Its Name
The New York Times. On Tuesday in Little Italy, Lt. Joseph Petrosino Park was reopened after a one-and-a-half-year, $2 million renovation project. The park, which until 1987 was called Kenmare Square, was rededicated to Lieutenant Petrosino’s memory. (Read the article by Andrew Keh)
The Voice of a Generation and a 'Godfather' Icon
Washington Post. Italian American crooner Al Martino, who had string of international pop-chart hits in the 1950s and 1960s including "Spanish Eyes" and "Here in My Heart" and later put his creamy baritone to good use as the fading pop star supposedly based on Frank Sinatra in the 1972 film "The Godfather," died Oct. 13 in the Philadelphia suburb of Springfield. He was 82. No cause of death was reported. (Read the article by T. Rees Shapiro)
Messina bridge work to start in Dec. Italy emerging from public works 'slumber', Berlusconi says
ANSA. Work on a bridge connecting Sicily to the Italian mainland will begin between December and January, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday. (Read the article)
Rome Film Fest: the contenders. Tanovic, Reitman, Von Trotta among 14
ANSA. The following 14 films are up for the Marcus Aurelius best film prize at this year's Rome Film Festival (Read the article)
Dada and Surrealism in Rome. Show provides a comprehensive overview of both movements
ANSA. One of the largest exhibitions ever staged on Dadaism and Surrealism has opened its doors in the Italian capital, with over 500 artworks from around the world. The show at the Vittoriano, providing a comprehensive overview of both movements, features oils, sculptures, readymades, collages, drawings and installations by dozens of artists. (Read the article)
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