From Puglia to New York, UARAGNIAUN!
Don't miss this group of musicians and their old traditional popular music from the Alta Murgia area in Puglia
August 16, 2015 -- Time: 7pm
Place: National Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue, NYC
August 9, 2015
Part II -- The Unfortunate Pilgrim*: Or You Can’t Get There From Here
Jerry Krase
The shortcut to Laurino, we thought (La scorciatoia a Laurino, abbiamo pensato).
Finding her roots in the almost mythic hometown of my wife's father, Anthony Charles Nicoletti, wasn't as easy as we thought it was, but it was well worth the effort. To paraphrase Cristoforo Colombo: "If we ever go back, I think we'll use a different map."
For the Love of Garlic
The summer months in Italy welcome many food festivals. Among them, two celebrate Italy's two DOP garlics: Aglio di Voghiera DOP, hailing from the province of Ferrara, in Emilia-Romagna, and Aglio Bianco Polesano DOP, from Polesine, in Veneto. Garlic is an important ingredient in Italian cuisine but it is not used in everything, many still believe it is, as its distinctive taste can sometimes detract from that of other more shy ingredients.
Moschino Flagship New Store in Soho
Fasten your seat belt, and get ready for a fashion crazy ride, cause Moschino is back in New York.The new location in 73 Wooster street its the new worldwide flagship store for the Italian powerhouse.
Twenty Kids, Italy and Me
2015 edition of the IACE Summer Program.
From Milan to Rome on the “Frecciarossa,” a high speed train which travels at speeds up to 300 kilometers an hour (over 180mphs!), and in Rome transferred to a local train to the town of Narni, in the southern end of the region of Umbria in central Italy.
For all unforgettable encounters with ancient and modern Italy and new friends that they had made along the way.
August 6, 2015
Paul Piccone – Natural Born Intellectual … Terroni Surprise: 19th Century Neapolitan Origins of 20th Century Italian Philosophy
Paul Piccone writes: “Antonio Gramsci’s … articulation of Marxism … finds its origins in nineteenth-century NEAPOLITIAN neo-Hegelianism…[which came to] DOMINATE twentieth-century ITALIAN CULTURE overwhelmingly." (“Italian Marxism”, p. 1 emp.+) /// Given this dominant “Neapolitan” role in Italian culture, one would expect that it would be a ‘dominant’ topic in scholarly discourse about Italian culture. Surprise – NOT SO!
Get Away and Discover Your Best
For anyone interested in stepping out boldly and getting the most out of the business of living
Record of Italian Films in Competition at Venezia 72
Four Are the Italian Films in Competition at Venezia. Rumors were confirmed that 'Sangue del mio sangue' by Marco Bellocchio, 'A bigger splash' by Luca Guadagnino, 'L'attesa' by newcomer Piero Messina and 'Per amor vostro' by Giuseppe Gaudino have been selected
Time to Invest in Airports, Museums and the Colosseum
Two recent, devastating fires had put Rome’s Fiumicino airport, host to some 40 million people every year, on front pages worldwide. But what is even more searing is the report this week from Italy’s Transport Minister Graziano Delrio, that for the past two decades the country’s primary international hub has been seriously neglected. This will be remedied, promises Delrio. No less importantly, Culture Minister Dario Franceschini is scheduling major improvements in Italian cultural sites, beginning with the Colosseum.
August 1, 2015
IAWA-East Welcomes Louisa Calio and Carole Giangrande to 2nd Saturdays August 8 @ Sidewalk Cafe
Of Journey to the Heart Waters, Pasquale Verdicchio writes: "Out of such recounting emerges a figure that has gained great currency and importance for a re-reading of the Italian South and its relationship to other Mediterranean realities, the Black Madonna ..."
On 2nd Saturday, August 8, 2015, the Italian American Writers Association’s (iawa) will feature new work: from Louisa Calio's first poetry collection and award-winning Canadian novelist, Carole Giangrande will read from a soon-to-be-published novella.
Meeting a Beat in Paris
Fred Misurella recalls his 1976 interview with Gregory Corso, newly republished in "The Whole Shot"
Part I -- The Unfortunate Pilgrim*: Or You Can’t Get There From Here
*With apologies to Mario Puzo this essay in three-parts will demonstrate why, as to reconnecting to or even finding my Sicilian/Italian ethnic roots, "you can't get there from here."
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