Focus::Daily News
NEWSLINE
A linebacker for the Green Bay Packers understood exactly why we love the enduring, family-run Italian restaurant. The October 1974 issue of Esquire magazine included a feature on where N.F.L. players liked to eat, in which that linebacker, Jim Carter, gave this description of a Chicago favorite: “Food keeps coming, and they’re insulted if you don’t eat everything — or spend less than three hours on a meal.”
There are those who believe Matteo Garrone should be in Hollywood. In fact, the logic goes, the Italian director should have been there since 2008, when he released his film Gomorrah.
The important thing is not to get behind the wheel after you’ve enjoyed your tipple. Other than that, in Italy you have an array of liqueurs to taste. No trattoria, pizzeria or restaurant would dream of not offering patrons a high-octane drink or two after a lunch or soup-to-nuts dinner.
It’s an error that has loomed over New York Harbor for more than 50 years: The name of the majestic Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is spelled wrong.
Despite a new petition drive to make it right — the bridge is named for 16th-century Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (two Z’s) — the state authority that controls the span has stubbornly held to the one Z position it’s taken for years: We know it’s wrong, but we’re not changing it.
Inspired by American silent screen star Louise Brooks, Valentina Rosselli is the heroine of illustrious Italian comic book artist and graphic novelist Guido Crepax, who started drawing the famous character in 1965.
Dale Monaco, a second cousin of Frank Sinatra who is the singer's closest family member to remain in his home town of Hoboken, said she still marvels at the devotion of Sinatra fans, including contestants in the annual Sinatra Idol competition Thursday night.
Brian De Palma is a devotee of the long take. His oeuvre is a catalog of extended following shots, seamless action sequences and slow-building scenes of intimacy and brutality. So it seems only fitting that “De Palma,” an affectionate and absorbing documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, has the appearance of a single, uninterrupted encounter between camera and subject. Mr. De Palma, dressed in two layers of blue, tells the story of his career with energy and good humor, occasionally interrupted by clips from his own films and some by other directors that are relevant to his work.
One of the most popular and enduring shops in the Bronx’s Little Italy is a third-generation family business run by a Jewish immigrant family — not from Italy, but from Austria. Teitel Brothers Imports, opened in 1915, does not sell kosher goods, but rather all kinds of Italian items from salami and balsamic vinegar to olive oil.
Amidst the overwhelming sea of design installations at Salone del Mobile, how do you get people to pause long enough to appreciate anything during this extravaganza? Invite them to eat.
While we last heard from him in Belgium, Elian is now in Milan, Italy where he just completed this new piece entitled “Transversal Movement”.