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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.
“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).
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
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.
My wife, Anita, and I live in southern Illinois, about 10 miles from Herrin, a community with a rich Italian-American heritage. Its historical society recently asked me to give a talk on Italian-Americans in baseball history.
Romanian artist Mihai Marius Mihu spent seven months recreating the hellish visions of the nine circles of hell from Dante's Divine Comedy using almost 40,000 Lego bricks.
Whenever a beloved business closes, the first laments are usually directed at the inhospitable real estate landscape in New York City, where landlords and developers dictate who makes the cut and who gets kicked to the curb. But bakery owner Allison Robicelli wants to make clear that it isn't just obscene rents that make owning a small business here untenable: it's everything.
It’s a trope to say America has a long tradition of welcoming immigrants. This is only partially true. It also has a long tradition of treating immigrants with open discrimination and even violent hostility.
When the painter Giorgio de Chirico arrived in Ferrara in June 1915 he found himself “assailed by revelations and inspirations” — as he wrote to his dealer Paul Guillaume in Paris — and soon came to believe that fate had brought him to this intriguing Renaissance city so that he might fully realize his artistic destiny.
From Sicily to Sardinia and Capri, Alex Polizzi explores the Mediterranean islands that deliver the flavour of a nation