Two WWII bombs Found at Valley of the Temples in Sicily

La bellezza è made in Sicily: Carlo Coniglio, il designer che seduce ispirandosi a Dante

Arts

Beauty is Made in Sicily: Carlo Coniglio, the Designer who Seduces, Inspired by Dante

"I'm Italian, so I breathe in beauty...The Divine Comedy as inspiration leads to an explosion of expression...I called it 'Divine Noto" because it was the city that inspired me..."

Musica

Il diavolo e l’acqua santa del Jazz: addio a Chick Corea

byMassimo Jaus

Metteva insieme Scarlatti, Gershwin e Steve Wonder con la sua fusione musicale. Era il diavolo e l’acqua santa del jazz e lo dimostrò nel suo pezzo Plays. Chick Corea è morto ieri a Clearwater in Florida dove abitava da tanti...

Arts

Sicilian Musicians Fratelli Mancuso: After a 10-Year Absence, Comes Manzàma

byGeorge De Stefano

Outtake from the film "Il suono di un'isola" by Uliano Paolozzi Balestrini. Editing: Francesca Bracci. Shot in Sutera, Sicily. The experience of migration, of displacement, is a central theme of Manzàma. About midway through the album, the lyrics open up...

Pescatori di Mazara in Libia: dal vescovo Mogavero un messaggio forte, ma per chi?

U.N.

Mazara Fishermen in Libya: Strong Message from the Bishop, but for Whom?

byStefano Vaccara

Meanwhile, La Voce di New York asked both the UN Secretary General and the General Assembly UN President spokespersons if a military intervention by the Italian government to free its fishermen caught in international waters would be considered legal.

L’ONU è al lavoro per liberare i pescatori di Mazara prigionieri in Libia da tre mesi

U.N.

UN is Working to Free Mazara Fishermen Imprisoned in Libya for Three Months

byAlessandra Loiero

Leggi in italiano Three months after the capture of the 18 fishermen of Maraza Del Vallo, the UN, during today's press conference, declared to La Voce di New York that it is directly involved in finding the solution for the seafarers'...

Trinacria Company, la compagnia teatrale americana che si ispira alla Sicilia

Arts

Trinacria Company, the American Theater Company Inspired by Sicily

byLenni Lippi

Sometimes it’s easy to claim to be an Italian ‘business’ when you have Italian origins but, being 100% Italian, I can tell you that very often under the Italian cover there is no Italian book at all! What really caught...

The Crafts of Cinema: I mestieri del cinema al Festival Accademico di IC-CUNY

Arts

Epicharmus, Pirandello and Sciascia All Tell Us Sicilians Have No Sense of Humor

byGaetano Cipolla

The emblem for Pirandellian humor is the god Janus who has two faces, one that laughs and one that cries, or as Pirandello said, the face that laughs is laughing at the crying face. And it is the most characteristic...

English

How American Officers Learned “Sicul-english” to Fight the Mafia in the ’60’s

byGaetano Cipolla

The most pernicious shortcoming of these texts is the characterization of Sicilians as gangsters, devoted to robbing banks, smuggling drugs, and engaging in countless other criminal activities. I see these teaching materials as one more example of the unfair campaign...

Arts

Dolce and Gabbana’s Love for Sicily: Art, Family, Respect, Culture and Flavors

byGiusy Sciacca

In Italiano “Devotion” is the title of the documentary movie about the two fashion geniuses and ambassadors of Sicilian beauty, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana; directed by the Oscar awarded director Giuseppe Tornatore, that the two fondly call “Peppuccio” in...