Ten of Italy’s most intriguing abandoned places
Woodpecker Disco – Cervia, Emilia-Romagna: Woodpecker disco is a domed nightclub nestled in a pine forest near Cervia, in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. The structure was designed by architect Filippo Monti and began operating as a club in the late 1960s. It was considered one of the most popular clubs of the Adriatic Riviera until...
Sample Kind Coffee's Espresso and Breakfast Sandwiches: The Best at Working Class Prices, Says Augusto Beato
Augusto Beato, CEO of Portland SEO, invited Belmont residents to sample the town's best espresso and sandwiches at the Kind Coffee Cart at the 42nd block of Southeast Belmont. To learn more about Kind Coffee's, click here. “From the cannoli to the breakfast sandwiches to the coffee to the always friendly staff, this place is simply great,” Beato ex...
Up Close With Fox Business Anchor Maria Bartiromo
Maria Bartiromo may just be the hardest working woman on television. A trailblazer of business news, she made history as the first journalist to broadcast live from the New York Stock Exchange, revolutionizing the way news outlets cover the stock market. Since then, the esteemed anchor and bestselling author has continued to pioneer new paths for w...
Sicilian Folk Dance Workshop With Michela Musolino
When: Saturday, April 28th (1:00PM–2:30pm) - Where: The Rhody Center for World Music and Dance, 410 Tiogue Avenue, Coventry, Rhode Island 02816 Michela Musolino of Terra Sangue Mare is offering a workshop on Sicilian folk dances. To open up the class, Musolino will share with students a brief history of the dances and run through a warm-up with the...
Presentazione libro:Il Papa che Sarebbe Stato Re - David I. Kertzer
Quando: Mar 1 Mag 2018 Dalle 18:00 alle 20:00 - Dove: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York - Organizzato da : IIC - Ingresso : Libero Presentazione del volume: Il Papa che Sarebbe Stato Re -l'esilio di Pio IX e la nascita della moderna europa di David Kertzer. L'autore in conversazione con Alexander Stille. Il vincitore del Premio Pulitzer auto...
The 18 April 1948 Italian election: Seventy Years On
The sound and fury unleashed by the populist onslaught in Italy’s recent general election on 4 March 2018 may obscure the seventieth anniversary of one of the country’s most significant, controversial and decisive general elections, that of 18 April 1948. The 1948 election was the first general election since Mussolini’s ‘march on Rome’ in 1922 and...
Italian Fruit And Vegetable Exports Set New Record
Italian fruit and vegetable exports reached the €5 billion mark last year, growing by 3% compared to 2016, setting a historical record for the sector. The figures come from Fruitimprese, the national association of fruit and vegetable exporters and importers, and are based on official Istat data for 2017. Although the value of Italian exports is gr...
Supes vote to give Italian Americans, indigenous peoples equal billing on former Columbus Day
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 Tuesday to designate the second Monday in October as Italian American Heritage Day. The move came after a board vote in January to rename the former Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day drew protests from Italian Americans. Italian American community groups began collecting signatures to overturn th...
Robert Davi reading at the legion of Honor
Saturday, April 28, 2018 | 3:30pm-5:00pm - 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118. Free Admission | RSVP Required The Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco invite audiences to participate in a exclusive event combining ancient art and contemporary poetry. As a d...
The only mortadella is that of Bologna!
It seems its name has very ancient origins, probably rooted in the Latin word mortarium, indicating the mortar used to ground pork meat. Originally, its production area went from Lazio to modern Romagna, where acorn-rich woods provided a perfect living environment for free roaming, wild pigs. Mortadella is cited in cooking books of the 14th centur...
Italian Exports Soar Under New ITA President
Italy boasted record levels of growth in 2017. Exports grew by 7.4 percent, valued at a total of about 450 billion euros. The leading exports were in technology-intensive sectors like the automotive industry, pharmaceuticals, and machines. This high growth, the highest since before the Eurozone financial crisis, comes a year after Michele Scannavin...
May 16th Italian Club Presentation: The Shroud of Turin and Scientific evidence
The presentation will provide an overview of the thousands of items of scientific and medical evidence that has been acquired from the Shroud of Turin to date. The presenter will further discuss millions and billions of unfakable items of scientific evidence that could also be acquired if the Shroud was tested at the atomic and molecular levels. ...