Columbus Day celebration at Bowers Museum
October 9, 2016 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. Bowers Museum - 2002 North Main Street - Santa Ana, CA 92706. Join the Italian Cultural Arts Council, an affiliated council of the Bowers Museum, for their annual Columbus Day celebration! The festivities will include a parade of the flags, a Color Guard presentation, singing of the Italian National Anthem, a li...
Remembering Clara Vick, R.I.P.
It is with heavy hearts that we share with you the passing of a great lady and friend to the Italian community in Texas, Clara Vick. Clara was one of the only women to ever be “Knighted” by the Italian Government. She received this honor on October 21, 2010, for her efforts to restore and preserve a little chapel in Castro County, Texas. The chapel...
Italian Street Festival replaces Stamford Columbus Day parade
The pomp and circumstance of the city’s annual Columbus Day parade has quietly come to an end. Organizers said it became too costly to hold the event, which will be replaced with the Columbus Day Italian Street Festival. The new event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday in Columbus Park. Alfred Fusco, chairman of the festival and president o...
Italeo Rochester NY awards 2017
Italeo Rochester NY recognized the following IPD personnel at the 2017 Annual Awards Banquet on Friday September 29th, 2017: Lt. Jonna Izzo was presented with the Outstanding Service to the Community & Special Recognition Award; Capt. Mark Bean, Lt. Jonna Izzo, Sgt. Casey McLaughlin, Inv. Anthony DiFante; Inv. Andrew Wigton; Officers Hector Cartage...
Group speaks up for Christopher Columbus in statue battle
An organization that promotes and celebrates Christopher Columbus is pushing back against growing calls for the removal of statues of the famed explorer. The National Christopher Columbus Association has launched a website, TruthAboutColumbus.com, to, as it puts it, "separate fact from fiction" about the Italian explorer. The group's leaders say Co...
“The Laplace’s Demon” Does free will exist? The Italian thriller lands in Los Angeles
After the public and critics' success at the Fantasia International Film Festival 2017 in Montréal and at the L’Étrange Festival 2017 in Paris, the Italian movie “The Laplace’s Demon” also comes to the United States. The film, in the original language with subtitles in English, will be screened on October 15 at 6 pm at TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Hol...
Columbus Day Parade in North End on Sunday October 8th, 1-3pm
The Bi-Annual Columbus Day Parade will take place on Sunday October 8th, beginning at City Hall Plaza at 1:00PM. The parade will make its way through downtown Boston and the waterfront, past the Christopher Columbus Park and into the North End. The parade will include Boston Police and Fire honor guard, military personnel and vehicles, marching ba...
Ferrari Celebrates Its 70th Birthday in the Big Apple
Fresh from soaking up the love at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Ferrari brings its globe-spanning 70th anniversary celebration to a climax on the east coast of the United States. On October 7 and 8, fans of the Italian marque will gaze upon priceless prancing horses arrayed in select spots in Manhattan. Regardless of how you write your...
Lyric Opera of Chicago's RIGOLETTO Opens Tomorrow
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the harrowing story of a protective father, a lovestruck daughter, a predatory duke, and the terrible consequences of a curse in Verdi's Rigoletto. The new-to-Chicago production stars two world-renowned Ryan Opera Center alumni, Quinn Kelsey and Matthew Polenzani, in the opposing roles of the jester and the duke; and...
Francis to honor WWII dead at US cemetery, site of massacre
Pope Francis will pay homage to victims of war when he visits two important World War II sites south of Rome next month: the American military cemetery at Nettuno and the Ardeatine Caves, site of one of the worst massacres in German-occupied Italy. The Vatican on Friday announced that Francis would celebrate Mass at the Nettuno cemetery for all war...
Remove Columbus statue from city park, Hispanic group says
The statue stands in a small park near a strip of businesses owned primarily by blacks and Latinos. The 6-foot tall monument to Christopher Columbus was erected in Long Branch's Slocum Park in 1961, when the city was predominantly white. More than half a century later, the city has seen an influx of Latino immigrants, and at least one Hispanic grou...
PIETRO MASCAGNI Capsule Collection - Timeless Heritage for Fall /Winter Season 2017-2018
The Committee Maestro Pietro Mascagni is pleased to launch the PIETRO MASCAGNI Capsule Collection - Timeless Heritage for Fall /Winter Season 2017-2018. Pietro Mascagni has been a composer and a conductor, well known throughout the world for his beauty and his sophisticated and original style. According to popular legends Mascagni was identified wi...