Italian drug company to buy Cary's Cornerstone Therapeutics
Cornerstone Therapeutics announced Monday that it is being bought by an Italian pharmaceutical company, ending the Cary drug marketing firm's five-year run as a publicly traded company. The acquisition values Cornerstone at nearly $300 million, double what the company was valued at 10 months ago. Chiesi Farmaceutici, which already owns 58...
La Santa Caterina d'Alessandria di Raffaello vola a New York
Promuovere la candidatura di Urbino a capitale Europea della cultura 2019 e diffondere la conoscenza del suo patrimonio artistico-culturale. Con questi obiettivi la regione Marche, la citta' e la Soprintendenza di Urbino, in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York promuovono un'esposizione straordinaria della Santa Caterina d'...
Ferrari to cut production to enhance its brand value
Ferrari will cut production by at least 4% this year to preserve the exclusivity of its brand but still hopes to increase profits, its chairman said on Tuesday. Predicting the Italian luxury car maker will continue to flourish while the global economic outlook remains uncertain, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said that, despite growing sales, product...
Dean Martin’s daughter is crowd-pleaser in Italian Festival parade
By Lori Kurtzman They decide to put her in the top-down Maserati, a gorgeous cream-colored hunk of Italian metal parked along the northwestern edge of Goodale Park. The driver pulls out a blanket, and the woman unzips her black leather boots. She climbs onto the chocolate-brown leather and sits between the two rear headrests. She can wave from th...
Class of 2013 Welcomed into the NIASHF
On Saturday, November 2, 2013 the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame (NIASHF) officially inducted its Class of 2013 at a celebratory dinner dance. Welcoming guests from throughout the United States were NIASHF National Spokesman and New York Mets Hall of Famer Mike Piazza. Piazza was joined by Chicago radio and television sports broadca...
Italian-fluent U.S.-licensed Contract Review Attorneys
Job DescriptionClassification: Attorney-licensed I 0-3 yrs exp Compensation: $45.00 to $45.00 per hour Robert Half Legal is currently seeking Italian-fluent attorneys licensed in any United States jurisdiction for a short-term contract review project that is expected to start in the next 1-2 weeks in Midtown Manhattan. Prior review experi...
Italian-American Club Raises to Repair Club House
Each year, to raise money for their charitable efforts, the members of the Sea Isle City Italian-American Club Women's Auxiliary host a variety of fund raisers – including a Holiday Poinsettia and Wreath Sale during December. This year, however, the proceeds from their Poinsettia and Wreath Sale will instead help repair the organization's...
Academy Theatre's 'A View From the Bridge' intimate, enchanting
by Erin McCarthy The Academy Theatre presents the area's first 2014 theatrical production with Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," directed by Ted Watts Jr. The tragedy, the Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play in 1998 and adapted for film, television and the opera, takes place in an Italian-American neighborhood in 1950...
Cittadinanza Iure Sanguinis: Più tempo per evadere le richieste di riconoscimento
Più tempo per evadere le richieste di riconoscimento della cittadinanza. A stabilirlo il Consiglio dei Ministri, riunito oggi a Palazzo Chigi, sotto la presidenza del presidente del Consiglio, Enrico Letta, e alla presenza del sottosegretario di Stato, Filippo Patroni Griffi. Il Consiglio ha infatti approvato in esame definitivo un decreto...
Italian Opera is Alive and Well in San Francisco
By Mauro Battocchi The San Francisco Opera company has announced an ambitious calendar of ten operas this season, up from eight last year. Included from the Italian opus will be Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (Sep 5 - 30, 2014), Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (Oct 4 - 22, 2014), Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola (Nov 9 -26, 2014), Marco...
Quel capolavoro di C'era una volta in America
Il 17 febbraio del 1984, per la storia del cinema, fu contemporaneamente un gran giorno e un giorno sbagliato: un gran giorno perché ci fu la prima proiezione al pubblico, dopo più di 10 anni di lavorazione, di C'era una volta in America, di Sergio Leone, uno dei più grandi film di sempre; un giorno sbagliato perché, nelle due sale americane in cui...
L'erba artificiale green 'made in Italy' ottiene il brevetto americano
L'erba artificiale green 'made in Italy' ottiene il brevetto Usa. Si tratta del prodotto Geofill dell'azienda bergamasca Italgreen che da anni investe risorse nell'ambito della ricerca, per realizzare tappeti di erba sintetica che siano sempre più performanti e, al contempo, green. Il fiore all'occhiello di questa attività è sicuramente Ge...