Massimo Banzi: “Io, De Benedetti e una vita senza timbrare”
di Alessandro Frau La storia di Massimo Banzi è una storia fatta di pezzi. Dagli inizi all'Olivetti fino alla realizzazione del progetto Arduino: un cammino che potrebbe tranquillamente trovare posto in un libro; non un'autobiografia, sia ben chiaro, ma un manuale d'insegnamento per giovani imprenditori, una sorta di self-confidence for du...
Staten Island artist Gregory Perillo to donate art work to charity
Gregory Perillo, a painter and sculptor of note locally and globally has decided to donate 25 of his favorite original works of art work for display in the prestigious Birds of Paradise Resort in St. Petersburg, Florida during the month of May. Columnist Carol Ann Benanti of The Staten Island Advance reports that 100 percent of the proceed...
Padre Walter Tonelotto, protettore degli immigrati a New York
By Vincenzo Pascale La Chiesa della Madonna di Pompei situata nel cuore del Greenwich Village di New York rimane dopo oltre un secolo (fu costruita nel 1892) il fulcro della vita religiosa per i cattolici Italiani di Manhattan. Da circa un anno alla guida della Chiesa è Padre Walter Tonelotto, Scalabriniano, originario di Sant'Eulalia di...
Quanto costa e risparmia la Farnesina
By Michele Valensise Qualche volta quel che si legge sembra davvero passare il segno. L'articolo del professor Perotti pubblicato sul Sole 24 Ore del 7 maggio "Gli ambasciatori e la spending review" fornisce diversi dati inesatti o palesemente strumentalizzati. Desidero fornire qualche precisazione anche per evitare che, più o meno volont...
Italian man visiting New York dies after fistfight outside Bronx bodega leads to fall, head injury
He brought a banana to a fistfight — and paid for it with his life. A 37-year-old man, visiting his girlfriend in the city, was pestering customers to buy him beer at a Bronx bodega just after midnight on Friday. One of the fed-up strangers unleashed an open-handed assault on Oliver D'Orio as they squared off outside the Guerrero Deli on...
Verdi at the Copacabana
Director Michael Mayer has lifted Verdi's Rigoletto from the 16th-century Italian court to Sin City. Denton residents can see the opera in a 7 p.m. screening Wednesday at the Cinemark 15 at Vista Ridge Mall, 2401 S. Stemmons Freeway in Lewisville. No one can say the Metopolitan Opera has a fear of innovation. Tony Award-winning director Mayer puts...
Italian interpreter needed for Italian entrepreneurs visiting SF Bay Area
We are looking for Italian interpreters for upcoming business trips of Italian entrepreneurs to the SF Bay Area. If interested and you are based in the Bay Area please contact me. We will need interpreters as early as the week of June 23rd. Thank you. Stefano Caccia Project4U San Francisco, CA [email protected] ...
Italian village for sale… on eBay!
The listing of obscure items on online auction site eBay is nothing new, but one Italian seller has gone a step further, putting a whole Alpine village up for sale. The picturesque village of Calsazio, listed on eBay Italy, comes with a "Buy It Now" price tag of just 245,000 euros ($333,000). The village includes 14 homes, with a tota...
Si concludono a Plymouth le "Giornate dell’Emilia-Romagna nel mondo"
Si avviano alla conclusione le "Giornate dell'Emilia-Romagna negli Stati Uniti", organizzate dalla Consulta degli emiliano-romagnoli nel mondo in collaborazione con l'Assessorato all'Agricoltura della Regione Emilia-Romagna e con APT, e con la partecipazione dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago, dei Comuni di Schulz Spur-Merrill, Spring Val...
Taste Italy at Endicott’s Gusto Festival
Palma Longo can close her eyes and savor the aromas and tastes that she says helped define the Italian-American neighborhoods she grew up in on Endicott's North Side. "You'd walk down the street at Oak Hill Avenue and you'd smell the spiedies cooking outside," she said. "Everyone had a great barber and a garden in the backyard — tomatoes,...
Sweet Home Food Bar brings traditional Italian, Greek, Mediterranean, American cooking to Tuscaloosa
By Patrick Rupinski Debra Rubino discovered Tuscaloosa four years ago when her son came to the University of Alabama. She said she fell in love with the city, but she also discovered that something was missing — a style of cooking with a heavy emphasis on fresh seasonings and fresh produce. It was the type of cooking she knew from living in New Yo...
Italian foreign exchange student excited for American school experience
For high school students, one of the most exciting things to experience is the chance to study abroad in a whole new country and be immersed in something very different to their usual norm. If not personally experiencing that themselves, the next best thing is getting to know someone who is a foreign exchange student. This year, Fillmore C...