Dinner dance 2015: la Molfetta nel Nord America
Il "Dinner Dance 2015", con un tema dedicato ai mitici anni '70, è fissato per sabato 21 marzo prossimo ed è organizzato dal Club della Società Madonna dei Martiri di Hoboken NJ, in collaborazione con l'Hoboken Italian Festival, the feast of Madonna dei Martiri, insieme costituiscono il maggior numero come soci di molfettesi emigrati, all'evento pa...
Celebrating Columbus Day in Sparta
The Sparta chapter of UNICO National held its annual Columbus Day ceremony Monday in Dykstra Park. The ceremony at the Christopher Columbus Monument included raising the American, New Jersey and Italian flags. The Sparta chapter was founded in 1998, but the national group dates from 1922 as an outgrowth of anti-Italian sentiment. The...
Stati Uniti primi per cultura musicale. L'Italia è seconda
Se c'è un Paese dove abita la cultura musicale questo è gli Stati Uniti d'America, ma l'Italia è seconda per numero di istituzioni musicali. Lo dicono i dati presentati ai Primi Stati Generali della Musica ospitati da CremonaFiere. Negli Usa ci sono 138 Conservatori, in Italia 68, seguita da Spagna (52) e Germania (31). Seguono il Portogal...
St. Anthony's Festival to be next weekend in Jersey City
St. Anthony of Padua's Festival Committee will sponsor a festival in Jersey City from Friday through Sunday. The three-day festival will feature Spanish, Filipino, Italian and Polish food, as well as live music, cold beverages, games, rides, a Super 50/50 raffle, a money wheel and vendors, among other things. The musical entertainment...
Catalogo dell’arte italiana negli Stati Uniti presentato alla Biblioteca del Congresso a Washington DC
L'Ambasciatore d'Italia negli Stati Uniti Armando Varricchio ha presentato il catalogo "Italian Treasures in the U.S. – An Itinerary of Art" alla Biblioteca del Congresso, il più vasto archivio mondiale di conoscenza e creatività. Il volume, realizzato dall'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington a cura dall'Addetto Culturale,...
The afterlife of books and other curious artifacts
Conference on digital projects directed by Prof. Massimo Riva (Brown University), about the Decameron Web (Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio), the Project Pico (a few masterpieces by Giovanni Pico – Mirandola) and the Panorama Garibaldi May 3, 2013New BrunswickRutgers University conference starting at 4.30 pm
An Interview with Self-Help Expert Dr. Raeleen D’Agostino Mautner
Lemons Into Limoncello: From Loss To Personal Renaissance With The Zest Of Italy, written by Dr. Raeleen D'Agostino Mautner, is the first self-help book to prescribe a traditional Italian cultural approach. This Italian-American author teaches readers how to overcome challenges with simple strategies from the "bel paese." Life is about cha...
Negative Stereotypes About Italian Americans Perpetuated by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Don Jon" Movie, Says The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition
The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition—the nation's largest Italian American anti-bias organization -- is taking "Don Jon" Director-Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt—ironically the son of parents who founded a once-famous Jewish national social justice organization—to task for stereotyping and denigrating Italian Americans and Jews in his new movie. "H...
How the Monuments Men Rescued Italy’s Art from the Nazis
In August 1943, on the eve of the Allied invasion of Italy, bombs threatened Michelangelo's David and nearly destroyed da Vinci's Last Supper. The race to save Italy's masterpieces was on. Two members of the U.S. Army's Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program—Deane Keller, a portraitist and Yale art professor, and Fred Hartt, a scholar at the un...
Visiting Italian POWs
by Suzanna Molino During World War II (1941–45), the U.S. Army had captured and shipped to the states almost 500,000 Italian, German and Japanese prisoners of war and housed them in 650 camps across the forty-eight states. Camp Meade (now Fort Meade) in Maryland, located between D.C. and Baltimore, was both a training center and h...
Washington: il Comites incontra la collettività
Presieduto da Olga Mancuso, il Comites di Washington promuove un incontro informativo con la comunità italiana il prossimo 3 marzo dalle 19.00 in Ambasciata. All'incontro, spiega la Presidente Mancuso, saranno presenti i consiglieri del Comites e membri del corpo consolare. Sarà presentata l'attività del Comites per l'anno 2016, il nuovo sito e le...
Russo Brothers To Be Honored At Italian American Gala
by Patrick Hipes The National Italian American Foundation will fete producer-director duo Joe and Anthony Russo at a black-tie dinner Saturday in Washington DC to cap its 41st annual gala weekend. The brothers will be honored by the group for their "cultural and social impact strengthening the Italian American identity and heritage." &nbs...