Spoleto Festival USA unveils many premieres, debuts
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it's also the aunt of inconvenience and the sister of scrambling at the last minute. Spoleto Festival USA learned in November that renovations on Gaillard Auditorium, the Charleston, S.C. showplace for big dance and music events, would not be finished for the fest. Read more &nb...
Dimissioni del corrispondente consolare a Louisville (Kentucky), Marco Capuano
Il Consolato d'Italia a Detroit ha diffuso ieri una nota con cui comunica che il corrispondente consolare a Louisville (Kentucky), dottore Marco Capuano, ha rinunciato all'incarico, conferitogli nell'ottobre 2011 dal Console pro tempore, Marco Nobili.
A heart-warming story - from Il Circolo
The mission of Il Circolo, the Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches, is to preserve and promote Italian Culture. Although its members and the supporting community have contributed to accomplishing its mission for thirty-eight years, it is only through attracting young people that it will continue to achieve its goal. In the pa...
Damon Mezzacappa, Who Started Lazard Capital Markets, Dies at 79
Damon Mezzacappa, the former vice chairman of Lazard Freres & Co. who built the investment bank's capital-markets division in the 1980s and '90s, has died. He was 79. He died on April 14 at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, his wife, Katherine Bryan, said in a telephone interview. The cause was lung cancer. Mezzacappa joined the firm in Ne...
Event: Newport Italianfest
With authentic Italian food and live Italian music, Italianfest brings an air of Italy to the Tristate. The celebration kicks off with a bocce ball tournament at Pompilio's Restaurant (600 Washington Ave., Newport, pompiliosrestaurant.com) at 4 p.m. On Wednesday. The four-day fest includes games, kids' rides, a cooking and pizza-eating con...
Georgia Museum of Art to feature Renaissance medals and textiles
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition "The Material of Culture: Renaissance Medals and Textiles from the Ulrich A. Middeldorf Collection" Oct. 26 to Jan. 12. Comprising works on loan from Indiana University Art Museum, this exhibition features rarely seen works of Italian Renaissance and Baroque decorati...
Fort Myers Italian Fest this Sunday November 10th
The Rotary Club of Fort Myers returns to the Alliance for the Arts on Sunday, November 10 for Italian Fest 2013, sponsored by the Boston Red Sox Foundation. Italian Fest 2013 will tantalize your taste buds and provide entertainment for the whole family. Italian food will be plentiful, along with cold beverages, beer, wine, Italian ice and ice crea...
Italian ambassador to U.S. visits Auburn University
By Courtney Smith Italy's ambassador to the United States visited Auburn University on Monday to expand student exchange programs and academic research partnerships with Italian universities. He also hopes American and European leaders will soon sign a free trade agreement and strengthen economies all over the globe. Ambassad...
Festa Italiana at the Museum of Design Atlanta
Join us on October 5 for Festa Italiana MODA, a special evening celebrating the exhibition "Barrique: Wine, Design & Social Change." Enjoy a café setting on the piazza in front of the museum, nibble on Italian food, sip Italian cocktails and wine, and enjoy traditional Italian accordion music by Don Discenza! The remarkable exhibition...
Italian American Club keeps traditions alive
The smell of meatballs lingered in the air at the Italian American Club of Jacksonville four days before one of their biggest events of the year, Festa Italiana. A dozen members were gathered at their facility on Westberry Road in Mandarin to roll more than 1,000 meatballs for the event, which was held Saturday and Sunday, kicking off Italian-...
Annual festival brings Italian culture to Naples
William Noll laughs when asked why he focused on Italy for this year's ArtsNaples World Festival. "Why not?" he says. "That's what's great about Italy! You literally have centuries that you can choose from." Italy has been the longtime home to opera, classical music, visual art, fashion, theater and so much more. So it was probably inevit...
Italy Invests in the US: Italy’s Ronchi Mario SpA Opens US HQ in Paulding County (Georgia)
Paulding County Economic Development (PCED) and RONCHI America, LLC. announced Monday that RONCHI Mario, S.p.A of Milan, Italy, one of the world's leading manufacturers of high speed flow meter based liquid filling and automated packaging machinery for the personal care, house hold cleaner and pharmaceutical industries has selected Paulding County...