Mionetto USA launches its luxury collection
March 24, 2014: Mionetto USA has officially launched its revamped Luxury Collection of sparkling wines, news of which SND first reported March 4. Mionetto's new Luxury Collection—now available nationwide—includes Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG, Cuvée Sergio 1887 and Cuvée Sergio 1887 Rosé, all retailing around $19 a bottle. A fourth...
Houston developer to build Italian-style hotel in hills of Westlake
A prominent Houston developer will build an Italian-inspired luxury hotel on a high bluff overlooking Austin and the Hill Country, alongside a new office building project. Giorgio Borlenghi, founder of Interfin Cos. LP and a native of Milan, Italy, will build the Hotel Granduca northwest of the corner of Capital of Texas Highway and Bee Cave Road....
Italian wine: Verbicaro
WTI Magazine #27 2014 Apr, 25Author : Vino OK Translation by: The wine area that involves the production of Verbicaro DOC is located on the western edge of the National Park of Pollino (a national park in Basilicata and Calabria), partly hilly sloping down towards the coast and partly flat.
PAMLA 2014: "The New Italians: Migrant Stories in Literature and Film-- deadline is May 15!
Dear Colleagues,The deadline for submitting your paper proposal is approaching! Please consider and feel free to disseminate the following Call for Papers for the upcoming PAMLA Conference (Riverside, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2014). The deadline is May 15. Please go to http://www.pamla.org/2014/topic-areas for instructions on how to submit you...
Le Ceramics of Italy chiudono in bellezza la fiera al Javits Center, si portano a casa premi e contratti
by Riccardo Chioni Alla International Contemporary Furniture Fair che chiude oggi al Javits Center le 23 aziende italiane presenti, oltre a incassare un successo insperato, come collettiva di Ceramics of Italy portano a casa l'ambito "Editors Award" per l'originalità dei materiali assegnato dalla rivista specializzata "Metropolis". Il padiglione...
Italian art: Villa Torlonia
WTI Magazine #33 2014 June, 4Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Villa Torlonia in Rome is one of the most interesting parks in the capital. The garden extends behind the right side of Via Nomentana and belonged to one of the most important families of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century Roman landscape.
An Italian production company is born in Downtown LA
A beautiful loft in the heart of Downtown, a panoramic rooftop with a pool and a scenic view over the skyline, a professional equipment suitable for big production companies. Definitely not a bad way of introducing themselves to prospective clients! But what lies behind such a stylish look? Hard work, the courage to follow dreams, family a...
Italian-American Profiles of Success: Matthew Carulli
Back in 2007, Matthew Carulli won a scholarship from the Italian Nationality Room at the University of Pittsburgh for a summer study abroad program in Syracuse, Sicily. That trip led to another study abroad trip two years later. Ever since that first trip, Matthew has wanted to give back to the Italian Room's scholarship fund. He always th...
Italian Bearings Company opening production plant in Colleton County, South Carolina
South Carolina's state Commerce Department, announced that Meter Bearings Group, Italian designer and manufacturer of ball and roller bearings, is opening its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Walterboro to be near the Port of Charleston. The company designs and produces ball bearings and cylindrical roller bearings and plans to begin production a...
Da Avellino a New York per studiare la leucemia: la storia del Fulbright Research Scholar Gian Luigi Russo
Il Dott. Gian Luigi Russo è ricercatore presso l' Istituto di scienza dell'alimentazione-CNR di Avellino e al momento è impegnato in attività di ricerca in qualità di borsista Fulbright Research Scholar presso Stony Brook University, New York. Il Dott. Russo è impegnanto in ricerche sulla leucemia linfatica cronica e, in particolare, sull'...
Farms, factories, and families: Italian American women of Connecticut
Women played a major role in the lives of immigrants, especially immigrants into early 20th Century America. Unfortunately their role has largely been ignored, and forgotten. Hopefully this book will help rectify that issue. It brings the remembrances of Italian American women who emigrated from Italy and settled in Connecticut. Each chapt...
Will corporate cash save Roman monuments or diminish them?
They have clothed the world's wealthy fashionistas and bejeweled Hollywood stars. Now, Italy's kings of fashion are poised to give this nation's crumbling monuments a makeover to restore them to their former glory, something the cash-strapped Italian government cannot do. But as Italy courts private cash to rescue some of the globe's best-...