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August 9, 2014 - 12:00PM at Damian's Italian Restaurant, 3011 Smith StreetCost: $100.00 per person   Special Guest of Honor: Alyson Footer, National Correspondent for Major League Baseball.com Master of Ceremonies: Milo Hamilton Also attending: Houston Astros Players and other Sports Celebrities Join Hall of Fame...

The 88th Annual Feast of San Gennaro, New York City's longest-running, biggest and most revered religious outdoor festival, will take place for 11 days starting Thursday, September 11 and continuing through Sunday, September 21, 2014, it was announced today by Joseph Mattone, President of Figli di San Gennaro (Children of San Gennaro), the not-for-...

Every year on the last weekend in August, Boston's North End celebrates the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua. The traditional event dates back to the early 20th century, when large numbers of southern Italians immigrated to the United States, settling in the urban centers of the North-East.   In Boston, they gathered in the North End neighbor...

Bellini. Botticelli. Titian. Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums celebrates the richness of Italy's artistic legacy.   It features religious paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, along with secular Neoclassical and genre paintings of the nineteenth century-with the principal artistic centers,...

The Toms River branch hosted Amixi de Boggiasco e del Golfo Paradison from Boddiasco-Genova-Liguria Friday afternoon. This annual presentation of traditional dances was sponsored by the Ocean County Columbus Day Parade Committee, Inc.   Michael A. Blandina, the committee chairman opened the program. The Polizia de Stato (State Police of Ita...

by Serena Scaiola   Dear friends, the On. Consulate of Italy in Cleveland now has an official Facebook Fanpage: fb.com/consolatocleveland. Please view it, click on I like It, and make sure to share it with others to help me spread this important information.   The Facebook Fanpage page was designed and is intended to be a tool t...

by Wilson Conde   Jersey City's Casa Columbo is inviting history buffs and fans of crime mysteries to a book signing with Hoboken author Holly Metz, who will discuss her book "Killing the Poormaster" at the 4 p.m. event on Nov. 16. Fran DePalma-Iozzi, Casa Colombo's programming chair, said the book chronicles the death of a Hoboken welf...

by Valeria Fanelli    There are presently 1,000,000 young people who were born in Italy, speak Italian fluently, have studied in Italian schools and have lived in Italy all their lives, yet, they are not entitled to Italian citizenship.   The Italian Cultural Institute will bring attention to this controversial topic by showing a...

Longtime Red Sox publicist Dick Bresciani died Saturday after a long illness. He was 76. Bresciani had been a Red Sox publicist since 1972 and was previously assistant sports information director at the University of Massachusetts for 11 years.   He also served as the Cape Cod League's top statistician from 1967-71. Bresciani eventually too...

by Bruce Japsen   Following the announcement of the retirement of Greg Wasson, 56, as president and chief executive officer of Walgreens (WAG), the future of the company is for now in the hands of Stefano Pessina, the Italian billionaire who by the end of this month becomes chief executive officer of the largest drugstore chain in the world....

  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Living Adamis      Translation by:   From the industrial form of the bolt, to the beehives in nature, the hexagon is a perfect shape, capable of giving life to infinite compositions from a single polygon. The table lamp Hexx comes from the union of two different hexagonal prisms made of perforated...

  WTI Magazine #51    2015 January, 9Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   He is the man who discovered America without realizing it. The navigator for excellence. A symbol of the Italian sense of adventure and a pride for both sides of the Atlantic. Cristoforo Colombo was born in Genoa, at the end of the August of 1451. Growing as a me...