La tecnologia Ferrari vince anche a Sochi
C'è un po' di 'rosso' nell'impresa compiuta da Christof Innerhofer e Armin Zoeggler ai Giochi Olimpici invernali di Sochi. La conquista della medaglia d'argento nella discesa libera, e di quella di bronzo conquistata nello slittino, sono stata festeggiate anche a Maranello, dove dal 2006 uno staff di personale Ferrari lavora al fianco del Coni mett...
Jobs: Instructor of Italian
The Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Arkansas seeks applications for a full-time instructor in Italian. Appointment, to begin 15 August 2014, is for one, nine-month academic year. This position is renewable on a year-to-year basis contingent upon performance, needs and available funding. Minimum requirem...
Investment duo scores buono deal in Little Italy
by Daniel Geiger A pair of real estate investors sees opportunity in fast changing Little Italy. A partnership led by Ira Fishman and Nathan Halegua, executives at the real estate firm EVO Real Estate Group, have acquired a 12,000-square-foot retail condo at 132 Mulberry St. for $17.5 million. The space, which is located a block north of...
Captains of Industry to be Honored at NYC Gala- April 3, 2014 at Cipriani 42nd St.
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) will hold its annual New York Gala on April 3, 2014, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. The evening's honorees include Joseph Brancato, managing principal at the global design firm Gensler; Carmine Di Sibio, global managing partner—Client Services at EY; Mary Ann Esposito, renowned chef and tel...
POMPEII: THE EXHIBITION opens at the California Science Center 5/20
In the year 79 A.D., Pompeii vanished beneath thick layers of volcanic ash left by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. But what nature destroyed, it also preserved. Pompeii: The Exhibition will open at the California Science Center on May 20, 2014. This dramatic 13,000-square-foot exhibit features over 150 precious artifacts on loan from the N...
Maurizio Seracini, ‘Master of Old Master Paintings,’ to speak at event in Rancho Santa Fe
Is it possible to find Leonardo Da Vinci's most priceless and highly praised work of art, lost for centuries? And, in that quest, as he looks behind other artist's masterpieces for the missing Da Vinci, will Maurizio Seracini find new perspectives on these artists and the masterpieces they created? These were the questions posed to Seracini more t...
2014 Ellis Island Medal of Honor to Anita Bevacqua McBride
Congratulations to NIAF Board Member Anita Bevacqua McBride on receiving the 2014 Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Coalition of Ethnic Organizations. Anita will accept the award at a ceremony on May 10 in the historic Great Hall at Ellis Island, New York. A former assistant to President George W. Bush and chief of staff to First...
LIDI Ristorante on a mission to bring the Italian culinary soul to Daniel Island
by Deidre Schipani The culinary latitude and longitude has shifted on the corner that chef Ken Vedrinski originally established as a restaurant. Red-and-white checkered tablecloths have replaced the racing silks of Siena; the cuisine of Tuscany is pre-empted by that of Apulia, Campania and Sicily. Ristorante LIDI, the current resident, pro...
Puccini's Classic Love Story La Bohème On Great Performances At The Met Friday, June 27 At 9 P.m. On PBS
Franco Zeffirelli's lavish production of La Bohème , the most-performed opera in Met history, starring Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo as the poet Rodolfo and Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais as the fragile seamstress Mimì, airs on Great Performances at the Met on Friday, June 27 at 9 p.m. Opolais made headlines and history when she agreed...
Italian baroque for a New Orleans summer night
By Sharon Litwin For years now pundits and observers of the "high" arts in America have predicted the demise of classical music, opera and dance, whose audiences, they say, consist mainly of those with white hair and or no hair. And yet, with every generation, inspired talented ones have appeared whose glorious flashes of brilliance and p...
Napoli. Italo-americani in campo per Pompei: 150mila dollari per il museo
by Gerardo Ausiello Dall'America all'Italia per aiutare gli scavi di Pompei a scrollarsi di dosso il degrado. È l'ardua sfida lanciata dai vertici della Niaf, la Fondazione italo-americana che opera da una parte all'altra dell'Atlantico e che ha messo in campo un progetto a tutela dei beni culturali del Sud: si tratta di una partnership tra la pri...
OC Specialist in Art Restoration: Ardenia Capannelli - Keeping Things Bright and Beautiful
In life and in art, we treasure and often pay for what we deem most precious. Whether it be a Michelangelo or a Modigliani, your daughter's fourth grade creation, or that porcelain vase your Sicilian grandmother bestowed on you on your wedding day, we want our artistic belongings to last and be passed down to our children and our children's childr...