Neapolitan Nativities: A Buyer’s Guide
From the shop windows of Naples, hundreds of faces lure us with their expressions: proud, sad, joyful, lewd, angelic, humorous. Few artistic traditions have this ability to pull at our heartstrings, to surprise and delight us, to make us laugh out loud. More than any other Neapolitan tradition, nativities (called o’presebbio in Neapolitan dialect)...
Captain Jeff Cirminiello Becomes New Captain of BSO Tamarac District
The City of Tamarac now has a new captain leading the district. But he’s no stranger to the city. Captain Jeff Cirminiello, 47, spent his summers in Tamarac. A Long Island native, he first visited the city at the age of 12, when his grandparents moved to Tamarac’s Westwood 24 in the mid-1980s. He had great memories where he would spend his summer...
Jazz Singer Roberta Gambarini delights audience at the Embassy of Italy
Great success on December 12, for the duo Roberta Gambarini and Jeb Patten wo performed at the Embassy of Italy. The Italian jazz singer and local pianist delighted the embassy guests with a program of jazz music, with some great American and Italian classics, interpreted in an innovative and engaging way. Alongside some improvisations, the duo als...
Christmas street illuminations in Italy
In Italy, it is not only people who gets ready for Christmas, but cities, too. It is especially Christmas street lights and decorations that help creating that special holiday mood everywhere, so much so that walking around, shopping or simply strolling enjoying the atmosphere, is one of people’s favorite activities this time of the year. There is...
Springfield Italian Cultural Center hosts pot luck dinner, Tombola game night
The Italian Cultural Center in Springfield hopes to spread the word about a bingo style game that’s very much a part of Italian Culture, a game called “Tombola.” The cultural center held a pot luck dinner Sunday afternoon to be followed by the introduction of Tombola, which is commonly played in Italy during the Christmas season. The center’s execu...
Record storico per lo spumante nel mondo: batte lo champagne, +30% in Francia
Con un balzo del 9% nelle bottiglie esportate lo spumante italiano conquista le tavole nel mondo dove per Natale e Capodanno 2019 ci sarà il record storico di brindisi Made in Italy. E’ quanto emerge da una analisi della Coldiretti dalla quale si evidenzia che a fine anno sarà raggiunto per la prima volta il record storico annuale delle vendite all...
Research and Innovation: In Miami the 14th Conference of the Italian Researchers in the world
The 14th Conference of the Italian Researchers in the World, inaugurated at Miami Dade College in Florida, was held in order to emphasize and highlight the work of the Italian researchers in the United States who operate in the area of science, technology, medicine, and humanities. The annual event of the Comitato Tricolore per gli Italiani nel Mon...
Settore extra-alberghiero, ospitalità "alla Airbnb", turisti digitali: di cosa parlano davvero i dati Istat turismo 2018
Un nuovo record storico, quello di quasi 430 milioni di presenze nelle strutture ricettive nostrane. Di questo parlano i dati Istat turismo 2018 ma non solo: quello appena passato, infatti, sembra essere stato l’anno della ricettività turistica sul modello Airbnb. Interiorizzata l’idea di condivisione o forse attratto dalla notevole possibilità di...
Gorgeous Italian Sweets Await at Union Market’s New Pastry Shop
The owners of essential Stellina Pizzeria in the Union Market district moved inside the food hall today by opening Annaré, their take on an Italian pastry shop. The new pasticceria sits between Rappahannock Oyster Bar and Peregrine Espresso. Dayron Santamaria, who used to work with Stellina partners Matteo Venini and Antonio Matarazzo at Lupo Verde...
Da Molfetta petizione per chiedere la riapertura del consolato italiano a Newark NJ
Parte da Molfetta l’idea di lanciare una petizione popolare per riaprire il Consolato Italiano di Newark nel New Jersey. Come ormai risaputo è proprio in questa particolare zona degli Stati Uniti che si concentra un numero considerevole di molfettesi (secondo qualcuno quasi una seconda Molfetta), senza considerare la presenza molto alta di italiani...
A loving heart at Christmas time
It all started in the spring of 1972. The perks of my job in Temple University’s Athletic Department included my use of the facilities on a regular basis. One particular lunch hour, I decided to go out to the tennis courts and practice hitting backhands against the big, green wall outside of McGonigle Hall. After about a half-hour, I felt what is b...
IAP 121: “Christmas at the pastry shop” building on family traditions at Giorgio’s of Hoboken
Hoboken, NJ is considered a Mecca of Italian American Pastry, with something for everyone, from world-famous brands to the most authentic family-owned Pasticceria you could ask for! At Giorgio’s Pasticceria Italiana, second generation pastry chef Mary Grace Castiello follows in the footsteps of her late father, the Pastry Shop’s namesake Giorgio, i...