A Walk on Arthur Avenue
BY RYAN STELLABOTTE Peter Madonia's eyes light up: Driving down Arthur Avenue on a Thursday afternoon in June, he spots a free parking space directly across the street from the bakery his grandfather established in 1918. Good luck finding that spot on a Saturday, when Belmont is bustling with scores of New Yorkers and suburbanites back in...
Valerio Pagliarino, the young Eu science competition winner
Valerio Pagliarino, a 16-year-old Italian high school student from the province of Asti (Piedmont), has won first prize in this year's European Union Contest for Young Scientists. Pagliarino prevailed in the field of computing with a project titled "LaserWAN: laser broadband Internet connection" that helps take broadband Internet connection to vill...
L’America, l’Italia e il G7. Parla l’ambasciatore Varricchio
"Sono sicuramente alcune delle questioni più rilevanti che ci siano in questo momento" e l'ambasciatore Armando Varricchio vuole che l'Italia non manchi al tavolo di discussione della Georgetown University, dove due giorni fa si è parlato di energia e innovazione, grazie alla collaborazione e alla ricerca portata avanti dalla storica università del...
Pietro Fiorentini moving forward with Weirton project
A manufacturing facility first announced for Weirton in 2013 is closer to becoming a reality. On Friday, local officials met with representatives of Pietro Fiorentini USA to officially sign off an a land purchase agreement in the Three Springs Business Park. This will be the first manufacturing facility in the United States for Pietro Fiorenti...
New authors of Italian cinema
The Cinema Studies Program and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia present NEW AUTHORS OF ITALIAN CINEMA 29 November - 2 December, 2012 he Cinema Studies Program and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in col...
Anno della cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti: dopo un lungo e delicato restauro riprende a suonare antico organo
WASHINGTON, 12 gennaio 2013 – Restaurato un prezioso bene dello Stato: dopo lunghi e delicati lavori tona a suonare l'antico organo eolico di Villa Firenze, residenza dell'Ambasciatore d'Italia a Washington. Lo strumento, costruito nel 1925 dalla Aeolian Company, è un pezzo raro, uno dei pochissimi organi eolici americani dell'epoca ancora attivi,...
American Dante
Roma, gennaio 29 - febbraio 10 2013Teatro Belli E' uno spettacolo in lingua inglese Giorgio Colangeli, attore tra i migliori in questo Paese conosce a memoria tutta la Divina Commedia. Al teatro Belli la propone in parti, fino a esaurire l'Inferno. Prima del recital però diventa il personaggio di una storia maledetta scritta e d...
A Celebration of Poet Giacomo Leopardi, March 17
When: Sunday, March 17, 2013 — 7 p.m.Where: Dante Alighieri Society – 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge MANarrator: Prof. Giulia SantiPianist: Monica Lo BiancoGraphic Illustrator: Piero SchirinziGraphic Designer: Andrea RahoComposer and sound designer: Gianluigi Antonaci Read more Fonte: Bostoniano
Sicily revokes permission for military satellite station
The Sicilian regional government in Italy has revoked permission for the United States to build a military satellite station on the island, its governor said on Friday, after protests by residents who said it could pose a health risk. The planned ground station is part of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), an ultra high-frequency sat...
A Rich Nod to Old Elegance
Few of the old-school Italian restaurants remain in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood — the kind of places where the waiters wear red jackets, the wine list is bound in leather and the menu's size makes it hard to see one's tablemates. As if to accentuate their difference from the down-market chianti-bottle-and-checkered-tablecloth trattori...
Judge Graffeo wins Columbian Lawyers Association's Rapallo Award
The Hon. Victoria A. Graffeo called it an overwhelming and humbling feeling as she stood on the stage of the Grand Ballroom in the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in front of some of the most highly regarded and influential lawyers and judges in the state.
Da Houston a Udine per parlare di tumori e nanotecnologie con Mauro Ferrari
Si terrà il 24 maggio prossimo, alle 16.30, presso l'Auditorium comunale di Precenicco (Ud), un incontro aperto al pubblico con il prof. Mauro Ferrari, che interverrà sul tema "Orizzonti in Nanomedicina – Oncologia specializzata". L'evento, presentato da Ivana Battaglia, responsabile Sistema bibliotecario Bassa friulana centrale, si aprirà...