Cucina Della Nonna in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
By Giovanni di Napoli On Sunday (Nov. 24th) I had the great pleasure of attending Cucina della Nonna ("Grandma's Kitchen"), the first of hopefully many celebrations of Neapolitan food, family, and culture sponsored by the Federazione dell Associazioni della Campania USA. The event included participants from several mutual aid soci...
Help BGTI Citizens Celebrate the Holidays
WE ARE RAISING $25,000 FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS AND ACTIVITIES: DonateThe holidays are a special time for family gatherings. Yet many of our youth do not have a mother, father or siblings to celebrate with. This is especially true for our newest citizens, four Eritrean boys who survived October's tragic shipwrecks off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy...
Happy 2014 from We the Italians!
WTI Magazine #11 2014 Jan, 3Author : Umberto Mucci Translation by: And so, it's 2014! First of all I want to wish everyone of our readers to have a wonderful, gorgeous and very happy Italian and American new year. 2013 has been very important for We the Italians: we started our websit...
Italian Immersion to be Offered in February
Dr. Anna Clara Ionta will lead participants on a journey to Italy without leaving the comfort of their own metropolitan area. Ionta sees it as "a unique opportunity to dive into the Italian language and culture." Knowledge of the Italian language at the intermediate and advanced level is needed. Games and activities all conducted in Italia...
San Francisco’s North Beach Old and New
Presented through the eyes and hands of local North Beach resident, John Mola, a former poverty lawyer and Old World Italy aficionado, this video first touches on Chinatown's growth into previous North Beach territory, then presents some restaurants that are part of what Mola sees as a trend of Italian immigrants coming back into North Beach. &nbs...
Italians of the Bay Area rally with Amb. Bisogniero, Mayor Lee to bolster Italian
By Mauro Battocchi "Action is needed now. Together we can make a difference." (Remarks by Claudio Bisogniero, Italy's Ambassador to the US, in a video-message at the Italian Athletic Club of San Francisco on Feb. 13) February 13 was an unforgettable day for the Italian community in the Bay Area. They paid heed to our cry for support to th...
Zucchero si racconta a New York, dall'Emilia anticlericale a Bono Vox
By Beatrice Bondi Adelmo Fornaciari, in arte Zucchero, emiliano verace classe 1955, nonché colosso della musica italiana unico nel suo genere, lunedì sera si è raccontato al pubblico newyorchese dal palco della Casa Italiana della NYU, in una conversazione moderata dal direttore della Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò Stefano Albertini e da Letizia Air...
Italian Companies On the Cutting Edge at the CleanTech Forum
By Mauro Battocchi Last week's Cleantech Forum in San Francisco demonstrated how Italy is an advanced global lab of distributed generation and green technologies. Several of the Italian companies presented their various technologies, which addressed key needs in cleaner energy generation. Let's take a look at these companies. BM Solar pro...
Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies-call for abstracts, deadline 4/25/14
Dear Members and Friends of the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, For those interested in presenting a paper at the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, please submit an abstract of what you propose by April 25, 2014. The abstract should be no more than 300 words. In your email please also include a copy of your CV, and two sugges...
Tribeca: Film Movement Acquires Italian Thriller ‘Human Capital’
Paolo Virzi's thriller Human Capital will hit theaters in early 2015 after Film Movement acquired rights to the Italian pic that stars Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Valeria Golino, and Fabrizio Bentivoglio. It is having its North American premiere April 18 at the Tribeca Film Festival. The movie begins at the end: a cyclist is run off the road b...
Raise Your Glass For The 11th Annual Highlandtown Wine Festival
by Ron Matz The bells of Our Lady of Pompei, the white marble steps, DiPasquale's Italian Marketplace: This is Highlandtown. "It started out as a campfire sort of thing in the courtyard of the church," said Joe DiPasquale, festival. "A few wine makers showed up. We compared our wines, and now we usually have about 1000 people, and the...
Italian fashion: The secrets of the Italian style
WTI Magazine #29 2014 May, 8Author : Maria Teresa Squillaci Translation by: Italian dressing is more than European fashions and a wardrobe full of Italian fashion brands; it's an ease, a fashion silhouette, and an inner style. There are certain fashion staples that every woman should have in her closet, so she can take her Italian Ch...