Cinema Italy Day
CINEMA ITALY is honored to have received a proclamation of the City of Miami Beach declaring December 14th, 2016 as Cinema Italy Day. WE WANTED TO THANK the City of Miami Beach and Commissioner Ricky Arriola for this esteemed recognition. We also thank Nuccio Nobel of the Miami Beach Sister City Program for his invaluable support since Cinema...
Now That’s Italian! A Gem-elli of a Market Continues Family Tradition
by Ellyn Wexler It's something of a secret that the area's most authentic traditional Italian food comes from a free-standing store on the perimeter of The Shops at Potomac Valley North. Most customers fortunate enough to have located Gemelli's Italian Market have heard about it via enthusiastic word of mouth or spied it in the parking lot shared...
Italian Community Services Honors BAIA at 96th Anniversary Dinne
"We at BAIA wish to express our deepest appreciation to Italian Community Services (ICS) for honoring our business association at their 96th anniversary dinner on Sunday Nov. 4th at the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco. A special thanks to Executive Director Anna Maria Pierini and Elena Angeli for acknowledging how both BAIA and ICS maintain a strong co...
Accertamento dell’esistenza in vita dei pensionati all’estero per l’anno 2013. Indicazioni dettagliate fornite dall’INPS
14/01/20131. Moduli. I pensionati residenti all'estero, al fine di accertare l'esistenza in vita, riceveranno presso il proprio domicilio un unico modulo redatto in due lingue. Gli stessi, diversamente dagli anni precedenti, sono pertanto chiamati a restituire un solo foglioscegliendo la lingua di compilazione; cio' al fine di evitare l'invio di p...
First readings by Annie Lanzillotto of her new book, L is for Lion: an italian bronx butch freedom memoir
The achingly true story of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her WWII veteran father's lullabies laced with dissociative visions of trench warfare. At four years old, Annie Lanzillotto hid silver teaspoons behind the heatpipes to tap calls for help when the fighting broke out between her parents. At eighteen, on the edge of ambitiou...
Joseph M. Calisi ospite dell'Italian American Museum
Appuntamento il 21 marzo prossimo alle 18.30 presso l'Italian American Museum a New York con "A Night of Mass Transit in Italy", serata presentata da Joseph M. Calisi. Joseph M. Calisi, storico e direttore del National Railway Historical Society's New York Chapter, presenterà un riassunto fotografico dell'"Electric Railroaders Association...
Foreigners University of Perugia Offers 50 Scholarships to Students and Teachers of Italian
The prestigious Foreigners University of Perugia, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Embassy in Washington DC is offering 50 scholarships in celebration of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US. Twenty-five scholarships are offered to American high school AP Italian students, while the other...
Italian investors buy Clock Tower building in Santa Monica
The Clock Tower, a Santa Monica office building beloved by Westside creative firms, has been snapped up by Italian investors who specialize in buying trophy historic properties. Clad in white terra cotta, the 12-story Art Deco-style office high-rise on Santa Monica Boulevard near the Third Street Promenade commands some of the highest rents in Sou...
Spoleto Festival USA offers largest program for 37th season; performances to start Friday
From comic book art to Shakespeare and Japanese opera, the new season of the Spoleto Festival USA will be the largest ever, offering 160 performances during the 17 days the festival lights up stages across this seaside city. The internationally known arts festival, founded by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, will open its 37th season Frida...
Greater Baton Rouge American Association: Scholarship
The Greater Baton Rouge American Association is dedicated to the importance of the pursuit of education, and for this reason it wishes to help an outstanding student attend a college or university. The Greater Baton Rouge American Italian Association is pleased to announce that it will be offering two scholarship this year (2013) for stude...
Cesare Casella on Italian Cooking and NYC in the '90s
by Gabe Ulla A series of cushy consulting gigs in the '90s convinced the Italian chef Cesare Casella to settle down here for good. He had started out at his parents' restaurant in Tuscany, where he earned a Michelin star, and when he came to New York, he brought his talents to Coco Pazzo, the seminal and glamorous Italian restaurant on the...
The Most Explosive City in America: New Castle
by Marc Theiss Located 50 miles north of Pittsburgh in Lawrence County, New Castle is home to one of the densely-concentrated Italian-American populations in America. According to the New Castle News, during the years of 1890 to 1921, it is estimated that western Pennsylvania served as the new home for over 100,000 Italian immigrants in se...