L’Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia Phillips incontra gli imprenditori siciliani
Martedì 8 aprile, AmCham ha organizzato a Palermo, presso l'Hotel Excelsior Hilton, un Power Breakfast con Ospite d'Onore l'Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia John R. Phillips, alla sua prima visita ufficiale in Sicilia. All'evento sono intervenuti più di 30 imprenditori e professionisti siciliani, interessati a discutere ed approfon...
Renegade to be first Jeep sold, not built, in North America
The Fiat 500L was introduced to U.S. buyers with TV commercials that featured a Paul Revere character storming the colonial countryside on horseback, excitedly hollering that the Italians were coming. The ads were clever and generally well received — but don't bet on anything similar in touting Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' upcoming import to...
Bellini's La Sonnambula at the MET
Marco Armiliato conducts this entertaining production featuring Diana Damrau's first-ever performance in the title role of the sleepwalking Amina. The sensational Mexican tenor Javier Camarena is her fiance, Elvino, with the Italian bass Michele Pertusi as Count Rodolfo. The cast also includes the Australian soprano Rachelle Durkin as Lisa...
New season of Spoleto Festival USA opens Friday
The new season of the Spoleto Festival USA lights up stages across Charleston beginning on Friday. Here's a guide to this year's edition of the internationally known arts festival. A bit of history — Spoleto was founded in Charleston in 1977 by the renowned composer Gian Carlo Menotti, modeled after and as a companion to his Festival of T...
OVS partners with google
Italian mass-market retailer OVS has teamed with Google Enterprise to develop a range of technological tools for both the company's retail network and internal organization. Google Enterprise will use some of its services to create customized solutions for OVS. The Google Street View and Google Search Appliance will allow customers to take...
Two Italian Immigrants Reunited after 60 Years
Sixty years ago two lives crossed paths as they made their way from Italy to America. Those lives once again have come together following a remarkable course of events. Gerbina DiRienzo didn't speak any English, but was looking to build a new life in America with her husband, who had come over earlier. Read more Source:&n...
La Fondazione N.O.I. assegna il premio “Brigida Bianco” ai migliori studenti di Lingua Italiana delle Scuole Superiori.
La Fondazione N.O.I. (Nuovi Orizzonti Italiani), ente gestore per la promozione della Lingua Italiana nella Circoscrizione Consolare di Detroit ha assegnato il premio "Brigida Bianco" a sedici studenti delle scuole superiori (High Schools) del Michigan e Ohio per aver ottenuto ottimi risultati nello studio della lingua italiana durante l'anno scola...
Italian American Association gives scholarships
by Francesca Cocchi The Italian American Association of the Township of Ocean awarded a total of nearly $27,000 in scholarships to 14 high school students June 11. This year the IAATO awarded scholarships in four categories with two additional donations from the families of deceased IAATO members Gavin J. Siciliano and Jerry Tesoriero...
Legambiente: è Cala degli Infreschi la spiaggia più bella d'Italia.
È Cala degli Infreschi la spiaggia più bella d'Italia 2014. Il comune cilentano di Camerota vince per il secondo anno consecutivo "La più bella sei tu", il contest di Legambiente lanciato sul web per eleggere la spiaggia più bella dell'estate. È una spiaggia raggiungibile via mare o facendo trekking attraverso i sentieri immersi nella macc...
USA: webinar on renewables and clean technologies now available on MFA website
The recording of the webinar on renewable energy and clean technologies which took place in July 2014 has now been published on the MFA website at (http://www.esteri.it/MAE/IT/Sala_Stampa/ArchivioNotizie/Approfondimenti/2014/07/20140729_UsaInvestRinn.htm). The webinar was organised by the Italian Embassy in Washington and by Confindus...
Restaurant Staffed by Italian Grandmothers to Reveal Secrets in Cookbook
by Nicholas Rizzi When Jody Scarvella opened his restaurant Enoteca Maria in St. George, he wanted a way to bring Italian home cooking to people who pined for their grandmothers' cooking. The eatery at 27 Hyatt St. hired a different grandma as head chef each night — and got them to cook up specialties from the region of Italy they emi...
Italian seafood finds a foothold in the South
by Hanna Raskin The relative scarcity of spaghetti and meatballs in Charleston could bode well for the future of Italian food here, observers say. According to Nicolo de Rienzo, an Italian food writer now researching a story about eating in the U.S. South, many Southern cities appear less bound by the red-sauce traditions that rei...