Italian company expands operations to USA
Euro Group, an Italian industrial company that supplies electrical steel laminations to the makers of electric motors and generators announced that it had purchased Tecumseh Products in Paris, Tennessee. In a further update on the purchased, the Milan, Italy-based company plans to use Paris, Tennessee as its American base of operations. Eu...
Olive Oil presentation&tasting
Orietta Gianjorio, olive oil sommelier, talks about production, terroir, certifications, extra virginity and the needs for biological cultivation, sustainability and minimization of environmental impact. The seminar continues with an interactive olive oil tasting (fee applies). Seminar open to the public, free of charge.Olive Oil tasting: fee appl...
Il 7 maggio alla Commissione Esteri del Senato dibattito sullo schema di decreto per il rinnovo dei Comites
Mercoledì 7 maggio prenderà il via, presso la Commissione Esteri del Senato, il percorso parlamentare del nuovo schema di decreto del Presidente della Repubblica concernente le elezioni dei Comitati degli italiani all'estero. Un decreto su cui le commissioni parlamentari competenti sono chiamate ad esprimere un parere. Nella relazione che...
Longmeadow Branch of UNICO holds annual blood drive
The Longmeadow chapter of UNICO, which held its annual blood drive Saturday at the Longmeadow Shops Shopping Center, was doing what they do best - lending their time to help serve local residents in their time of need. "This is our sixth year. The first two years, we held it at the Bay Path College, and every year after that it's been held...
Messaggio dell'Ambasciatore d'Italia negli Stati Uniti Claudio Bisogniero in occasione del 2 giugno
Cari Connazionali,quella del 2 giugno è la più importante ricorrenza istituzionale del nostro Paese perché in questa data celebriamo la fondazione stessa della Repubblica, basata sui valori della libertà, della democrazia, dell'uguaglianza e della pacifica convivenza tra i popoli. Proprio quei valori, quindi, che ci uniscono profondamente al grande...
36th Houston Italian Festival
The Houston Italian Festival Needs Your Help! We are looking for three people to assume the role as area manager. Openings are available for the following locations: 1. Pizza Booth manager needed from late afternoon Thursday, October 9 through 6:00pm Sunday, October 12. 2. Pasta Booth manager needed from late afternoon Thursday, October...
Rights(?)/Growth at the Kennedy Center - Millenium Stage
Italian dancer and choreographer Mimmo Miccolis and Austrian dancer Gloria Benedikt develop contemporary dance on the edge of artistic innovation and human need and base their work around issues of public concern, for which they strive to create artistic responses that inspire, thought provoke and emotionally touch audiences. RIGHTS(?) (Am...
New York mayor to be honoured in Italy
New York mayor Bill de Blasio will next week become an honorary citizen of Grassano, a town in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. Francesco Sanseverino, the proud mayor of Grassano, where de Blasio's grandmother was born, was quoted in Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno as saying that the honour was being bestowed on the New Yorker due to the "f...
Let's keep the school alive and teachers paid!
Italingua is a school of the Italian language for all ages and it is not just a place where you learn Italian, you come to us to feel Italian. The students are taught by a group of passionate knowledgeable and warm-hearted teachers; and while learning about the language the students also learn about Italian culture, music and food, art and...
Museo Italo Americano Presents Natural Expressions
by Ryan Davis The next exhibition to open at the Museo Italo Americano at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center, takes on expressionism from three artists. Titled Natural Expressions, the exhibition features the works of artists Alberto Cristini, Vincent Galassi and John Malveto, and ranging in various mediums from watercolor, to phot...
Italian Startup Visa, an innovative way to invest in Italy
by Claudia Astarita The Italian government recently launched a new policy to attract innovative entrepreneurs from all over the world, encouraging them to set up innovative companies in Italy. This strategy was described as crucial foster "sustainable growth, technological development and employment, especially for young people". ...
Boxing fans: Branford author recounts when New Haven was boxing mecca
by Lisa Reisman Branford high school track coach Richard Biondi never set out to write "Pugilistic Paisani," a history of Italian and Italian American boxing champions. Then, on a visit to Cleveland's Little Italy Heritage Museum in 2000, he met a volunteer in her mid-80s. They got to talking. At some point Biondi asked her about...