An evening with winemaker count Sebastiano Capponi & special guest author George Anastasia
May 18, 2015 Monday 6:30 PMTavola Restaurant & Bar - 400 W Sproul Road - Springfield, Pennsylvania 19064 Come enjoy a five course Italian Specialty Dinner with five different wines selected from Villa Calcinaia Estate, which has been in existence since 1527 located on 70 acres in the Tuscany region of Italy. Enjoy a book signing...
Open air film fest in Little Italy, Baltimore
One of Little Italy's more popular events, sponsored by the Original Little Italy Restaurant Association, the Open Air Film Fest has thrived since 1999. Movies are projected onto the outside wall of Ciao Bella Restaurant in the Da Mimmo Ristorante parking lot from a row home across the street. Folks arrive early to set up lawn chairs, list...
Two Lyndhurst High School students chosen for scholarships
The Italian American Club of Lyndhurst recently presented two scholarships to Lyndhurst High School students. One of this year's recipients is Natalie Vendola (pictured), who will attend Montclair State University. More than 30 students applied for the two $1,000 awards. The students were required to be of at least 50 percent Italian herit...
Italian American Association awards scholarship to Zachary Voitek of Exeter
The Italian American Association of Luzerne County presented its 2015 scholarship award to Zachary Voitek, son of Mr. and Mrs. David and Ruth Ann Voitek, of Exeter. Voitek plans to attend Loyola University in the fall. He is the grandson of IAALC members Mr. and Mrs. Rinaldo and Ruth Ercolani, of Wilkes-Barre. From le3ft, are Herman Castel...
Tasty Tuscan: Italian dining and market on South Broad
by Michael Klein The corner restaurant spot at 777 S. Broad St., which was Tashan until its closing in September, will get a bold Italian focus this summer. Tasty Tuscan, the first of what is positioned as a multicity rollout, will combine what its backers call four-star Tuscan dining experiences in the dining room, chef demonstrati...
Catalogo dell’arte italiana negli Stati Uniti presentato alla Biblioteca del Congresso a Washington DC
L'Ambasciatore d'Italia negli Stati Uniti Armando Varricchio ha presentato il catalogo "Italian Treasures in the U.S. – An Itinerary of Art" alla Biblioteca del Congresso, il più vasto archivio mondiale di conoscenza e creatività. Il volume, realizzato dall'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington a cura dall'Addetto Culturale,...
Impresa e innovazione. L'ICE ha organizzato a Filadelfia un convegno sugli scambi con gli USA
FILADELFIA. Si è concluso ieri con l'annuncio dell'avvio del primo spin-off italiano il convegno promosso dal Desk Investimenti dell'Ice di New York, in collaborazione con la Sbarro Health Research Organization presso la Temple University di Filadelfia, mirato a favorire la collaborazione tecnologica tra Italia e Stati Uniti. Nel campus Bio-Life Sc...
The afterlife of books and other curious artifacts
Conference on digital projects directed by Prof. Massimo Riva (Brown University), about the Decameron Web (Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio), the Project Pico (a few masterpieces by Giovanni Pico – Mirandola) and the Panorama Garibaldi May 3, 2013New BrunswickRutgers University conference starting at 4.30 pm
An Interview with Self-Help Expert Dr. Raeleen D’Agostino Mautner
Lemons Into Limoncello: From Loss To Personal Renaissance With The Zest Of Italy, written by Dr. Raeleen D'Agostino Mautner, is the first self-help book to prescribe a traditional Italian cultural approach. This Italian-American author teaches readers how to overcome challenges with simple strategies from the "bel paese." Life is about cha...
Negative Stereotypes About Italian Americans Perpetuated by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Don Jon" Movie, Says The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition
The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition—the nation's largest Italian American anti-bias organization -- is taking "Don Jon" Director-Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt—ironically the son of parents who founded a once-famous Jewish national social justice organization—to task for stereotyping and denigrating Italian Americans and Jews in his new movie. "H...
How the Monuments Men Rescued Italy’s Art from the Nazis
In August 1943, on the eve of the Allied invasion of Italy, bombs threatened Michelangelo's David and nearly destroyed da Vinci's Last Supper. The race to save Italy's masterpieces was on. Two members of the U.S. Army's Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program—Deane Keller, a portraitist and Yale art professor, and Fred Hartt, a scholar at the un...
The Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia Andrea Canepari invites you to read the important letters and documents below
Dear Fellow Citizen, Firstly, I wish to extend my cordial greetings to you and to your families. As you may know, we recently concluded the "2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States" in the course of which a multitude of successful events were organized throughout the country and in particular in our consular jurisdiction, as a demonstra...