Con Terzi l’Italia si mostra in Usa
Ha girato e stretto mani degli uomini e delle donne più potenti del mondo, continua a farlo, ma, poi ama rifugiarsi nel suo castello immerso nel verde della campagna bergamasca con sua mogle e i suo gemelli. Jeans e Harley Davidson per ricarsi. E' Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, ex ministro degli Affari Esteri, e l'ambasciatore italiano più conosciuto...
The Private Eye of Giancarlo Giammetti
By Derek Blasberg What constitutes a casual weekday lunch for fashion executive Giancarlo Giammetti would qualify as an elaborate affair for anyone else: served by his butler at a table set with sterling-silver flatware and a starched white linen tablecloth on the terrace of his apartment overlooking Rome's Spanish Steps. But for...
Lunch and conversation with Chef Walter Potenza
By Irina Missiuro When it comes to delicious food, the only thing better than talking about it is eating it. On Monday, Nov. 4, at 11 a.m., you'll get to do both at an open meeting of the Miriam Hospital Women's Association. Join Chef Walter Potenza, the Rhode Island restaurateur, cooking school director, cookbook author and connoisseur of Mediter...
Lavazza alla conquista dell’America, piano di comunicazione a lungo termine
Durante il 2° Forum Wpp The European House-Ambrosetti, l'ad di Lavazza (www.lavazza.it), Antonio Baravalle, ha raccontato l'esperienza della sua azienda alle prese con il mercato Oltreoceano. L'ambizione di Lavazza per il Nord America è quella di farne il secondo mercato dopo l'Italia, nei prossimi cinque anni: i fattori chiave saranno la...
Lella Golfo presenta il suo libro "Ad alta quota" e racconta la storia della vita di "una donna libera"
di Riccardo Chioni Con la stessa pacatezza con cui si è raccontata all'Istituto di Cultura di Park Avenue lunedì, in occasione della presentazione del suo libro "Ad alta quota", Lella Golfo negli anni recenti ha condotto in Parlamento una rivoluzione culturale e silenziosa che ha portato le donne ad accedere ai vertici aziendali. Nell...
Book Review: The Italian-American Experience -- Another Immigration Story
At a time when immigration reform is again challenging this immigrant nation, this time involving the Hispanics, it is useful to be reminded of another group that, like the Hispanics, first met with a less-than-warm welcome but eventually earned a seat and voice at the American table: the Italian-Americans. Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A...
Italian-American Profiles of Success: Samantha DiGennaro
Ciao Pittsburgh continues its series on profiling Italian-Americans across the country. This week, we are featuring Manhattan resident, Samantha DiGennaro (who goes by "Sam") founder and owner of a public-relations agency in New York City that helps CEOs and their companies define their brands in a public forum. The agency gets executives and...
Sicilian Americans Have Something to Say, in Sicilian
Every Wednesday night, a small group of students gather for their language course at the Italian Charities of America Inc. in Flushing, Queens. Ironically, the students are not interested in learning Italian, but a separate language that arrived during the wave of Italian immigration to New York City. These students are the children and grandchildr...
Pinstripes Opens February 8
Combining bocce courts, bowling lanes, Italian/American cuisine, fine wines and live jazz music, Pinstripes will open at The Shops at Georgetown Parkp on Febrary 8, 2014. Pinstripes will occupy 34,000 square feet of first and second floor space. This will be the fifth location for Pinstripes (with other current locations in Illinois and Mi...
Il cadavere di "Savoia the Tailor" trovato nell'Hudson
Ha avuto un tragico epilogo la inspiegabile scomparsa di "Savoia the Tailor" il designer di ricchi e famosi, svanito nel nulla al termine di un party nel famoso nightclub Marquee nel Chelsea, a poca distanza dal natante in cui ultimamente aveva trasferito la sua dimora. Il corpo del designer è stato rinvenuto nella mattinata di ieri da unità di po...
Trevi awarded major rehabilitation Project of Bolivar Dam (Ohio-Usa) and other minor works totaling about 50 million Usd
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, issued a Notice of Award to TREVIICOS (TREVI Division) for the Major Rehabilitation of Bolivar Dam in Ohio for about 44 million USD. In the western State of Wyoming, the subsidiary TREVIICOS was also awarded a contract for approximately 6 million USD for the construction of cut off walls for a...
Italian Language education in the spotlight again in NY
Aiming to promote culture and language, the Italian Consulate General in New York is working on a new initiative aimed at creating an English-Italian bilingual section in New York public schools. The Consulate General will develop this project under the Two-Way Bilingual Education Program, an instructional design model outlining methods fo...