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Luciano Ligabue has always claimed to have a truly unique audience. Not only "beautiful", nor even just "different" from all the others, but really "particular"; a public whose story deserves to be told. Emanuela Papini rises to the challenge with a book which began as a testimony to the reciprocal love and gratitude between the singer-songwriter...

New Italian Cinema Events is heading back to New York City to launch its 24th annual traveling film series dedicated to bringing Italy's newest directors and films to the US audiences and celebrating the country's rich cinematic tradition. Once again, the Italian Cultural Institute, New York will host the presentation of this year's selection, whic...

By Mark Schieldrop   Cranston's Taco HVAC has entered into a strategic partnering agreemwith with Italian-based Askoll, a manufacturer of pumps used in a variety of industries. The two companies will collaborate on research and development for new circulator pump designs, the company said in a release.   The deal will help Taco i...

Warming Up with Luciano Berio- The brilliant young pianist Adam Tendler, visiting from New York, joins Sarah Cahill in a warm-up concert featuring Luciano Berio's piano compositions before they perform the same program a week later at the Italian Academy in New York.   Among the Berio pieces they will play are Touch (1991) for piano four-han...

by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis As Italian-Americans, most of us have grown up hearing the stories of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents "coming over" from the old country.   After years of hearing the same stories over and over, the memories become our own. We can name all the family villages, the family members left behind, and the...

After WWII, excepting Benjamin Britten, only one opera composer has had wide success. Italian-American Gian Carlo Menotti never had the musical importance of the British composer, but in many of his works he had the knack to communicate with his audience.   Of course, he was a tonal composer; Italianate melodies came easily to him. And he ne...

Share in the fun, including Wonderful Italian Self-Serve Dinner Plate- Chose from Mostaccioli or Chicken AlfredoSilent Auction- All kinds of wonderful prizesGames- Our famous 'Wall of Wine' and a new game called 'Barrel of Booze'   Slide Presentation- Due to popular request, a slide show will be displayed of Italian service men and wome...

Negli Stati Uniti, continua la crescita del marmo Made in Italy: da gennaio ad ottobre 2014 le esportazioni italiane di materiale lavorato, grezzo e semilavorato verso gli USA sono passate da 298,1 a 303,2 milioni di euro di controvalore, aumentando dell'1,7% rispetto allo stesso periodo del 2013.   Lo dicono i dati Istat rielaborati dall'Os...

Central Alabama Community College and 2a s.p.a., an Italian foundry and zipper manufacturer, announced Wednesday an agreement to create the Center for Precision Machining at CACC in response to both 2a s.p.a. and area industries which have identified the need for a machining workforce.   "Community colleges are the perfect partner for my com...

On January 20, 2015, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, over 200 members of the Italian Community, families and organizations joined together to greet the new Italian Consulate General in Los Angeles Antonio Verde, as he begins his four year term of service to the community.   This was his first visit to Orange County and to the Bowers Museu...

The Giovanni Armenise – Harvard Foundation is pleased to announce it will be offering a CDA to a promising young scientist, currently not in Italy, to contribute to the creation of new areas of research in the biological sciences in Italy.   The Giovanni Armenise – Harvard Foundation's mission is to make it possible for young, newly independ...

In the new exhibition Sinatra: An American Icon, visitors will have a chance to look deeper into the life and legacy of Frank Sinatra. In the new exhibition Sinatra: An American Icon, debuting this March at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at Lincoln Center, visitors will have a chance to loo...