AL GIORNALISTA ITALO/AMERICANO DOM SERAFINI "IL MOSCHETTIERE DEL LAVORO 2013" DEGLI ABRUZZESI ALL'ESTERO DELL'UGL
Consegnato dalla UGL a Domenico "Dom" Serafini il "Moschettiere del Lavoro" 2013 – abruzzesi all'estero. L'importante riconoscimento è stato consegnato oggi, a Pescara, al giornalista Domenico "Dom" Serafini. Per Geremia Mancini Segretario Confederale UGL " Abbiamo colto l'occasione della visita in Abruzzo di "Dom" Serafini per consegnargl...
Recognition Brick Walkway
For year 2013 to every $ raised in bricks we will receive an extra $ as a matching grant! Your contribution this year will be double the value, every $ brick purchased in 2013 will bring to the museum 2x$. For over 50 years the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum has fulfilled its mission to preserve the legacies of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Antonio Meucci, and...
Gli spaghetti meatball? In Italia non esistono, ma chi li ha inventati? Ce lo spiega Stefano Milioni
by Piero Armenti Se qualcuno prova a convincervi che la pasta è stata inventata dai cinesi, non dategli retta, è solo una leggenda. Parola di Stefano Milioni, giornalista enogastronomico e imprenditore, uno dei maggiori esperti di cibo italiano. "In molte parti del mondo si pensa che sia stato Marco Polo, nel 1295, al suo ritorno dalla Cin...
39 local eateries set for Brooklyn's first Italian restaurant week, 10/10-17
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has announced that 39 of Brooklyn's greatest and tastiest restaurants will take part in "Explore Brooklyn: Italian Restaurant Week" from October 10-17. The initiative - which coincides with the week of Columbus Day and Italian Heritage Month - is aimed at promoting restaurants in Brooklyn and allowing for v...
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum to Celebrate Italian Christmas Traditions
On Sunday, December 15, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will host a day of holiday celebration. Beginning with Christmas Breakfast Buffet at 11:30 a.m., the day will include games and treats for the whole family. The museum will also unveil its newly enhanced presepio (nativity scene). The tradition of the presepio began in 326 AD when Emperor...
Italian startup Authorea brings sexy back to science
«I want to bring sexy back to science», says Alberto Pepe, the 34 year old co-founder of Authorea, a startup based in New York City. It's «the collaborative platform for research», reads its website. It's also the first startup created by an Italian that is able to raise money among NYC investors, thanks to the VentureOutNY program that every mont...
Fendi Opens a Soho Pop-Up Shop With Custom Vending Machines
First the myBaguette app, and now a studio apartment-size pop-up shop in Soho with hashtag neon signs: looks like Fendi has finally figured out how to translate their Italian luxury roots into a language millennials speak. The brand nonchalantly opened a pop-up inside Wolford's former spot on the corner of Greene and Prince Streets this we...
Joseph Luzzi reads from My Two Italies
Monday, September 22 Luzzi creates a personal portrait of Italy that leaps past clichés, delving into why Italian Americans have complicated relationships with the "old country" and how it is that Italy has produced astonishing and significant art while suffering from corruption, political fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. Wi...
A Tavola con Barilla - at Academia Barilla restaurants
Good taste, Italian culinary tradition, original recipes, highest quality ingredients. The school of cooking and gastronomic culture becomes an emotion, a taste, an appetite: something to experience and share, Italian-style. The first Academia Barilla restaurant is born: high quality ingredients, Italian dishes, fast service, the enjoyment of a gre...
Lecture on Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor - November 24, 2014 at 6:00 pm
The extraordinary and sometimes underestimated legacy of Frederick's reign between 1220 and 1250 is the subject of a lecture by Louis Hamilton. The era of Frederick's rule has justifiably been described as the "first Renaissance." However, whereas the later Italian Renaissance flourished primarily in the center and north of the peninsula, this firs...
Dopo cento anni l’incendio del Triangle non si è ancora spento
Triangle è il nome della fabbrica tessile che prese fuoco nel 1911 a New York causando la morte di 146 persone, la maggior parte emigrate italiane ed ebree. Sistemi di sicurezza inesistenti e porte chiuse a chiave, perché i padroni temevano che le operaie facessero pause troppo lunghe o commettessero furti, furono tra le condizioni che causarono un...
Dr. Silvia C. Formenti Appointed Chair of Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and Radiation Oncologist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Dr. Silvia C. Formenti, an international expert in the use of radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer, has been appointed chair of the newly established Department of Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and radiation oncologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective April 15. Dr....