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The Italian Language Foundation is underwriting the cost of upcoming workshops for middle and high school teachers of Italian. A $25 teacher membership in the ILF is a condition for participation. Teachers can become ILF members via the ILF website (www.ilf.org).   The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will conduc...

È da quando ho iniziato la mia collaborazione settimanale con AlessandriaNews che desidero parlarvi della Milwaukee italiana e di come sia possibile essere italiani senza, molte volte, averne il passaporto.   Oggi vorrei farvi conoscere questo aspetto di Milwaukee, che magari non è conosciuto come la Milwaukee di Happy Days, ma per me è dive...

Italian-Ghanaian filmmaker, producer and activist Fred Kuwornu will visit Cal Poly for a screening of his documentary "18 IUS SOLI" from 4:10 to 6 p.m. Friday, March 7, in the Baker Center for Science and Mathematics (Building 180), Room 101. A conversation with the filmmaker will follow the screening.   The documentary tracks the lives of 1...

Italian luxury fashion group Brunello Cucinelli SpA has reported an increase in full-year profit, thanks to double-digit sales growth.   Sales in the group's international markets, which now represent 79.3% of revenues, rose 21.4% during the year ending 31 December.   Read more   Fonte: Italian Good News  

È giunto quasi al termine il primo round dello scambio internazionale tra 17 studenti del Liceo Scientifico "Giuseppe Berto" di Vibo Valentia che soggiornano fino al 6 prossimo nel New Jersey e la Scotch Plains Fanwood High School del New Jersey che ricambierà la visita in Italia. Ieri gli studenti calabresi sono stati ricevuti al Consolato Genera...

By Riccardo Chioni   È orgogliosamente calabrese il neo presidente del New York Athletic Club, il primo eletto nato in Italia, Dominic Bruzzese originario di Mammola in provincia di Reggio Calabria, la cui recente nomina è stata festeggiata giovedì alla townhouse della Columbus Citizens Foundation nella Upper East Side. Lo dice subito quand...

Presentation of the book: Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2014), by Anthony Julian Tamburri. Divided into three sections, the first deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. Section two con...

Guiseppe's Restaurant, now Perlo's Restaurant on N. Washington St., opened in 1986. Proprietor Joseph Parvano, a former contractor, turned the building into a family restaurant, featuring authentic Italian cuisine based on family recipes.   Despatch Junction, which sells and repairs toy trains, is housed in one of the oldest standing structu...

Severio Strati's 300-by-30-foot garden boasts grids of peppers, garlic and eggplant, with 130 tomato plants. There's a grape arbor, peach trees and a few figs that survived winter. "I cover good. That's why I didn't lose them," he says.   For 60 years, the Hazelwood resident — who spent most of his working life in J&L Steel's warehouse d...

St. Ann Church will host its annual Italian festival from July 23 to July 27. The bonanza will consist of rides, games, crafts, raffles and nightly entertainment.   The week's festivities will kick off on Wednesday with Sinatra Idol, and Dave Arellano and the Bill Wilkinson Orchestra. Thursday is Latino Night with Ray Rodriquez y Swing Sabro...

September's annual Feast of San Gennaro — named for Naples' patron saint — draws thousands of fun-seeking tourists and locals to the streets of Little Italy in New York.   The yearly religious feasts celebrated by descendants of the numerous Italians who settled in Norristown and Plymouth at the turn of the 20th century attract far smaller n...

Imagine the experience of hosting a student from Italy, how the shared experience could affect you, your family and friends. This is the younger generation that will become the teachers, politicians, researchers, and business people who will be in command of our planet in 20 years. Use your parenting and pedagogical skills to mold the future – and...