Italian manufacturer Bonomi moves operation to Charlotte from Rock Hill
Valve manufacturer Bonomi North America Inc. has relocated its North American headquarters to Charlotte from Rock Hill, shifting 11 jobs across the state line into North Carolina. The company, a subsidiary of Brescia, Italy-based Bonomi Group, plans to add assembly operations at its new facility at 750 Imperial Court and create five more jobs with...
Exclusive Portrait: Toni Servillo, Italian Star of Oscar Winner ‘The Great Beauty’
As the envelope was opened at the 86th Academy Awards on March 2nd, announcing the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film – "The Great Beauty" – it was Toni Servillo who was the lead actor in the movie. His long career as a an actor and director has culminated with this honor, to go along being named Best Actor at the 26th European Film...
Maria Bartiromo vince l'Urbino Press Award 2014
La popolare giornalista e conduttrice televisiva americana Maria Bartiromo, recentemente passata a Fox Business Network da Cnbc, è la vincitrice per il 2014 dell'Urbino Press Award, il premio italiano che ogni anno viene assegnato ad un reporter americano. A darne l'annuncio ufficiale sarà l'Ambasciatore d'Italia negli Stati Uniti, Claudio...
La Voce di New York compie un anno: festeggiamenti il 25 aprile
Il 25 aprile La Voce di New York compie un anno. La data, festa della Liberazione, "è simbolica per i valori di libertà che rappresenta e per il rapporto di amicizia tra Italia e Stati Uniti. Significati che, da un anno, identificano quello che facciamo, le storie che vi raccontiamo, e il motivo stesso per cui siamo qui". Così Stefano Vacc...
28th annual UNICO pasta dinner to be held May 4
by Brian M. Johnson The 28th annual Bristol UNICO Italian Dinner, to be held May 4 at the Giamatti Little League Center, offers fresh salads and hand-cooked pasta and meatballs with proceeds supporting local charities and scholarships. Continuous servings will be offered from noon to 5 p.m. at the center at 335 Mix Street. There w...
Saint Anthony’s Italian festival is back!
Every June, the Saint Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Delaware, runs a week-long Italian Festival which celebrates the Feast of Saint Anthony. Since the 1920s, Saint Anthony's Italian festival has grown from a small carnival into a five-block celebration around the church. Every year the festival favors a region or city of Italy th...
Empire for Our Time: Cinematic Appropriations of Ancient Rome
The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Andrea Raos is pleased to invite you to "An Empire for Our Time: Cinematic Appropriations of Ancient Rome", a lecture by Professor Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois University. Thursday, June 12th at 6:00 pm at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. A reception will follow. Read more...
UMass' Angela McMahon Named Head Coach of Italian National Team
The Italian Lacrosse Association has named UMass women's lacrosse head coach Angela McMahon as head coach of the first-ever Italian national team which will compete in the 2017 FIL World Cup in Guildford, England. Justin Serpone, who is McMahon's husband and the head men's soccer coach at Amherst College, will serve as co-head coach of the team. &...
This Is New York: Sen. Tony Avella, an Unconventional Politician
Sitting in an office filled with documents, artwork by small children, and an exceptionally neat desk, New York state Sen. Tony Avella resembled a congenial school teacher rather than a politician. "I didn't think I would go this far," Avella admitted. After losing some minor races in his early political days, his mother once tried to con...
Maire Tecnimont to build $1.6 billion U.S. fertilizer plant
Italy's Maire Tecnimont said on Monday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Pakistan's Fatima Group Principals and Midwest Fertilizer Corporation to build a nitrogen fertilizer complex in the United States. Under the contract that is yet to be finalised, Maire Tecnimont would oversee engineering, procurement and building of the...
Make in Italy/1 La Programma 101: Il primo personal computer? Inventato in una villa di Pisa
La fondazione Make in Italy cdb sta organizzando una mostra per celebrare 50 anni di innovazioni italiane a partire dalla Programma 101. La mostra debutterà nel corso della grande Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition, il prossimo 2 ottobre. Con questo articolo Maria Teresa Cometto inizia una serie per raccontare le storie e gli oggetti che saran...
Italian Wine & Food Institute: aumentano le importazioni USA di vino italiano
Un raggio di sole nella difficile estate del vino italiano, stretto tra una vendemmia assai complicata per l'andamento climatico decisamente troppo piovoso, e le preoccupazioni per gli sviluppi di due dei mercati del futuro su cui si è puntato di più, la Cina, verso cui le esportazioni sono in frenata, e la Russia, su cui pende la "spada di Damocle...