From Florence to the Colosseum: the role of private organizations in the safeguard of cultural treasures
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Institute of Culture in Washington DC invite you to this lecture with Simonetta Brandolini d'Adda, president of "Friends of Florence" and Fred Hiebert, Archaeology Fellow at the National Geographic. Opening remarks by Ambassador of Italy to the U.S. Armando Varricchio, and Director of the UNESCO Office...
Goodbye Columbus Day?: Amherst Town Meeting OKs resolution to commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day
By a majority vote, Amherst Town Meeting on Wednesday night adopted a resolution to commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day. Students in Matthew Venditti's eighth grade class brought the resolution after studying Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer who set the stage for European colonization of the Americas with...
Plainville High teacher honored with Teacher of the Year
Plainville Community Schools has named Plainville High School teacher Maria Fazio Colangelo as the 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year. As Teacher of the Year, Colangelo will also participate as a candidate for Connecticut's 2017 Teacher of the Year program. Each district Teacher of the Year will be individually recognized at an awards ceremony lat...
Franco Ricci: la vita nel segno dell'Italia di un professore italo-americano
Per Franco Ricci, bambino di Dearborn, sobborgo alle porte di Detroit e patria della Ford, il destino inizia durante l'estate dei suoi 10 anni, quando i genitori, abruzzesi emigrati in America, decidono di far ritorno a casa per la prima volta. Franco, madrelingua americano, in casa sente sempre parlare dialetto e ascolta i racconti di un mondo sco...
Nomina di Lorenzo Ortona a console generale a San Francisco (Usa)
Lorenzo Ortona è stato nominato console generale d'Italia a San Francisco, una delle città più importanti degli Stati Uniti. E Lorenzo sabato era a Casale, accompagnato dal padre Ludovico "per andare al cimitero a dire al nonno dell'incarico...", ci dice. E il nonno era Egidio, ambasciatore "storico" negli Stati Uniti in tempi non facili. Egi...
L'italo-americano Gabriele Cerrone compra i «geni» dei centenari sardi
L'italo-americano, Gabriele Cerrone, 43 anni, nato a Sora in provincia di Frosinone e affermatosi come manager negli Stati Uniti, ha comprato i segreti dei centenari sardi. Attraverso Tiziana Life Sciences, societa' quotata all'Aim di Londra con oltre 150 milioni di sterline di capitalizzazione, Cerrone ha rilevato la banca genomica detenuta da Sha...
Chef de Tucson: Daniela Borella, Caffe Torino
Daniela Borella was born in Italy. At her two Tucson-area restaurants she serves meals prepared using recipes handed down from her grandmothers. Her mother, who for years was the cook at Borella's Caffe Torino in Oro Valley, still comes into the kitchen a couple times a week "for quality control, to make sure everything is according to he...
È l'ora del Festival della musica italiana
Il Festival della Musica Italiana di New York compie 9 anni e si terrà l'11 settembre 2016 dalle 3.30 pomeridiane al Master Theater (Millenium) di Brooklyn, New York". Ad annunciarlo è la versione on line del quotidiano in lingua italiana di New York "America Oggi". "Il Festival, organizzato dall'Associazione Culturale Italiana di New York di Tony...
Honoring a 9/11 Hero with a New Scholarship
by Ken Budd "Go ahead. I'll follow." Franco Lalama said those words to colleagues on the morning of September 11, 2001. He had led the evacuation of engineering offices on the 64th floor of One World Trade Center, but then, moments after heading down the stairs, he turned back. He wanted to check the offices one more time—to make sure no o...
Growing up Italian in Lyncourt: CNY books and authors
Lugi Visconti has recently retired after spending 33 years working for Lockheed Martin, an event he says helped spur the idea of writing a book, but it's a lifetime spent honing his sense of humor that has proved the most helpful tool in sharing his stories. Visconti moved to the Lyncourt area in the 1960s, just in time to start school at...
The Shimmer of Gold: Giovanni di Paolo in Renaissance Siena
Upcoming, October 11, 2016 - January 8, 2017. The Getty Center - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles, CA 90049-1679. Free | No ticket required Giovanni di Paolo (about 1399–1482), manuscript illuminator and panel painter, was one of the most distinctive and imaginative artists in Renaissance Siena. He received prestigious...
Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu to Present Documentaries
by Holly Foster Fred Kuwornu, an Italian filmmaker, producer and social advocate, will present and discuss three of his documentary films as part of his #Diversity-in-Media-Matters tour. The film schedule is as follows: Monday, Oct. 17, 18 lus Soli, an examination of the injustice faced by 18 girls and boys born to parents in Italy from A...