San Francisco’s Italian Community
The images above on the Italian Heritage Mural are part of the life work of Italian immigrant Gino Sbrana, who started his American life in San Francisco as a vegetable peddler. By 1911, he had launched a large photographic studio, Pisa Foto, at Columbus and Broadway in San Francisco. Later Gino founded a studio in Oakland and, in 1919, settled in...
How to select Aglianico, a lesser-known but delicious Italian wine
Aimed at proving that even when compared to Barolo and Brunello di Montalcino lesser-known wines have nothing to envy, a panel of American experts tasted a few bottles of Aglianicos, the Italian red from Campania, learning that it is a matter of flavors and nuances selection to find good labels among this variety of red wines. Aglianico is...
Club ItaloAmericano gives out honors
Club ItaloAmericano of Green Bay recently hosted the 10th annual WisItalia Awards Banquet, where the local club was honored for promoting events that encourage Italian heritage in the greater Green Bay area. Lisa Joy Meli, Italian language teacher at Preble and East high schools was presented with the 2013 Teacher of the Year Award, and ch...
Aziende italiane con l'ICE all'Interbike di Las Vegas
Sono 32 le aziende italiane che, coordinate dall'Agenzia Ice e dall'ANCMA, partecipano in questi giorni all'edizione 2013 di Intrerbike, la principale manifestazione dedicata alle biciclette negli Stati Uniti, inaugurata ieri al Centro espositivo del Mandalay Bay, a Las Vegas. Le importazioni Usa di biciclette, parti e accessori nel 2012 h...
Via Colori street painting festival set for Nov. 23-24
The Via Colori street painting festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 23-24, in downtown Houston. Via Colori was introduced to Houston in 2006 to celebrate the Italian Renaissance art of street painting while benefiting Center for Hearing and Speech, a nonprofit organization that teaches speaking, listening and literacy skills to c...
The “World’s Biggest Christmas Tree”
by Ishita Gaikwad A tiny Italian town is all set to spread Christmas cheer all through the Umbrian countryside. Hundreds of grown-ups and delighted children watched as a tablet computer switched on the dazzling display called the "The World's Biggest Christmas Tree" on a hill above the town of Gubbio. The holiday display, which has been i...
SME’s in Italy – A snapshot
Italy's SME sector — the largest in the EU by number of firms — is dominated by more than 3.6 million micro-firms with less than 10 employees. Micro firms therefore contribute more to employment and value-added than elsewhere in the EU: nearly half of total employment and one-third of value added says the European SBA Fact Sheet. There is...
Precario della Tirrenia trova 26mila euro e li restituisce: "Non ho avuto esitazioni"
Andrea Tarantino, precario da una vita su un traghetto della Tirrenia, ha trovato 26mila euro sulla nave e li ha restituiti senza pensarci un attimo alla legittima proprietaria, una signora cinese che l'ha ricompensato con soli 200 euro. E' successo tutto l'altra mattina, quando la nave è approdata a Napoli. Lui come tutti i giorni, dopo l...
Italiacamp presenta ad ambasciatore Usa startup scelte per Wall Street
La delegazione dell'Associazione e della Fondazione ItaliaCamp, composta dai presidenti onorari Gianni Letta e Antonio Catricalà e dal presidente Fabrizio Sammarco, ha incontrato ieri all'ambasciata americana a Roma l'ambasciatore John Phillips, per illustrare la missione internazionale USACamp che si svolgerà dal 26 febbraio al 3 marzo tra Ne...
Italian Innovation Day 2014: Six Take-Aways
by Mauro Battocchi Thanks to the Mind the Bridge Foundation more than 250 high-tech professionals from Silicon Valley learnt something that hardly ever pierces through the media walls - facts about Italy's innovation capabilities that are generally confined to a smaller circle of hands-on experts. Such is Italy's success in culture, food,...
Finding the Motherlode Returns to California Riding a Wave of Acclaim
by Mauro Battocchi After a successful California premier and screenings in New York City, Finding the Motherlode — thedocumentary about the history of Italians in California by Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien, co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs — has been invited back to California for a tour of eight screenings aro...
Italian restaurant in Coral Gables celebrates 25th anniversary
A South Florida restaurant is celebrating a quarter century of bringing a family's Italian traditions to the Sunshine State. Caffe Abbracci in Coral Gables has been serving up delicious dishes and pleasing plenty of customers since it opened in 1989. "We pay attention to the details," said Nino Pernetti, the restaurant's Venetian owner. "W...