FORMITALY Arrives In North America At FABTECH 2015
FORMITALY, an Italy-based company that provides equipment for sheet metal working, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the 2015 FABTECH EXPO (Booth # S4778), formally advertising its entry into the US marketplace. Their new North American sales office, based in Los Angeles, CA, will enable FORMITALY to operate more effectively in the mark...
AUR supports LoveItaly! The international organization dedicated to sustaining Italy’s unique cultural heritage
Dr. Richard Hodges, President of The American University of Rome, has taken on the Presidency of LoveItaly!, a non-profit, crowdfunding initiative that takes a revolutionary approach to the conservation and promotion of masterful Italian works of art – allowing the participation of all in the preservation and curatorship of the wonders of Italian h...
Umberto Davi installed as ISBA president
Umberto Davi of Willowbrook, a principal in the Western Springs Law Firm of Umberto S. Davi P.C., was installed as president of the Illinois State Bar Association at the organization's 139th Annual Meeting on June 19 at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva, Wis. "Umberto is not only a lawyer's lawyer, he is a gentleman's gentleman," Il...
Northwest Dallas gets a New York slice at new Bay 34th Pizzeria
By Teresa Gubbins The pizza scene near Flower Mound gets a new slice with Bay 34th Pizzeria, a newly opened restaurant serving New York-style pizza from a former Big Apple resident. Tim Ajro has been in the pizza business for decades and worked at Italian restaurants in New York while he was growing up. He and his wife Gina also had...
Haverhill Country Artist Cardarelli Receives Italian-American Award
Haverhill native and Nashville recording artist Jillian Cardarelli was awarded the Sons of Italy Italian-American Appreciation Award Friday for her accomplishments and devotion to giving back to her home city. Lawrence "Lorenzo" Carnevale, vice president of Victor Emanuel Lodge #1646, made the presentation during a ceremony at Paul C. Rogers F...
Celebrating Dante Alighieri’s Legacy with Bronzino’s Allegorical Portrait in NYC
In 1532 Agnolo Bronzino was commissioned by the Florentine merchant and banker Bartolomeo Bettini to paint the portraits of three literary masters of the Italian Renaissance: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio. The paintings of Petrarch and Boccacio sadly have been lost, but Bronzino's masterful Allegorical Portrait of Dante been well preserved...
Meet Carin Guarasci, Professor of Education & Director of New Educators at Wagner College
by NOIAW Carin Guarasci - Professor of Education & Director of New Educators at Wagner College. Carin will be honored at our Greater New York Region Epiphany on January 13, 2016. Buy tickets here. WHAT DOES YOUR HERITAGE MEAN TO YOU?Being an Italian is so meaningful to me. I feel I am blessed to be surrounded by beau...
Four events by Luciano Chessa
21-27 January, various venues, SF. Luciano Chessa (SF Conservatory of Music) is among the most interesting and inventive minds working in the Bay Area. Active as a composer, performer, conductor and musicologist, Chessa's work draws heavy influence from experimentation, blending unorthodox ideas with classical form. Thurs. 21 January,...
WATCH: The Unheard Story of the Sistine Chapel
by Zoe Romanowsky You may have had the good fortune of gazing at the Sistine Chapel, but there's probably a lot you still don't know about it. Look no further than art historian Elizabeth Liv's "tour-de-force talk" given at TEDGlobal in Geneva. Lev is a dynamic guide, revealing what Michelangelo was up to when he set out to work w...
Italian pop opera trio Il Volo sing at Borgata on Saturday
WHO ARE THEY: Consisting of members Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble, Il Volo is an Italian pop opera trio which was formed in 2009. The singers met on the Italian music show "Ti lascio una canzone" where Ginoble wound up taking home the grand prize. In November of 2010 Il Volo released their debut self-titled album. It...
The Mille Miglia Museum, telling the history of the most beautiful race in the world
Brescia's Mille Miglia Museum tells the story of the most beautiful race in the world, which was first held in May 1927 over a 1,628-kilometer itinerary from Brescia to Rome and back. Only 54 of the 77 participants reached the finish line in the inaugural edition. One of them was 35-year-old Tazio Nuvolari, who would go on to win the competiti...
Napoli, ecco l'Archivio sonoro della Campania: s'inaugura la teca digitale del patrimonio in musica
Dopo anni di lavoro sotto traccia, sabato 12 marzo prossimo, alle 10, sarà inaugurato, nell'Archivio di Stato di Napoli, l'Archivio sonoro Campania, l'attesa teca digitale che raccoglie il ricco patrimonio musicale popolare di Napoli e della sua regione. Lo promuove l'associazione culturale Altrosud, d'intesa con la direzione generale per...