Matilda Cuomo (Founder - Mentoring USA)
Nella storia recente degli Italiani emigrati in America, un mondo di circa 20 milioni di persone dalla seconda generazione in poi, esistono pochi punti fermi, personalità simboliche, che mettono d'accordo tutti. Sono spesso artisti affermati, grandi capitani d'industria, a volte sportivi di successo. In questo contesto c'è poi, a rappresentare con...
Italian-American set to become next ambassador to the EU
by Mario Angotta According to www.europeanvoice.com, the United States government has nominated Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, a financier and lawyer, to be its next ambassador to the European Union The appointment has not been officially announced and the nomination has yet to be approved by the US Congress, but a document seen by European Voice circ...
Italian coach says this will be Bargnani's year
New Knick and former Raptors scapegoat Andrea Bargnani has been sidelined for Team Italy's three-day exhibition in Trentino with a 102-degree fever. But Italian associate coach Mario Fioretti told the New York Post that when the center is back in action, he is 100 percent sure the upcoming NBA season will be Bargnani's year. Read more &n...
Festa Coloniale Italiana Delights North Beach
By Nickolas Marinelli Street festivals in San Francisco are not rare. On any given weekend in the spring and summer, at least a couple of them are happening somewhere in the City. They range from the extreme (like the Folsom Street Fair) to the traditional (like the Saint Patrick's Day festival) to the downright boring (you know what I'm t...
Columbus Day Activities Announced
Saturday, October 12th Jersey City Columbus Day Parade Marchers and police vehicles should assemble at the corner of Newark Avenue & Merseles St. in downtown Jersey City at Noon. Marchers should be in department uniform or business attire to march. Sunday, October 13th Morris County Columbus Day Parade Marchers and police vehicles sh...
Consalvo Wants To Continue Menino Legacy Of Urban Mechanic
With just a week to go to the preliminary election, when the crowded field will be winnowed from 12 to two candidates, we're going to continue WBUR's series of conversations with the candidates. Today, an Italian-American from Hyde Park. City Councilor Rob Consalvo, who came into our studios yesterday, told us he wants to carry on the lega...
Why a vineyard in Tuscany is now a must-have for the super-rich
By Ruth Bloomfield The European property portfolio of an average billionaire might, for some time, have included a lateral apartment in London, a villa in le Midi and a ski chalet in the Alps – but increasingly collectors of trophy homes are adding a vineyard to the list. Demand from wealthy Russian and Chinese buyers for French vineyards is well...
Pope praises Knights of Columbus for their charity, 'unfailing support'
At a recent audience, Pope Francis encouraged the Knights of Columbus to continue working towards the renewal of society through their charitable efforts, prayer and the witness of their lives. Meeting with the organization's Board of Directors on Oct. 10, the Pope thanked the Knights for their prayers on his behalf. "On this occasion...
The Sicilian Project: American Style!
Don't look now, but a group of Sicilian-Americans is doing something besides telling each other how much they love cannoli and pasta and Godfather movies. You are reading this right....some Americans are now actively involved in raising money in the United States and supporting Sicilian students FOR FREE by issuing academic grants to a QUALIFI...
Italiani all’estero: intervista a Laura Caparrotti
Nata a Roma, Laura Caparrotti è laureata in Storia del Teatro e dello Spettacolo presso l'Università La Sapienza di Roma. Ha studiato recitazione e scrittura teatrale con Dario Fo (Nobel Prize per la Letteratura 1997), Annie Girardot e molti altri. Laura ha recitato, diretto e prodotto in Italia e negli Stati Uniti, dove nell'anno 2000 ha fondato l...
Former Hamilton mayor, longtime Roma Bank Chairman Maury Perilli dies at 95
Maurice T. "Maury" Perilli, perhaps best known as the former chairman and executive vice president of Roma Bank, as well as mayor of Hamilton died today. He was 95. Perilli was born in Trenton on Oct. 29, 1918, the son of Italian immigrants. He was 2 years old when Roma opened its first branch in the Chambersburg neighborhood of Trenton, P...
Chef Timon Balloo's Bocce Bar rustic Italian opens on Friday in Midtown
By Lesley Abravanel Because you can never have too many Italian restaurants, Bocce Bar, the new "rustic Italian" concept by those responsible for Sugarcane raw bar grill and SushiSamba, debuts Friday, Dec. 13 in Midtown Miami at 3252 NE 1st Ave. Not just any Italian, no it's not, this one has the city's first 'official' bocce court and a s...