Assocamerestero sui dati export: a maggio l’Italia supera la Germania
Nel mese di maggio, medaglia d'oro per l'Italia nella competizione internazionale sull'export: le vendite di prodotti italiani aumentano infatti del 3,1%, nei dati destagionalizzati, mentre la Germania si ferma ad un +2,3%. A fare da volano a questa performance, i risultati sul fronte europeo (+5,8% su base annua), sebbene il principale co...
Jazz's Mario Pavone Draws On Boyhood Memories For His Sounds
By Owen McNally What the taste of a small rich cake called a madeleine was for triggering a famous flood of memories in French novelist Marcel Proust's classic "Remembrance of Things Past," the sound of the accordion is for the celebrated, Waterbury-born, avant-garde jazz composer/bassist and bandleader Mario Pavone in his latest, groundbr...
Gatti-Casazza and the golden age of Metropolitan Opera
Introduced by Peter Gelb, General manager, Metropolitan Opera with the participation of Esward Smaldone, Director, Aaron Copland school of music. Giulio Gatti-Casazza (1869-1940) who was born in Udine, Italy was the beneficiary of extensive education at major universities as well Genoa's Naval School of Engineering. He left the world of engineering...
San Gennaro Feast brings Italy to Las Vegas
If you're Italian at heart, you and your family won't want to miss the San Gennaro Feast in Las Vegas because it is the biggest event since Sinatra came to town. It might be called an annual festival, but lucky us, they hold it twice a year because once is just not enough. Held Sept. 9-14, 2014, it features mouth-drooling international foo...
How the New York City Meatball Helped Build Italian-American Cuisine
The Turkish have kofte; the Brazilians almôndegas. Polish cooks make pulpety, the Swedes do kottbuller, and the Greeks fry keftedes. And you can find them all in New York City. They're all meatballs. But nine times out of ten, when we talk about meatballs in New York, we're only referring to one. It's coated in red sauce and sits over brea...
Appuntamento ad Ancona con la 23a Convention mondiale delle CCIE
"Dal mondo ad Ancona: le Camere di Commercio Italiane all'Estero incontrano le imprese" in occasione della 23ª edizione della Convention Mondiale delle Camere di Commercio Italiane all'Estero (CCIE) – organizzata dalla Camera di Commercio di Ancona, l'Azienda speciale Marchet e Assocamerestero con numerosi partner istituzionali e privati – in progr...
L'italiano che a New York trova casa agli europei
La sua vita sembra il copione di Sliding Doors. Una di quelle vite che ha preso una direzione per una decisione ripensata all'ultimo momento. Decisione rivelatasi, poi, determinante e vincente per il suo futuro. Dietro però c'è il fato, il destino. Quello che i greci chiamavano "tuke" a cui nessuno può sottrarsi, nel bene e nel male. Come non si è...
Torneranno i Prati
The Italian Centenary of the First World War, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute are pleased to present the premiere of Torneranno i Prati, a movie by Ermanno Olmi produced by Cinema Undici and Ipotesi Cinema with Rai Cinema. On the same day - also anniversary of the armistice signed at Villa Giusti - the film will be...
Hoboken author to discuss 'Killing the Poormaster' at Jersey City's Casa Colombo - Nov. 16 at 4:00 pm
Jersey City's Casa Columbo is inviting history buffs and fans of crime mysteries to a book signing with Hoboken author Holly Metz, who will discuss her book "Killing the Poormaster" at the 4 p.m. event on Nov. 16. Fran DePalma-Iozzi, Casa Colombo's programming chair, said the book chronicles the death of a Hoboken welfare official, then kn...
Soprano Donata D’Annunzio Lombardi Makes Triumphant Return to Detroit Opera House
By Sandra Tornberg Soprano Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi returned to Detroit to sing the role ofCio-Cio-San in the Michigan Opera Theatre's fabulous production of "Madame Butterfly" on November 21 and 23. Ms. D'Annunzio Lombardi gave a brilliant performance as the trusting and faithful fifteen-year-old former geisha who marries the shallow U....
Italian sports cars coming to town
What's that flash of red on the horizon? Forget about that famous visitor from the North Pole. Alfa Romeos are coming to town. After all, Santa Claus makes an appearance once a year and this is the first time in almost two decades that the Italian sports cars have been sold new in the U.S., let alone the Pittsburgh region. "They're arriving within...
Sinatra’s 100th celebration starting early
The Las Vegas countdown to Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday got uncorked this weekend with a burst of nostalgia. Comedy legend Jerry Lewis booked a table Saturday to hear British crooner Matt Goss sing Sinatra classics at Caesars Palace. Friday would have been Sinatra's 99th birthday. Lewis, who turns 89 in March, was reunited with Dean Mart...