Widow is sent bracelet worn by her husband as he fought the Nazis in Italy during the Second World War 70 years after it was lost
by Wills Robinson Three days before Christmas, 85-year-old widow Twila McCauley trembled as she opened a red, git-wrapped box. From it she picked out a silver bracelet that has been lost for almost 70 years. It was gift worn by her late husband Warren as he fought the Nazis in the Italian mountains in 1945. He mislaid the bracel...
ISSNAF-Seattle Chapter Winter 2015 Meeting
Thursday , January 29th, 2015 early afternoon at the laboratories of Global Good-Intellectual Ventures the ISSNAF-Seattle Chapter Winter 2015 Meeting will take place. The meeting, held in English, is open to Italians, Italian-Americans, and Italian sympathizers For more information email [email protected] or call Lorenzo Giacani at +...
Italian politics: Who will be Italy's next President?
WTI Magazine #52 2015 January, 23Author : Francesca Papasergi Translation by: It's time. Again. After nine years in charge, Mr. Napolitano resigned on January 14th, and Italy must choose its new Presidente della Repubblica. Some time ago, we already analyzed the President's prerogatives: he's the Armed Forces' commander in chief, he...
Buddy Valastro Honored As Man Of The Year For Charitable Work
Saint Rocco Italian American Society of Fort Lee, NJ announced today that Buddy Valastro will be this year's "Man of the Year" at their annual dinner dance on March 1st, 2015 at The Westmount Country Club at 5:00 pm. Society president, Phil Arfuso said, "When our committee had to pick this year's man of the year, we did a lot of research i...
Connecticut Lyric Opera, Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to present ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ in area
by Allison Lindsay Connecticut Lyric Opera and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra have scheduled performances at five venues for the upcoming co-production of Gioachino Rossini's opera, "Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)." Rossini's famous two-act comic opera, The Barber of Seville, is a masterpiece of invent...
Borsa di Studio per docenti di italiano e italianistica in USA
Il Centro di lingua e cultura italiana Babilonia è lieto di annunciare la sesta edizione dell'Annual Teacher Study Grant, una Borsa di Studio creata per dar un riconoscimento tangibile a un docente di italiano e italianistica negli USA per il l'impegno e l'eccellenza nell'insegnamento di lingua e cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti. Quest'anno asse...
Previati, da Milano a New York: "In Ncaa mi sento quasi a San Siro"
Per guadagnarsi la svolta Andrea si mise davanti al cellulare, prese il pallone e si filmò in 2.023 palleggi in 15'. Poi provini, selezioni, gioie, dolori, la borsa di studio yankee e la sensazione di scoprire che ti svegli e stai ancora sognando. Andrea Previati da Milano, centrocampista, n.20 della squadra universitaria di St. John's e s...
San Francisco - “Best”, giovani talenti italiani in Silicon Valley sulle orme di Olivetti
“Io voglio che la Olivetti non sia solo una fabbrica, ma un modello, uno stile di vita. Voglio che produca libertà e bellezza perché saranno loro, libertà e bellezza, a dirci come essere felici”. Parole pronunciate da Adriano Olivetti davanti agli operai della sua fabbrica a Ivrea. L’industriale che portò nel secondo dopoguerra l’azienda i...
Roberto Angotti interviews Kansas City Royals’ Italian Ambassador and MLB prospect Marten Gasparini
Nick Leto, manager of the Kansas City Royals' Arizona Operations, is worth his weight in gold for not only signing 17-year-old Italian MLB prospect Marten Gasparini but also for his outstanding work as a minor league affiliate leader. The recent recipient of the organization's Matt Minker Award after eight years of dedicated service, Leto is critic...
Carmen Calabro (1931 - 2015)
Carmen Calabro passed away on April 6, 2015. Carmen was born on April 8, 1931 to Joseph and Rose Celestino Calabro. Carmen was a landscaper and designer making homes and businesses beautiful throughout Westchester and Connecticut. In the off season he worked for Arc Electric in Queens New York. He was past president of the Turf and Landsca...
Screening of "Italian Movies" (2013, 99 min) by Matteo Pellegrini – 5 May, 6 pm
One night in the television studios where a popular television series is produced, the cleaning crew, all immigrants, discover that the armoured door of the room where the camera is kept is open. One of them, Dilip, decides to "borrow" the camera and film his friend's wedding. Soon the fun escalates and one by one, each of the crew takes t...
Italian wine: Stemmari's Dalila, the wine of a love story
WTI Magazine #59 2015 May, 1Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com Translation by: I had received some samples from Prestige Wine Imports on the wines of Stemmari, amd I recently sampled one, 2012 Stemmari Dalila. It's a wine made of 80% grillo and 20 % viognier that is aged in French oak for 8 months. The wine...