Investment Wizard Wanted Now to Promote Italy
In the past weeks important announcements were made by American companies. Cisco, Apple and GE informed that they plan to carry out R&D investment in Italy. In fact, Italy is one of the six leading manufacturing countries in the world, second in Europe only to Germany, ahead of France and the United Kingdom. Now that the Italian Govern...
Startup italiane: venite a lavorare in un campus newyorkese
di Maria Teresa Cometto Grande novità e opportunità per imprenditori di tutto il mondo: l'agenzia che si occupa di promuovere l'economia newyorkese, NYCEDC, sta lanciando un programma per attirare imprenditori innovativi da tutto il mondo. Si chiama IN2NYC (International Innovators Initiative) e offre 80 visti H-1B a chi decide di installa...
Italian-American scholarship available
Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R-Corning) and his fellow members of the Conference of Italian-American State Legislators are announcing the availability of applications for their annual scholarship program.Four scholarships will be awarded, each totaling $2,500. Two will be awarded based on academic achievement and two will be athletic scholarships.&...
Mozzarella, cappacola and ricotta: How do you pronounce these Italian-American classics?
You may take one look at that headline and ask, "What do you mean, how to speak Jersey restaurant Italian? Everyone knows how to pronounce gnocchi, cappacola and cavatelli.'' Not like an Italian, they don't. Being one myself, I know something about these things, but quickly discovered, in my epic search for N.J.'s best Italian restaurant,...
Il naso (elettronico) per la diagnosi precoce del cancro al polmone
di Cristina Da Rold Diversi studi indipendenti hanno sottolineato negli ultimi anni che il respiro di un malato di cancro presenta una differente composizione chimica rispetto all'alito di una persona sana, e che dunque può rappresentare un possibile strumento diagnostico, in particolare per il cancro al polmone. L'alterazione del metaboli...
That's Lunch: Michael T's offers plentiful portions of Italian-American favorites
This week's food review is about Michael T's Restaurant at 8390 Seneca Turnpike in New Hartford.Reporter Alissa Scott and copy editor Alex Caldas ate there recently and had this to say: About the Restaurant: Michael T's has been a local, family-owned Italian restaurant in New Hartford since 1983. The eatery offers a fully stocked bar, tables and c...
Giada Valenti in Concert- April 30 in NYC at The Town Hall
Saturday, April 30 at 8:00pm singer Giada Valenti will do a concert at The Town Hall in New York City. Like in her PBS special, the Italian songstress will take her audience on a romantic and magical journey as she performs her own interpretations of American and Italian hits from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, as well as recent songs. Born and raised in V...
Altamura, new Italian restaurant from Manhattanjack, will open in the Magnolia Mansion
Altamura's first planned home was humble. Jack Petronella of Manhattanjack wanted to create the kind of Italian restaurant he knew from New York. And he found a small house on Magazine Street to convert into a restaurant. But that location didn't work out. Now Altamura's home will be grand: the Magnolia Mansion on the corner of Prytania St...
International rights to Italian books is a growing market
Italy's book publishing industry is going global. Whereas 2001 saw a mere 3.2% of the domestic titles being picked up by foreign publishers, the percentage climbed to 9.5% in 2015. In other words, nearly one out of ten Italian books crossed the border. The bottom line is that in 2015, Italian publishing houses sold the rights to almost 6,0...
Remembering the Battle of Bitonto
By Cav. John Napoli As part of our yearlong tricentennial celebration of the birth of HRH King Carlo di Borbone (1716-1788) we decided to bring back our semipublic Battle of Bitonto Commemoration, a celebration of faith, culture and history. In the past we had trouble locking down commitments from participants or finding a suitable place...
Santina Litturi, first woman to sit on state dentistry board, dies at 91
by Joan Giangrasse Kates Santina "Sonny" Litturi was one of just two women in her dental school's graduating class in the late 1940s and became the first female appointed to the Illinois State Board of Dental Examiners in 1979. "Sonny was a trailblazer in dentistry, doing what very few women of her generation did back then," said Fran...
Westchester Elder Law Attorney Anthony J. Enea Receives Judge Daronco Distinguished Service Award
On Friday, June 17, elder law attorney Anthony J. Enea, Esq., managing partner of Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP of White Plains and Somers, was honored with the Honorable Richard J. Daronco Distinguished Service Award at the Columbian Lawyers Association of Westchester County's 33rd Annual Dinner Dance. The event, held at The Fountainhead in N...