True Indie Film made with blood, sweat, and yes tears!
di Matteo Ribaudo We are Independent filmmakers striving for greatness. We live and breathe the art of moving pictures. Matteo Ribaudo is a writer and director from NY and now in Los Angeles. My current film, Broome Street Boys, is a feature film that brings us back to movies like Serpico, The Departed, and Friedkin's The French Connection...
Bronx Chamber of Commerce Italian Heritage Association Names Vincent Palmieri, COO of East Coast Power & Gas, Businessman of the Year
East Coast Power & Gas, an energy services company founded in 2008, serving natural gas, electricity and renewable sources of energy to both residential and commercial customers in New York State, announced today that Chief Operating Officer Vincent Palmieri has been named "Businessman of the Year" by the Bronx Chamber of Commerce Italian Herit...
Still a student: Delta Medix-founding doctor honored by Italian-American Association
by Peter Cameron Gino Mori, M.D., wouldn't shake anyone's hand Sunday night at the 107th annual dinner of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County. But the retired 82-year-old physician, being honored as the association's Man of the Year at a banquet at Fiorelli Catering in Blakely, wasn't letting the award go to his head. &...
Visita a Sorrento da parte di una delegazione italo - americana del New Jersey.
In visita a Sorrento una delegazione di italiano – americani proveniente dallo Stato Americano del New Jersey. Domenica mattina la delegazione capeggiata da Buddy Fortunato direttore responsabile di "The Italian Tribune" noto giornale americano in lingua inglese rivolto a tutti i cittadini italiani trapiantati in America hanno visitato la Basilica...
The Madonna Of 115th Street Gets A Long-Awaited Makeover
After 131 years, Madonna of 115th Street needed a makeover — a makeover worthy of a Catholic icon parishioners say is responsible for miracles. And last week, the refurbished life-sized statue and her new gown were unveiled last week in East Harlem. From high above the altar, the Blessed Mother at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church has watched...
Italian gardens: Villa Arconati, Bollate
WTI Magazine #72 2015 November 13Author : Italian Botanical Heritage Translation by: Villa Arconati, also known as the Castellazzo, is one of the historic mansions located in Bollate, in the hamlet of Castellazzo di Bollate. It is an example of late XVIII century Lombard baroque, and it is a national monument. The villa is located wi...
New York’s MoMA To Fete Italy’s Rai Cinema, Matteo Garrone’s ‘Tale of Tales’ U.S. Bow
by Nick Vivarelli New York's Museum of Modern Art will celebrate Italy's Rai Cinema with a screening series set to kick off on December 4 with the U.S. bow of Matteo Garrone's English-language fantasy/horror film "Tale of Tales" segued by nine other high-profile Italo titles co-produced by the powerhouse film production and distribution un...
San Vincenzo Gets a New “Marble” Pedestal
By Giovanni di Napoli Saturday morning I made my way to Most Precious Blood Church in Manhattan's Little Italy, to lend a hand to the Craco Society with the repositioning of the San Vincenzo statue onto its new base. Made to look like marble, the wooden pedestal was constructed by master craftsman Manny Mayo to display the saint at the foot of the...
Titan of the South: Francesco Messina
By Giovanni di Napoli Francesco Messina was born on December 15, 1900 in Linguaglossa, a small town near Catania, languishing in the shadow of Mount Etna. Like many other poor Southerners he grew up outside his native Sicily, residing wherever his family could find work. Instead of making the arduous trip across the Atlantic to th...
Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies - Critical Studies on Food in Italy Summer 2016 Program
Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies is now accepting applications for the OPEN SUMMER 2016 CRITICAL STUDIES ON FOOD IN ITALY, a 5 week program that takes place from May 23 to June 25, 2016 in Rome, Italy. The program is open to all university majors, and all students, degree seeking or not. It is also open to scholars, food lover...
United States and Italy Extend Memorandum of Understanding To Protect the Cultural Heritage of Italy
The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the extension of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Italy Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Archaeological Material Representing the Pre-Classical, Classical and Imperial Roman...
DEI - USA: Wow Technology amongst the winners of the 2016 International Projects contest
The Italian Wow Technology Group was amongst the winners of the "2016 International Projects" competition launched by the Environmental Management Division of the US Department of Energy (DoE). More specifically, the company based in Este, in the province of Padua, was one of the competition's ten winning projects. Wow Technology thus obta...