'On Being Italian,' latest The Republican Heritage book, to be served up at A Taste of Italy on Saturday
"On Being Italian: A Story of Food, Family and Faith," the latest offering in The Republican Heritage book series, lives up to its title at a special event on Saturday afternoon. The book will be available for sale at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church's A Taste of Italy on Saturday, 4:30 to 8 p.m., at the school auditorium at 36 Margaret St. in...
Syracuse International Film Festival highlights music, veterans, tribute to Sophia Loren
The 2016 Syracuse International Film Festival showcases films with a focus on music, veterans and war, sports, as well as films with a direct connection to Central New York. The 13th annual fall festival runs from Oct. 19 to 23, with more than 60 foreign and domestic screenings of all genres, including fiction, documentary, animation, shor...
Great success for the second edition of the “Bridge Book Award” at the Embassy of Italy
The meeting of two different cultures can radiate an extraordinary proactive force and this is exactly what you could feel in the air yesterday evening at the Embassy of Italy during the presentation of "The Bridge"Book Awards. The event was the Awards' second edition and guests were enthusiastic for the ongoing creative efforts that Italy and the...
Maggiano’s Little Italy Now Open at Downtown Summerlin
Address: Downtown Summerlin, 10940 Rosemary Park Drive Phone: 702-259-6025 Status: Open Monday through Thursday from 4 to 11 p.m., Friday from 4 to 11 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Maggiano's Little Italy doubles down on Las Vegas with a second location. The oversized 9,732-square-foot Downtown...
New professional group to host cuccidati fest
The newly formed Chicagoland Italian American Professionals will present their first annual La Festa dei Cuccidati from 2 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 17 in the Chandelier Room at Casa Italia in Stone Park. The event will feature a baking demonstration of the traditional Sicilian Christmas fig cookie with information provided about its history and origin. &n...
Developer claims judge has anti-Italian bias
by Jane Musgrave After waiting six years to take Subway founder Fred DeLuca to court in a multi-million-dollar dispute over a massive real estate deal gone bad, Delray Beach developer Anthony Pugliese claims he can't get a fair shake because of his Italian heritage. Never mind that DeLuca, who died last year of leukemia at age 67, als...
Gentiloni, a nobleman as premier
Premier-designate Paolo Gentiloni has ancestors of Italian nobility that were from the Marche town of Tolentino, The town was among the worst hit by two big earthquakes that shook central Italy at the end of October, two months after a devastating quake claimed almost 300 lives. Mayor Giuseppe Pezzanesi said Gentiloni returns to the area r...
Author tells of internment of Italian-Americans in U.S. during WWII
By Brad Petrishen Seventy-five years ago today, the fallout on U.S. immigrants from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began. The FBI, on orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, began rounding up Japanese people deemed "potentially dangerous," more than 100,000 of whom ended up in internment camps. But while the story of Japane...
From Colosseum to Mt.Vesuvius: Italian songs, music, poetry @ Casa Italiana in DC
CASA ITALIANA HALL & CULTURAL CENTERPresents: A show of ITALIAN SONGS, MUSIC, POETRYSpettacolo Musicale di Canzoni, Musiche, PoesieDirector/Regia by Bruno FUSCO DAL COLOSSEO AL VESUVIO - From the Colosseum To Mt.VesuviusSATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012 @ 7:30 PMCASA ITALIANA Hall & Cultural Center595 Third Street, NW | Washington, DC 20002METRO...
Agenzia ICE e RAI firmano lettera d'intenti per fare sistema all'estero
Il Presidente dell'ICE - Agenzia per la promozione all'estero e l'internazionalizzazione delle imprese italiane Riccardo Monti e il Direttore Generale della RAI Luigi Gubitosi hanno siglato oggi presso la Sede RAI di viale Mazzini una Lettera d'Intenti perintegrare le rispettive presenze all'estero. L'intesa è volta a dare concreta attuazione al co...
Fire & ice: all’Italian American Museum Patrick Morelli presenta il suo ultimo libro
Sarà presentato stasera alle 18.30 all'Italian American Museum il libro di Patrick Morelli "Fire and Ice". In un 21mo secolo devastato dalla violenza e dall'avidità, il procuratore degli Stati Uniti, Giovanni Mastriano, e la sua bella, sofisticata e aristocratica moglie di origini italiane, Contessa Maria Garibaldi, cittadina naturalizzata america...
Italiani all’estero e made in Italy, gli USA 'corrono' con le macchine italiane
Il 2012? I primi nove mesi si sono chiusi con un +23%. La nuova tappa del nostro viaggio nell'export italiano destinazione Stati Uniti ci porta a un altro successo, quello firmato, questa volta, dal settore dei macchinari rappresentato dalla Federmacchine, la federazione nazionale delle associazioni dei produttori di beni strumentali destinati allo...