Friar Alessandro – special tickets for the Italian community in St. Louis
Friar Alessandro. The Voice From Assisi. Friday, May 12, 2017 8:00 PM “Behind every successful tenor is … a story. Pavarotti was a larger than life character who understood how to popularize sometimes difficult music. Bocelli overcame his blindness to become a superstar and has managed to bridge the divide between popular and classical music. Friar...
How a grandmother's love lives on through her meatballs: Off The Clock
There’s magic in a meatball. In my Italian family, a meatball isn’t just beef, pork and veal. Your recipe gets mentioned in your eulogy. Everyone’s grandmother makes the best meatballs. That’s what the priest told my cousin Gina before she gave the eulogy for my Grandma Josephine DiSalvia. But she was more than what she cooked. Yet that taste, th...
RAI, Nissoli: serve potenziamento RAI Italia per migliorare immagine Paese
"Oggi la competitività di un Paese dipende dalla sua capacità di agire in un'ottica di "sistema", cioè dalla sua capacità di gestire in modo efficiente e coordinato i rapporti tra le proprie componenti interne e quelle deputate a rappresentarlo all'esterno. In questo, il servizio pubblico radiotelevisivo ha un ruolo determinante e insieme dobbiamo...
Presentation of the Motorvehicle University of Emilia Romagna in New York
Thursday, May 4th 2017, at 11.00 am. Consulate General of Italy in New York. 690 Park Avenue, New York, NY The world’s leading automotive brands are inviting the best young talents from all over the world to develop the future of the industry through new international Master’s Degree courses in Italy that are available at a hub offering top level t...
Fred Grimaldi, Syracuse-area restaurateur, dies suddenly
Fred Grimaldi, whose restaurants on Erie Boulevard helped set the standard for Italian dining in Central New York, died on Monday, according to his daughter. Grimaldi, 78, had been receiving treatment for lung cancer, and an operation to remove a lung went well, Rita Grimaldi said this morning. On Monday, he died unexpectedly after complications fr...
500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History
Sicily’s Jews were banished from this island in 1492, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. More than 500 years later, a nascent Jewish community is planting fresh roots in the Sicilian capital, reclaiming a lost, often painful, history, this time with the aid of the local diocese....
De Carolis brothers cycle their way to Tewksbury
Luca and Stefano De Carolis left Italy in 2014 for America with 10 years of experience working at a bike shop in Rome and a talent for design and building, respectively. With their combined experience and enthusiasm for biking, these Italian brothers decided to open a bike shop here in the area. “We planned to open in Tewksbury, but the rent was to...
Alyssa Oliverio to reign as Regina Maria XXIX
As someone who has attended the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival every year of her life, Parkersburg’s Alyssa Oliverio has played several roles in the event over the years. Her newest role will be that of Regina Maria XXXIX. Oliverio was a member of the Minor Court in 1998 and Senior Court in 2014. Along with that, she helped her grandfathe...
Check out how fresh mozzarella is made
Some people don’t want to know how the sausage is made. I instead do want to know how the mozzarella is made. So I went to visit A and S Salumeria in Millstone and asked the owner/cheese maker Anthony “The Big Cheese” Mannino how he goes about it. Not only did he demonstrate his family’s recipe that dates back 40 years over two generations, he told...
Tra aree protette e mondanità soft, ecco le spiagge italiane da scegliere
Mare blu, spiagge incantevoli, calette silenziose. Ballare sotto le stelle in Sardegna. Tuffarsi dalle scogliere all’Elba. Nuotare tra le acque selvagge della Sicilia. Passeggiare tra le meraviglie di una riserva naturale. O farsi un bagno ai Caraibi nostrani, tra le acque del Salento. Per rilassarsi in coppia, divertirsi in famiglia o con gli amic...
Pirola Featured in May 7 Sundays at Three Program at Southeast’s River Campus
Italian maestro, Fabio Pirola, the conductor of the St. Petersburg Russia Gubernatorsky Orchestra, will lead Southeast Missouri State University faculty and students in a concert featuring music by Italian composers of yesterday and today at 3 p.m. May 7 in the Robert F. and Gertrude L. Shuck Music Recital Hall at Southeast’s River Campus as part o...
Contest “Come dentro uno specchio. L’Italia vista fuori dall’Italia”
On the occasion of the XVII edition of the Week of Italian Language in the World (16-22 October 2017), which is dedicated to the theme "L'italiano al cinema. L'italiano nel cinema", the Dante Alighieri Society is promoting the contest "Come dentro uno specchio. L'Italia vista fuori dall'Italia" (As in a mirror. Italy seen from the outside". Directo...