Renzo Arbore chiude la locandina degli avvenimenti per la festa della Repubblica al Consolato Generale
di Riccardo Chioni Bagno di folla al Consolato Generale nella serata di domenica per lo showman Renzo Arbore, giunto per la presentazione di Umbria Jazz, a conclusione della giornata di festeggiamenti per la festa della Repubblica, evento inserito nel quadro dell'Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti. Il console generale N...
Merante Brothers Market: Great Family, Good Friends, & Glorious Food
Merante Brothers Market has brought the old neighborhood market back to the neighborhood, providing locals with quality foods, Italian specialty items, and something more—a chance to relax in the market's European-style cafe, and enjoy (or pick up) family dinner in the rustic cucina. More than a market, it's a celebration of what the Merantes hold...
Un grido di dolore ci giunge dall'Italia, da chi vorrebbe ancora amarla ma non ci riesce più e allora chiede aiuto agli italiani d'America
di Maria Antonietta Fordellone Caro Direttore, Colgo al balzo l'occasione di poter dire la mia opinione, del tutto personale, su quello che succede nella nostra Italia. Vi ho scoperti su Facebook, e quella frase "Giornale online protetto dal Primo Emendamento della Costituzione USA" mi ha dato la spinta per far sentire la "m...
Il Giornale della Parata di Colombo - july 2013
Dear Visitor, 5TH ANNUAL BOCCE TOURNAMENT It is time to get your team in the August 3rd tournament as soon as possible as we are filling up. The cost is $25 per player or $100 per four player team. Your entry fee includes a delicious lunch, prepared by Helen Marzano Frei and friends, beer, soda, water, and a continental breakfast. We will...
San Francisco’s Italian Community
The images above on the Italian Heritage Mural are part of the life work of Italian immigrant Gino Sbrana, who started his American life in San Francisco as a vegetable peddler. By 1911, he had launched a large photographic studio, Pisa Foto, at Columbus and Broadway in San Francisco. Later Gino founded a studio in Oakland and, in 1919, settled in...
How to select Aglianico, a lesser-known but delicious Italian wine
Aimed at proving that even when compared to Barolo and Brunello di Montalcino lesser-known wines have nothing to envy, a panel of American experts tasted a few bottles of Aglianicos, the Italian red from Campania, learning that it is a matter of flavors and nuances selection to find good labels among this variety of red wines. Aglianico is...
Club ItaloAmericano gives out honors
Club ItaloAmericano of Green Bay recently hosted the 10th annual WisItalia Awards Banquet, where the local club was honored for promoting events that encourage Italian heritage in the greater Green Bay area. Lisa Joy Meli, Italian language teacher at Preble and East high schools was presented with the 2013 Teacher of the Year Award, and ch...
Aziende italiane con l'ICE all'Interbike di Las Vegas
Sono 32 le aziende italiane che, coordinate dall'Agenzia Ice e dall'ANCMA, partecipano in questi giorni all'edizione 2013 di Intrerbike, la principale manifestazione dedicata alle biciclette negli Stati Uniti, inaugurata ieri al Centro espositivo del Mandalay Bay, a Las Vegas. Le importazioni Usa di biciclette, parti e accessori nel 2012 h...
Via Colori street painting festival set for Nov. 23-24
The Via Colori street painting festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 23-24, in downtown Houston. Via Colori was introduced to Houston in 2006 to celebrate the Italian Renaissance art of street painting while benefiting Center for Hearing and Speech, a nonprofit organization that teaches speaking, listening and literacy skills to c...
Italian art: The seven works of Mercy
WTI Magazine #7 2013 Nov, 29Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti In 1606 Michelangelo Merisi, also known as Caravaggio, left Rome to go to Naples.Rome was no longer a safe place, due to a death sentence which hung over his head. He will never come back again in the capital city that...
The “World’s Biggest Christmas Tree”
by Ishita Gaikwad A tiny Italian town is all set to spread Christmas cheer all through the Umbrian countryside. Hundreds of grown-ups and delighted children watched as a tablet computer switched on the dazzling display called the "The World's Biggest Christmas Tree" on a hill above the town of Gubbio. The holiday display, which has been i...
SME’s in Italy – A snapshot
Italy's SME sector — the largest in the EU by number of firms — is dominated by more than 3.6 million micro-firms with less than 10 employees. Micro firms therefore contribute more to employment and value-added than elsewhere in the EU: nearly half of total employment and one-third of value added says the European SBA Fact Sheet. There is...