Lunedì 1° dicembre 2014, Mapei ha ricevuto il Transatlantic Award 2014, ritirato da Giorgio Squinzi, per l'acquisizione di GRT - General Resource Technology Inc., azienda americana attiva nel settore degli additivi per calcestruzzo, con due siti produttivi a Minneapolis e a St. Louis, che le consentirà di aumentare la propria posizione strategica s...
READ MOREBy Jerod Greenisen "When I think about how much work planning this event is, I just think about how hard my mom worked just to make it," says Eddie Bolva, executive director of Festa Italiana Minnesota. Eddie is the guy pulling all the strings behind the scenes of Minnesota's Largest Celebration of Italian culture. He is a retired cop and...
READ MOREby the Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St. Paul It is with deep sorrow that we inform you of the passing of Massimo Bonavita, Co-founder and Honorary President of the Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Massimo passed away on July, 2, 2016, in Cesena, Italy, at the age of 67. Massimo was highly respected in Ces...
READ MOREFor those who love Italian wine and food, this truly is the best of times. Call it kismet or karma. Whatever the terminology, Minneapolis this summer is the right place at the right time for those of us who love Italian food and wine. No fewer than three ambitious Italian eateries have opened in town over the past month or so, with seriou...
READ MOREby Frederick Melo Move over, Christopher Columbus. The second Monday in October is now known as Indigenous Peoples Day in the city of St. Paul. The resolution was sponsored by all seven members of the St. Paul City Council and approved Wednesday to heavy applause from a crowded, upbeat audience. It encourages other institutio...
READ MORESouthern Italy has been producing wine for 4000 years. Yet the wines from Italy's southern regions are not household names like their cousins from Tuscany and Piedmont. All this may be changing. For a very long time, southern grapes were sent to Northern Italy and Southern France as blends for many of their wines. Now a new group of young vint...
READ MOREItaly's leading ensemble on the world music circuit, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino returns Stateside for a series of Fall concert dates. Running from September 29th through October 10th, stops along CGS's 2016 mini-tour include Midwest performances at the Madison World Music Festival, Legion Arts (Cedar Rapids, IA) and Minneapolis's Cedar Cultural...
READ MOREAs part of their new exhibit - Italian Style: Fashion since 1945 - the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will offer a FREE screening of Men of the Cloth.This 2013 documentary is an inspiring portrait of Nino Corvato, Checchino Fonticoli and Joe Centofanti, three Italian master tailors who confront the decline of the apprentice system as they navigate t...
READ MORESince Italian cuisine is routinely singled out as Americans' favorite foreign fare, it's a miracle that most restaurant kitchens aren't knee-deep in gnocchi. But here in the Twin Cities, we're not exactly awash in Italian restaurants. Serious ones, anyway. That's about to change. Not one, not two, but three high-profile Italian restaurants...
READ MOREThe Duluth City Council on Monday night voted down an ordinance that would designate St. Peter's church a local historic landmark. The Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) voted in October to nominate St. Peter's for designation. It is a historic Catholic church built by Italian Americans almost two centuries ago. Read more Sou...
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