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This year Columbus day celebrations are extremely special as four mayors from the province of Siracusa ( Canicattinini, Floridia, Solarino and Rosolini) will be visiting Hartford to take part in the celebrations. The Hartford Italian Clubs have joined forces to make this visit a very special one indeed and on 10-12 we will host a gala dinner at Aq...

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National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) President John M. Viola will lead a delegation of the Foundation's Board members to Palermo, Italy, to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the massacres of Capaci and Via D'Amelio on May 23, 2015. The deaths of Judge Giovanni Falcone and his wife, Judge Francesca Morvillo, Judge Paolo Borsellino, and the...

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Paese: Stati UnitiSettore: Settore agro-alimentare Prodotti: Bevande, liquidi alcolici e aceti. Vini di uve fresche, incl. i vini arricchiti di alcole; mosti di uva, parzialmente fermentati e con titolo alcolometrico effettivo > 0,5% vol o aventi un effettivo tenore, in peso, > 0,5% vol di alcole addizionato Interessi di mercato: RICERCA PR...

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By Gaetano Cipolla   2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Meli, Sicily's most celebrated poet, who died of pneumonia on December 20, 1815. Prof. Giovanni Ruffino, director of the Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, in collaboration with Sicily's three major universities organized a four-day conference in...

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  WTI Magazine #15    2014 Jan, 31Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   In 1968, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded on Italian soil destroyed Belice, an area of the western Sicily. Whole villages were razed, including Poggioreale, Salaparuta and Gibellina. In the narration of the slow and...

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Jack Spatola, Chairman della F.I.A.O. (Federation of Italian-American Organizations of Brooklyn), Preside della Scuola Pubblica 172 di Brooklyn e Docente universitario presso la Columbia University, in Sicilia per una breve vacanza, ha fatto visita a Sicilia Mondo, accolto con viva simpatia dal Consiglio Direttivo della Associazione.   A con...

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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper was born on June 22, 1953. Her mother, Catrine Gallo, is an Italian American whose family is from Sicily. Cyndi was raised in Queens, NY, as a Roman Catholic. She dropped out of high school and moved out on her own when she was 17.   She began singing in local cover bands and working odd jobs to make ends meet. I...

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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...

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di Valentina Barresi   Le mafie raccontate a chi, oltreoceano, vive dinamiche quotidiane drammatiche e riesce, con la semplicità dei suoi giovani anni, a fare proprio un messaggio che valica confini territoriali e temporali: si è conclusa venerdì l'avventura palermitana di otto studenti della Columbia Heights Educational Campus di Washington...

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La rivista statunitense Forbes Magazine ed il website Forbes.com pubblicano i 12 festival più cool del mondo, quelli per cui vale la pena fare un viaggio. In lista tra questi c'è il Teatro del Fuoco, festival italiano ideato e prodotto dalla giornalista palermitana Amelia Bucalo Triglia. Forbes, nota per la classifica annuale degli uomini più ricc...

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