Private Equity in Italy on the rise: the direct experience of a Us private equity veteran
For years American investors—companies and individuals—have perceived Italy as a complicated place to do business. A legal system which makes the rule of law uncertain and untimely, employer-unfriendly labor laws, and a stiflingly bureaucratic public administration comprise three reasons why aggregate private investment in Italy from the U.S. sinc...
Little Italy Food Hall Named Among USA Today’s '10 Best'
A food emporium in the heart of San Diego’s Little Italy community has been named among the top 10 best new food halls in the United States, according to USA Today. The Little Italy Food Hall (LIFH) – located next to the Piazza della Famiglia, on West Date Street between India and Columbia streets – opened last summer. After only six months in busi...
Maria Manetti Shrem — Prima ‘Sanfranciscan’ nominata Grande Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia
Per Maria Manetti Shrem il 2019 non poteva aprirsi con migliore auspicio e riconoscimento ad una vita e una carriera letteralmente esemplari. Su approvazione del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana, Sergio Mattarella, lo scorso 14 gennaio 2019 le è stata conferita dall’Ambasciatore d’Italia, Armando Varricchio una delle onorificenze più alte mai r...
Fresco: The Last Supper
Among religious subjects, The Last Supper has been a favorite inspiration for many works of art, and numerous are the great masters who addressed this theme in some of their best known masterpieces. As far back as in the times of the early Christians, there were pictorial representations of the meal that could be found in the catacombs of Rome. The...
Patriarch of Pasta Cafe passes away
Andre Buonaiuto, a New Yorker known for bringing a taste of Italy to Roswell, left behind his family and friends after experiencing a heart attack as he was getting ready for work on Jan. 14. Described as a large personality and dedicated to his family and his friends, Buonaiuto, 63, was well-known in Roswell for his previous ownership of Pasta Caf...
Davide Ceriani (Musicologist)
The topic we are addressing this time, among the many that trace the relationship between Italy and the United States from different angles, concerns Italian opera and the Italian Americans. Professor Davide Ceriani is a musicologist who teaches at Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ). A few months ago, he gave a multimedia presentation at the Library...
The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater
The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater by Norman Mathews is one man’s tale of a harrowing journey to a fulfilling life in music, theater, and love. Growing up in a loving Sicilian-American family (his real name is Ignazio Norman Cangelosi) in Rockford, Illinois, deeply shaped his future. The book traces an arc from his grandparents' de...
Oscars 2019: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper to Perform ‘Shallow’ at Ceremony
The Academy Awards confirmed Friday that Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will perform their A Star Is Born hit “Shallow” at the February 24th ceremony. The duet is nominated in the Best Original Song category. The Oscars’ announcement comes less than a week after Gaga and Cooper performed the song together – as themselves and not their Star Is Born ch...
Musei italiani crescono i visitatori, ma ancora troppo concentrati nelle destinazioni top
Aumentano i visitatori dei musei del 7,7% nel 2017 sul 2015, con 27mila presenze in media per ciascuna struttura espositiva. Le città più visitate sono Roma e Firenze, le regioni con il maggior numero di strutture museali (statali, non statali e private) sono Toscana, Emilia Romagna e Lombardia. A fronte della grande attrazione delle nostre istituz...
"Speechless Pulcinella", a commedia by Antonio Fava
Saturday, February 23rd from 6-9pm. Casa Italia Community Center, The Ballroom. 3800 Division Street, Stone Park, IL Presented by the Italian American Theatre of Chicago and Studio Z, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. In this once-in-a-lifetime treat, Antonio Fava, Italy’s world-renowned maestro of Commedia dell’Arte,...
Artworks You Don't Want to Miss in Sicily: Part Two
We explored the plethora of art that Sicily has to offer in part one of this two part series, now we have the rest of what artworks you don't want to miss on your next visit to Italy's biggest island! 9) Art in amazing locations Sicily has a vibrant contemporary art scene with many artists and galleries all around the island. But two must visit pl...
After 36 years, Filomena still revels in old-time hospitality and titanic portions
JoAnna Filomena Chiacchieri can reel off the reasons her basement Italian restaurant in Georgetown has lasted — thrived, even — for 36 years in a famously fickle industry. One of them is the way her dining room makes customers feel. “When people are seated,” says the restaurateur, 82, “we give them something to look at.” Talk about an understatemen...