Italian Suit Maker Castangia 1850 Opening First US Showroom on Madison Avenue
Italian suit designer Castangia 1850 is opening its first permanent U.S. showroom at 521 Madison Avenue in Midtown, Commercial Observer has learned. The 168-year-old suit maker has agreed to take 1,800 square feet spanning the entire second floor of the eight-story, roughly 15,000-square-foot office and retail building between East 53rd and East 54...
La lingua italiana è di moda a New York. Nuova scuola bilingue a Harlem
«Italian is cool», l’italiano è una lingua bella, divertente e utile. E’ lo slogan con cui lo Iace, Italian American committee on education, da anni promuove la nostra lingua nelle scuole di New York e dintorni. E i risultati si vedono: negli ultimi cinque anni è più che raddoppiato - da 22.000 a 54.000 - il numero di ragazze e ragazzi che studiano...
Eda (Donofrio) Constantino Obituary
There will be a Mass of Christian burial held on Tuesday, July 3, 2018, at 2:30 p.m. with the Very Reverend Monsignor Michael J. Cariglio, Jr., officiating, preceded by a 2:00 p.m. prayer service held at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, Boardman, for Eda Constantino, 89, who passed away Sunday morning, July 1, 2018, after a brief illness at Mercy...
Con De Padova a New York l’arte dell’abitare è nel segno del made in Italy
È un nome iconico della cultura del design italiano fondato da Maddalena e Fernando De Padova nel 1956 con un piccolo showroom a Milano in cui venivano importati arredi scandinavi: l’azienda De Padova – produttrice su licenza della linea americana di mobili per la casa e l’ufficio Herman Miller – diviene nel tempo un punto di riferimento grazie all...
Festa Italiana to offer feast of memories, Italian flavors
Jeffrey Heinzman remembers attending the local Festa Italiana event every year for basically all of his life, partly because his uncle used to play in a band at the festival. Today, Heinzman is the co-owner and executive chef of Gnocchi Italian Restaurant in Clinton Township. He plans to serve gnocchi — a ribbed, pillowed pasta — with meat sauce or...
Ex-Votos of Santuario di Montenero
While the church itself is beautiful and Baroque, with a gorgeous nave featuring the last intact carved wooden ceiling in Livorno, the real attraction is in the surrounding rooms and hallways. On the walls hangs Italy’s largest collection of ex-votos (votive offerings, short for the Latin ex voto suscepto: “from the vow made”) giving thanks to the...
Brando Ballerini: Texas, land of oilmen, patrons and Made in Italy lovers View Larger Image
Brando Ballerini has been since 2010 the President of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas (IACC) based in Houston. He is currently the President of BPB Energy. He has over 40 years of experience in the oil and drilling industry, previously holding the position of Drillmec President for 15 years. The interview InvestorVisa.it: President,...
Rules of Thumb: Secrets to Italian Recipes
How often have you tried to cook Italian? How many times have you spent hours online looking for the best Italian recipes, or even asked a friend how to make a traditional dessert? Or are you one of those people who just walked out of a book store hugging a cookbook with enough recipes to last you a lifetime? If you did any of these things, you're...
The Sea and Its History
The boundless blue that one can see from every corner of the Italian peninsula, the unmistakable noise of the waves crashing on the shore, the taste of iodine that fills the lungs with health and freedom...it is the sea! In fact, the sea can not be associated only with the idea of nature, but it is also culture, tradition, work, and free time. For...
Latemarium and the color of the Dolomites
From the Latemarium panoptic platform, located at 2,200 meters of altitude, you can enjoy an amazing view over the Latemar and the wonderful surrounding Dolomites. It is an unparalleled rocky embrace, especially at dawn and sunset – when the walls of the mountains turn an iridescent hue, ranging from reddish to violet. The phenomenon is known as Al...
Mount Olive pairs up with Italian counterpart as 'sister cities'
The township has a new sister and she is 1,552 years old. The sister is the town of Carpegna, Italy, and Mayor Angelo Francioni met with his American counterpart, Mayor Rob Greenbaum, in ceremonies on Wednesday, June 27, celebrating the two sister cities. The celebration of the new relationship was held at town hall and at the Fratelli Beretta, USA...
The world's rarest Maserati collection is stored in a barn in Italy
On the outskirts of the rural northern Italian city of Modena sits Hombre Farm, a small family-run business that produces what some say is the finest Parmesan cheese in the world. Yet few of the hardcore foodies who make the pilgrimage to this nascent food capital are aware of the gleaming treasure trove tucked away inside one of the modest, nondes...