Festa Italiana to bring European flavor to Freedom Hill
By Eric Czarnik Metro Detroiters craving some pasta and Italian-themed activities are invited to Freedom Hill County Park for Festa Italiana July 15-17. Festa Italiana Chairman Joe Ventimiglia, from the Italian American Cultural Society, said the festival has drawn an estimated 25,000 visitors over the weekend in the past. Part of the...
Francis Ford Coppola Starts Experimental ‘Live Cinema’ Project at UCLA
Francis Ford Coppola has launched an ambitious "Distant Vision" project as a "live cinema" experiment at his alma mater, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Coppola unveiled details of the multi-year project at a news conference Saturday, following his month-long collaboration with 75 UCLA students and faculty on "Distant Vision,"...
New Ambrogio15 Brings Modern Italian to Pacific Beach
The brand-new Ambrogio15 in Pacific Beach is hoping to change locals' perspectives on Italian food with its modern take on the genre. Opened on August 1 by Giacomo Pizzigoni, Andrea Burrone and Luca Salvi — three entrepreneurs with MBAs from San Diego State University — the restaurant is promising to go beyond what's often found in Italian establis...
Meet the New Italians of Architecture & Design
Quando: Giovedì 8 settembre 2016 - A partire dalle 6.00 p.m.Dove: Consolato Generale d'Italia, 690 Park Avenue - New York L'8 settembre si terrà presso il Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York l'ottavo appuntamento del ciclo di eventi "Meet the New Italians of New York". Dopo l'evento del 28 giugno focalizzato sul mondo delle Start Up,...
The Italian Tribune Looks Back at the 1970s and 1980s
Once a marginalized, and only marginally tolerated minority, Italian Americans are now among the most highly accepted groups. Statistical data is one thing, it is another to realize that although this group has not only integrated into society, it remains integral to it and has managed to do so while proudly maintaining its Italian American identit...
MEUCCI VS. BELL Who Invented the Telephone?
September 30 (Friday) 6:30 pm. MEUCCI VS. BELL: Who Invented the Telephone?. A presentation by Professor Louis Leonini on the life and work of Antonio Meucci, the overlooked original inventor of the telephone who first discovered how sound could travel on a copper wire when Alexander Graham Bell was just two years old. The presentati...
Chow Morso brings Italian street food to Avanti
Chow Morso is the newest tenant at Avanti Food & Beverage, replacing chef Marco Gonzales' Bixo. Chef Darrel Truett and Ryan Fletter of Barolo Grill will open the new concept next week, bringing Italian street food to the collective eatery. While Barolo has served the Cherry Creek North neighborhood with Italian fine dining since 1992,...
See Naples and die
Naples is a city of contrasts. It's known all over the world. Someone admires it, someone is controversial. But it definitely cannot leave anyone indifferent. Naples is located in the south of Italy and it is one of the biggest and most attractive Italian cities. It was founded in the VIII century B.C. and since then a number of important...
The Present and Future of Italian Language and Culture Studies
What are the new directions available to the field of Italian Language and Culture Studies in a globalized world in which Italy plays an important role both economically and culturally? Within what kind of interdisciplinary framework does the field need to work in order to fully thrive? What contents, technologies and methodologies can be adopted t...
Landmark ruling means Italian mums can give children their surname
Italian rules which mean children of married couples are automatically given only their father's surname are unlawful, the country's constitutional court has ruled. The judgement was welcomed by campaigners as a milestone in a long legal and political battle to overturn regulations and practice they say are based on outdated patriarchal ideas....
Ciao St. Louis announces Italian radio hour
We will be hosting the Italian Music hour beginning Sunday, January 8th 2017. Our usual time will be from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm for the months of January and February. We will play some popular Italian Music and interview some local personalities. This broadcast can also be found at 770 on your AM Radio, online at wewradio.com, mimtv.info and...
ASSOCAMERESTERO-Indagine sull'Italian Sounding: i risultati con riferimento all'area del Nord-Centro America
L'Associazione che riunisce le 78 Camere di Commercio Italiane all´Estero (CCIE), Soggetti imprenditoriali privati, esteri e di mercato, ad Unioncamere – presenta i risultati emersi dall'Indagine condotta sull'Italian Sounding. L'analisi è stata realizzata nell'ambito del progetto di "Valorizzazione e promozione del prodotto agroalimentare...