Guests eat up Italian festival
Unlucky number 13 was lucky at the pasta-eating contest at Saturday's Bell' Italia Festival at Hazle Township Community Park. It was good to be 13 years old — the age of the three winners of the pasta-eating contest in the youth division at the annual event. About a dozen combatants between the ages of 3 and 14 participated in the con...
Columbus Citizens Foundation Announces Arianna Bergamaschi As 2016 Gala Guest Entertainer
New to this year's Columbus Celebration Gala entertainment is Italian singer, stage actress, TV personality and musical theater performer, Arianna Martina Bergamaschi. Bergamaschi will be performing at Columbus Citizens Foundation's annual Gala on Saturday, October 8. The Gala is held at the Waldorf Astoria and is part of the Foundation's...
Italian Riviera finding new ways to manage tourism impact on historic hiking trails
Angelo Celsi must run the most lucrative lemonade stand on the planet. Despite his isolated location on a dirt trail on Italy's northwestern coast, an estimated 2.5 million people passed through this area last year. That's because this isn't any old dusty path. It's part of 120 miles of undulating trails that flit through pine-scented forests, fli...
Lamborghini and MIT join forces to create a sports car for the 21st century
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for cutting-edge engineers, and Lamborghini is known for super cars. Just this week, the two paired up to ponder the future of an ultra-light, strong, and innovative automotive brand. On Wednesday at the EmTech conference at MIT in Boston, Lamborghini Chairman and CEO Stefano Domenicali sa...
Peter Rappoccio: Groundskeeper par excellence
From age 14, Peter Rappoccio has been involved with golf course maintenance, but he is now ready to retire as the property manager of Silver Spring Country Club. After 39 years at Silver Spring, Rappoccio will no longer be in charge of the golf course, the clubhouse, the swimming pool, and the tennis and paddle ball courts. He will no longer be wo...
He’s the Bomb: An Enrico Fermi Biography
By Gregg Herken THE POPE OF PHYSICSEnrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic AgeBy Gino Segrè and Bettina HoerlinIllustrated. 351 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $30. In a controversial lecture more than 50 years ago, the British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow suggested that natural scientists had "the future in their bones." Snow was spea...
Elena Manferdini interview and studio visit in Los Angeles
Atelier Manferdini, founded by italian engineer-turned architect elena manferdini, is an architectural design firm based in venice, los angeles, california. spreading across multiple disciplines, the practice has completed art installations, architecture and industrial design projects in the US, europe and asia. Notable work includes the g...
Corona D’Italia Lodge #807 January Meeting
Corona D'Italia Lodge #807 held their monthly business meeting on Wednesday, January 11 at 5p.m. at Pizza Joe's. President, Clemmy Sirimarco presided over the session that began with a pizza luncheon served by Sentinel Lois DiFrichia and Mary Jane Folino. Treasurer Louise Vitullo presented the financial reports and she noted that she is collec...
Una vecchia signora molto giovane. Il gala per i 125 anni della Italy-America Chamber of Commerce
La solennità dell'occasione ha richiamato oltre 500 partecipanti al gala svoltosi venerdì nella sala ricevimenti Cipriani sulla 42nd Street per festeggiare il 125.mo anniversario di fondazione della Italy-America Chamber of Commerce, la più antica sul territorio americano.Durante la sua lunga esistenza la Camera è stata testimone di tragici eventi:...
Collaborazione con Fiera Verona: Vinitaly
Città: VeronaPaese: ITALIAPeriodo di svolgimento: 04/04/2013 - 10/04/2013Partners: Fiera VeronaDescrizione: Come ogni anno continuerà con Fiera Verona la collaborazione della Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas per il Vinitaly, fiera di riferimento per il settore vinicolo ed enogastronomico. Giunto ormai alla 47° edizione il Vinitaly rappres...
City Tech's 2013 Scholar On Campus to Speak on ‘Creativity, Language & Life’ on April 22
New York City College of Technology (City Tech) has chosen English Professor George Guida as its 2013 Scholar on Campus for his outstanding work as a poet, fiction writer, critic, editor and teacher. He will deliver his Scholar on Campus lecture, "Creativity, Language and Life," and read from his poetry, on Monday, April 22, at 5 p.m., in Namm Hall...
Americans, Italians unite to fight against cancer
AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy -- Rain washed away tears of loss as Americans stood side-by-side with their Italian brothers and sisters while they watched images of loved ones projected on a screen during a Luminaria Ceremony at this year's Relay for Life. Members of the Aviano community - Italian and American - braved the thunderstorms April 27 to show...