Italy’s Colla Marionette to Enact ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at Paramount
Journey into the fantastical land of fairy tales as Colla Marionette's incredible puppetry takes on Sleeping Beauty. This legendary Italian marionette company – considered the best in the world – depicts the beloved classic, using Tchaikovsky's score and intricately involved puppet technique to breathe new life into the story. Fantastic visio...
La "fregatura americana" dell'olio d'oliva spacciato per italiano: parlano i produttori e importatori del 100% Made in Italy
di Beatrice Bondi Dopo l'inchiesta de La VOCE di New York pubblicata il 22 maggio sui falsi oli d'oliva Made in Italy, e la recente bocciatura alla Camera dei Rappresentanti USA di una misura restrittiva proprio sulle importazioni di olio d'oliva, continuiamo ad approfondire la questione e siamo andati a sentire cosa ne pensano al riguardo...
Italian language activist Gioconda Motta
by Stefano Salimbeni "When we lived in Melrose in the mid 1970s, my eldest daughter used to bring pizza to school for lunch. For her, having grown up in an Italian household, it was the most normal thing in the world. At some point however she started to come home and say they were making fun of her, therefore she didn't want pizza anymore...
Chiusura Consolati/ Nissoli (SC) interroga Bonino
Deputata di Scelta Civica eletta in Nord America, Fucsia Nissoli ha presentato una interrogazione al Ministro degli esteri sulla chiusura di 14 sedi consolari. Nell'interrogazione, Nissoli, dopo aver fatto notare l'incongruenza tra quanto richiesto nella cosiddetta "spending review", e cioè che non siano compromessi i servizi offerti ai ci...
Indimenticabile Versace
di Francesca Favotto Non una casa qualunque, ma quella dove abitò fino al giorno che ne segnò la fine per sempre, che segnò la fine di un'era. Il 17 settembre Casa Casuarina, imponente residenza dello stilista Gianni Versace a Miami, dove visse fino all'omicidio avvenuto per mano di Andrew Cunanan il 15 luglio di sedici anni fa, verrà mess...
Ambasciatore USA in Italia presto in terra pordenonese: sulle tracce della sua discendenza il segretario dell’Efasce di Philadelphia
Non è escluso che entro la fine del mese di ottobre il nuovo ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia, John Phillips, e i suoi parenti possano visitare il comune di Frisanco. A darne notizia è Ernie, fratello del diplomatico americano, contattato nei giorni scorsi dal presidente dell'Efasce di Philadelphia, Robert Roman, messosi sulle tracce dei d...
The American Boccaccio Association Second Triennial Conference: Boccaccio in Washington DC
CONFERENCE DATES: OCTOBER 4 - 6, 2013 An international, interdisciplinary conference on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio's birth, to be held at Georgetown University and the Italian Embassy. Abstracts were due March 31, 2013. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. TRAVEL GRANTS SPONSORED BY TH...
Food is one of the stars of Jeffersonville big Italian festival
Of all the "ethnic" foods that have found their way into the American diet, Italian food has been perhaps the most pervasive. Love of Italian-American food will be one of the reasons several thousand people will converge on West Court Avenue in Jeffersonville, Ind., this weekend for the Southern Indiana town's fifth annual Italian Festival. ...
San Diego Public Library presents Giuseppe Verdi Marathon
In celebration of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday, the City of San Diego Public Library will offer a VERDIthon—a marathon screening of rarely seen Verdi operas on film on Thursday, October 10. Two of Verdi's beloved operas: "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata" will be produced as feature length films and showcase some of the worl...
Nonprofit Italian resource center opens in Cedar Grove
Hundreds gathered at Diamond Spring Restaurant and Beach Club in Nutley to celebrate the launch of Cedar Grove's Sempre Avanti recently. The newly established nonprofit organization serves as a resource center for the Italian and Italian-American community. Above, Sempre Avanti's Executive Director and founder Rosanna Imbriano welcomes the...
Peroni Nastro Azzurro Celebrates 50th Anniversary
This month, Peroni Nastro Azzurro – the world's No. 1 premium Italian beer – is proud to celebrate 50 years of passion, craftsmanship and contemporary Italian style. Since 1963, Peroni Nastro Azzurro has applied Italian style to the world of beer, using the finest ingredients to yield a crisp and refreshing lager with an unmistakable character. Sta...
Italian Catholics from Grimaldi settle in Utah
By Christine Young Monsignor Joseph Mayo's recent assignment as pastor of Saint John the Baptist Parish prompted Marianne Fratto Brunatti and her sister, Diane Fratto Chase, both parishioners of the parish, to find the family history book and, in particular, a photograph of the Italians who immigrated to Utah from Grimaldi, Italy during the early...