New Jersey bus driver sings Italian to his passengers
Travelling through Trinton Falls, New Jersey, is typically boring at best but it certainly isn't the case if you're lucky enough to hop onto Mike Rabinowitz's bus. Rabinowitz, a classically trained opera singer and full-time bus driver who serenades senior citizens while he shuttles them to and from Seabrook Retirement Community, happily sings...
Michelangelo, un'emozione senza confini
Negli Stati Uniti una mostra dedicata al grande artista italiano, con 26 disegni provenienti dalla 'Casa Buonarroti', si aprirà in febbraio al 'Muscarelle Museum' di Williamsburg in Virginia e poi in aprile si trasferirà al 'Museum of Fine Arts' di Boston. Un avvenimento di assoluta importanza che negli USA non si verificava da decenni. 'Sacro e Pr...
Italian center to host opening ceremony today
After five years operating out of the Buena Vista Senior Club, the Italian Cultural Foundation of South Jersey will cut the ribbon today to celebrate its new home on Wheat Road. The 3,500-square-foot building, at 468 Wheat Road on the boundary with Vineland, will be the new hosting grounds for the foundation's educational and cultural acti...
Second annual Festa Italiana Frederick
Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County is excited to announce their 2nd Annual 'Festa Italiana Frederick' to be held on May 17th at Rose Hill Manor in Frederick, Maryland. The festival will feature a variety of delicious homemade Italian foods, desserts, beverages, a wine and beer garden, musical entertainment, a Spaghetti Sauce Cook-Off, ki...
Della Notte site in Little Italy slated for 16-story apartment tower
A Baltimore developer is planning to replace the shuttered Della Notte restaurant at Eastern Avenue and President Street with a 15-story apartment tower in the next two years. The tower will include retail on the first floor and developers have told the Little Italy Community Organization that the building will have between 150 and 240 apartment u...
Festa di Natale and Italian Holiday Family Day
The Italian American Civic Club of Maryland & The Italian Cultural Center of Maryland cordially invites you to FESTA DI NATALE and ITALIAN HOLIDAY FAMILY DAY December 13, 2015 - from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PMIACCM - 1214 Saint Paul Street - Baltimore, MD 21202. We welcome director Oriana Oppice and author Jane Barbara at 2:00 PM to share with us...
Grazie! - "Amatriciana with ove, a future for central Italy."
by Italian Cultural Society of Washington, DC Dear ICS Friends, Thank you to everyone for making the second charity dinner - "Amatriciana with Love, a future for Central Italy" an unforgettable evening! Thank you for your donations to the Italian Red Cross - earthquake victims. Many influential European and American friends gathe...
FYI: PhonItalia: a Phonological Lexicon for Italian
Announcing the availability of PhonItalia, the first comprehensive lexical database to provide phonological representations for Italian word-forms. Each of the 120,000 entries is provided with a wide range of information in addition to the phonological representation of the word. This includes syllable boundary and stress markings, uniquen...
Italian paradise sprouts up in Tacoma
From the street, Florence Welborn's North Slope garden looks like most other Northwest gardens: tall maples and conifers, some rhododendrons. But peer over the edge of the wall and you're in another place — Italy, to be precise. Because Welborn has recreated the formal parterres, statuary and gravel walks of the place she loves to visit again and a...
Michelangelo in Rome - An illustrated Seminar @ Smithsonian Institution
SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES Present an Architectural Seminar "MICHELANGELO in ROME" MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES - S. DILLON RIPLEY CENTER - 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW | Washington, DC 20036 - METRORAIL: SMITHSONIAN MALL Exit (Blue/Orange Lines) - BUY @ CLICK HERE Michelangelo the sculptor an...
Great Unknown Italian Sites in Known Italian Cities
Date: Friday, April 24, 2015 Time: 6:30PM Venue: Embassy of Italy: 3000 Whitehaven Street NW - Washington, DC Professor Barry Goldsmith - the architectural-travel historian whose specialty is recommending sites around the world missed by most tourists (and even missed by many natives) - will reveal his favorite seldom-visited sites in It...
Italian festival holds scholarship dinner
The annual upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival is one of the biggest events of the year in the Ohio Valley. But aside from honoring Italian history and providing authentic cuisine, it also provides for a number of scholarships for area students. On Tuesday night at West Virginia Northern Community College, 15 students who have rece...