100-year-old Florida woman: My secret to looking so good? Italian heritage and olive oil
by Kathy Salvati Lena Fertitta, of Panama City in Florida, celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday. When asked what her secret to looking so good at 100 was, she answered: My Italian heritage and olive oil! Check out the video Read more Source: http://iajournal.com/
N.C. Museum of Art Welcomes Giotto Altarpiece Home
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) announces that Giotto di Bondone's The "Peruzzi Altarpiece," one of the Museum's most beloved masterpieces, has returned home after five years of traveling to national and international museum exhibitions and receiving conservation treatments. The work, the only intact Giotto altarpiece outside of It...
Giovanni Di Palma: Antico owner wants an Atlanta Little Italy
Giovanni Di Palma, The restaurateur and creator of Antico Pizza Napoletana in Atlanta, has experienced rapid, exponential growth and now he wants to expand. Pizza is in Giovanni's DNA and Zagat, the No.1 guide to discovering the best and most notable restaurants, called Antico Pizza the best in the country. To add to the Neapolitan ex...
Inaugurazione di un nuovo stabilimento di Magneti Marelli a Pulaski, Tennessee
Un nuovo stabilimento Magneti Marelli Automotive Lighting per la produzione di fari e luci posteriori è stato inaugurato domenica 16 giugno scorso a Pulaski, Tennessee. Si tratta del primo impianto di produzione di luci negli Stati Uniti, che contribuirà a rafforzare ulteriormente la già consolidata presenza di Magneti Marelli nell'area NAFTA, che...
Update to Film Series Showings
ICI's "Italy in Film" Series Kicks off with "Habemus papam" (We Have a Pope!)In celebration of the election of a new pope, the Italian Cultural Institute of Louisville kicks off its "Italy in Film" series with the award-winning comedy-drama "Habemus papam" (2011) which gives an "inside look" of the election of a pope with an interesting ending.This...
La Monteferro potenzia l'impianto in South Carolina
La Monteferro USA, che fa capo alla Monteferro Spa di Varese, fornitore di soluzioni per guide e applicazioni di vano per l'industria ascensoristica a livello mondiale, ha annunciato il potenziamento del proprio stabilimento a Orangeburg in South Carolina, con un investimento di $2,1 milioni. La società espanderà l'impianto di circa 2.900...
Victor DeRenzi knighted by Italian government
Victor DeRenzi, the artistic director of Sarasota Opera who led the company's 28-year effort to produce every note of Giuseppe Verdi's music known to exist, has been knighted by the Italian government. The government bestowed the title of Cavaliere dell'ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy), presented to those who...
Italian film festival celebrates 10th year, brings filmmakers to Charleston
When Giovanna De Luca moved to Charleston 12 years ago, she felt the city was missing something. Maybe others weren't aware of it, but De Luca certainly was. "With Spoleto, the connection with Italian culture was so strong at the time," she says. "And to not have cinema seemed so strange." She took it upon herself to initiate the chan...
Italian American Club South celebrates second anniversary
It all started in Hemingway Neighborhood Pool in 2009. They were just a bunch of folks floating around and floating an idea of starting a second Italian American Club at The Villages. They were all members of the original Villages Italian American Club that meets on the northside but the membership there had gotten extremely large. So why not anoth...
Columbus Day Invitational at the Bear's Club
Enjoy a round of golf with fellow Italian Americans to celebrate our Italian heritage on October 15 at the Columbus Day Invitational at the Bear's Club in Jupiter, Fla. Benefitting the Cancer Alliance of Campy Boggy Creek, the Invitational includes 18 holes of golf, a continental breakfast, golf, caddie, beverages, an Italian lunch and all gratuiti...
Italian film festival at Sottile Theatre to present slew of features, filmmakers, actors
By Sybil Fix Bearing hilarity and grief, family and conviviality, a raw bite of Mafia and a good dose of meaningful existential pondering, the 9th Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival opens at the College of Charleston next week with a well-balanced mix of the fun and the heavy. Among the feature films are "Il Nome del Figlio" ("An...
Cordova's New Cucina
by Hannah Sayle Here, in a cozy, well-appointed house in the heart of old Cordova, Cafe Fontana's chef/owner Thomas Schranz filters his earliest cooking memories through the lens of familiar Italian classics for an unforgettable dining experience. "Twice a year my father traveled to Europe on business," says Schranz. "When he came...