Renovo Sons hands out $20,000 to non-profits; 18 organizations benefit from funding
The Renovo Sons of Italy is doing its part to help non-profit organizations do their best work in the community. Members of Lodge # 149 handed out checks totalling $20,000 to representatives of 18 community groups during a recent luncheon. "We appreciate what each and every one one you do for the town. This is just our way of trying to sh...
American Owners Oversee a Soccer Renaissance in Rome
One day last year, Jim Pallotta was walking through the Sistine Chapel with some friends. As the group admired Michelangelo's stunning frescoes, one of Pallotta's companions took out a cellphone to take a picture. Almost immediately, a security guard rushed up; photography is strictly forbidden inside the chapel. But as the guard began to...
Rita's Italian Ice Awards Area Development Agreement to Alabama Veterans
Rita's Italian Ice®, the world's largest Italian Ice concept with over 600 stores, now in 22 states, has awarded franchise and area development agreements for the state of Alabama to franchisees, local residents and Veterans, Doug Portrey and Rob Tarr. Having grown up with Rita's and vacationed in the Gulf Shores, Portrey and Tarr realized...
The Pollio Family Foundation Internship for Youth Development
In September 2013, Joe Pollio and his wife Terry made a major gift to launch an internship program for US students to experience Boys' and Girls' Towns in Rome. "We wanted to invest in an initiative that would help the organization grow and connect BGTI with new stakeholders who are interested in promoting the self-government approach for...
Italian flavors: Fish Festival, Camogli
WTI Magazine #30 2014 May, 15Author : folclore.it Translation by: Are you ready for a picturesque and unique natural scenery, where the world's largest frying pan will fry fish for visitors and vacationers in the more typical feast of Liguria?
Luxury label Caruso leases 11,000 s/f former gallery space
Faith Hope Consolo, chairman, and Joseph Aquino, executive vice president, of Douglas Elliman's Retail Group have leased a grand, multi-level space at 45 East 58th Street to Caruso. The new location will be the luxury label's first U.S. location, New York flagship and additionally house its showroom. Created by fashion impresario Umberto A...
Danilo Gallinari hopes to be back by training camp, but no guarantee
Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari is still recovering from two surgeries on his left knee, but said at Eurocamp in Treviso, Italy, that he is hopeful that he will be fully cleared to play by the start of training camp in September, via NBA.com's Scott Howard-Cooper. Gallinari is still recovering from two operations on his left knee t...
55 Italians have 'Beautiful minds'
As many as 55 Italians including five women are among the 'Beautiful Mind' list of 3,200 names drawn up by Thomson Reuters of the "best and most brilliant scientific minds of our time". Influential Italian researchers on the updated list that was last drawn up in 2001 are especially present in medicine with 15 names mentioned in that category, in...
Granieri was always helping someone
Rosemarie Granata Granieri was happy to raise her family, serve her church and volunteer for the Christopher Columbus Ladies Auxiliary. What she didn't want to do was travel. "Mom didn't like to go far. She went to Dallas a few times, and to Houston and Corpus." said her daughter Janice Hobbs. "She was perfectly happy staying home." ...
Italian Festival: When everyone hails from the old country
The 115th Annual Italian Fest was in full swing Saturday afternoon at the Al Quaal Recreation Area in Ishpeming. The fest was put on by the St. Rocco-St. Anthony's Society, an organization originally formed to aid and support Italian Americans. The event offered fun for the entire family with bingo and an inflatable courses for the kids to...
Vino Made in Sicily punta sugli Stati Uniti il consorzio di tutela per raggiungere un +54% negli States
Obiettivo States per il consorzio di tutela delle Doc Siciliane presieduto da Antonio Rallo Punta che punta ad incrementare l'export di vino pregiato per i lidi americani partendo da un buon 9% . Ma il piano è ambizioso e intende raggiungere dino al 54% dei potenziali acquirenti del mercato statunitense. L'impegno finanziario sarà compless...
Italian pop artist Giada Valenti to perform benefit concert for Piazza Nuova Lodge
The Piazza Nuova Lodge No. 2665, Order Sons of Italy in America, will sponsor Concert 2014 "From Venice With Love" featuring Italian pop artist Giada Valenti. Valenti recently reached an agreement with PBS Television to perform a PBS special of this same show scheduled for airing in December on PBS New York and on National PBS in 2015. &n...