A New Restaurant Week Helps Italian Earthquake Survivors
MOST RESTAURANT WEEKS work on a pretty simple pay-for-play basis. Not Italian Restaurant Week. Its existence owes to the Extraordinary Italian Taste campaign, an effort backed by both Italian government agencies and North American associations, such as Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas, to promote certified Italian food products. The campa...
Friends of the Italian Cultural Center of Boston Announce 2016 Thomas M. Menino Awards
Friends of the Italian Cultural Center of Boston, Inc. (FICCB) today announced the recipients of the 2016 Thomas M. Menino awards. Federico Cortese, Music Director for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and Silvio Micali, MIT Ford Professor of Engineering, will receive their recognition on Saturday, Nov. 19 at Italianissimo!, FICCB's annual even...
Columbus Day: What’s in a Name
The Baltimore City Council will consider joining other cities across the country in renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. The shift from honoring the Italian explorer to honoring the people inhabiting the lands he explored has stirred debate. It's the age old question – what's in a name? The Columbus Piazza near Little...
The Language and Traditions of Christmas
By Dianne Hales You can find bigger Christmas trees and more extravagant decorations in the United States, but nothing looks, tastes, feels or sounds like la stagione natalizia (Christmas season) in Italy. With roots in the "Saturnalia," the winter solstice rites of ancient Rome, and Christian commemorations of the birth of Gesù Bambino (Baby Jesu...
Italian Dressmaker Luisa Beccaria Comes to Town, Lifts Spirits With Clouds of Tulle
On a day of freezing rain—why isn't this snow? Snow is pretty!—with despair pouring from the television set, it is fascinating to take a break from bitter reality and stop in for tea at the presentation by Milanese designer Luisa Beccaria. The event, held in a mansion on the Upper East Side, two blocks from the 86th Street subway station b...
Valle d’Aosta makes a bid for international tourism with its torchlight descents and arts & crafts markets
by Augusto Grandi Natural snow is still in scant supply, but the ski slopes are in excellent conditions thanks to the snowmaking system. Unlike last year, when excessively high temperatures prevented the use of snow guns, the Christmas holidays in Valle d'Aosta will be characterized by a return of skiing enthusiasts. From Courmaye...
ENEL e GE danno il via alla costruzione di un parco eolico in Oklahoma
Il gruppo Enel Green Power Nord America (Enel) ha recentemente annunciato la chiusura di un accordo di partnership per un valore di 375 milioni dollari con GE Financial Services (GE"). A rilanciare l'annuncio è l'Ufficio Ice di New York spiegando che, secondo i termini della transazione, GE ha acquisito una partecipazione azionaria del 51 per cent...
Bulgari's Big Day on Rodeo Drive
ROMA, 10 DIC - Beverly Hills - ''Happy Bulgari Day'', shouted an audience member Wednesday night during the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style award ceremony, and it was. Beverly Hills Mayor William Brien declared the day — Dec. 5 — to be official Bulgari day in the city. It was a fitting distinction for the Italian jewelry brand that became the 20th recipi...
Giorno della Memoria 2013: The Italian Shoah: Beyond National Mythology
At Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò In collaboration with the Primo Levi Center With:Franklin Hugh Adler, Macalester CollegeSusan Zuccotti, author of The Italians and the HolocaustFederico Finchelstein, The New School Moderated by:Natalia Indrimi, Primo Levi Center The new two volume box set The History of the Shoah in Italy completes and updates t...
Italian American Review accepting article submissions
The Italian American Review is currently accepting article submissions addressing the history and culture of Italian Americans, as well as other aspects of the Italian diaspora. The journal embraces a wide range of professional concerns and theoretical orientations in the social sciences and in cultural studies. The journal entertains articles abou...
Celebrating the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S. at the Barnes Foundation
March 29 at 6:30 pm Artful Deception: Italian Master Forgers A Lecture by Marco Grassi, Painting Restorer, New York Italy is the land that has given birth to some of the world's greatest painters, sculptors and architects. This same creative genius was occasionally channeled toward imitation and deception. This illustrated talk will ex...
Zoom into Italian Design and Photography at the BAM in Bellvue, WA
If you're in the Northwest, don't miss the exhibition "Zoom: Italian Design and the Photography of Aldo and Marirosa Ballo" at the Bellvue Arts Museum (BAM) in Washington State. This gorgeous exhibition, which was organized by the Vitra Museum of Design in Germany and brought to Washington by Italian citizen Stefano Catalani the Director of Art, Cr...