Niello’s Alfa Romeo store opens in Sacramento
The Niello Co.'s Italian plan for Sacramento is now in place. The Sacramento-based auto dealership chain recently opened its Niello Alfa Romeo dealership at 2535 Arden Way. It's the only Alfa Romeo store in the area, and it's the first time in about 40 years that the 106-year-old Italian automaker's brand is being offered at a certified Alfa s...
Crowdfunding: the future of Italy’s history?
2016 could be the year when crowdfunding saves Italy. Or parts of Italy, at least. In February some ambitious children launched a crowdfunding project to buy the idyllic island of Budelli and re-name it L'Isola dei Ragazzi, keeping it out of the grasp of rich investors. They're not the only ones campaigning to save Italy by unconventional means, as...
Honor thy father at Onesti’s Oakley Fest
Sausage will be grilling, families will be dancing, and dads will be honored as Onesti Entertainment hosts its 23rd annual Italian Block Party-Oakley Avenue Festa Pasta Vino on Father's Day weekend, June 17 to 19. The Father's Day tradition will feature Italian food specialties representing generations-old recipes from the restaurants located in C...
Spoleto Festival USA begins 40th season in South Carolina
The 40th season of the Spoleto Festival USA opened Friday amid tributes to the men who established the internationally known art festival and remembrances of the nine people fatally shot in a city church last year during a Bible study. Hundreds gathered under a bright sun in front of City Hall as Mayor John Tecklenburg lauded former Mayor Joe Rile...
Us generation: italiani alla conquista dell'America
Ideata e raccontata da Valentina Martelli, anche lei in qualche modo emigrata negli Stati Uniti, US GENERATION, è una serie di storie, non sempre e necessariamente di successo, che parlano di scelte moderne, sfide e avventure professionali in tutti i settori: spettacolo, moda, tecnologia, economia, medicina, ma anche di scelte di vita (trasferiment...
Visitare il Quirinale ricostruito in 3D
Uno strumento crossmediale, un software in continuo aggiornamento e il Piano Nobile del Palazzo del Quirinale, come non l'avete mai visto. Da visitare "in un clic". Si tratta di Quirinale 3D VR, un progetto di ricostruzione in 3D realizzato da una giovane azienda della Basilicata, Digital Lighthouse Srl, che lo ha donato al segretariato generale de...
Ivrea, the Italian city candidate to become a Unesco World Heritage site
Piedmont's city Ivrea represents a symbol of the famous Italian architect Adriano Olivetti. Today, the industrial city built in the years between 1930 and 1960 by Olivetti has been candidate to become a Unesco World Heritage site. If the proposal of including the Italian city under the label "Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century" wil...
Adjunct faculty, Italian - Fairfield University
Job Description: The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fairfield University invites applications for a part-time faculty member to teach one section of Elementary Italian beginning fall 2016. The course meets on MWR from 8:00 am - 8:50 am. Requirements:• Applicants are expected to have a minimum of MA in Italian or related...
Biofuel from Tobacco: an Italian invention
On July 15, for the first time, South African Airways completed a flight using a biofuel made from tobacco. The one-way flight carried 300 passengers from Johannesburg to Cape Town using 6,300 liters of biofuel. Thanks to the research of the biochemists of Sunchem, the Italian enterprise who has developed a process to extract biofuel from...
Frank Palopoli, Who Aided Fertility With Clomid Drug, Dies at 94
by Sam Roberts Frank Palopoli, a chemist whose team of researchers invented Clomid, the world's most widely prescribed fertility drug for women, died on Saturday in Montgomery, Ohio. He was 94. The cause was heart failure, his son Frank said. Over nearly 50 years, millions of women have become pregnant because of the relatively inexpensi...
Number of young Italian expats on a steady rise, up 95% in 5 years
by Francesca Barbieri The number of young "expats" who each year leave the country has doubled in the past five years. It has gone from 11,550 in 2011 to nearly 22,500 in 2015, an increase of 95%, a rate higher than the 77% registered by Italian expats of all ages. Looking at the destinations of expats under 30, an analysis by Cen...
White House to honor Italy with likely the last state dinner for the Obama administration
By Emily Heil The White House will say "ciao, friends!" at a state dinner for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini, on Oct. 18. The black-tie affair will be the 14th, and likely the last, for the Obama administration. White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday called Renzi's visit "an opportunity to rec...