Joe Avati Back to Basics and Back to Boston!
When: Saturday, June 6, 2014 at 8:00Where: Regent Theatre, 7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA Joe Avati returns to Boston with an ENCORE performance of his award winning bilingual Italian stand up comedy show 'Back to Basics'. Watching Joe Avati is like attending a master class in comedy – his timing, his observations and his delivery are second to n...
Annual Tax and Issuance of italian passports
Please be advised that there has been a change in the cost of the issuance of a passport, as dictated by the "decreto-legge 24 aprile 2014, n. 66, convertito, con modificazioni, dalla legge 23 giugno 2014, n. 89". Article 5-bis, comma 1 of the decree states that there will no longer be a Consular fee for the issuance of all passports beginning as...
LUISS University’s team wins the Rotman Competition, beating MIT, Princeton
A team of students from Rome-based LUISS University has won the most important international trading online competition, the Rotman International Trading Competition, which was held in Toronto on February 19 -21. The “Blue Time” team secured the prestigious award for the second consecutive year, outperforming competitors from American Ivy League in...
Best alumni catchup: il contest di idee per la Silicon Valley in Italia
Si terrà il 12 marzo a Roma (ore 10:30), nella sede dell'Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d'America, in via Vittorio Veneto, la conferenza stampa di presentazione del contest internazionale di idee innovative firmato Istituto Italiano Imprenditorialità, insieme al Dipartimento di Stato degli Stati Uniti d'America e al Centro Residenziale Universitario...
The blood of St. Gennaro liquefies in Francis’ presence
by Giacomo Galeazzi This is the first time it happened. San Gennaro's blood had never liquefied during a papal visit to Naples before. None of the visits paid by Pius IX, John Paul II or Benedict XVI provoked the phenomenon. But the miracle was witnessed this afternoon, after Francis' heartfelt address to faithful and clergy. The...
Sons of Italy celebrate St. Joseph's Day
"It's time to bring it back," said president Nick Cantore, as 100 mostly couples arrived for an evening of Italian food, wine and music to celebrate St. Joseph's Day. The first Fiesta di San Giuseppe Dinner Dance on March 21 was part the Order of Sons of Italy Sgt. Frederick M. Bonanno Lodge #2549's ongoing events to protect and preserve t...
Sons of Italy installs new president, officers
The Order Sons Of Italy's Per Sempre Lodge No. 2344 held its installation of officer's ceremony On Mar. 31 at Lynbrook's Greis Park. This is a 110- year tradition of the Order Sons of Italy. The Per Sempre Lodge installed John Quinn as its new president, along with his new council of officers for the 2015-16 term. Picture seated from left...
Toasted ravioli named Missouri's signature dish
by Justin Wilfon This week the website Geekologie named toasted ravioli Missouri's signature dish. The Now KC's Justin Wilfon went to one of the few KC restaurants that serves it, to see what all the fuss is about. Toasted ravioli originated in the famous Italian neighborhood in St. Louis, known as The Hill. "The r...
Flowers and Poetry in Pienza
"Pienza and flowers" is a flower and plant trade fair held every year in the name's gorgeous Renaissance town in the province of Siena. Pienza was built by Pius II (born Enea Silvio Piccolomini) starting in 1462, near Corsignano – the declining village in the Orcia Valley where the Pope had been born in 1405. The fair is gearing up for its...
Ella Grasso’s lasting legacy to Connecticut
By Mark Davis There is one Connecticut Italian American who was a national ground breaker for women, and who has over shadowed every Governor for the past 34 years. Of all the statues of famous Connecticut residents from the past that adorn the outside of the Capitol building, there is only one woman, Ella Tambussi Grasso. The statue...
Job Announcement: VAP of Italian
Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures at the University of San Diego (http://www.sandiego.edu/cas/languages/). Job Announcement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian (Position starting in January 2016 for Spring Semester) We invite applications for a non-tenure-track position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ita...
Nomina del Console Onorario d’Italia in Virginia, Gen. Gianmarco Bellini
di Andrea Canepari Cari Connazionali, ho il piacere di comunicarVi che con decreto ministeriale n. 5013/142/BIS del 27 marzo 2015, pubblicato sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 87 del 15 aprile 2015, il Generale Gianmarco Bellini è stato nominato Console onorario d'Italia a Norfolk, Virginia. I contatti del nuovo ufficio consolare onorario sono...