The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to Cinema & Law
Oftentimes cinema portrays legal subjects, producing authentic masterpieces. This one-day event explores the relationship between Italian cinema and law by way of a CONFERENCE with the participation of Italian and American scholars in the fields of cinema, law, and political science as well as filmmakers and actors, including Enzo Decaro and...
New York’s “Other Little Italies”
Most of the immigrants went to the cities. New York, Buffalo, Rochester and other cities in the State of New York received large contingents. It must be remembered that immigrants almost always came to join others who had preceded them – a husband, or a father, or an uncle or a friend. In western New York most of the first immigrants from...
ABM sceglie Building Energy per i progetti fotovoltaici negli USA
Building Energy, società italiana attiva nella produzione di energia da fonti rinnovabili in Italia e all'estero, ha siglato un importante accordo con il gruppo americano ABM – quotato al NYSE, con un fatturato di oltre 4 miliardi di dollari e 100.000 dipendenti – per la fornitura di soluzioni energetiche e la realizzazione di impianti fotovoltaici...
Vespa, a symbol of the best Italian industrial design and creativity
by Claudia Astarita The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) is a non-profit organization seating in Montreal, Canada, whose primary aim is to advance the discipline of industrial design at an international level. Founded in 1957, Icsid has continued to develop its wide-reaching network of students and profession...
Festival will feature singer Micheal Castaldo ITALIAN INVASION
By Guy D'Astolfo The Greater Youngstown Italian Festival had been trying to book singer Micheal Castaldo for several years, but the timing was never right — until this year. The Italian-born tenor will sing Saturday and Sunday inside the Roma Tent, which holds 1,000 people, and his performance will be different both nights. The festival,...
Pasolini: film screenings, discussion, music and poetry
On the heels of a major retrospective at MOMA in New York, and at UCLA and the American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, Luce Cinecittà and Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini/Cineteca di Bologna, in association with Colpa Cinema and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, present Pasolini, a sampling of the three periods of Italian film master Pier Paol...
Bulgarini: the traditional Italian art of gelato making
It seems such a long time since when we tasted a real Italian gelato. Or perhaps we just miss it too much, as only ten days passed from the "L'Italo-Americano" Ferragosto party at Casa Barbera. One of the sponsors of that delightful event was Bulgarini Gelato, and almost all guests queued - in some cases even more than once - to get a scoop of it....
Il ministro Cecile Kyenge al GEI di New York
Il presidente del Gei (Gruppo Esponenti Italiani), Lucio Caputo ha dato il benvenuto al ristorante Le Cirque al ministro Cecile Kyenge. Cecile Kyenge ha parlato delle problematiche legate all'immigrazione sottolineando che l'Italia non è un paese razzista, ma manca una informazione corretta con ancora troppi sterotipi legati al fenomeno che devono...
Documentary "The Magnificent Journey - The Italian endeavor in space exploration"
On the occasion of 2013 Year of the Italian Culture in the US and of the Italian Month of Science, The Consulate General of Italy, The Italian Cultural Institute and The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation, cordially invite you to the screening of the documentary "The Magnificent Journey - The Italian endeavor in space...
Tasso, Monteverdi and the Arts - Lectures and Concert at the National Gallery of Art
Lecturers Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art CASVA) will present Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired. The National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble with Rosa Lamoreaux, artistic director, soprano and the National Gallery of Art Chamber Players will perform the Comb...
Local restaurant brings a taste of Italy to Huntington
by Geoffrey Foster Foreign recipes are like the passage of secrets in a game of telephone: every whisper is slightly different from the last and when it returns to the person who started it, the meaning has changed. The recipe changes, too, in small steps—an extra dash of salt here, a tablespoon of oregano there—and before anyone realizes...
Thanksgiving with a Taste of Italian Style
Although Thanksgiving is not a holiday Italians in Italy traditionally celebrate, there are many wonderful Italian dishes that fit perfectly into a Thanksgiving menu in America. Italian Americans embrace Thanksgiving wholeheartedly as a celebration of harvest – to spend time with loved one's, friends and family, while sharing all there is to be tha...