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Since 1933, the St. Marco Society in Temple has been a welcoming sanctuary for generations of Italian immigrants to America; a place where the traditions and culture of the old country have been preserved and celebrated in the culture, the language and, most of all, the food.   This year, the Italian-American cultural society is hoping to sh...

Valigie pronte e voglia di imparare, sono questi i requisiti necessari per partecipare al bando di gara per aggiudicarsi l'opportunità di lavorare in uno studio di architettura e design negli Stati Uniti.   Il bando di partecipazione di Usa Emerge Italy è stato promosso da Federlegno Arredo ed è rivolto a neolaureati (da non oltre 6 mesi) e...

Peekskill Pageants is pleased to announce the Miss Italia Peekskill 2013Competition (formerly Miss Festa Italiana Peekskill). The competition is open to young ladies who want to compete for the Miss Italia Peekskill crown, who meet the following criteria:• Must be of Italian descent• Must be single and never married or have had a child• Must b...

The future is on its way at the Guggenheim and at Sotheby's.Following the exhibition "Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925," the Museum of Modern Art's panoramic exploration of art, music and literature, comes "Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe," at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Opening on Feb. 21, 2014, the show will focus...

Elite Heritage serves as a dedicated platform that will soon start offering high quality Italian products in the segments of food, apparel, leather products, furniture, and any other product with a special care for detail and the pursuit of elegance. In addition, the site provides users with information related to travel, Italian food and recipes,...

Alla 50° edizione di TTG Incontri Rimini, Thema Nuovi Mondi è presente con 3 enti del Turismo: da nord est a nord ovest fino al Mar dei Caraibi. Con rinnovato spirito Yankee style, tornano sia Massachusetts sia Maine celebrando anche risultati estremamente positivi per l'annata intera del 2012 dal mercato italiano con un buon incremento di visitato...

by Sara Tracey   Decades ago, on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, Theresa DiSpirito drove her dad, Henry, to Utica College. He never could drive himself – the Italian immigrant never got a driver's license. Henry DiSpirito, the sculpting artist-in-residence for the college for 32 years and a constant perfectionist, needed to work. It didn't...

Italian Studies: Visiting Fellowship Position, Arts and Science at New York University. The Department of Italian Studies and the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University invite applications for the Tiro a Segno Fellowship in Italian American Studies, to be held during Fall 2014 and Fall 2016, pending administrative and budgetary approva...

A social studies lesson about the food and culture of Italy turned into a hands-on culinary lesson for a class of third-graders from Staten Island, New York. Students from PS 30 in Westerleigh took a field trip last Wednesday to Pastosa Ravioli, the Italian specialty store in West Brighton.   Source: http://iajournal.com  

"Una buona idea per rafforzare la promozione dei prodotti italiani all'estero e tutelarli da possibili e purtroppo frequenti contraffazioni è venuta la scorsa settimana nel corso dell'incontro, al quale ho partecipato, avvenuto in Senato per la presentazione del disegno di legge sull'istituzione del marchio "Italian Quality", il cui primo firmatari...

by Carissa Gan   Helmed by the proprietors of Trattoria Dopo Teatro in Times Square, Dopo East in the Upper East Side is a townhouse fashioned into a modern Italian restaurant with a rustic charm. It's easy to forget that you're dining at a restaurant until the waiter comes over with the menu. "Would you like sparkling or distilled water?" h...

The Italian American One Voice Coalition (IAOVC), an anti-defamation group that includes multiple Italian American organizations, expressed dismay and disgust with the airing of the recent AFLAC commercial, depicting the kidnapping of the iconic AFLAC Duck by characters that are clearly meant to portray Italian Americans in a bad light.   "T...