Festa di Carnevale for Kids!
Sunday February 22nd, 3 PM-6 PM. Valley Catholic Early Learning School - 4450 SW Saint Marys Dr, Beaverton 97007. Please join Scuola Italiana di Portland for the 10th annual Festa di Carnevale for Kids! This super-sized costume party celebrates the annual Italian holiday. From face painting to frog hopping to clever clowning and trea...
Serratore, Falcons hockey in fine form
The Air Force hockey team enters this weekend with a bye and coach Frank Serratore dropped a bombshell during his weekly press conference. He has never lost to Bye. "I look at our schedule and I see Bye listed there," he said. "I am calling it right now. We will destroy Bye. Bye has no chance against us. I have never lost to them. You...
Rita’s Italian Ice giving away freebies, resuming normal hours
Spring is back, and so are Rita's Italian Ice's regular hours. Wichita's two Rita's, at 2929 N. Rock Road and at 1021 E. Douglas, have been operating on shortened hours over the winter, closing Mondays through Wednesdays. The local franchisees restored the normal hours late last week and will continue them through the spring and summer: n...
Italy: number of rescued migrants so far this year is up
The number of migrants rescued in operations coordinated by Italy's coast guard so far in 2016 is up sharply from the same period last year. Interior Ministry figures for the first three months of this year show 16,075, including more than 1,500 brought to safety on Tuesday, have been rescued from smugglers' boats in distress in the waters bet...
An excursus on the Italian-American language with Filomena Sorrentino
Imagine migrating to a land you don't know the language of. This is the reality that millions of Italians have faced when they moved to the United States after the unification of Italy, in 1861, and on. "Ticketta" said the Italian man on American soil to refer to ticket. This is an example that Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino, language tea...
West Coast Premiere: Emergency Exit by Brunella Fili'
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 At 6:30 pm Organized by: IIC in collaboration with Italian Film Festival USA Entrance: Free Location: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024 - USA Six stories of ordinary separation, one question: What happened to Italy? Emergency Exit (2014, 66 min, in...
HITN green lights Italian cooking and culture show
La Italia de Lidia en América (Lidia's Italy in America) is the Spanish-language version of a programme designed to educate and entertain food-loving audiences. Bastianich takes viewers by the hand on a culinary journey through different American cities. In each episode of La Italia de Lidia en América, the chef offers up the ingredients o...
ISAIA is seeking a wholesale Sales Assistant Intern & Showroom Assistant Intern in New York
ISAIA is an Italian luxury menswear company, specializing in Neapolitan modern sartorial clothing. ISAIA was established 55 years ago in Naples. Combining old world artisan care in tailoring with simple yet groundbreaking technologies, ISAIA began to manufacture beautiful made-to-measure suits. During the 1950s and '60s, ISAIA grew to beco...
Tutelare gli “Accidental Americans”: Fedriga (lna) interroga Gentiloni e Padoan
Il Governo italiano dovrebbe intervenire a tutela degli "Accidental Americans", cioè "i cittadini italiani che hanno acquisito anche la cittadinanza degli Stati Uniti perché nati quando i loro genitori si trovavano in transito o comunque temporaneamente nel territorio statunitense". Ne è convinto Massimiliano Fedriga, deputato della Lega Nord, che...
A mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes
Thanks to this column, and my "check-ins" on Facebook when I am out researching somewhere, my friends know to contact me if they have a question about their Chicago or Italian heritage. I received a call from the sister of one of those friends last week. She has been bitten by the genealogy bug, and despite her best efforts, she was unable...
Carmello's Named Best of Virginia for Italian Cuisine
Carmello's of Historic Manassas, Virginia, was named Best of Virginia for Italian cuisine in the recent issue of Virginia Living Magazine. Carmello's is owned by long-time Historic Manassas resident, Alice Pires. Their seasonal menus serve a wide variety of American cuisine with Portuguese and Mediterranean influence. Carmello's sources lo...
Hydrogen Fuel: Italian Brand to Bow in New York
Alberto Bresci had Formula 1 race cars on his mind when he graduated from the European Business School of London. A friendship with fellow student Lapo Elkann, the Fiat heir and grandson of Gianni Agnelli, spun him in a different direction. Elkann gifted Bresci with one of his grandfather's old denim shirts, which sparked the idea of designing a s...