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REGISTER FOR THE AP ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE EXAMINATION AND PARTICIPATE IN THE DRAWING OF 28 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDY IN ITALY WITH EDUITALIA On the occasion of the celebration of 2013 as the Year of the Italian Culture in the United States, Eduitalia, an Association of qualified Schools and Universities that offer courses for fo...

Si è tenuta oggi presso l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington, in collaborazione con il Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale dei Carabinieri e l'Ufficio di Collegamento Interpol, la cerimonia di consegna di otto volumi antichi che si ritiene appartengano all'Università di Napoli.   Tali volumi erano entrati recentemente in possesso della Fondazio...

By Lari Robling The bridge bearing the neon sign "Trenton Makes the World Takes" is a reminder of the time when New Jersey's capital city manufactured everything from toilets to pottery to wire cable. Trenton no longer makes a lot of what the world takes, and in no place is this more evident than the Chambersburg district. The primarily Italian n...

The Friends of The Philadelphia City Institute Library and The America-Italy Society of Philadelphia present Verdi 200 at the Free Library on Rittenhouse Square.   Verdi opera films screened from 10 AM to 5 PM Saturday, October 12, 2013.    Read more   Source: http://www.aisphila.org  

by Richard Gawel   She trained at the elite Cordon Bleu in Paris. She worked at Wolfgang Puck's famous Spago restaurant in Los Angeles. She's the star of "Giada at Home," "Everyday Italian," and "Food Network Star" on TV. She's a mom with deep culinary roots now sharing those traditions with her own daughter. And, Giada De Laurentiis is the...

By Mel Fabrikant The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera has rescheduled the last date to audition for the Verismo Opera Chorus to February 5, 2014. Due to inclement weather conditions, the auditions scheduled for January 22 were cancelled. Auditions for the chorus will begin at 6:30 p.m. and be held at 44 Armory Street in Englewood, New Jerse...

The Sons of Italy held their biggest and best St. Joseph's Day Festival at St. Andrew's Hall in Ocean City on March 22. People arrived in buses and cars from all parts of Maryland, from Washington, D.C., and from other areas.   When I arrived at the hall around 12:30 p.m., I could not believe my eyes. Everything was so well organized and bea...

Il giorno 7 maggio 2014, presso OUSD AT&L (Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) - con sede in Mark Center, Alexandria, VA (USA) – si è svolto il 6th Bilateral Declaration of Principles (DoP) Plenary Meeting.   DoP è un'intesa bilaterale di cooperazione Italia-USA, firmata dai Ministri della...

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions). She is the founder /executive director of the Po...

Twelve members of The Italian Club of Centennial High School in Howard County were among the ravioli makers October 18th in Saint Leo's School Hall. The Club, with 25 members, participates in philanthropic activities and other events such as restaurant night, parties where they cook Italian food, and Italian movie night.   The group particip...

In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots ensued all over the country. A year later these riots had largely diminished, but tensions over their cause -- in part, systemic segregation and disenfranchisement -- were still high.   When such boils over in Brooklyn, the Italian-American family of young Joe Montaperto uproots to th...

Goodfella's, an award-winning brick oven-baked pizza and family-style Italian-American food restaurant, is coming to the Livingston Mall food court this December. Besides its award-winning pizza, Goodfella's menu includes everything from soups, salads, heros, wraps and Italian hot-pressed paninis to pastas, entrées and brick oven rolls. For de...