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The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia might close down as a consequence of budget cuts planned by the Italian Government. Closing the Consulate would be a significant loss for both the local Italian community and the Country itself.   Traditionally a historic site of Italian immigration and home to a large Italian-American community...

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by Carolyne Zinko and Valerie Demicheva   Coming but not going: The Salvatore Ferragamo store, which opened with great fanfare at 233 Geary St. in September 2000 (nearly the entire Italian clan flew in, Union Square was tented, Tony Bennett sang a benefit concert), is moving to 236 Post St. and will open officially on Jan. 8.   To mar...

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The Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston is launching this January a new series of educational cooking demonstration and dinner aimed to promote and to guide the public through the history, the tradition and the flavors of the Italian-American Cuisine. The first event of this new and exciting series will be held on January 20th at 7:...

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  WTI Magazine #15    2014 Jan, 31Author : Giuseppina Salzano e Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   When in 1993 Federico Fellini comes up on the stage of the Academy Awards for the last time, he is beautifully honored by the America of movies and dreams, engaged and grateful for the career of one of the grea...

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Work to expand the Uffizi Gallery's exhibit space has unearthed an ancient cemetery with dozens of skeletons archaeologists say might have been victims of the plague or some other epidemic that swept through Florence during the 4th or 5th century.   Archaeologists and art officials showed reporters Wednesday the excavation at the renowned mu...

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A living link between Italy and San Francisco comes in the form of the inestimable Tuscan conductor Nicola Luisotti, who serves as Music Director of the San Francisco Opera and of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Luisotti began studying music as a child with lessons on the church organ and by age eleven he was the director of the church choir. &...

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Self Made Italy Imprenditorialità come antidoto alla crisi: un sogno solo americano? Young Conference Center - Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d'America Ingresso Via Sallustiana, 49 – Roma Giovedì 20 marzo ore 16.30 L'obiettivo è promuovere un confronto sull'imprenditorialità e l'autoimprenditorialità in Italia, analizzando l'American dream e i suoi p...

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by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson   Nestled behind the QT and Waffle House on the corner of State Bridge and Jones Bridge roads in Johns Creek sits a taste of Italy with a dash of New York.   Dal Cuore restaurant, located at 2100 Ray Moss Connector in Johns Creek, is an authentic New York-Italian restaurant featuring family recipes passed do...

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Martedì 8 aprile, AmCham ha organizzato a Palermo, presso l'Hotel Excelsior Hilton, un Power Breakfast con Ospite d'Onore l'Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia John R. Phillips, alla sua prima visita ufficiale in Sicilia.   All'evento sono intervenuti più di 30 imprenditori e professionisti siciliani, interessati a discutere ed approfon...

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The Fiat 500L was introduced to U.S. buyers with TV commercials that featured a Paul Revere character storming the colonial countryside on horseback, excitedly hollering that the Italians were coming.   The ads were clever and generally well received — but don't bet on anything similar in touting Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' upcoming import to...

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Marco Armiliato conducts this entertaining production featuring Diana Damrau's first-ever performance in the title role of the sleepwalking Amina.   The sensational Mexican tenor Javier Camarena is her fiance, Elvino, with the Italian bass Michele Pertusi as Count Rodolfo. The cast also includes the Australian soprano Rachelle Durkin as Lisa...

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The new season of the Spoleto Festival USA lights up stages across Charleston beginning on Friday. Here's a guide to this year's edition of the internationally known arts festival.   A bit of history — Spoleto was founded in Charleston in 1977 by the renowned composer Gian Carlo Menotti, modeled after and as a companion to his Festival of T...

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