Italian Home for the Aged on City Island
Dear Italian American Organizations and Friends, Please see the link below, it's a petition in support for the Italian Home for the Aged on City Island sponsored by the Italian Hospital Society. This is urgent! Your support is greatly appreciated. Please do it as soon as possible. Thank you. Petition | Support the Italian Home for the Aged A...
Boys’ & Girls’ Towns of Italy Honors Joseph J. Plumeri as Man of the Year, and Hon. Natalia Quintavalle receives Global Citizen Award
New York City, New York: Boys' & Girls' Towns of Italy (BGTI), a nonprofit that empowers war refugee, migrant and at-risk youth living on the streets, announced the honorees of its 69th Annual Spring Ball to be held on Monday, May 5 at The Pierre, New York. Joseph J. Plumeri will be honored as Man of the Year, and the Honorable Natalia Quintava...
Expo 2015, missione reseller negli Usa
«La saluto, le ho rubato abbastanza tempo. Che tra mezz'ora, ci scommetto, avrà un aereo». È l'uomo dei check-in Piero Galli, direttore generale Gestione Evento di Expo 2015 Milano. Con lo staff vola di fiera in fiera, da un capo all'altro del pianeta, per promuovere un evento capace di generare business turistici massivi e traghettare – chissà – l...
Italy’s Independence in Postwar Photography
The Italian photographer Ugo Zovetti was known for his sense of realism. In a 1958 photograph, he captured a group of four street musicians, all wearing signs around their necks that declare, "BLIND." It's reminiscent of Paul Strand's "Blind Woman," a 1969 photo that shows the subject's affected eye and evokes sympathy. The blind men in Zo...
Monti e Marchionne alla "Bocconi Alumni American Conference"
Si terrà a New York il prossimo 20 giugno la prima edizione della "Bocconi Alumni American Conference", dopo l'edizione asiatica a Singapore nel 2013. "Stimolare la crescita economica: America vs Europa", è il titolo della conferenza, che vedrà presenti in qualità di speaker, tra gli altri, Mario Monti, Sergio Marchionne, Bryan Leach, Albe...
Valentino’s New York Capsule Collection Commemorates Their Fifth Avenue Store
By Joan Stern Valentino is rocking the New York City with its new store on Fifth Avenue. The Italian fashion house celebrates the opening of this flagship store with a commemorative capsule collection. The range is exclusive to the three storey store located at 693 5th Avenue, New York. Each piece of the collection is adorned with a bright red hea...
CIAO celebrates St. Joseph, Italian culture at special Cayuga County event
What about your cultural roots? Are you even curious? Paolo Ricci decided it was time to find out more about his father’s Italian heritage. Retired Auburn fireman Mike Vasco wanted to spend time with Italian Americans interested in cultural practices, which his own kids disengaged from at home. Ricci and Vasco joined more than 100 other me...
Quei sogni a stelle e strisce
"La simbolica data d'inizio dell'emigrazione italiana nelle Americhe può essere considerata il 4 ottobre 1852, quando venne fondata a Genova la Compagnia Transatlantica per la navigazione a vapore con le Americhe. Fra il 1880 e il 1915 approdano negli Stati Uniti quattro milioni di italiani, su 9 milioni circa di emigranti che scelsero di attravers...
Your Voices: Puglisi goes from E-J, to GE, to Link
by Anthony Borrelli Don Puglisi, 84, of Vestal, was born and raised in Binghamton during the Great Depression and grew up in an Italian American family. He worked his way over the years from the Endicott-Johnson shoe factories to General Electric, to Link Aeronautical Corp., where he assisted with efforts to determine how to conserve power...
The Made in Italy Emilia Fashion Project arrives in the States
Emilia Fashion is a project representing a selection of the best fashion artisanal manufacturers from Emilia Romagna, Italy, and has been realized to bring high quality Made in Italy in USA. The designs portray the trendiest Italian lifestyle, ranging from intricate knitwear to innovative leather handbags, graceful children apparel, ethereal weddi...
Al Bruno: West Side of the ’60s etched in my memory
When times change, distinct cultural practices and traditions often mysteriously disappear from city neighborhoods and our social consciousness, but they should never be forgotten. That is exactly what happened in Buffalo to the omnipresent, Italian cultural fixtures on the Old West Side during the mid-1960s: A golden yet turbulent time defined by...
My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis Extends Into Winter Off-Broadway
"My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis" which officially opened on December 3rd, 2015, has extended its run till January 5th, 2017 and will celebrate its one-year anniversary while it remains at The Theater Center on Thursday nights at 8pm with select special performances on Saturday's at 5pm. In the third chapter of the Big Gay Italian trilogy, Wilki...