San Gimignano in Tuscany: Paths of Middle Ages in Italy
This awesome skyline is known throughout the world for its towers, and legacy of a past in which power was demonstrated by an impressive architecture. During the struggle for supremacy between rival families, the loser's tower-house would be demolished and the winner's one elevated for even more height. There were over seventy towers,...
AC Cugini Expands to Fredericksburg, New "Intro to Competitive Soccer" Program
AC Cugini is excited to announce it is expanding and has opened an additional office in Fredericksburg, VA, effective May 15, 2015. AC Cugini President Fabio Diletti is the head instructor for the Fredericksburg academy training. Academy ProgramWe are conducting tryouts at the Momentum Sports Training Center in Fredericksburg for AC Cugini...
St. Mary of Carmen Society presents annual Festival
The 80th annual St. Mary of Carmen Society's Festival will take place from July 15-19 at Pellegrini Park, Hawthorn Street, Nonantum.The entertainment lineup:Wednesday, July 15 -- Italian Connection, 7 p.m.Thursday, July 16 -- Rock Salt, 7 p.m.; Living on a Bad Name (Bon Jovi Tribute Band), 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 17 -- The Legit Band, 7 p.m.Saturda...
In Umbria time and patience are put to good use to preserve forgotten trees and their stories
by Chiara Beghelli Trees can also tell stories, beside giving fruits. Branches and roots can hide ancient traditions, keep in silent woods, hard to discover unless you strongly want to. Livio dalla Ragione wanted it: a painter, a former partisan, with an intense passion for folk culture, he started to look for these "telling trees" about 5...
La Festa Italiana bringing five nights of fun to Downtown Jersey City
By Nicholas Zeitlinger For five summer nights, the neighborhood surrounding Holy Rosary Church will come alive with music, games of chance, kids' activities, and delicious Italian food and drinks. It all takes place starting Wednesday and running through Sunday, Aug. 16, at Holy Rosary Church on Sixth Street in Historic Downtown J...
Tracing the Lineage of the World’s Greatest Aperitif, the Negroni
by Naren Young So, who invented the Negroni? I've yet to meet a Negroni I don't like. I could argue the minutiae of using hand chipped, brilliant clear ice; getting the cocktail's three ingredients to agree on the correct proportions; or stirring them in a fancy crystal Japanese mixing glass until the solution reaches the perfect leve...
Stillitano's rise from MLS GM to world soccer's best-connected American
by Grant Wahl How do you go from being a washout as an MLS general manager to being the best-connected American in European soccer? It's a question worth pondering when you're watching TV on a Saturday morning, and the camera shows Sir Alex Ferguson at a Manchester United game, and the guy sitting next to him is ... wait ... is that C...
Louis Cobolini — An Italian immigrant comes to the Valley
By Norman Rozeff Brownsville would not be what it is today without the energetic efforts of one of its citizens in the early 20th century. His story of achievements is a remarkable one well worth recounting. Making it even more intriguing is the fact that he was an immigrant, unschooled in the United States. Louis Cobolini was an Italian born Dec...
True Indie Film made with blood, sweat, and yes tears!
di Matteo Ribaudo We are Independent filmmakers striving for greatness. We live and breathe the art of moving pictures. Matteo Ribaudo is a writer and director from NY and now in Los Angeles. My current film, Broome Street Boys, is a feature film that brings us back to movies like Serpico, The Departed, and Friedkin's The French Connection...
Bronx Chamber of Commerce Italian Heritage Association Names Vincent Palmieri, COO of East Coast Power & Gas, Businessman of the Year
East Coast Power & Gas, an energy services company founded in 2008, serving natural gas, electricity and renewable sources of energy to both residential and commercial customers in New York State, announced today that Chief Operating Officer Vincent Palmieri has been named "Businessman of the Year" by the Bronx Chamber of Commerce Italian Herit...
Still a student: Delta Medix-founding doctor honored by Italian-American Association
by Peter Cameron Gino Mori, M.D., wouldn't shake anyone's hand Sunday night at the 107th annual dinner of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County. But the retired 82-year-old physician, being honored as the association's Man of the Year at a banquet at Fiorelli Catering in Blakely, wasn't letting the award go to his head. &...
Visita a Sorrento da parte di una delegazione italo - americana del New Jersey.
In visita a Sorrento una delegazione di italiano – americani proveniente dallo Stato Americano del New Jersey. Domenica mattina la delegazione capeggiata da Buddy Fortunato direttore responsabile di "The Italian Tribune" noto giornale americano in lingua inglese rivolto a tutti i cittadini italiani trapiantati in America hanno visitato la Basilica...