Mom Bloggers Are Cooking with Colavita and Hosting Valuable Product Giveaways
Colavita USA, the family-owned olive oil and Italian food brand, has teamed up with Wendy's Bloggers, a bridge for brands to connect with influential Mom Bloggers, to launch "Cooking With Colavita Review & Giveaway," an outreach initiative for a select group of Mom Bloggers. "We want to introduce Colavita to a new generation of Moms," said Ale...
Ciancia Annual Christmas Party
Saturday December 13, 2014 – Time: 6:30 p.m. This month Ciancia hosts the greatest and most attended event of the year: la Festa di Natale. Come celebrate with us the most cherished holiday in Italy, and take a chance to support our club's activities. Our committee is making a great effort to make this into a memorable party. Our...
Valentino and Fornasetti partner on a series of functional objects
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli of Valentino have collaborated with decorative arts talent Barnaba Fornasetti on a series of functional objects that will satisfy the senses. Each item—a stool, trays, a foulard, an eyeglass case, and a plate—corresponds to a faculty: sight, smell, touch, and so on. In the whimsical mashups of the...
Mario Canali at Brian Marki Fine Art
Join Ruta Lee with Anna Maria Alberghetti and The Thalians, in concert with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles for a Preview and Fundraiser Exhibition by artist Mario Canali. Benefits The Thalians' Operation Mend, at UCLA mental health services for our Wounded Warriors; U.S. military personnel injured while serving in Iraq and Afgha...
Cleveland Museum of Art offers glimpse of mechanized sound world with Futurist noise intoners
Part of their vision came true. Music did indeed come to be made by machines. What they didn't get right: the kind of machines that would make it. In fact, the Italian Futurists of the early 20th century had something quite different in mind. What they imagined weren't exactly the iPods or synthesizers of today but rather something mo...
Stamford Dems leader emerges as consensus builder
During the most recent election night in Stamford, John Mallozzi was greeted with handshakes and congratulatory backslaps in a private room at Zody's 19th Hole which the Democrats had rented as its victory headquarters. An ebullient Italian American known for his candor, Mallozzi looked almost bashful. After all, he was not a candidate. Bu...
December jobless rate falls for the first time in seven months
by Claudio Tucci Something is moving in the Italian labor market. The planned incentives for open-ended contracts foreseen by the 2015 Stability Law and the new rules included in the Jobs Act labor reform are making businesses more confident about hiring, although with temporary contracts. Employers could however transform these new tempor...
Italy's Philosopher-Genius of Wine
Italy's Josko Gravner is the only winemaker I've met who keeps a simple wooden chair in his cellar just so he can sit down there and think about his wine. Is he making it the right way? Should he have a different approach? Is it truly the wine he wants to make? Gravner's career is a series of drastic decisions. In the 1980s, he says, he re...
Great Italians of the Past: Giulio Cesare
WTI Magazine #54 2015 February, 20Author : Giovanni Verde Translation by: The name of Giulio Cesare - Julius Caesar - echoes everywhere in the Western world. The very word "Caesar", over time, has acquired an independent meaning, becoming synonymous with "commander", the charismatic leader of a people.
Freeholder Vicari Meets with Toms River’s Italian “Sister City” Consul General
Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari (right) meets with Italian Consul General Andrea Canepari (center) during the diplomat's recent visit to Ocean County, where the Consul General announced a "sister city" agreement between the city of Matera, Italy and Toms River. The two officials also discussed the county's large population of Italian Americans...
Author to present his book on Italian-American women – Saturday, March 14
The Edith Wheeler Memorial Library will host a free talk by Anthony Riccio, author of Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut, on Saturday, March 14, from 1 to 2 p.m., in the library’s Ehlers Meeting Room. Riccio’s presentation will focus on the roles of Italian-American women who, after immigrating from south...
Italian report: Real Estate and Construction market overview
WTI Magazine #56 2015 March, 20Author : ANCE Translation by: The Italian real estate market is considered in Europe one of the most stable and interesting for opportunities and values. The long awaited recovery in the Italian real estate market started in 2013 and continued in 2014 with a total of € 5.3 billion of direct investment i...