Meet Alfredo Coppola and the US Market Access Center
By Mauro Battocchi Among the various incubators and accelerators of the Bay Area, US MAC lead by Alfredo Coppola stands out for good reason. For 17 years, the firm has been focused on finding promising tech ideas abroad and bringing them to thrive in the heart of Silicon Valley. And they do this on a prolific scale: US MAC has adv...
9,200 Square Feet Of Italian Food Doesn’t Get Any Easier With Age
by Madeline Skaggs Dan Rosenthal hasn't opened a restaurant in more than 10 years. Now the man behind Trattoria No. 10 and Sopraffina Marketcaffes is about to open two restaurants in one space in Streeterville. Rosenthal, a 45-year industry veteran, is planning another Sopraffina — his sixth — and an as-yet-unnamed small-plates It...
IASA Memorial Fellowship ($1,000)
IASA awards this annual fellowship to the author of the year's outstanding Ph.D. dissertation or MA thesis proposal in Italian American studies. We welcome all approaches to the field of study. ELIGIBILITY: Graduate students in any discipline whose work focuses on Italian American culture are eligible and encouraged to apply.Graduate stud...
UNICO Bocce Tournament to Benefit Local Charities
The Greater Ramsey chapter of UNICO National, an Italian-American service organization that engages in charitable works, is hosting a Bocce Playoff that promises to be great fun while raising funds to support charities in the Ramsey community. The tournament will take place Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Ramsey Pool Bocce Courts from 11 a.m. to 3...
Italian-American Society of Connecticut: 2013 Columbus Day
This year Columbus day celebrations are extremely special as four mayors from the province of Siracusa ( Canicattinini, Floridia, Solarino and Rosolini) will be visiting Hartford to take part in the celebrations. The Hartford Italian Clubs have joined forces to make this visit a very special one indeed and on 10-12 we will host a gala dinner at Aq...
Bulgari in San Francisco
The iconic Italian jewelry company Bulgari takes the colloquial expression "bling bling" to a whole new level. Trendsetter in every sense of the word, Bulgari is always at the forefront of opulent luxury. It is a brand synonymous with glamour and celebrity, a personal favorite of icons like Elizabeth Taylor. The De Young Museum in San Francisco is...
Looking for a job in Atlanta?
A new Neapolitan restaurant, opening in mid December in Midtown, is looking for personnel for pizza/oven assistant, pastry chef, bus, runners, waiters, cashier, receptionist and wine-bar tender. Italian natives, first generation, or Italian looking preferred. Requirements are: basic Italian (or an accent), over 18 years of age, affability of charac...
Miami Book Fair: Poet and Publisher Jonathan Galassi on Coming Out as Gay in His New Book
Like most poets, Jonathan Galassi is also the president of one of the world's most renowned publishing houses and is the foremost translator of Nobel Prize-winning Italian poet Eugenio Montale. He probably also has a cat. Galassi runs Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which has Montale and 21 other Nobel laureates on its roster, as well as a phalanx of a...
Like Strega Nona, Tomie dePaola's stories endure
by Kathy McCormack Children's author and illustrator Tomie dePaola tackled a big stack of his books on the table. A longtime fan plunked them down at the book signing — just a sampling of the nearly 250 he's worked on. "It's like watching my life go by," he said with a chuckle as he signed book after book for Katherine Pixley, a r...
Modern Italian restaurant opens in historic Dover landmark
by Tricia Vanderhoof The building that houses Table 42 was built by Leopold D. Schwartz in 1872 as one of three hostelries in Dover and was once the Central Hotel. To most Morris County residents, it's probably best remembered as the former Laughing Lion. The high tin ceilings at the restaurant, owned by Chuch Leanza and open...
Pirelli: in America il "Made in Italy" è premium
Pirelli sempre più americana, e sempre più legata alle automobili premium: è quanto emerge da un'analisi delle gomme della casa italiana presenti nei diversi stand del Salone di Detroit (13-26 gennaio 2014). Ci sono pneumatici pensati in modo specifico per il mercato USA, come i P Zero Nero All Season, adatti a vetture sportive e montati s...
Italian culture and history: Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico
WTI Magazine #15 2014 Jan, 31Author : italia.it Translation by: The Teatro Olimpico is one of Vicenza's artistic wonders and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This theatre is the absolute climax of the creativity of one of the greatest Italian architects, Andrea Palladio, who was openly inspired by the...