SOGNA's 1st Annual Carnevale Masquerade Party
Sunday, february 8- 2-6 pm - Valley Regency: 1129 Valley Rd, Clifton 07013 Please join us for a masquerade party supporting SOGNA, an Italian non for profit organization based out of New Jersey. SOGNA Inc. (Societa' Organizzata da Gioiesi in Nord-America), is a non-profit organization engaged in charitable and educational work,...
Lecture "The Geometry of Botany" - Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7:30 pm
The Leonardo da Vinci Society Cordially invites you to "The Geometry of Botany", An illustrated lecture by Paola Tonelli, Master Gardener. When: Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:30 pmWhere: Museo Italo Americano, Fort Mason, Building C, San Francisco Free for members of The Leonardo da Vinci Society. Suggested donati...
Dolce Italian Will Debut in River North This Summer
by Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer Like Anita Ekberg, Dolce Italian (Godfrey Hotel, 127 W. Huron St., no phone yet) plans to make a splash in early summer when it opens in Italian-crowded River North. Along with a second Dolce Italian in development in Atlanta, the Chicago location will join the famiglia of Miami's Dolce Italian, a...
A team of Italian authors promote the Made in Italy in Street Photography
Street photography is photography that features the human condition within public places; framing and timing are key aspects of the craft, with the aim of creating images at a decisive or poignant moment. Paris is widely accepted as the birthplace of street photography; Eugene Atget is regarded as the father of the genre, but it's Henri Cartier-Bre...
"Italy in Us": Il Rinascimento italiano protagonista al Getti Center di Los Angeles
Il 31 marzo sarà inaugurata la mostra "Renaissance splendors of the northern italian courts", in programma sino al 21 giugno. Le corti rinascimentali del nord Italia, tra le più ricche e sofisticate d’Europa, hanno attratto artisti innovatori che hanno creato oggetti di notevole bellezza. Con prestiti dalla collezione permanente di manoscr...
Investire negli USA: intervista a Riccardo Pieroni
Dopo il successo della prima video-intervista a Marco Casella pubblicata la scorsa settimana sul nostro portale, nella giornata odierna vi mostreremo quella all’Avvocato ed imprenditore Riccardo Pieroni. Riccardo arriva in America per motivi di studio dopo la laurea e dal 2010, si trasferisce a New York lavorando come manager nel settore...
Italian Festival of Arizona in Scottsdale, 3/21-22
You might feel like you're in Venice if you visit the Italian Festival of Arizona this weekend at SouthBridge in Scottsdale. Umbrella-shaded tables will be placed along the bridge to re-create the ambiance of the canal-laced city in northeastern Italy. "People can look over the canal while they eat dinner, kind of like you're in Venic...
Tom l'italiano: Luca Tommaso Bilotta è il regista di libri che piace a Ken Follett
Ci sono storie che vanno oltre i sogni, prendono la seconda stella a destra, e corrono via, veloci, verso la galassia Oltreoceano, dove talento e merito sono riconosciuti, evitando di impantanarsi in pianeti zavorra, statici da millenni, destinati a morire, governati da rassicuranti mediocri. Ogni riferimento non è assolutamente casuale, e serve pe...
Annual Southington Italian-American Festival planning underway
The annual Southington Italian-American Festival sponsored by the Sons of Italy and Southington UNICO will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 24, 25, and 26. The event will consist of food tents and booths featuring diverse offerings, live entertainment, a homemade wine contest, an outdoor Italian Mass followed by a procession with the...
A Little Off the Sides, Camaraderie on Top
by Andrew Cotto You would have a hard time finding a better representative of Old Brooklyn than Frank Codispoti. A barber who immigrated to New York when he was 18 from the town of Sant'Andrea in the southern Italian region of Calabria, Mr. Codispoti has cut hair in Brooklyn for more than 40 years. So it might seem somewhat jarrin...
Italian traditions: Cantamaggio in Terni
WTI Magazine #59 2015 May, 1Author : folclore.it Translation by: The Cantamaggio in Terni, the largest folk event town, enhances and promotes the ancient custom to celebrate the arrival of spring with the singers who went to the country houses to devote ditties about spring in exchange for coins or eggs, wine and food from the garden...
Domenick Crimi (President - South 9th Street Business Men's Association, Philadelphia)
During the years of mass emigration from Italy to the US, one of the peculiarities of the Little Italies all over the US definitively was the street market. Many used to spend several hours on the street: people would work hard, start their small business, socialize with other "paisanos", meet friends and maybe future spouses, get a life away from...