10 “Magical” Foods that help Italians live longer
The Italian diet is loaded with beans, which are high in protein and soluble fiber that fill you up for a long time for very few calories. Riboletta soup and pasta e fagioli are two popular hearty dishes that feature beans. Balsamic vinegar from Modena is another flavorful, yet very low-calorie, product of Italy that is used freely to flavor f...
First Look: The Iconic Caffe Dante Reopens as Dante
by Kelly Dobkin The gist: AvroKO's Linden Pride worked closely with Caffe Dante's previous owners to restore this legendary space to a new-found glory. Reopening as Dante, the storied Greenwich Village space has been given a facelift as well as brand new menus. The space: Maintaining much of the old-world feel of the 100-year old...
Outdoor Screening of Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) at Casa Belvedere, Staten Island, New York
Wednesday, July 8th: Il Gattopardo (1963) "The Leopard" - Directed by Luchino Visconti - Drama/Romance - Not Rated - 187 Minutes - In Italian with English subtitles As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social c...
Little Italy's Toga Toga Almost Sold Out
NEW this year, A Dress code like no other.... TOGA www.ferragostosd.org Registration is Open. Reserve Your Tickets Online Now. (NOTE: Every Ferragosto SELLS OUT) WHAT is Ferragosto: A fundraiser supporting Washington Elementary School,Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church and the Little Italy Association. WHEN: Sat...
What Does The Italian Heritage Mean To Clarksburg?
by Taylor Deer At the end of the 19th Century, the first Italians made their way into Clarksburg to find what they called, "big money jobs" in the coal mines but ever since the population has been growing quickly and the atmosphere the Italians bring along is part of what makes Clarksburg so nice, and once a year Clarksburg celebrates it's...
Villa Tronco prepares to celebrate 75 years in Columbia
By Allen Wallace As American soldiers arrived at Fort Jackson in 1940 to prepare for what soon would become World War II, many were served home-cooked meals by a woman who ran a fruit stand across from a bus station on Blanding Street. Sadie Tronco's acts of kindness for the soldiers led her to found a restaurant that will celebra...
MakeUp in New York: A special focus on Italy
During the whole afternoon of next September 9, the conference room of MakeUp in New York (Penn Plaza Pavilion, on 9 and 10 September 2015) will be in the colours of Italy. "It is only natural when you know what the entire make-up sector owes to the industry of this country," comment the organisers. Economically, according to the report re...
KU hosts Italian social welfare students for unique study abroad experience
New social workers will work increasingly with people from diverse immigrant groups who are often marginalized. The University of Kansas is working to increase study abroad experiences in a field that is growing its emphasis on international or global practice, including a current visit by students, faculty and staff from Milan, Italy. Sev...
Foreign real estate investment in Italy returns to pre-crisis levels
by Michela Finizio After Qatar's splashy purchase of the Porta Nuova district in Milan, with an investment of about €900 million to acquire a share of the new skyscrapers, other international deals on Italy's real estate market have followed hot on its heels and reached €2.7 billion in the first six months of 2015. This is more or less the same am...
Per Forbes Magazine il Teatro del fuoco della Sicilia è uno dei 12 più cool del mondo
La rivista statunitense Forbes Magazine ed il website Forbes.com pubblicano i 12 festival più cool del mondo, quelli per cui vale la pena fare un viaggio. In lista tra questi c'è il Teatro del Fuoco, festival italiano ideato e prodotto dalla giornalista palermitana Amelia Bucalo Triglia. Forbes, nota per la classifica annuale degli uomini più ricc...
First on First: Zamboni
Most people are familiar with the Zamboni ice resurfacer, but did you know an Italian American invented the machine? Frank Zamboni was born in Eureka, Utah, in 1901. His parents, both immigrants from Italy, moved their family to a farm in Idaho shortly after his birth. When he was 15, Frank began to work as a mechanic at a local garag...
Una delegazione di italo-americani a Norcia, alla ricerca delle proprie origini
Una delegazione di italo-americani accompagnati da Padre Jeffrey E. Lee lo scorso fine settimana ha raggiunto Norcia ed è stata accolta dal sindaco Nicola Alemanno, dall'assessore alla cultura Giuseppina Perla e da padre Cassian Folsom, priore del monastero benedettino di 'Maria Sedes Sapientiae'. L'obiettivo dell'incontro è stato quello di rilanc...