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Texas Scientific Italian Community in collaboration with Rice University, in cooperation with the Consulate General of Italy in Houston, and CTIM (Comitato Tricolore per gli Italiani nel mondo) invite you to submit an abstract to the 15th Conference of Italian Researchers in the World that will be held on April 25, 2020 at:Rice UniversityHerring Ha...

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Saturday, March 7, 2020: 4 p.m.–6 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts - Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Radical: Italian Design 1965–1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection. Film Screening: SuperDesign (Directed by Francesca Molteni, Italy, 2017, 62 minutes) SuperDesign retraces the history and...

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Guests swooned over the fleet of Ferraris in the drive, the trove of Massimo Palmiero jewels straight from Rome in vitrines and the modern furnishings from Italian-centric BeDesign providing seating for this terribly chic fête. Viva Italia! Indeed, that was the theme when DC Partners CEO Roberto Contreras and Italian Consul General of Houston Feder...

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Every year SXSW Showcasing Artists journey to Austin, TX from all over the world and this year almost 70 countries will be represented at the SXSW Music Festival. This week, we are highlighting Italy’s cream of the crop. From buzzy bedroom pop to dirty psychedelic rock, the 2020 SXSW lineup of Italian artists is one you won’t want to miss. Dive int...

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Italian railway company Salini announced that it won the giant high speed train project tender in the USA. This tender of $ 5,9 billion consists of a package that includes the design, construction and maintenance of the high-speed train line between Houston and Dallas. 386 km long line The design works of the high speed train line between Dallas an...

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In the early l920s, the Sacred Heart Society of Little York was formed by a group of Italian men, most of who immigrated from the Province of Palermo, Sicily, to the United States. Many of them earned their living by farming on the north side of Houston. The men brought their Sicilian-Italian culture to Houston. Often the men would go out in the ev...

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One of the newest Italian restaurants in The Woodlands — Zanti Cucina Italiana — has a benefit of an executive chef with several decades of international cooking experience and a background in his own family’s restaurant in Italy. Zanti Executive Chef Stefano Ferrero joined the restaurant’s team in 2017. The restaurant, located at 10000 Research Fo...

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GelaRto, a cafe specializing in traditional Italian gelato, has opened in the J.W. Brooks building at 18 S. Water St. in downtown Wilmington.  Owners Nigel Langstone and Luca Grassi have been creating and selling GelaRto in Italy and Britain for years, and after a trial run in New York City, have opened a Wilmington location.  Langstone and his fam...

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In search of a new favorite Italian spot? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the best affordable Italian restaurants around Plano, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to fulfill your urges. 1. Marinara Pizza Topping the list is a location of the Marinara Pizza restaurant chain. Located at 1915 N. Centr...

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In 1880 Count Giuseppe Telfener and several European, New York and Texas financiers developed a grand plan to link New York and Mexico by rail. The New York, Texas and Mexican Railroad Company was chartered in Paris in October 1880, and construction began about a year later. Count Telfener was no amateur in the field; he had just completed a 350-mi...

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