Assistant Professor or Instructor in Italian, Colby College
The Department of French and Italian is seeking an Assistant Professor or Instructor in Italian for a continuing three-year position, renewable for additional three-year terms, to begin September 1, 2015. PhD preferred, ABD considered. The successful candidate will be part of an energetic department committed to providing the best educatio...
San Diego Italian Film Festival
The 8th annual San Diego Italian Film Festival is going to start on Oct. 16 and will showcase the best of the year's Italian film production in the City of San Diego and in North County. The program includes: Anni felici (Those Happy Years), Il comandante e la cicogna (Garibaldi's Lovers), Alì ha gli occhi azzurri (Alì Blue Eyes), Miele (H...
Restaurant favorites done well at Filomena’s
Filomena's in Waterford is the type of restaurant that feels familiar even on first visit.The decor is unpretentious: light-up beer signs call your attention from the parking lot, and family photos and Little League pictures greet you at the entrance. The walls in the dining area are maroon, the tables and chairs are wooden, and there's a...
US soldiers' Ebola quarantine in Italy causes alarm
The decision to put a dozen American soldiers returning from Liberia into quarantine for Ebola at their base near Venice rather than in the United States sparked controversy in Italy Wednesday. "They shouldn't have been sent here, they should do their quarantine for Ebola at home," said the president of the region's assembly, Luca Zaia, in...
Medford HIgh School AP Italian students receive scholarships
An annual tradition of the FAA-USA (Federazione Associazioni Abruzzesi - USA) has been to award scholarships to deserving high school seniors for their excellence in the study of Italian. The annual scholarships are made possible through a generous donation by Joe Pace in memory of his mother. This year's scholarship recipients were Sarah Die...
ISSpresso: Astronauts will finally get to enjoy a decent cup of coffee in space
Ristretto or lungo? Not a question astronauts on the International Space Station normally have to contemplate, but that is about to change thanks to a new zero-gravity coffee machine being delivered this weekend. The ISSpresso machine is set to boldly go to the orbital station this weekend, carried there by Italian astronaut Samantha Cristofor...
A Ostana il II° Festival Invernale nazionale dei Borghi più belli d´Italia
Da sabato 6 a lunedì 8 dicembre (giorno della Festa dell'Immacolata), Ostana - piccolo paese di lingua e cultura occitana di fronte al Monviso, nella valle dove nasce il Po, in provincia di Cuneo - ospita il secondo Festival Nazionale Invernale dei Borghi più belli d'Italia, club di cui fanno parte 242 Comuni italiani nato nel 2001 su impulso della...
An Italian Christmas in Portland
We are lucky. As Italians, we've surely had our chance to be spoiled when it comes to food. Lucky and cursed at the same time, since our standards are so high! This is particularly true as the holidays approach. We often find ourselves fighting at the stove to recreate that particular dish, hunting for a rare ingredient, digging into mom's...
I Maremmani nel Mondo: Silvia con la famiglia a Boston tra arte e insegnamento
di Giulia Carri Silvia Bottinelli, 38 anni di Grosseto, 7 anni fa decide di lasciare l'Italia per trasferirsi con la famiglia a Boston in America, dove è docente universitaria in Storia dell'Arte. Come sei arrivata negli USA?"Nel 2007, durante il mio terzo anno di dottorato in Storia dell'Arte Contemporanea a Pisa, desideravo fare...
Cine-gastronomic conversation with Justin Ambrosino
by Valerio Viale For our readers, who are not yet familiar with the Italian-American, very talented, young filmmaker, Justin Ambrosino, it is enough to say that his thesis short film, The 8th Samurai, won more than 20 jury awards worldwide and qualified for the Academy Awards, in 2010. In occasion of the pre-production stage of hi...
Health warning over pizza as researchers find Italian treat is the second-highest source of calories for American children
Pizza is the second-highest source of calories for kids ages 2 to 18, researchers have found.They say America's love of pizza has meant about 20 percent of youths eat pizza on any given day.They say the food must be curbed, and made healthier. On days they eat pizza, children and adolescents take in significantly more calories, fat and sod...
Simply Italian Great Wines: Il vino italiano protagonista a Miami con la CCI
La Camera di Commercio Italiana nel Southeast degli Stati Uniti è partner ufficiale della 5a Edizione di "Simply Italian Great Wines", che si terrà a Miami l'11 febbraio prossimo. La manifestazione vedrà la partecipazione di circa 40 espositori italiani e di numerosi importatori, distributori, ristoratori, sommeliers e media specializzati presenti...