Valentino thinks big for fifth avenue store
Valentino is making a major statement for current momentum and future growth - its largest flagship yet, set to open next year at 693 Fifth Avenue in the old Takashimaya Building says wwd.com. The 20,000 sq. ft. store with three floors of selling space as well as a basement, is the culmination of three years of sales increases for the brand, and ma...
Italian cinema at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International ShortFest & Film Market
The Palm Springs ShortFest is the largest and one of the most prestigious short film events in North America, populated with hundreds of talented young filmmakers from all over the world. Italian participation is represented by the short movies: The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars, directed by Edoardo Ponti (the film won Best Short at the Rome Film...
Italian POWs of WWII program at National Archives
By Sue Scheible This interesting invitation from the National Archives at Boston, located on Trapelo Road in Waltham: In 1944, at the peak of World War II, thousands of Italian POWs were transported to Greater Boston to help relieve the national labor shortage in the home front port. Unsurprisingly, the Italian POWs garnered much attenti...
Insieme per il progetto “Global identity: from the roots to the wings”
Il Comune di Picerno, la scuola Itis 'A.Einstein' e Hutchinson Technical High School Buffalo insieme per il progetto "Global identity: from the roots to the wings". "Il progetto nasce dall'esigenza culturale e dalla necessità di apertura verso nuovi orizzonti – precisano dall'Itis - e fondamentale è stato l'incontro di alcuni docenti e all...
Gli Scambi Commerciali Transatlantici Diventano Globali
di Michael J Boskin STANFORD – Hanno preso avvio le trattative tra gli Stati Uniti e l'Unione Europea sul trattato commerciale, potenzialmente il più grande accordo regionale di libero scambio della storia. In caso di successo, coprirebbe più del 40% del PIL mondiale e potrebbe contare su grandi quote di commercio mondiale e di investiment...
Eat, Pray, Love Italian Style with Pasta, Vino and Italian Football
Roughly 17 million Americans have ties to Italy and will be celebrating their ancestry during October's Italian-American Heritage Month. With a strong influence in cooking, fashion, sports, movies, television and the arts, being Italian influences all aspects of life. Appreciating all things Italian is easy, but marrying into an Italian family can...
Rome Prize
The American Academy in Rome is now accepting applications for the 2014 Rome Prize. Each year, through a national juried competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to about thirty emerging artists and scholars working in the following categories: ArchitectureDesignHistoric Preservation and ConservationLandscape ArchitectureMusic...
ddc announces partnership with Italian craftsmen OIKOS, renowned color and plaster specialists
ddc has revealed its partnership with OIKOS, a company proving to be the industry leader in modern Venetian plaster. ddc is currently showcasing several OIKOS wall finishes in a new installation located at their 181 Madison Avenue Showroom location. OIKOS is known as being an innovator in color, they believe color and texture is fundamental in tra...
URI announces Italian engineering program
The University of Rhode Island is expanding an international engineering program to Italy. The university announced Friday that it has signed an agreement with the University of Calabria allowing URI engineering students to spend a semester at the university before pursuing a six-month internship. URI's international engineering program i...
Facci Turf Valley Brings Italian Cuisine to Northwestern Ellicott City
By Andrew Metcalf Facci Turf Valley is the first of four restaurants to open at the new shopping center anchored by Harris Teeter in the northwest corner of Ellicott City. It's the second restaurant of the same name opened by owner Gino Palma, 37, a Columbia resident, who came to America from Naples, Italy in 1996. The first Facci opened in Fulto...
La gioielleria italiana celebrata in un documentario
By Beatrice Bondi La fine arte della gioielleria italiana si racconta nel documentario Master of Dreams. The Italian Jewellers, proiettato alla New York University venerdì 4 ottobre. Un film che svela cosa succede dietro le scene dei più noti brand del lusso di casa nostra. La gioielleria italiana è il risultato di generazioni di artisti e artigi...
The Little Italy Blockbuster That Helped Shape the City’s Growth
In 1995, the city's downtown redevelopment agency began working on something different from its typical projects. Normally, Centre City Development Corp.—the nonprofit in charge of property tax-funded urban renewal efforts, now Civic San Diego— redeveloped whole blocks at one time. Take an entire block, consolidate it into one property an...