Accolto ODG Nissoli per costituire un tavolo di confronto atto a favorire la presenza degli italiani all’estero all’Expo2015
L'on. Fucsia Nissoli, in occasione della conversione in legge, a Montecitorio, "del decreto-legge 26 aprile 2013, n. 43, recante disposizioni urgenti per il rilancio dell'area industriale di Piombino, di contrasto ad emergenze ambientali, in favore delle zone terremotate del maggio 2012 e per accelerare la ricostruzione in Abruzzo e la realizzazion...
Eastchester Italian Club Awards Scholarships
The Eastchester Italian American Citizens Club has given out eleven scholarships to graduates of both Tuckahoe and Eastchester High. Ten of the students received $1,000 and one of the graduates received $2,000 because of an outstanding essay that she had written. The scholarships were awarded at the Eastchester Italian American Citizens Cl...
'Wandering Dago' tuck truck ejected from NY race track
By Lester Haines The owners of a fast-food truck are bemoaning their ejection from a New York horse racing track, after the powers that be deemed its snappy name "Wandering Dago" a tad offensive to Italian Americans. Wandering Dago proprietors Andrea Loguidice and Brandon Snooks (pictured below) had secured a spot to sell their nosh to pu...
Rezza in Roseland: A bit of European soul
By Teresa Politano Your bread arrives with no presumption at Rezza. It's accompanied by a simple bowl of olive oil, adorned by just a smattering of sea salt. But that bread is from Sullivan Street Bakery, a New York favorite with a cultlike following, a bakery that describes its bread with reverence, in the poetry of the sommelier (nutty...
De Cecco, Leading Pasta Company Based in Italy, Is Inducted Into The Italian Trade Commission's Hall of Fame, Embarks on US Marketing Plan as It Celebrates 120 Years on American Tables
De Cecco, the world's third largest manufacturer of pasta, was inducted this summer into the Italian Trade Commission's Hall of Fame, recognizing De Cecco's enduring commitment and contribution to the Italian food industry in the United States. The recognition came as De Cecco celebrates 120 years of success in the American marketplace. De...
Archi al comitato della Camera: le elezioni dei COMITES nel 2014/ La prossima settimana nuova audizione del Viceministro Dassù/ A colloquio col Presidente Porta (PD)
Comites, Consolati, docenti all'estero, Imu e Museo dell'Emigrazione. Questi, in sintesi, i temi al centro dell'audizione del viceministro degli esteri Bruno Archi al Comitato per gli italiani all'estero e promozione del Sistema Paese della Camera, presieduto da Fabio Porta (Pd). "La cosa più significativa – ha detto all'Aise l'onorevole P...
Presentazione nuovo insegnante…
We are happy to announce our new instructor for Beginning/Conversational Italian. Lorenzo Borghi is from Bologna, Italy. Lorenzo and his wife have been living in Utah since January of 2013. We are thrilled to have them be a part of our community and to have Lorenzo join the team as an Italian instructor. Please help us welcome them. There...
The paternal Tony Danza in 'Don Jon'
By Susan King Tony Danza and Joseph Gordon-Levitt got to know each other 20 years ago on the set of the Disney baseball fantasy "Angels in the Outfield," in which Danza played an aging pitcher and Gordon-Levitt, then 12, a foster kid. "I always had a paternal thing about him," said Danza, 62, who came to fame 35 years ago as the hapless b...
René Caovilla to mark 80th year
According to WWD, the René Caovilla brand will turn 80 next year and is gearing up to celebrate with the third generation in place at the head of the company and plans to expand globally. Events to mark the anniversary are slated to take place in Venice, where the brand is manufactured, and in New York, in addition to other cities in Europe early n...
Sex, death, drama and fun equals "My Big, Gay, Italian Funeral"
by Ralph Malachowski If Tennessee Williams had written his character, Big Daddy, as a Sicilian, and placed the action of that play during his funeral, you only begin to get the story line of "My Big, Gay, Italian Funeral" playing at the Saint Luke's Theatre at 308 West 46th Street in New York City. Like an episode of "The Bob Newh...
Relics of St. Anthony of Padua to visit New York in December
Thirteen years ago Pope Francis was still known as Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires. In 2000, Bergoglio led a procession through the streets of the Argentinean capital carrying an ancient relic of St. Anthony of Padua. The popular Franciscan saint is known to help people find lost items such as lost jobs, lost homes, and lost hope. ...
Holy Rosary church, a hub for Italian families, turns 100
On a block filled with boxy government buildings, an FBI field office and parked armored trucks, Holy Rosary Church in downtown Washington serves as a retreat to the old country for many in the area's Italian community. Whether it's Sunday Mass conducted in Italian or an exchange of pleasantries between parishioners in a fellowship hall na...