Venice festival embraces city's Italian namesake
VENICE - Many American municipalities have assumed the name of a European city — Rome, Ga., Paris, Ill., Reading, Pa. Few, however, have embraced their namesake like Venice. This weekend's 25th Annual Venice Feast and Carnival is expected to draw 20,000 visitors, one of the city's biggest events of the year. The festival is sponsored by the thriv...
Italia e Usa celebrano 50 anni di cooperazione nello spazio con un nuovo accordo
Italia e Stati Uniti sottoscrivono oggi un importante accordo quadro per la promozione e lo sviluppo della collaborazione nel settore dello spazio. L'intesa apre nuove opportunità in campo economico, scientifico e tecnologico.La firma dell'accordo coincide con le celebrazioni dei primi 50 anni di cooperazione in campo spaziale tra i due Paesi. A so...
ITALIA-USA: Urbino Press Award '13 a W. Blitzer di CNN
Il noto giornalista della CNN Wolf Blitzer è il vincitore del Premio Urbino 2013, assegnato ogni anno a un giornalista americano distintosi per la sua capacità di raccontare il mondo che cambia. L'annuncio ufficiale verrà dato dall'Ambasciatore d'Italia negli Stati Uniti, Claudio Bisogniero, nel corso di una cerimonia che si svolgerà il 18 aprile p...
An Italian Welfare League Event
In 92 years, the Italian Welfare League has gone from helping newly arrived Ellis Island Italian immigrants to assisting children of Italian descent who require medical assistance or have special needs. These children are I Nostri Bambini.
Twenty university students receive travel grants to Italy through a National Italian American Foundation program
Twenty college students from across the nation will participate in the Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery Program, an all-expenses-paid educational and cultural initiative that sends Italian American students to Italy. Sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), the tour will visit Italy's Calabria region from May 26...
Staten Island's Casa Belvedere will hold 'Taste of Italy' Golf Outing
The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, Grymes Hill, will host its first annual "Taste of Italy" Golf Outing and Bocce Tournament on Wednesday, June 19, at Silver Lake Golf Course. Registration and lunch begin at 11:30 a.m., and cocktails, dinner and an auction begin at 6 p.m. The cost of golf, lunch and dinner is $175 per person; the co...
Italian American feast this weekend in Astoria, Queens
The 43rd Annual Feast in honor of St. Antonio Abate sponsored by the Fraternal Society of Castrofilippo Inc. began yesterday in Astoria, Queens. The feast, located on Ditmars Boulevard from 38th to 35th Streets, runs until Sunday June 23. The stretch is smoky, sweet and delicious with Puerto Rican and Latin American cuisine, Italian American street...
Pistons come to terms with Italian sharpshooter
A person familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press that the Detroit Pistons have agreed to a $3.5 million, two-year contract with Luigi Datome. The person spoke Tuesday on the condition of anonymity because the agreement has not been announced. NBA rules prevent confirmation of moves until Wednesday, when Datome is expected to...
New six-part series on the New York Mafia to premiere this weekend
by Phil Leo A new gritty six-part series, Inside the American Mob, will premiere Sun. July 28 at 9:00 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel.Former mobsters, informants, and FBI agents will expose the takedown of the deadliest and most infamous organized crime ring in U.S. history. Exclusive television interviews include Jimmy Calandra, a member...
Italy Gets a Bastianich Restaurant
A new restaurant, set in a vineyard in northeastern Italy, serves a contemporary interpretation of Italian food. Joe and Lidia Bastianich opened Orsone, a tavern, restaurant and bed-and-breakfast on Tuesday in Cividale del Friuli, Italy, about an hour and 15 minutes from Venice. Read more Source: http://intransit.blo...
Italian furniture company opens showroom featuring a Bayer gel
By Joyce Gannon An upper floor of a historic Pittsburgh office tower seems an unlikely spot to find the North American headquarters of a European luxury mattress maker. But in spacious digs in the century-old Arrott Building on Wood Street, employees of Italy-based Technogel are working to convince Americans that a cool, blue gel will giv...
Concerto per le celebrazioni di Maria SS. Addolorata
La Congrega Maria SS. Addolorata di Brooklyn. N.Y., presenterà come ogni anno, per completare i festeggiamenti della protettrice, un concerto di musica classica, con artisti venuti appositamente dall'Italia, per allietare la nostra comunità italiana e non. Avremo fra noi, artisti che si stanno affermando non solo nel loro paese, ma anche all'ester...