Italian Village latest neighborhood to see building boom
By Marla Matzer Rose, Mark Ferenchik & Jim Weiker As neighboring communities such as Victorian Village and the Brewery District took off a decade or two ago, Italian Village awaited its moment. Dotted with vacant lots, warehouses and dormant factories, the area's real-estate values remained earthbound. Finding parking spots wasn't...
Sequenze: Italian language through contemporary film
November 9 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm. Location: 011 East Pyne Department of French & Italian · 303 East Pyne · Princeton University · Princeton, NJ 08544. Elisa Dossena, Lecturer of Italian, will demonstrate, through specific examples of teaching strategies, how students can acquire, strengthen, and consolidate their ability to understand and produce...
Italy shows high ambitions in digital innovations
According to the Global Information Technology Report 2016 Italy has terrifically boosted its digital developement figures in the last year and can be surely called one of the most fast-developing countries when it comes to getting the best use of information and communication technologies. The above mentioned report actually states that i...
Cesar New York To Host Day of Continuing Education Units
Cesar New York, the North American flagship for Italian kitchen cabinetry company Cesar, will host a continuing education event in its New York City showroom on Wednesday, November 30. The event is geared toward architects and designers, who may earn credits for attending, and will focus on shower and tub systems, food preservation, and quartz resu...
Fashion industry growing by 2.5-3.5% in 2017, accessible luxury performing even better
by Giulia Crivelli Yesterday's meeting at Piazza Affari in Milan confirmed many of the figures and trends in fashion/luxury firms for 2016, in both listed and unlisted companies. Growth rates for the decade before 2015 (a CAGR of 5.5%, greater than the global GDP growth) were not experienced in 2016, and are not predicted for 2017, either....
Chef Mario Batali wants to capture old soul of Italian cooking
When it comes to hiring a chef, good cooking skills alone do not cut it with the straight-talking American chef-restaurateur Mario Batali. He says: "I'm looking for basic life education. I will look you in the eye and ask what matters to you - like your favourite book. I can teach you ingredients, but I can't teach you to be fascinated with th...
Duna-USA adding space, foaming line in Texas
Duna-USA Inc. is expanding its Baytown, Texas, plant to handle growth in the insulation, tooling, aerospace, automotive and sign markets. The maker of rigid polyurethane tooling and modeling boards and epoxy-based sealers and adhesives is adding 21,000 square feet for a third manufacturing building and an office structure on the 5.5-acre site...
Italian Summer Fest scheduled in Peoria
The Italian American Society of Peoria will hold its 83rd Annual Italian Summer Festa on Sunday August 12, from 12:00 noon to 7:00pm at Hickory Grove Park inNorth Peoria. (Hickory Grove Road off Knoxville Ave, follow signs). The Summer Festa Picnic is a long-standing family event held by the Society every year since its founding in 1929 as a time...
Don't miss this incredible concert: "Christmas in Italy" with internationally acclaimed Cristina Fontanelli.
A vocal journey through Italy's best-loved songs and arias by composers such as Donizetti, Tosti, and Puccini, plus favorites like "Torna A Surriento," "Ave Maria," and other Christmas classics. Now playing for nine Christmas seasons in New York, the magic of "Christmas in Italy" comes to the West Coast for the second time in 2012. Ms. Fontanelli...
Italy Invests in US: Italy’s M&G Group To Construct its PET/PTA plants in Corpus Christi (TX)
Italy's M&G Group (M&G) recently announced that it has signed a US$ 1 billion engineering, procurement and construction contract ("EPC Contract") with Sinopec Engineering Group (SEG) for the turnkey construction in Corpus Christi, Texas of its PET/PTA plants. Together, they will be merging the world's largest single line PET plant, with a 2...
Telling Vermont’s Italian story
When Mari Tomasi died of cancer in 1965, she still lived in the house where she was born at 63 Barre St. in Montpelier. The street is significant for a couple of reasons. First, it is named for the town she immortalized in much of her written work, and Montpelier's other great novelist, D.P. Thompson, in the 19th century also made his home on Barr...
Club plans chocolate celebration
The Italian American Club of Maui will be hosting a chocolate celebration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 14 at Ulupalakua Ranch. The $15 admission includes a winery tour, wine tasting, beverages and chocolate desserts. (Participants are asked to bring a favorite chocolate delight to share.) The event will begin with a no-host lunch...