Sons of Italy to Honor Condoleezza Rice, Airline Industry Leader Nicholas Calio, Real Estate Developer Joseph Mattone, Philanthropist Mary Ann Mattone and Labor Leader Paul Rinaldi
Leaders in public service, business, labor and philanthropy will be honored May 26 in Washington, D.C., at the Sons of Italy Foundation's (SIF) National Education & Leadership Awards Gala. The SIF is the philanthropic arm of the Sons of Italy, the nation's largest and oldest organization for people of Italian heritage. Condoleezza Rice...
A day in the life of the swiss guards
The guys in the striped balloon pants you see at the Vatican are part of the Pope's private army. They belong to the Pontifical Swiss Guard, the oldest and smallest active military unit in the world. They serve as personal escorts to the pontiff, and as guards for Vatican City and Castel Gandolfo. But it's not all standing around and looking g...
A Ferrari World theme park is coming to North America, and Orlando is probably in the running for it
Ferrari, known for their fast cars and impressive design, has quickly become a major player in the world of theme parks, and the latest rumors point to a possible expansion right here in Central Florida. Ferrari got into the theme park game when it opened its first park in Abu Dhabi back in 2010. That park, a partnership between the famed...
Call for Papers for 2017 Annual Conference: Italian Sonorities and Acoustic Communities
April 27-29, 2017 JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTEQueens College, City University of New York25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan In his 1983 book Acoustic Communication, Barry Truax defined acoustic communities as "any soundscape in which acoustic information plays a pervasive role in the li...
Billboards marking the collaboration of Italian and Californian designers to be posted around San Francisco in anticipation of San Francisco Design Week
The Italian Cultural Institute and the California College of the Arts are pleased to announce "High Up: Graphic Design around Town," the second installment of the Mapping the City project, developed by art historian Marina Pugliese for the IIC. As of Thursday, May 19, a series of 11 billboards has appeared in elevated strategic locat...
The Florentine Launches Contemporary Italian Literary Magazine
Our friends at The Florentine (Florence's English language news magazine) have announced their plans to publish a bilingual literary review featuring short stories, poems, and illustrations by contemporary Italian writers and artists. The first issue of TheFLR (The Florence Literary Review) will be released in October 2016. The goal of the project...
Backlash over Indigenous People's Day prompts vote for Italian Heritage Day
A week after replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day, Cambridge City Council acknowledged concerns of the local Italian-American community by naming Oct. 1 Italian Heritage Day. According to Councilor Tim Toomey, in the course of last week's vote, the council failed to recognize the contributions of Italian-Americans over the founding...
Antonin Scalia’s spirit lives on in stage revival of ‘The Originalist’
It was an occasion both somber and celebratory. A packed Washington theater audience witnessed the first revival performance of "The Originalist" four months after the death of its legendary and large-hearted "star," Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia. Every seat was filled in the Kogod Cradle on Saturday at Arena Stage for L.A. Theatre Works' in...
Italian festival in Bayonne to benefit lupus awareness foundation
By Nicholas Zeitlinger Italian culture, food and music will be on full display in Bayonne this weekend, and it's all for a good cause. Bayonne's inaugural Italian Festival will benefit lupus awareness with a family friendly event featuring children's events, food vendors and a free concert. The festival will take place on July 16 from 9 a.m....
Juice, the mission to Jupiter with Italian solar panel
The "Made in Italy" will land on Jupiter. Leonardo-Finmeccanica, the Italian enterprise involved in the defense, aerospace and security fields, has been charged with designing of the biggest solar panel ever built for space explorations. It will join the mission "Juice", an acronym for Jupiter icy moon explorer, which will fly to the biggest planet...
Boom-Boom Mancini SUPER SUCCESS
by Italian American Club of Las Vegas Ray Boom Boom Mancini exceeded all expectations. Almost 100 people, including Ray's wife and two sons, other boxers and members of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, 10 people from the Arizona American Italian Club, Federated Italo Americano, Sons of Italy and the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club,...
U.S.-EU trade talks are vital, must continue: Italian minister
A free trade deal being negotiated by the United States and the European Union will be reached, but the talks will take more time than originally expected, Italy's trade and industry minister said. The U.S. and the EU have been negotiating the TransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) for three years, and with no agreement in sight,...