Western Mass Italian Cultural Center Sponsoring Fourth Annual Golf Tournament
by Carla Balzano On July 18, 2015, The Italian Cultural Center of Western Mass is sponsoring its fourth annual golf tournament. It will take place at St. Anne Country Club, 781 Shoemaker Lane, Feeding Hills, MA. The tournament will start promptly at 1:00 PM. Players pay a fee of $100.00, which includes play, cart, lunch, on-course...
PM Renzi’s school reform starts by hiring 36,000 teachers and promoting school-work alternation
by Claudio Tucci The first result of the school reform will be hiring 36,000 now temporary teachers by September 1. This is the initial tranche of an intake of more than 102,000 people introduced by the Matteo Renzi- Stefania Giannini law, which will see additional 11,000 jobs in the following days and, by September 2016, the final tranche...
No to Starbucks, yes to Calabria
By Ian Anderson Later this summer, longtime North Park coffee roaster Caffé Calabria will launch its first offsite expansion in 15 years, opening a satellite coffee bar in a ground-floor storefront at the 1 Columbia Place high-rise in downtown's Columbia neighborhood. A second expansion will be quick to follow, this one south of t...
From the iconic Piazza de Spagna in Rome to the picturesque Bay of Naples: New Guy Ritchie film The Man From U.N.C.L.E. highlights Italy's breathtaking beauty spots
Hollywood's elite has descended upon Italy for the filming of Guy Ritchie's new film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and Alicia Vikander, the chic spy film, which is set the swinging 60s, has been filming in plenty of grandiose locations meant to show off the splendour of the era. From the Spanish Steps in Rome to the s...
Good Wine and Good Times at Quattro Goomba’s
By Dulcy Hooper The t-shirts worn by the staff provide an answer to the question before the question can even be asked: Who, or what, is Goomba? ". . . Close Friend, Pal, Companion." As suggested by the name, Quattro Goomba's winery in Aldie was formed by four (quattro) close friends (goomba in Italian)—David and Carole Camden and Jay a...
Big John Croce, pillar of Seattle food, Italian communities dies at 91
by Tricia Romano In Seattle's Italian-American community, everyone knew John Croce. "Big John," as he was called, was the founder and owner of Pacific Food Importers and Big John's P.F.I., the popular wholesale store and its sister retail outlet on Sixth Avenue in Sodo. Mr. Croce died Aug. 23 at Swedish Cherry Hill. He was 91. His...
2016 Rome Prize Competition Now Open
The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the 2016 Rome Prize. For over a century, the Academy has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative work in the arts and humanities. Through a national juried competition, Rome Prizes are awarded to emerging and established artists and scholars working in the following discipline...
Una delegazione di Filitalia International in visita al Museo del Violino
Una folta delegazione di Filitalia International, guidata dal suo fondatore Pasquale Nestico, ha visitato il Museo del violino di Cremona. Filitalia è una fondazione filantropica statunitense di italo-americani attiva nella diffusione della lingua e della cultura italiana nel mondo con sede a Filadelfia, in Pennsylvania. La delegazione era...
Fargo Commission Seeks to Rename Columbus Day
by Julianne Craw Since 1937, the United States has celebrated Columbus Day as a federal holiday, honoring the Italian explorer long-honored as the man who discovered America. Fargo is looking to revise the October holiday. Media outlets reported the Fargo Native American Commission is seeking to pass a resolution changing the name from...
In Defense of Columbus Day
Whether a man is praised or criticized, he is often given credit or blame for things he had little do with. The human character is such that it is attracted to superficial historical figures, with the nuances of their legacies replaced by blanket statements and broad assertions. In the internet age, this problem is epidemic. Moral superior...
International Prize Gradiva 2015 for Italian Poetry
October 22 (Thursday) 4:00 pm. International Prize Gradiva 2015 for Italian PoetryThis event is to celebrate the third International Poetry Prize, devoted to contemporary Italian poetry. President: Luigi Fontanella. Members of the International Jury: Alessandro Carrera, Milo De Angelis, Luigi Fontanella, Irene Marchegiani, Sylvia Morandina, El...
All (Italian) American
Growing up, I had a friend with dark hair and espresso-colored eyes whose skin turned a deep shade of copper in the sun. Her brother was flame-haired, fair-skinned and freckled. (Yes, I'm positive he wasn't adopted.) While they both shared the same roots of an Irish father and a Native American mother, their characteristics couldn't have been more...