Bocelli crashes wedding with Ave Maria rendition
A young entrepreneur and his new wife were left stunned when the world-renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli turned up and sang during their wedding service. Bocelli had not been invited to the wedding and did not know the couple. He was simply passing the church while on holiday in the Ligurian coastal village of Porto Venere, near the Cinqu...
Dan Hurlin on Fortunato Depero’s puppet plays dramma plastico futurista
09 SEPTEMBER 2015 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMRSVP REQUIRED! BOOK NOW!Center for Italian Modern Art - 421 BROOME STREET, 4TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10013 Following his 2014 visit when he spoke about the puppet theatre of Futurist artist Fortunato Depero, Dan Hurlin returns to CIMA to read his translation of DRAMMA PLASTICO FUTURISTA, four short puppet pla...
Sixth Annual Heritage Golf Classic event, October 2
The Italian Heritage Month Committee and the Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge #2183, Sons of Italy of Wilmington are proud to announce the Sixth Annual Italian Heritage Golf Classic in celebration of October as Italian Heritage Month on Friday, October 2, 2015 at the Merrimack Valley Golf Club in Methuen. The committee invites you to participate in...
From the archive, 22 September 1947: New York mayor LaGuardia dies
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the most remarkable mayor of a great city in American history, who died on Saturday, was a native of New York City, born in 1882. His father, an Italian immigrant, was a bandmaster in the United States Army, his mother a Sephardi Jewess. In early manhood LaGuardia was employed in the Consulates of Trieste and Fiume, and later...
Is That Cappuccino You’re Drinking Really a Cappuccino?
by John Ortved What if the cappuccino you had this morning was not, in fact, a cappuccino? Scary. More worrisome still: What if your flat white was? There was a time when cappuccino was easy to identify. It was a shot of espresso with steamed milk and a meringue-like milk foam on top. But now the onetime king of specialty coffee drinks i...
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi and the Bay of Bridges
Can you name the seven principal bridges of San Francisco Bay? Perhaps least known is the Carquinez Bridge which connects the East Bay to Vallejo. Also obscure, but known well to the Silicon Valley crowd, is the Dumbarton Bridge, the shortest bridge over the Bay, which connects Palo Alto to Newark across the water. Then, of course,...
The 2015 Gaetano Salvemini Colloquium in Italian History and Culture
THU, OCT 22, 2015 AT 5:30 PM. Center for European Studies - Harvard University, Cambridge, MAOn the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Italy, by the Resistance and the Allies, in this year's Salvemini lecture Professor Portelli will discuss the complex relationship many partisans had with the inevitable use of violence in th...
The Italian Way: Addressing the Italian Stereotypes, Myth 13 -The Italian Padrini
WTI Magazine #71 2015 October, 30Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: In a recent conference at the prestigious George Washington University, I was approached by a colleague of mine who teaches Italian language and culture in another college in USA and I was asked, how do I answer questions by the students that relate to the...
Notaries publish a guide to help foreigners buy a home in Italy, ask for a loan, and much more...
by Emiliano Sgambato A new online guide has arrived to help the foreigners who want to buy a property in Italy. A simplified process, from purchase proposals to deeds, for those who are unfamiliar with Italian regulations. But the handbook "Living and doing business in Italy," translated in 13 languages (and that can be downloaded for...
Turin to host Italy’s first robotics trade fair in 2016
by Filomena Greco Italian automotive capital Turin will host Italy's first robotics show, in the spring of 2016. The robotics sector is worth half a billion euros in Italy, growing by more than 6% and with a great potential in the development of 4.0 manufacturing and in the transformation of Made in Italy enterprises. The robotics...
Nicole Orlando: record mondiali in Sudafrica
Già nella prima giornata infrange ben due record mondiali. È un buon inizio per Nicole Orlando, la biellese portacolori del Team Ability che, dopo aver ottenuto il miglior punteggio nel triathlon - lancio del peso, salto in lungo e corsa - e nei 100 metri, ha fatto altri due ori nella seconda giornata: il primo nel salto in lungo e il secondo nella...
Italian Composer Ennio Morricone to Run for a Golden Globe Award
Ennio Morricone has been nominated for 2016 Golden Globes in the category of Best Original Score. Morricone was recognized for his work on Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. The cerimony will take place in Los Angeles January 10. Today in his late '80s, Morricone has written nearly 400 scores and earned his first of five Oscar nominations...