Novena Madonna dei Martiri in Hoboken
L' Hoboken Italian Festival, è un grande evento italo-americano come Festival nel New Jersey festeggia oggi 86 anni, sono le tradizioni tramandate di una festa patronale nata in Italia, a Molfetta, che è ha oltre 600 anni. The festival occurs yearly, the weekend after Labor Day, for 4 days at beautiful Sinatra Park, on the historic waterfront of H...
Guinness officials say 115-year-old Iowa woman inherits title of 'world's oldest' person Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/05/guinness-officials-say-115-year-old-iowa-woman-inherits-title-world-oldest/#ixzz2ENl2kUIX
A 115-year-old woman in Iowa has become the world's oldest living person.Guinness World Records posted on its website Wednesday that Dina Manfredini of Johnston has inherited the title after Bessie Cooper of Georgia died Tuesday. Cooper was 116.Guinness officials provided few details about the latest record holder. Manfredini was born on April 4, 1...
La Little Italy del Bronx guarda oltre Arthur Avenue
Belmont sta stretta alla sua Little Italy. L'enclave italiana del distretto del Bronx, 10 blocchi di negozi e ristoranti concentrati intorno alle due grandi arterie commerciali, Arthur Avenue e East 187th Street, vuole attirare nuovi residenti e clienti."Diamo risalto all'eredità culturale italiana perché è ciò per cui siamo conosciuti" ha detto Fr...
Assets Many, Listings Few
At St. Finbar Roman Catholic Church, the Rev. Michael Louis Gelfant presides over a flock that spans an old and new Bath Beach. He leads a Sunday morning Mass in English and Italian for parishioners, many of them Italian-Americans who have lived in this South Brooklyn neighborhood for decades. The afternoon Mass is celebrated in Spanish for more r...
AdDRESSing Style: FASHION AND MOVIES: The Art of Italian Costume Design
Giovedì 21 marzo 2013, ore 18.00 in EDT A conversation with:Guido Torlonia, director of the upcoming documentary Handmade Cinema, and the acclaimed plays Caro Luchino, and Caro Federico.Grazia d'Annunzio (US Special Projects Editor, Vogue Italia)Stefano Albertini, NYU The event will include the screening of selctions from the director's work...
The American Italian Federation of the Southeast Biennial Convention was held on April 12, 13, & 14, 2013 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
During the convention everyone got to meet and talk with so many pleasant individuals that are associated with and supporting their great organizations and the American Italian Federation. Officers were nominated and elected.
“La Città dei Ragazzi” - Model of Social Work in Rome Funded by American Donors
The Boys and Girls Towns of Italy (BGTI) hosted a fundraiser this past weekend in San Francisco for an organization that is testament to Italy's real impact in the sphere of philanthropy. This remarkable nonprofit takes in refugee youth who have fled their homeland due to violence and extreme poverty and finds them secure, nurturing environments th...
Ferragosto 2013 – Little Italy America : The Roaring 20’s!
From New York to San Diego, America cast off the inhibitions of an earlier era and celebrated prosperity, movies, the automobile, and jazz. Then - January 16, 1920 – The 18th Amendment was signed into law and America went DRY! It was Prohibition! Thirsty Americans sought relief ... and the Speakeasy was born! There has never been a time l...
Founders of Italian American Heritage Foundation in San Jose to be honored
by Mary Gottschalk The Italian American Heritage Foundation is honoring the surviving two founders of the group at the upcoming Un Ballo d'Amore. The first is Joe Guerra Jr., a longtime Willow Glen resident who with his brother Louie worked in his family's grocery story on S. First Street, eventually turning it into a sporting goods store...
Dall'Italia alla Nba: con Datome anche Hackett sogna l'America
Dopo Andrea Bargnani, Marco Belinelli e Danilo Gallinari, altri due talenti del basket italiano potrebbero approdare nella Nba: i virgulti in questione sono Gigi Datome e Daniel Hackett, protagonisti dell'ultima Finale Scudetto tra Roma e Siena. BOSTON SU DATOME - Si sapeva da tempo che diverse franchigie erano interessate all'ala della Vi...
L’audizione del Viceministro Archi al Comitato del Senato
Sistema Italia, corsi di lingua e cultura, consolati e voto all'estero, il Museo dell'Emigrazione e i nuovi migranti. Nella sua prima audizione al Comitato per le Questioni degli Italiani all'Estero del Senato, il Viceministro degli Esteri Bruno Archi ha ribadito la linea seguita dalla Farnesina nelle politiche migratorie. Accolto dal pres...
A Look at the 125th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Snow, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The 125th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Snow, patroness of Sanza (SA), kicked-off Saturday in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn with a procession through the neighborhood and novena in honor of the Madonna della Neve at beautiful Saint Francis of Paola Church (219 Conselyea Street). We had the privilege of attending the celebration and meeting man...