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On Tuesday, December 4th, AUR Communication and Business students received first, second and third place awards following a wine label competition run by Thompson International Marketing, a company specializing in trade and customer service in the wine sector. Prof Bob Sonnabend brought Thompson International to AUR as one of the "clients" for his...

Date: February 11, 2013 at 8:00 am - 11:30 am Location: Peterson Hall 50 East 68th Street New York, NY Italy: Opportunity Amid the Eurozone Crisis Italy Meets the United States of America Summit

The first bionic hand to let amputees physically "feel" what they are touching will be transplanted onto a human later this year. An Italian man who lost the lower section of his arm in an accident will have the hand attached, via electrodes clipped on to two of his main nerves, directly to his nervous system. Scientists say this should let him c...

The knights of Columbus John J. Shea Assembly 0081 will celebrate their 50th anniversary and honor Richard Contreras. The Knights of Columbus John J. Shea Assembly 0081 will be celebrating their 50th anniversary honoring past faithful Navigator Richard Contreras on Saturday Evening April 20 6:00 PM in the Mary Star of the Sea Auditorium, 870 West...

On May 4th at 4:00PM at the Museo Italo Americano, we will come together to focus on the importance of adding a Latin-rooted language — Italian — to your language skills. Above all, learning a language is beneficial to your outlook on life and gives you a new perspective from which to view and understand the world.

Recenly Al Rolandi, the president of WisItalia, contacted Richard Gollnick and Pete Feira, the Green Bay Wisitalia reps, to discuss a very exciting upcoming event.   Each year WisItalia has an Awards banquet to honor an Italian Teacher of the year and to give other awards for outstanding achievements in promoting Italian in Wisconsin. This...

Mark the date on your calendars: Sunday, June 2 from 11:30 am to 6 p.m. It's the date of the Fourth Annual Italian American Heritage Festival in Rose Tree Park. Admission is free. The festival will celebrate Italian-American authors, artists, sports figures, automobiles, culture, heritage, food, entertainment and more.   Two separate st...

Un anonimo fotografo che nel 1942 percorre in lungo e in largo Manhattan e cattura nelle sue immagini case, persone, monumenti di un'epoca quando i grattacieli erano giovani: 'New York: Born Back into the Past' approda per un mese all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York grazie ai collezionisti Silvia e Stefano Lucchini che a quegli scatti hann...

By Corby Kummer   Boston has certainly never had a dearth of Italian restaurants. There are the North End red-sauce joints, of course, which are mostly Italian-American, and a handful of chef-owned places that happily offer inspired takes on the standards—Coppa, La Morra, and Il Casale. But there haven't been many restaurants offering much i...

July 12th — July 16th, 2013 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto - 36 Amity Street at White Plains AvenueRosebank, Staten Island, NY 10305   There will be plenty of delicious food, fun games and live entertainment Tuesday, July 16th the procession will begin at 9 AM from the grotto to the Church of St. Mary. Mass will celebr...

The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan under the auspices of the Italian Consulate of Detroit in its third Annual Celebration of Dante Alighieri presentsDANTE E LA MUSICA: LA SUA INFLUENZA POETICADANTE AND MUSIC: HIS POETIC INFLUENCE A talk by John Zaretti, President of the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan.   Read more   Fonte: Il gi...

By April Guilmet   When life handed him lemons, Phil Mastroianni went to the New Hampshire Liquor Commission. Launching his Salem-based company, Fabrizia Spirits, five years ago was no easy ride for Mastroianni, who began as a 25-year-old accountant with a dream of producing traditional Italian limoncello for the masses.   "I started...