Beretta celebrates groundbreaking in Tennessee
Company and state officials are celebrating the groundbreaking at Italian gun-maker Beretta USA's new plant in Tennessee. Berretta announced in January that it would build a new manufacturing and research facility in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin. The company later announced in July that concerns over a strict gun-control law enact...
EXPO Chicago
EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, will take place from September 18-21 at historic Navy Pier. This year, the following Italian art galleries will participate: Brand New Gallery, Milan ; Luce Gallery, Torino; Massimo De Carlo, Milan & London. Now in its third year, EXPO CHICAGO features 140 leading galler...
Inaugural Italian Food and Wine Festival to Land at Eataly in Mid-October
A new food and drink festival focused exclusively on Italian cuisine will hit Eataly Oct. 14-16, schooling Chicagoans on everything from Arneis to ziti. Presented in partnership with Identitá Golose, a nearly decade-old celebration of Italian cuisine founded by food journalist Paolo Marchi, the three-day festival includes an instructive di...
Red, white and green flag raised in Hamilton to celebrate Italian Heritage Month
"Raccolgaci un'unica bandiera, una speme, di fonderci insieme," the voices called out. "Let one flag, one hope, join us together!" The refrain is from the Italian national anthem, and after filling the Hamilton Township municipal building with the song Friday, Italian-American residents of the area took those words to heart, raising their...
Randy Aliment (President of Italian Chamber of Commerce in Seattle)
All of a sudden, at the beginning of October 2014 Seattle has turned into the center of the communications in and about the Italian American community. What happened in the north western city that was so important to cause this? The Seattle city council voted to transform Columbus Day in Indigenous Day. We are glad to be able to talk about this, a...
Screening of "Viva la libertà" by Roberto Andò - November 28, 2014
Distrib Films US presents the U.S theatrical premiere of "Viva la Libertà", the acclaimed political thriller by director Roberto Andò ("Strange Crime"), starring Toni Servillo (The Great Beauty) in a brilliant, career topping performance. Venues: Laemmle's Royal Theatre, Laemmle's Pasadena Playhouse and Laemmle's Town Center 5 SYNOPSISIn...
Promoting the Italian language in New Mexico
250 million people worldwide speak Italian and are connected to Italian culture. The Italian government has long been committed to increasing that number through a variety of foundations, organizations and global initiatives. In fact, promotion of the Italian language and culture is one of the primary objectives of the Italian Consulate in Los Ange...
Music: La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini - December 16, 2014 at 2:00pm
This production of La Bohème aired on March 15, 1977 and marked the beginning of the long-running series of telecast from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. Renata Scotto plays a memorable Mimì and Pavarotti is at his best while portraying Rodolfo. James Levine conducts with great style and purpose, contributing imaginative touches and the...
In The Italian Alps, Stradivari's Trees Live On
Antonio Stradivari, the master violin maker whose instruments sell for millions of dollars today, has been dead for nearly three centuries. Only 650 of his instruments are estimated to survive. But the forest where the luthier got his lumber is alive and well. And thanks to the surprising teamwork of modern instrument makers and forest ran...
The intimate letters of Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo - January 10, 2015 at 2:00 pm
On Saturday, Jan. 10, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will hold the final lecture in a series of collection conversations to complement the "Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy" exhibition. This half-hour gallery discussion, led by Carmen Bambach and Ramie Targoff, will explore one of the works...
Italian Wines and Fine Dining Event to Help Orchestrate Music in our Community
South Shore Orchestra will host their 9th Annual Wine Dinner on January 31, 2015 featuring Nicholis wines from Valpoicella, Italy at Bon Femme Cafe in downtown Valparaiso. You are invited to experience an evening with a 5 course gourmet meal from one of Valparaiso's finest restaurants paired with 5 distinctive wines including "Amarone", t...
Alabama's first BRAVO! Cucina Italiana restaurant opens Thursday at Bridge Street Town Centre
Alabama's first BRAVO! Cucina Italiana restaurant is set to open Thursday at Bridge Street Town Centre in Huntsville. The restaurant said in a Tuesday news release that a ribbon cutting ceremony is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. The doors will then be opened for lunch. Read more Source: http://www.al.com/