Victoria Pace named Stonehill College Foreign Languages Department’s 2015 Outstanding Student in Italian
by Nicola Orichuia In recognition of outstanding academic achievement, Victoria Pace '15 has been named the Stonehill College Foreign Languages Department's 2015 Outstanding Student in Italian. Pace, a psychology major with a minor in Italian studies from Everett, Massachusetts, has demonstrated a commitment to scholarship t...
Italian launch of the book award “The Bridge”
"The Bridge" - the book award, curated by Casa delle Letterature of municipality of Rome in partnership with the American Initiative For Italian Culture (AIFIC), the American Embassy in Rome, NIAF (The National Italian American Foundation) in Washington, DC and Fuis (the Federation of Italian Writers) - was launched in Milan on Wedne...
Marathon and Italian city become sister cities
by William Axford The city of Marathon has a sibling in the Tyrrhenian Sea and residents will get a chance to visit the sister city this fall. Loiri Porto San Paolo in Sardinia, Italy, became Marathon's sister city after three years of work from the Greater Marathon Chamber of Commerce and the City Council. It is a coastal city on...
Sicily-Coca-Cola, alliance to produce biogas from citrus waste
Sicily and Coca Cola have forged an alliance at Milan Expo 2015 for environmental sustainability and against food waste. This is the message that has emerged from a workshop on Sicily's products of excellence – fruit and vegetables – organized at Palazzo Italia. For the occasion, the US beverage giant and Sicily's citrus district have pres...
NeMLA 2016 CFP: New Perspectives on the Italian canzone d’autore and Popular Music
Critical studies on the Italian canzone d'autore and popular music are becoming numerous, often intertwining society, music and poetry. Please, consider submitting an abstract for the next NeMLA Annual Convention, held from March 17 to 20, 2016 in Hartford, CT, for the panel: "New Perspectives on the Italian canzone d'autore and Popular Music." &n...
Rinvenuto a Sibari un tempio dedicato alle divinità egizie Iside e Serapide. Segnalate anche tracce della prima città greca
Una ricerca condotta in Calabria dal professor Emanuele Greco, direttore della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, e dalla sua équipe nel sito di "Casa Bianca", nell'ambito dell'area archeologica di Sibari (Cosenza), ha permesso il rinvenimento di un santuario costruito intorno al 50 d.C. e dedicato alle divinità egizie di Iside e Serapide, il c...
Alberto Cribiore To Serve as Grand Marshal of the 71st Columbus Day Parade
The Columbus Citizens Foundation today announced it has named leading financier, Alberto Cribiore as the Grand Marshal of the 71st Columbus Day Parade, which will take place on Fifth Avenue on Monday, October 12, 2015. The annual Columbus Day Parade, organized by the Columbus Citizens Foundation and presented by the Conair Corporation, is the...
A Touch of Italy in Georgetown
by Mixing Bowl "I never knew this was here," said Ellen, a new customer who stumbled across the store with her husband on a walk from their 33rd street home on Saturday morning. "We get ladies in all the time who thought that shops catering to them had long since left the Georgetown neighborhood. But we're here to prove otherwise,...
Passionate Italian taster brings knowledge to consumers
by Silvia Simonetti "I am most passionate about bringing my knowledge [of tasting] to consumers, "said an enthusiastic Orietta Gianjorio, a native Italian from Rome, when describing her motivation and drive for tasting. "My Italian values are shopping for the best ingredients, conviviality around the table, and slowing down to enjoy food,"...
Alfredo's Italian Ristorante in downtown Clinton on the move
By Kim Hasty The banging of hammers and whirring of drills will soon give way to glasses clinking in toasts and to the murmur of companionable conversation. That aroma of new construction so pervasive these days? That soon will give way to the aromas of made-from-scratch marinara and freshly baked bread. Alfredo's Italian Ristorante,...
Utah Opera Opens Season With Puccini's TOSCA, 10/10
Utah Opera takes audiences on a heart-stopping journey of forbidden love, loyalty, betrayal and tragedy in the 2015-16 season opening production of Puccini's "Tosca". The performances, held at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theater, are October 10, 12, 14, and 16 at 7:30 PM, then October 18 at 2 PM. Tickets, priced from $18-$89, are avai...
Dine, And Sing-Along Too, On Columbus Day
by Joe Zlomek A sing-along to Italian and American songs will provide a Columbus Day concert for diners next Monday (Oct. 12, 2015) from 5-9 p.m. at the Friendly's Restaurant, Route 100 and Shoemaker Road. A portion of the proceeds from meals purchased between those hours will benefit the Pottstown Area Seniors Center building fund, accord...