Italian-American Club of West Haverstraw seeks use of vacant former Stony Point Ambulance Corps HQ
At Tuesday night's Stony Point Town Board meeting, Paul Carlucci of the Italian American Social Club of West Haverstraw pleaded with the Stony Point Ambulance Corps for the use of a vacant building for club meetings. The Italian American Social Club, which has an active presence in the community for generations, recently shut its doors on...
Valter Longo and his elixir of longevity
By Lavinia Pisani If the idea of living longer has ever intrigued you, Valter Longo's Fasting Mimicking Diet may be the secret. Associate Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences, as well as the Hanson Chair of Biogerontology at the University of Southern California (USC), Longo is also director of the Longevity and Oncology p...
Carlo Mastrangelo, a Doo-Wop Voice for Dion and the Belmonts, Dies at 78
Carlo Mastrangelo, an original member of Dion and the Belmonts, whose baritone vocals undergirded the group's harmonies on a string of doo-wop hits like "No One Knows" and "A Teenager in Love," died on Monday in Boynton Beach, Fla. He was 78. The cause was cancer, said Warren Gradus, a current member of the Belmonts. Mr. Mastrangelo g...
After reaching €2 billion revenues mark, Italy’s Calzedonia aims at US expansion
"I'm more impressed than anyone else, especially if I convert the sum in the former Italian currency: we are talking about more than 4,000 billion lire. If someone would have told me ten years ago I don't know if I'd believe it. After all we have been 'fast runners': constant and constantly growing, even during the crisis." The founder and preside...
Corrado Palmieri Brings a Southern Italian-Style Coffee Bar to Dallas Farmers Market
When Corrado Palmieri was growing up in the "heel of the boot," as he says, he was often elbow-deep in flour as he helped his grandmother bake pastries specific to Southern Italy and his home province of Lecce. Decades later, after years of business school and working in investment banking, he opened his own Italian coffee shop and bakery...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 79
WTI Magazine #79 2016 May 13Author : Umberto Mucci Translation by: Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 79th issue of our online magazine. The second tour of presentations of We the Italians – the book has been a big success! Once again I've been lucky to meet a lot of committed successful Italian Americans and Italians recently moved to t...
A Taste of Italy in West Palm Beach
Most people think of Monday as a day of dread. I've come to think of Monday as one of my favorite food days of the week. That's the day I go to Lynora's on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach and get the Monday specials – an $8 Margarita pizza and Maria Abbenante's glorious meatballs (housemade with beef and pork) for $2 each. They make you wish Tue...
Frank Sinatra stage musical 'to open in 2018'
A new jukebox musical based on the life of Frank Sinatra is being developed, with plans to open it in 2018. The late singer's family has teamed up with Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) for an as-yet-untitled musical. It will feature songs from Sinatra's extensive back catalogue to tell the story of the man nicknamed the Chairman of the...
Italian Trade Agency Showcases Italian Food and 67 Italian food and beverage companies at FMI Connect 2016 at McCormick Place in Chicago
The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) in collaboration with its partners, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, Federalimentare CIBUS, TuttoFood and Vinitaly, will organize the Italian Pavilion during FMI Connect 2016 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The Italian Pavilion will showcase 67 Italian food and beverage companies allowing attendees to expe...
NEMLA CFP: Baltimore March 23-26, 2017. "Performing the Middle Ages in Italian Literature"
This panel explores the interplay of literature and performing arts in the works of medieval Italian writers including - but not limiting the choice to - Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. How do music, theater and dance contribute to shape the meaning of a literary work? How were they represented within a poem or prose? How were they integrated into m...
Santa Croce and the Statue of Liberty to become partners
A partnership is being planned to celebrate the sculptural and symbolic connections between Manhattan's Statue of Liberty and Santa Croce's The Liberty of Poetry funerary monument. The striking similarity has long been noted between New York's iconic Statue of Liberty and Pio Fedi's lesser-known The Liberty of Poetry, designed at the same time...
Opera Circle Cleveland goes al fresco in the Italian Cultural Garden July 31
If you were to travel to Italy in the summer and jaunt through their Renaissance gardens, you would hear the Italian people speaking their lovely language, water rushing through fountains, and concerts of gorgeous music. That delightful atmosphere will waft through Cleveland's Italian Cultural Garden during a special opera concert of opera...