Welcome to Expo Milan 2015 Child-friendly Wine Pavilion
Children, please, stay away from wine! Alcohol for kids is forbidden of course, but like any forbidden thing, wine, beer and spirits can easily catch their curiosity and imagination. Aware of that, Expo Milan 2015 organizers have decided to find a way to welcome them to the Expo Wine Pavillion. As Giovanni Mantovani, the Veronafiere-Vinita...
Emirates to fly A380 between Milan and New York
Emirates will add a superjumbo service between Milan and New York JFK on June 1. The Gulf carrier will upgrade flights EK205/206 on its Dubai-Milan-New York route from a B777-300ER to an A380. Currently, it operates the A380 between Dubai and Milan as flights EK091/092 (see news, October 7). The third service between those two destination...
Immigrant workers sought new beginning in area's burgeoning steel industry
By Kayleen Cubbal When Oreste Piroli left his Naples, Italy, home in 1910, his mother, Maria, made a prediction. "I know I'll never see you again," Maria told her 16-year-old son. She was right. Oreste left to follow his father, Felice, an Italian farmer, to the land of opportunity, putting down stakes in Beaver County, where he we...
Dr. Silvia C. Formenti Appointed Chair of Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and Radiation Oncologist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Dr. Silvia C. Formenti, an international expert in the use of radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer, has been appointed chair of the newly established Department of Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and radiation oncologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective April 15. Dr....
MARIO MARAZZITI: 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE DEATH PENALTY – 13 April
In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty, and urges the U.S. to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. The talk will be moderated by Cesare Romano...
Las Vegas’ Ferraro Family to Open its First Pizza Forte at Sunset Station April 1
On Wednesday, April 1, Las Vegas' newest pizza concept, Pizza Forte, will officially open at Sunset Station in Henderson. This brand-new casual quick serve restaurant, located in the Food Court, is the dream of the Ferraros, the family behind Las Vegas' longest running family-owned and operated Italian restaurant, Ferraro's Italian Restaurant &...
Networking Event con Italians in DC
Italians in DC has the pleasure to invite you to the next Business and Professional Networking event, which will focus on retail. When: Thursday, April 16th from 6:30pm - 8:30pmWhere: Arte Modus -1054 31st Street, NW Suite #009 - Ground FloorWashington, DC 20007Price: $10 for Italians in DC members; $20 for non-members To purchase yo...
Italian handcrafts: The carpets of sardinia
WTI Magazine #58 2015 April, 17Author : Unioncamere Translation by: In the Oristano area, as in many Sardinian towns, the craft of weaving has always been the prerogative of women, at first mostly for domestic purposes and later as a business activity. The first type of production was mainly to provide for girls' dowries and was woven a...
Local IUP student gets Gallati scholarship
Mandy Gallo, a family and consumer science education major at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from Indiana, has been selected for the Eleanor M. Gallati scholarship. Gallo, the daughter of Rich and Wendy Gallo, is a 2011 graduate of Indiana Area Senior High School. She has also received the M. Jane Segar Longenecker Scholarship, th...
La Sicilia arabo-normanna a un passo dal sì dell’Unesco
Il Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività culturali e del Turismo ha ricevuto notizia della valutazione positiva della candidatura Unesco "Palermo arabo normanna e le Cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale" giunta dall'Icomos, l'organismo internazionale consultivo di riferimento per il patrimonio culturale. La candidatura, svoltasi con il coordiname...
Could Milan's Shopping Street Via Monte Napoleone, Help The EXPO 2015 Become A Commercial Success?
by Declan Eytan Milan's Expo officially kicked off earlier this month, and the city expects to attract up to 20 million visitors from around the world, throughout the fair's six-month duration. So far, things are looking quite positive, as the main attraction – a 3.6 million square foot fair featuring 145 participating countries – is likel...
Local restaurant hopes to bring Northern Italian flavor to St. Augustine
By Jenna Carpenter St. Augustine Beach residents Simone and Monica Parisi want to bring the taste of northern Italy to St. Augustine. Originally from Florence, Italy, Simone said he wants to give residents a place where they will never eat the same dish twice, no matter how often they come to the restaraunt. "I grew up in a family wh...