Italian cinema: Open Roads, 14th edition
WTI Magazine #26 2014 Apr, 18Author : Simone doc Bracci Translation by: The most important event in North America entirely dedicated to contemporary Italian cinema takes place every year at the Lincoln Center in New York. We're talking about Open Roads Film Society, which has just unveiled the new calendar of the New Italian Cinema,...
The Verdi Chorus presents 'AMORE ITALIANO" - This weekend in Santa Monica
The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to announce THE VERDI CHORUS Amore Italiano Anne Marie KETCHUM, Artistic Director; Laraine Ann MADDEN, Accompanist Solists: Amanda SQUITIERI, Soprano; Daniel MONTENEGRO, Tenor; Malcolm MACKENZIE, Baritone This weekend the Verdi Chorus will bring you some of...
Con la immagini della fotografa Janine Coyne, Napoli in mostra al Italian American Museum a Little Italy
By Riccardo Chioni Napoli sbarca a Little Italy. A illustrarla al Italian American Museum è Janine Coyne, fotografa professionista e docente, nata a Brooklyn da genitori italiani che in questa sua ultima carrellata di immagini di Napoli mette in vista la sua passione per l'Italia. Con la mostra fotografica di Janine Coyne il Museo italoamericano...
Twenty university students receive travel grants to Italy through a National Italian American Foundation
Twenty college students from across the nation will participate in the Ambassador Peter F. SecchiaVoyage of Discovery Program, an all-expenses-paid educational and cultural initiative that sends Italian American students to Italy. Sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), the tour will visit Italy's Campania region, NIA...
Special guest to address Italian American Cultural Club in presentation open to the public
The Italian American Cultural Club will welcome artist, writer and inspirational speaker Lou Del Bianco and his performance of "In the Shadow of the Mountain" at the club's June 17 meeting. The presentation that begins at 7:30 p.m. at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville is open to the public. Admission is free, but donations will be acce...
Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting
Scheller Gallery - Allentown Art MuseumSunday, June 8 - Sunday, September 7 With works by some of the greatest names in European art, Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums examines the thematic and stylistic developments in Italian art, from the religious paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to the se...
Bill Jennaro (Former Chairman of Festa Italiana Milwaukee)
Among the more than 300 festas that every year celebrate Italy in the US, a number that seems impossible but instead is real, today our interview will bring us to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Let's face it, this is not the first city that comes to our mind when we think about the American places of the Italian emigration: and probably it isn't even in the...
Staten Island man's return to hometown in Sicily an emotional reunion after 55 years
Not much changes in the Sicilian town of Noto -- just ask Great Kills resident Mario Belluomo.After emigrating from the Italian city as a child, the 61-year-old professional photographer and court officer decided it was finally time for a return to his roots. He visited Noto, located in the southeastern corner of Sicily, and several other parts of...
Italian machinery companies combine forces to market in North America
By Frank Antosiewicz A trio of Italian plastic machinery companies has formed a network and is retaining Alliance Automation LLC to market their products in the United States and Canada. Baruffaldi Plastic Technology srl, Engin Plast srl and Comav srl have formed the network called North Italian Plastic Technology, also known as NIP-Tech. &n...
Cucinelli Eyes Double-Digit Sales and Continued Profit Growth in 2015
Italian luxury cashmere maker Brunello Cucinelli forecast double-digit growth in earnings and sales both this year and next, after its net profit rose 18 percent to 15.6 million euros in the first half of 2014. Cucinelli said on Sept. 27th, it had completed the sales campaign of its Spring/Summer 2015 men's collection and the women's one w...
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar 2014-2015
The first session of the 2014-2015 Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar will take place on September 23, when Natalia Molina of the University of California—San Diego will present on the role of history, memory, and the vernacular landscape in a Los Angeles neighborhood's evolving identity. Subsequent sessions will introduce us to...
Classic Sicilian fare, on a Little Italy balcony
I had one of those soul-satisfying, I-love-Baltimore nights a few Saturdays back at Cafe Gia Ristorante, a colorful, cheerful and satisfying Italian restaurant on the corner of High Street and Eastern Avenue. We showed up for early dinner reservations and were whisked right upstairs to the narrow second-floor balcony, which was pretty darn magical...