Studying (in) Italy: Rome, my first impressions as an American boy studying (in) Italy
StWTI Magazine #46 2014 October, 29Author : Matthew Lofstrom Translation by: Since I began learning about Italy as a child, the city of Rome has always interested me and it was my dream to someday make here to experience all of the art and history that this bustling city has to offer. I have now been living in Rome for 6 weeks and th...
Rinnovo COMITES/ domenica 9 incontro informativo a Boston
Per informare i connazionali sulle prossime elezioni del Comites, il Consolato generale e il Comites uscente di Boston hanno organizzato un incontro informativo domenica prossima, 9 novembre, alle dalle 15 presso il Ristorante Filippo (283 Causeway Street). Durante quest'incontro, alla presenza di rappresentanti eletti dalla comunità del N...
Tony Pirozzi, la voce che ha fatto la storia della comunità italo-americana
Se oggi la nostra lingua non è stata dimenticata, in parte lo dobbiamo anche a lui. La passione per lo sport e l'amore per la cultura hanno guidato Tony Pirozzi per quasi cinquant'anni, e il suo impegno nel promuovere le tradizioni italiane è stato vitale per conservare la memoria di tutti coloro che avevano lasciato la propria casa per raggiungere...
Christmas in Tuscany - December 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm
On December 6th, 2014, Award winning restaurant Tuscan Kitchen and Italian-style market Tuscan Market in Salem, NH will host its 3rd Annual Tree Lighting. Open to kids of all ages, the annual festival will include a visit from Santa, food, drinks and good holiday cheer! Santa Claus will arrive at 1:00PM at Tuscan Market to greet merry make...
Italian street music band to perform at Jersey City Christmas celebration on Dec. 14
Local community members will have the chance to enjoy some Italian-style Christmas entertainment at Jersey City's Casa Colombo during its seventh Annual Christmas Concert and Sing Along celebration. Sunday's celebration, scheduled to start at 4 p.m., will feature Michael Aromondo and his Metropolitan Festival Band, an Italian street musica...
Panettone: from traditional Milanese to Southern Italian artisanal fantasies
Milan isn't the capital of Italian panettone anymore. Production of this typical cake has developed all across the country, including new and surprising variations in the South. After having lived through a dark period that saw it relegated mostly to the shelves of big supermarkets, this traditional dessert is experiencing an artisanal ren...
NYC Based Oyster & Italian Wine Bar Announces National Expansion via Franchising
Twenty years in the restaurant industry led owner, Joseph Marazzo, to create a distinct oyster bar concept that has gained local and national media attention. Vacationing in a coastal town near Rome, Joseph was inspired by his first serving of oysters. Marazzo returned home determined to build a place where he could recapture his experienc...
Will You Eat There? Ciao Osteria in Centreville
Who's hungry? Will Thomas is back at it-- on the hunt for your next memorable meal. This week's throw of the dart took him to Centreville, Virginia-- and once again, we went Italian! Viewers took to twitter to tell Will where to eat, and "where" was Ciao Osteria! It's just nine months old, but already has a loyal following. Read m...
Monuments Man Deane Keller Celebrated at New Haven Museum
The leveling of the tomb of Jonah (think: whale) in Mosul, Iraq, last July, was a striking reminder of the fragility of our collective cultural inheritance. Have we nearly come full circle? In 1943, as Nazi Germany laid waste to much of Western Europe, Monuments Men—a handful of soldiers whose job it was to protect cultural heritage during wartime—...
New agency for ‘Made in Italy’: the plan gets a first go-ahead but problems remain
by Carmine Fotina The plan to merge the supervision of foreign trade, foreign investment and tourism in a single agency continues to meet resistance from Culture and Tourism minister Dario Franceschini. The Italian Trade Agency (ITA, ICE) and Invitalia are gradually supporting it, while Italian tourism body ENIT could drop out. Id...
Magic Books - The Secret Art of Book Hacking Presented by Mariano Tomatis
We tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinematic experiences, images appearing with a blow, non-linear structures to predict the future, pop-up magic shows... "Magic Books" is a...
When it comes to 'The Godfather,' we don't seem to mind the stereotypes
By Tom Wrobleski Some stereotypes aren't so bad after all. If you need proof, just take a look at the interest generated by Advance coverage of the selling of the Staten Island home used in the iconic 1972 film "The Godfather." The Emerson Hill manse, which served as the estate of Don Vito Corelone in the Oscar-winning flick, including i...