Retired Indiana general receives Italian award
INDIANAPOLIS – Retired Indiana National Guard Maj. Gen. Dave Harris was presented with the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Jan. 18 in Washington for his work with the Italian government in 2009 and 2010. While assigned as the Kosovo Force chief of staff, Harris was instrumental in reforming political and military relationships between KFOR...
A Stradivari For The People. Concert Of Maestro Matteo Fedeli In Cleveland
The Reinberger Chamber Hall in Cleveland, will be hosting, on Sunday April 28th, as part of the planned events for the Year of Italian Culture in the USA, and sponsored by the Consulate of Italy in Detroit and the National Association of the Artistry of Italian Violin Making (A.N.L.A.I) the concert of violinist Matteo Fedeli, entitled 'A Stradivari...
Fernando Napolitano (President - Italian Business & Investment Initiative)
L'Italian Business & Investment Initiative è un progetto che da un paio di anni, a dispetto di quanto male il nostro amato Paese si possa fare, si batte per raccontare l'Italia migliore, per sostenere i nostri meriti, per dare - a chi si deprime pensando di essere italiano – un punto di vista diverso, motivato, volenteroso. Non sorprende che sia un...
Alex Zanardi feted by Ganassi at Indianapolis
by Jenna Fryer Alex Zanardi received a hero's welcome at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the famed race track where he has never turned a single lap. The beloved Italian was greeted warmly wherever he went Friday after he was feted by former team owner Chip Ganassi, who presented Zanardi with the car called "Old Midnight" that Zanardi wa...
Evento a Los Angeles: sbarca in America la dieta sana Made in Italy
Gianluca Mech sarà negli U.S.A per lanciare sul mercato americano la dieta che ha già conquistato attori, attrici, cantanti, produttori cinematografici e personaggi di spicco del jet set hollywoodiano. L'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles ospiterà sabato 8 giugno alle 18.30, l'evento di lancio del libro "I'm not on a diet: I'm on Tisanorei...
Handpicked Adventures’ Artisan Italian Cuisine and Culture Trip Gets Travelers Up Close and Personal with Local Foods and Artisan Producers
Handpicked Adventures, a California-based, artisan food-focused travel company, is offering a one-of-a-kind trip to Piedmont, Italy, September 18 – 25, 2013. Anchored by the popular Bra Slow Food Cheese Festival, the Piemonte and the Bra Slow Food Cheese Festival trip promises an intimate immersion into the region's unique culture via the food, dri...
Verdi club hosts annual festival
Enjoy a traditional game of bocce or a not-so-traditional hot air balloon ride at the Verdi Club's annual Community Festival July 19 to 21 in Amherstburg. Festival committee chairman Lucio Salvati said the festival has changed and grown since the club began 54 years ago but it's always meant a little "Italy in Amherstburg." Salvati said t...
AS Roma runs past MLS All-Stars
Major League Soccer All-Star coach Peter Vermes, whose day job coaching Sporting Kansas City, did not look like a man who had just watched his squad lose a game 3-1. Partly it was because it was an all-star game, but mostly it was because his city came through with shining colors Wednesday during the All-Stars' 3-1 loss to Italian team AS Roma...
Little Italy plans to hire Private Security
Members of Baltimore City's "Little Italy Community Organization" plan to hire private security to patrol the neighborhood and they want businesses to help pay for it. This announcement follows another armed robbery over the weekend. Letters detailing the private security force are just beginning to be sent to business owners. It's hoped o...
A new Renaissance
By David L. Coddon Coming to a neighborhood near you:• A restaurant bearing the imprint of Richard Blais, winner of Bravo's "Top Chef All-Stars."• An old-fashioned breakfast counter in a building that dates back to 1887.• A piazza inspired by the grand public squares of Europe. The neighborhood near you is San Diego's Little Italy...
A Turano (PD) il premio della Justinian Society dell'Illinois
Saranno conferiti questa sera, nel corso di una cerimonia al Palmer House Hilton di Chicago, i premi della Justinian Society of Lawyers dell'Illinois, associazione tra le più grandi degli Stati Uniti e da sempre impegnata nella promozione dei valori della partecipazione civica, della collegialità e del rispetto del sistema giuridico. I pre...
New MidAtlantic Opera company celebrates Verdi bicentennial
By Ross Amico When kickstarting a new opera company, there is no more reliable source of juice than the blood-and-thunder dramas of Giuseppe Verdi. As opera houses across the world honor the Italian master in this, his bicentennial year, New Jersey's fledgling MidAtlantic Opera makes its debut with a concert devoted wholly to Verdi highlights. &...