Sons of Italy sponsors Italian lessons
Know how to say hello and goodbye in Italian (ciao) but want to learn more?The Order Sons of Italy in America, Geneva Lodge 2397, is sponsoring free Italian lessons each Thursday evening in October as part of its celebration of Italian culture and heritage month. The lessons are geared for adults and high-school- age students and are primarily for...
The Vito Marcantonio Phenomenon: A Theatrical Reconstruction of Congressman Vito Marcantonio’s Effective Radical Legacy
WHAT: The Vito Marcantonio Forum will present a theatrical presentation through dramatizations of his speeches as well as remarks from his contemporaries and supporters, Paul Robeson and Leonard Covello. The audience will move through creative monologues, and scenes between Marcantonio and his mentor, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Audience participants...
Italian language: Do you want to come? Magari!
WTI Magazine #46 2014 October, 29Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: In a language we know that words and verbs never have just one meaning, and that combined with other words, verbs and prepositions can change their meaning and adapt in various different contexts. Among the many cases, today we have chos...
Lynch Tham | Guglielmo Achille Cavellini | centennial exhibition
LYNCH THAM is pleased to present select carbon works by the celebrated Italian artist Guglielmo Achille Cavellini. The year 2014 is an important marker in Cavellini's career as art institutions across Europe and the United States celebrate the centenary of his birth. In addition to the gallery presentation, a local Cavellini Festival, organized by...
ParkOhio Enters Into Agreement To Acquire Italian Equipment Manufacturer – Saet S.p.A.
ParkOhio (NASDAQ: PKOH) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with Milan, Italy based Star Capital SGR S.p.A. and other minority shareholders to acquire Saet S.p.A headquartered in Turin, Italy for approximately €18.4 million (approximately $22.9 million) in cash. The transaction is expected to close by December 22, 2014, s...
Special Invitation from Dr. Scelsa
by Joseph V. Scelsa Dear Friends, I hope you will join me and the Italian American Museum at the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street, Wednesday evening December 3, 2014, 5:30PM to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Italian sculptor Arturo DiModica's world famous "Italian Bull", formerly known as "Charging Bull", which has stood at Bo...
Italy looks to score Oscar gold for the second year in a row
After Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film last year, Italy is hoping to take home more Hollywood honors. Director Paolo Virzi's "Human Capital" is the country's Oscar submission this year, and it has American roots: The "neo-noir thriller" is based on a US novel by Stephen Amidon — the 2004 bo...
Highland Village chef Morris Salerno prepares for competition
Highland Village chef Morris Salerno basked in the limelight this year. He won a gold medal in the 2014 Expogast Culinary Competition in Luxembourg, was featured on the new reality show The Hungry Investors and has nearly completed his second cookbook. The Expogast Culinary Competition is considered the second most prestigious competition...
Insegnamento multilingue: vantaggi e difficoltà
Sapere bene l'inglese e avere l'abilitazione per l'insegnamento dell'italiano non garantisce ai docenti un posto nelle scuole pubbliche degli USA. Infatti, quasi tutti gli istituti che assumono nuovi docenti d'italiano cercano insegnanti abilitati in almeno due lingue. Gli amministratori che scelgono i curricula, per i colloqui di lingua, respingon...
A Jesolo sculture sabbiose di artisti internazionali
650 tonnellate di sabbia dolomitica utilizzata. 460 metri quadrati di area espositiva. Scultori di fama mondiale intervenuti per dare forma e anima all'immenso presepe di Sand Nativity, giunto quest'anno alla 13° edizione (Jesolo, 7 dicembre 2014 – 1 febbraio 2015). Un viaggio artistico iniziato nel 2002 e capace di portare nella celeberri...
An Italian American Feast For Family Reunions
Hey, come over here, kid, learn something. ... You see, you start out with a little bit of oil. Then you fry some garlic. Then you throw in some tomatoes, tomato paste, you fry it; ya make sure it doesn't stick. You get it to a boil; you shove in all your sausage and your meatballs; heh? ... And a little bit o' wine. An' a little bit o' sugar, and...
African-Italian-American documentaries
by Sante Matteo Italian-Ghanaian documentarist Fred Kuwornu will be coming to the Miami University campus next week to present and discuss two of his films: 18 IUS SOLI and Inside Buffalo. There has been a change in dates: he will be here at the beginning of the week, Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 16 and 17, and not the 19th...