Parsippany Mayor Endorses Cesaro, Myers and Tedesco for Morris County Freeholder
The Morris First team is pleased to announce that Parsippany-Troy Hills Mayor James Barberio has endorsed its lineup of John Cesaro, Christine Myers, and Angelo Tedesco for Morris County Freeholder. Calling Cesaro, Myers, and Tedesco "great public servants" who will represent their constituents well, Mayor Barberio, head of the largest mun...
Il soprano di Hoboken
Per «The New York Sun» è un «vocal genius», per il «Daily News» è la voce più sopraffina tra le soprano in circolazione. «Forbes Magazine» l'ha paragonata a Ethel Merman e Maria Callas, «America Oggi» l'ha definita «la diva della canzone». Non mancano davvero gli apprezzamenti per la voce di Cristina Fontanelli, da anni protagonista della...
Italian physicists at CERN contribute to protons’ record speed to discover what’s beyond the world we know
by Leopoldo Benacchio The four giants of the CERN in Geneva – which is directed by the Italian scientist Fabiola Gianotti - were back in business yesterday to find out what lies beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the current, hard-earned physical laws. ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb are the tools that, placed on strategic points of the...
A New Gourmet Online Store for American Lovers of Made in Italy
Polls from recent food events in the US show that Americans have a passion for Italian food. Their curiosity about Italian products is constantly growing. After years of recession and crisis, their attention to quality food, traditional cuisine, and organic products is on the rise. The watchword is "value," and Americans are quite concious...
Spritz: The Aperitivo of The Veneto
By Emma Leiper Italy has introduced to the world many wonderfully sumptuous drinks, from Treviso's prosecco wine, to Giuseppe Cipriani's Bellini, but perhaps none are as famous, or as aesthetically distinctive, as the Venetian spritz. A concoction of prosecco, soda or water, and a splash of Aperol or Campari liqueur, the flame-col...
Springfield’s Italian-American community shows pride in heritage
by Kait Walsh Springfield's rich Italian heritage was on full display in the city's South End Sunday. 22News spoke with proud Italian Americans as they honored Our Lady of Mount Carmel. For Italian-Americans in Springfield's South End, the Madonna and Baby Jesus represent more than their Catholic faith: they signify family and co...
A trove of naturalization information
by Dan Niemiec I have written this column every month for the past 11 years and, in the process of researching for what to write, I learn how much I didn't know! I have been on a multi-month odyssey looking for petitions for naturalization, and I have found out yet more new information that should make life easier. Last month, I concluded...
Sant’Antonio di Afragola a New York
Questa che racconto è la storia della grande emigrazione, che ebbe il suo più importante movimento tra il 1876 e il 1915. Generata dalla diffusa povertà di vaste aree d'Italia, in cerca di un riscatto sociale, ebbe come destinazione le nazioni delle Americhe, in particolare l'Argentina, il Brasile e gli Stati Uniti, paesi che avevano grandi estensi...
Italian flavors: Aprutino Pescarese
WTI Magazine #66 2015 August, 21Author : MIPAAF Translation by: The first evidence of olive growing in Abruzzo date from the period of Roman domination, when the protectionist measures adopted by Rome favoured an expansion of olive-growing and the olive oil industry. Virgil speaks of olive trees in the Marsica, near Lake Fucino, whil...
Le donne dell’agricoltura rilanciano il più autentico “made in Italy”
di Ermanno Lucchini Lei accompagna il gregge chiamando le pecore per nome, lui le munge. Lei accarezza quelle tenere creature lanose, lui le tosa. Valeria ha una laurea in veterinaria in sospeso, Ovidio un sorriso assassino che ha impedito a quella studentessa impertinente di tornare a Teramo a discutere la sua ricerca sulla "peco...
Sardinians Teach the Secrets of Longevity
In the mountainous villages on the Italian island of Sardinia, there are 21 centenarians in a population of 10,000. Only about four in 10,000 Americans reach the 100-year mark. In addition, on Sardinia men live longer than any other place on earth. Clearly, the Sardinians could teach the world a thing or two about what it takes to live a long and h...
Special Presentation of "Carving a Niche for Himself; The Untold Story of Luigi Del Bianco & Mount Rushmore" at Casa Belvedere
Join Us For A Presentation of: "Carving a Niche for Himself; The Untold Story of Luigi Del Bianco & Mount Rushmore". Tues. Sept. 29th @ 7:00 PM. FEATURING Author, Douglas J. Gladstone, whose controversial book argues that the United States Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) is chiseling Mount Rushmore's...