Festa dell'Amicizia Italo-Americana, a Maniago sabato 22 settembre
Sabato 22 settembre, Maniago ospiterà per la seconda volta la festa dell'amicizia italo-americana, nata nel 2001 per celebrare le vittime dell'11 settembre ma anche per rinsaldare i legami tra le due comunità e promuovere il territorio.L'evento – organizzato da Associazione dei Comandanti Onorari Usaf e Comune di Maniago, in collaborazione con alcu...
Ricette siciliane e tradizioni napoletane tra gli eventi dell'Italian American Museum
"Soulful Sicilian Cooking": è il tema dell'appuntamento che si terrà il 20 dicembre alle 18.00 all'Italian American Museum, New York. Protagonista di una serata tutta all'insegna della cucina siciliana sarà Antoinette Silicato, che presenterà il suo nuovo libro. Nel volume, Antoinette Silicato presenta sessanta ricette autentiche della tradizione...
The Italian roots of Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio officially announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City on Sunday by recalling the person who influenced his life the most, an old Italian man with an accent that was nearly incomprehensible. "He only had 70 years to get comfortable with English," de Blasio jokingly defended his grandfather. Commonly referred to as an Italian...
U.S. representatives of the Italian American Congressional Delegation of the 113th Congresss welcomed by National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and Italy’s Ambassador
Representatives Bill Pascrell and Pat Tiberi, co-chairs of the Italian American Congressional Delegation (IACD) of the 113th U.S. Congress, welcomed their colleagues to the reception at the United States Capitol Visitors Center hosted by NIAF with IACD on February 27, 2013. Pascrell opened the reception explaining how this delegation works in a bi...
CSO's Riccardo Muti receives award from Italian American Chamber of Commerce
Chicago's Italian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) presented Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti with a Lifetime Achievement award during a gala event at the Art Institute of Chicago's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room on Wednesday night. The IACC was founded in 1907 to support the Italian business community and American bu...
Il Tabarro (The Cloak) and Gianni Schicchi
Saturday, Jul 13 8:00pMore dates & times (1) Colony TheaterMiami Beach, FL Two One Act Operas with music by Giacomo Puccini. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is a drama evolved from a love triangle that ends tragically.Gianni Schicchi is a classic comedy based on a character mentioned in Dante's Inferno from "La Divina Commedia" that is characterized...
Memorial Day, 2013
by Umberto Mucci A few words and some photos to express the sympathy for the US army while we celebrate the Memorial Day. Today, as Founder and President of We the Italians, I've paid my respect to the 7861 American soldiers buried in the Sicily Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno, and to the 3.000 missing in action th...
Little Italy – Manhattan
In 1892 Ellis Island, located at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was established as the chief immigration center. Between 1892 and its closing in 1956, over 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island. For centuries since the collapse of the Roman Empire, Italy had not existed as a single unified entity. Instead, it...
Cerimonia al Consolato Generale per la consegna dei diplomi del Liceo Scientifico della Scuola d'Italia
di Riccardo Chioni I magnifici otto del Liceo Scientifico "Guglielmo Marconi" hanno ricevuto ieri al Consolato Generale il Diploma del ministero degli Esteri, alla presenza del console generale Natalia Quintavalle, della preside della Scuola d'Italia Anna Fiore, del direttore scolastico presso il Consolato Carlo Davoli, insegnanti e genito...
Gigli, un pezzo di Bruciano a New York
Quest'anno la "Giglio Society of East Harlem", sta preparando la sua festa con la prevista "Dancing of Saint Anthony's Giglio" dell'11 agosto 2013 con una grande sorpresa ed un forte impatto emotivo per i discendenti italoamericani con radici bruscianesi: la veste del Giglio proviene direttamente da Brusciano grazie alla produzione ed alla fraterna...
LITTLE ITALY SINGS! Series to Kick Off with THE FANTASTICKS, 9/8
The Little Italy Merchants Association and Little Italy, NYC has announced its first in a series of live performances featuring some of Broadway's very best shows and brightest stars. Little Italy Sings! will celebrate its opening performance featuring "THE FANTASTICKS." NYC's longest running show will return to its downtown roots with a p...
Zagat Names Rhode Island’s ‘Official’ Sandwich
Rhode Island may be best known for stuffies, gaggas and coffee milk, but now, it's got an official sandwich: the Italian Grinder. At least that's the pronouncement of Zagat, the well-known restaurant rating guide. In honor of August being national sandwich month, Zagat set out to name one classic sandwich for every state in the union, and for Rhod...