Marconi Lodge of The Sons of Italy in America in Whitehouse Station make donation
Marconi Lodge of The Sons of Italy in America in Whitehouse Station runs an annual "Pasta Festa" Spaghetti dinner to raise funds for local charitable giving. Sons of Italy in America in Whitehouse Station lodge treasurer Janine Jaloway recently presented a donation check to Alyson Kovacs and Gerri Repousis of the Lightbridge Academy in Fleming...
Our Lady of Peace Parish hosts Mt. Carmel Festival
by Dave Deluca Our Lady of Peace Parish hosted its 118th annual festival honoring Our Lady of Mount Carmel over the weekend. The three-day event featured rides and games, food and fun and a fireworks display at night at Mount Carmel Church on Columbus Avenue. Sunday marked the last day of the festival with a religious procession that...
Al Pacino interview: Hollywood's go-to gangster on why he has no regrets - not even Godfather III
by Kaleem Aftab Al Pacino has so much chutzpah that he commands every room, every film set, and every theatre stage on or in which he appears. "I am a movie star," he spouts at one moment, and he doesn't want us to forget it. Even at 75, he has the brash confidence of youth, and yet his escapades of yesteryear provides the chorus to his or...
Latest Renderings Show Eataly's Placement Inside the Westfield Century City
The wait for Eataly in Century City continues, with these latest renderings showing the popular Italian grocery and food court hovering above the upcoming Macy's department store. Mario Batali has already confirmed a 2017 opening, which means Angelenos will have to wait nearly two years for a taste of Italy's finest. It's unclear at this p...
Italian culture and history: Italy through its film sets
WTI Magazine #66 2015 August, 21Author : italia.it Translation by: Let's take a different journey through Italy's beautiful cities, villages and unspoiled nature and discover those places which have become part of our subconscious because they were locations for famous Italian and foreign films. We begin in Abruzzo whose breath-takin...
“Ad Austin mi hanno dato fiducia. E sono stato ‘premiato’ con un milione di dollari”
di Raffaele Nappi "È sorprendente il grado di fiducia e indipendenza dato ai giovani ricercatori qui negli Stati Uniti". Andrea Alù ha 36 anni, è nato a Roma e oggi ha un milione di dollari in tasca. La sua storia accademica e la passione per la ricerca l'hanno portato dall'altra parte del mondo, all'Università del Texas, ad Austin. ...
Lavazza Coffee Beans For Sale In US As Italian Roaster Increases Efforts To Reach American Consumers
By Sarah Berger As tennis fans strolled around Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City last week, many saw a new, crisp white, green and blue pop-up cafe plopped in the center of the stadium grounds. Lavazza, an Italian coffee company, was an official sponsor of the U.S. Open tennis tournament for the first time, hoping to attract a...
Esplorando i borghi gioielli d’Italia
Le vacanze estive sono ormai lontane ma l'autunno può ancora regalare emozioni. Oggi vogliamo guidarvi in tour che vi porterà alla scoperta di alcuni borghi, gioielli del nostro paese: realtà costituite da pochissimi abitanti che ci regalano l'immagine di un'Italia ferma nel tempo. Si tratta per lo più di piccole cittadine, spesso risalenti al...
Columbia University - The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America Fellowships 2016–17
The Italian Academy invites applications for positions in its Fellowship Program, which will be devoted to the conservation and preservation of heritage and the contemporary destruction of art and architecture. Topics relating to the political uses and abuses of cultural heritage as well as to the exchange, transport, and trafficking of objects wil...
Italian foreign exchange student Stefania Garofolo making a difference for Oakridge volleyball team
By Scott Brandenburg Fourth-year Oakridge volleyball coach Kim Hanson was looking forward to the 2015 season knowing it could be one of the best teams at Oakridge in quite some time. Then Hanson saw Stefania Garofolo warming up on the first day of tryouts, and she grew even more excited. Garofolo wasn't a player Hanson was or...
I canti degli italo-americani in un libro pubblicato a Sassari
Tra il 1890 e il 1930 quando operò a New York Ellis Island, porta d'ingresso per gli emigrati d'oltreoceano, si calcola che approdarono negli USA 5 milioni di italiani. Un esodo imponente che giocò un ruolo importante perfino nell'influenzare le musiche delle genti d'America e per mettere in piedi un vera e propria industria discografica appos...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia tackles the Constitution at Santa Clara University
By Katie Nelson If there was one phrase Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia could eliminate from our vocabulary, it would be "living constitution." "God, I hate that phrase," Scalia said. "I prefer 'enduring Constitution.' " Scalia spoke to a full house at Santa Clara University on Wednesday, a place familiar to the nearly 30-ye...