Actor Tony LoBianco Brings To Life Former Mayor Fiorello La Guardia In One Man Show
The year was 1945 and there was a newspaper strike, and former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was reading the Dick Tracy comics on the radio. This weekend, veteran screen and stage actor Tony LoBianco will bring the city's 99th mayor back to life in his one man show called "The Little Flower," 1010 WINS' Carol D'Auria reported. ...
Sviluppo Export Fund € 175 Million From EIB Guaranteed by SACE
SACE, European Investment Bank and Amundi are announcing the finalization of a € 175 million loan for the "Sviluppo Export" Fund, the fund formed at the initiative of SACE to sustain growth and open the Italian market to sources of funding additional to the banking channel. The loan, issued by EIB and guaranteed by SACE, brings the t...
Old Chicago bringing pizza, Italian dishes to Joplin
By Wally Kennedy Last week, when I suggested that a new day was dawning for pizza in Joplin with the opening of Midtown Pizza Kitchen, 1212 S. Main St., some people thought that comment was over the top. Well, Joplin's pizza scene is truly changing. I did not have enough space last week to tell you that an Old Chicago restaurant is c...
Burrasca food cart launches Kickstarter campaign to open brick and mortar restaurant
By Samantha Bakall Southeast Portland's Burrasca, the rustic Tuscan food cart from Florentine native Paolo Calamai closed at the beginning of the year with plans to eventually reopen as a brick and mortar restaurant. After five months of waiting, the food cart, one of The Oregonian's top 10 of 2014, is finally moving towards...
Studying (in) Italy: 4 Benefits of Community Service at John Cabot University
WTI Magazine #61 2015 May, 29Author : John Cabot University Translation by: Have you ever considered volunteering your time to a worthy cause? These days, more and more students are getting involved in local activism and community service. Social consciousness is a defining feature of global citizenship, and when put into action, a v...
Storia della moda italiana - advanced course
June 16, 2015 - Tuesday 3:00 PMThe Hancock Observatory - 875 N Michigan - Chicago, Illinois 60611Advanced level of Italian Language is required in order to attend this course START DATE: Tuesday June 16 until Aug 25, @ 3,30pm-5,00pm - 10 WEEKS COURSE (Note: The week 29/6-5/7 there are no classes) This course is designed for...
Il viaggiatore diventa agricoltore e artigiano con la piattaforma del turismo esperienziale
di Camilla Pisani Le vacanze intelligenti, sdoganate da Alberto Sordi in un vecchio film degli anni '70, si evolvono, adeguandosi alle richieste del nuovo turismo alternativo: oggi, chi prenota un viaggio preferisce «fare esperienze uniche» e «arricchire il proprio bagaglio culturale» ben nove volte in più rispetto al tradizionale dualismo...
Honoring Saint Padre Pio in Boston’s North End
by Matt Conti Honoring one of the newer saints, a group from St. Leonard Church held the fifth annual procession for Saint Padre Pio on Sunday, June 28th in Boston's North End. The statue of St. Pio was carried from St. Leonard Church after an Italian Mass and walked through the neighborhood streets where devotees pinned donations on ribbo...
Vegas Story: How a Detroit barber became Las Vegas legendary
by Kristen Peterson It's 1970, and Neil Scartozzi is cutting hair in a Detroit bookie joint that doubles as a barbershop, feeling disillusioned about the mob life he's facing and wondering how to get out. He's not made. Hasn't killed anyone, only gone to collect money. And the "life," he says, isn't for him. So one day he pic...
Corano, una studiosa italiana trova la copia più antica al mondo
Potrebbe essere stato scritto quando il Profeta Maometto era ancora vivo l'antichissimo frammento del Corano scoperto quasi per caso - da una ricercatrice italiana - in una collezione di testi e documenti dell'antico Medio Oriente custoditi dall'Università di Birmingham, in Gran Bretagna. Un reperto a lungo ignorato, ma che le analisi al carbonio 1...
Cara Nicoletti, Butcher, Baker and Author
There's a brand-new white Whirlpool refrigerator in Cara Nicoletti's apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Ms. Nicoletti, a butcher, a baker and the creator of the literary food blog Yummy Books, is grateful to her landlord for the appliance. Its predecessor "was gross and old and didn't have any shelf space, and I'd been asking for a reall...
Italy rescuing 3,000 migrants from 18 boats
At least seven boats - six Italian and one from Norway - were involved in an operation to get the migrants safely off 14 rubber dinghies and four other vessels carrying an estimated total of between 2,000 and 3,000 people. More than 104,000 migrants from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia have landed at Italy's southern ports so far this y...