Italian flavors: Thorny artichoke from Sardegna
WTI Magazine #54 2015 February, 20Author : MIPAAF Translation by: The artichoke is a vegetable native to the Mediterranean basin and the first evidence of its consumption as food dates back to the Egyptian and Greek civilisations. In the fourth century BC, Theophrastus mentions it in his history of plants. It was also cultivated in t...
One-year position at Dartmouth College
The Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College seeks a visiting faculty member for an appointment in Italian for the 2015-16 academic year. Courses will be in language and literature, with a maximum of five trimester courses available. Requirements include native or near-native fluency in Italian, experience in college-level lan...
Return of speed-ball? Mike D’Antoni may be getting new job
There’s a definite chance of speed-ball coming to the Rocky Mountains next season. The Knicks visit the Nuggets Monday to begin a five-game Western swing and will face a squad fronted by new interim coach Melvin Hunt, who last week replaced fired Brian Shaw. Though the Nuggets may not begin looking for a long-term candidate until after the...
Polisena delivers address as state lawmakers celebrate Italian-Americans, St. Joseph’s Day
"Italian-Americans came to our country, and state, poor and proud," Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena said during his address to the Rhode Island House of Representatives as part of last Wednesday St. Patrick's Joseph's Day Observance. "Poor because they escaped poverty, proud because their new America would give them and their families hope and prosp...
Annual Conference 4/24-25: Bambini, Ragazzi, Giovani: Children and Youth in Italy and the Italian Diaspora
The Italian family has been a quintessential subject for scholarly research and creative work in Italy and among various diasporic communities, with matters relating to children and youth receiving significant exploration. In the United States, notable inquiries concerning youth issues include sociologist William Foote Whyte's urban ethnog...
NIAF Elects New Members to Board of Directors
Four notable Italian Americans in the fields of finance, law, professional sports marketing and public policy have been elected to the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Board of Directors for the 2015-2019 term during an April 9, 2015, meeting at the New York offices at Pepper Hamilton LLP. NIAF's newly elected members of the Boa...
Celebrating the Feast of Saint George with the Sacred Constantinian Military Order of Saint George
By Giovanni di Napoli Last Thursday, April 23rd, was the Feast of Saint George, and I had the great pleasure of attending a Tridentine Mass at historic Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan to celebrate it. Also known as Latin Mass or Old Mass, the ritual is so beautiful and moving that it simply must be experienced. Invited by the U...
Oaks Christian Online High School Invests in Building Online Italian Language Program
Oaks Christian Online (OCO) School is launching several high-level online language course alternatives, including online American Sign Language and Italian. To begin the process of writing online Italian courses, Oaks Christian virtual high school has hired Antoinette Cavaliere of New York as a course writer and subject matter expert. Anto...
The Italian way: Addressing the Italian Stereotypes Myth 3 – “Wine”
WTI Magazine #61 2015 May, 29Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: When talking to foreigners about the features of "Made in Italy", the very first image that comes to mind is the fashion runway and very expensive clothes, but the second usually produces an image of a nice glass of wine. Indeed, Italy is worldly known with nam...
Tuscany has Italy’s ‘most beautiful sea’
The top three "five sail" destinations classified in the annual guide to the "most beautiful sea" in Italy are Castiglion della Pescaia in Tuscany, San Vito Lo Capo in Sicily, and Pollica in Campania, as released on Friday in the 'Blue Guide' published by environmental group Legambiente and tourism association Touring Club Italiano. The guide find...
A Look at the 2015 Festa di Sant’Antonio di Padova in SoHo, New York
By Giovanni di Napoli Saturday evening (June 13th), my friends and I headed to SoHo for the Festa di Sant'Antonio at the beautiful Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua (154 Sullivan St.). Mass was celebrated with Father Joe Lorenzo, followed by a procession through the bustling streets of Lower Manhattan. Louise Acampora and the Red Mike...
A Los Angeles il museo del cinema firmato Renzo Piano
Los Angeles avrà finalmente il suo museo del cinema grazie a Renzo Piano: l'architetto italiano ha firmato infatti il progetto approvato per creare nella città della hollywoodiana un "tempio" dedicato che finora mancava. L'Academy Museum of Motion Pictures si svilupperà su quasi 90mila metri quadri e ingloberà anche lo storico edificio della M...