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Destinatari del nuovo bando per l'anno 2015 presso le Rappresentanze diplomatiche del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale sono gli studenti universitari nell'ambito giuridico, linguistico, internazionale, politico economico, sociale e amministrativo con un'età non superiore ai 28 anni. Richiesta anche una buona conos...

Mayor Joseph Alioto, predecessor of lionhearted Mayor George Moscone, was born of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. No, he wasn't born in 1906, but a little backstory will shed light on this curious connection. Joseph's father, Giuseppe Alioto, had sailed from Palermo at the age of nine to the United States and ended up working on the fishing...

by Ben Quinn and Alberto Nardelli Being categorised by the Word Health Organisation as a cause of cancer might be bad enough, but being lumped in with English bangers and bacon has prompted a particularly outraged response from the guardian's of Italy's sacred tradition of Parma ham.   "Prosciutto di Parma isn't a processed meat or a sausag...

The New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO) announces the appointment of the 2015–2016 Board of Trustees Executive Committee, as follows: Rosanna Imbriano, of Cedar Grove, president; Holly Kaplansky, of Bloomfield, first vice president; Donna R. Thompson, of Bayville, second vice president; Brenda Hendrickson, of Rockaway, as treas...

'Tis the season to feast! For holiday food shopping and more, head toEataly, a large Italian marketplace in New York City owned in part by famed chef Mario Batali. "It's kind of like a melting pot of energy and discovery," explains General Manager Dan Amatuzzi of the foodie destination. "Eataly is the summation of Italian food and wine under o...

By Nikola Grozdanovic   "Of course, if you go in intellectually, you hate it. But if you let yourself go with it, something happens about 40 minutes into the movie. You say to yourself, 'Hey, this isn't going to be the colossal downer of all time.'" That's Sylvester Stallone talking about "Rocky," in a 1976 interview with Roger Ebert.  ...

Attribute to Joseph V. Del Raso, Esq., National Italian American Foundation Chairman (NIAF) and John M. Viola, President   "On behalf of the National Italian American Foundation's Board of Directors, we congratulate Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member and Chairman of the Board of Directors for USA Basketball Jerry Colangelo on b...

by  Rossella Cadeo   The South Tyrol model remains the benchmark and statistics are there to prove it. Bolzano once more ranks as number one city to live in according to the Sole 24 Ore/Italy 24 survey on Quality of Life in the Italian provinces, closely followed by its partner city of Trento, which takes third place. What's surprising this...

By Heidi Knapp Rinella With so many Italian restaurants in Las Vegas — as is the case with most American metropolitan areas, Italian being one of the most popular restaurant genres nationally — when I review one, I look for something that makes it stand out from the crowd.   When that was Buon Gusto in 2011, I wrote that I thought the main...

With research areas including nanotechnology, agrifood, robotics, ICT, and life sciences, scientific cooperation between Italy and the United States was strengthened and bolstered when the 2016-2017 Joint Declaration on Scientific and Technological Cooperation was signed today at the Foreign Ministry headquarters. In the afternoon, experts from the...

by Andrea Castillo   Just over a year after closing up shop, Vinny and Sonny Chiarello are reopening Luigi's, saying they have been unable to stay away from the business. Running the restaurant, after all, was something the brothers had been doing for nearly 30 years. "Over the year and some odd months, we've been getting nothing b...

di Fucsia Fitzgerald Nissoli  Ha destato clamore, in questi giorni, la notizia di un taglio ai fondi per la promozione linguistica italiana all'estero, al capitolo 3153 del MAECI, pari a 2 milioni e 625 mila euro per il 2016, dopo che, durante l'esame della legge di stabilità, il lavoro svolto in Senato aveva permesso di azzerare i tagli oper...