Local festival celebrates San Gennaro with food, fun at Montage Mountain
A local version of a well-known Italian festival came to Montage Mountain this week, offering food, music and family fun. San Gennaro Festival, named for the patron saint of Naples, Italy, kicked off Wednesday. Saturday was the sunniest day so far, and people came to enjoy Italian pastries and ices while listening to musical tributes to Fr...
UCSD Names Italian Scholar Arts and Humanities Dean
Cristina Della Coletta, a professor of Italian and an associate dean at the University of Virginia, has been appointed dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego. "With her cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research and experience, Cristina Della Coletta is uniquely poised to lead a vibrant division at UC Sa...
Italian traditions: The bridge competition, Pisa
WTI Magazine #38 2014 July, 9Author : folclore.it Translation by: The bridge competition is a reminiscent an event organized in two highlights: the historical parade and the battle. It takes place in the summer in Pisa, Tuscany, and it reflects an ancient and bloody game of the time of the maritime Republic of Pisa.
Sons of Italy Tradition Alive and Well as Festival Preparations Begin
It's that time again when the Sons of Italy in Bellaire are doing what they do best - making sausage. They've been hard at work all week, getting ready to serve grilled sausage sandwiches all weekend at the Upper Ohio Valley Italian Festival. They've been doing this for the entire 32 years of the Italian Festival and this week, they have...
Made in Italy - Le eccellenze italiane raccontate dalla stampa estera
Stampa articolo Una selezione dei più interessanti articoli sull'Italia e sullo stile di vita italiano pubblicati dai principali quotidiani e riviste stranieri nel 2013 ha concorso al "Premio Ferrari – L'Arte di Vivere Italiana". L'iniziativa promossa da Cantine Ferrari è volta a premiare, come spiegato da Matteo Lunelli, presidente di Ca...
Italy Has Found a New Young Hero in Silicon Valley: Marco Zappacosta
by Mauro Battocchi There is little doubt left: Marco Zappacosta has become the new icon of the new generation of Italians in Silicon Valley. He founded his company, Thumbtack, five years ago at the age of 24. This week the news was broken that the company has received a $100 million investment led by Google Capital. This follows a...
Il Sindaco Pisapia incontra il nuovo Console Generale Usa Philip Reeker
Il Sindaco Giuliano Pisapia ha ricevuto a Palazzo Marino il nuovo Console Generale degli Stati Uniti a Milano, Ambasciatore Philip Reeker, insediatosi da due giorni nella sua nuova carica. Expo 2015 è stato al centro dei temi dell'incontro. Il Console era infatti accompagnato dalla Sig.ra Dorothy Hamilton, presidente dei Friends USA Pavili...
Former glass workers asked to tell their stories at Mount Pleasant Glass Festival
Those who run the Mount Pleasant Glass Museum believe the best way to preserve history is to talk to people who have firsthand knowledge of it and then record it for future generations. In the case of the three glass companies that once prospered in the Westmoreland County borough — Bryce, Lenox and L.E. Smith — those people include plant...
Priest to be Italian mayor for a day
He returned to Waterbury during tumultuous times for an iconic Italian-American parish and restored not only key elements of its heritage, but the faith of its parishioners. On Friday, the Rev. Frederick Aniello will be honored as Italian Mayor for the Day. The event will take place in connection with the Waterbury Chapter of UNICO Nationa...
Agli Stati generali della lingua italiana nel mondo il tavolo tematico sul “Ruolo degli italofoni e delle comunità italiane all'estero”
È stata la splendida sede della Società Dante Alighieri di Firenze – nella chiesa di San Pier Maggiore, una delle più antiche della città - ad ospitare nel pomeriggio di ieri il tavolo tematico sul "Ruolo degli italofoni e delle comunità italiane all'estero" che si è svolto nell'ambito della prima giornata di lavori degli Stati generali della lingu...
Danilo Gallinari Willing to be Patient Ahead of NBA Return
Much of the talk this off-season has centred around the homecoming of LeBron James and the anticipated injury comebacks of Derrick Rose and Kobe Bryant while Danilo Gallinari's long-awaited return of his own, back into the NBA fold, has somewhat slipped under the radar. The Italian is set to make his first competitive appearance for the De...
Big blaze at Holy Cross Church destroys a beloved structure in San Jose
by Joe Rodriguez Holy Cross Catholic Church, a century-old center of a beloved parish, where Mass was still recited in Italian, burned down Sunday afternoon in a four-alarm fire. "This was home, and now it's gone," said Catherine Ventimiglia, who attended the Italian Mass that ended minutes before the fire broke out around 2 p.m. "We...