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Mark the date on your calendars: Sunday, June 2 from 11:30 am to 6 p.m. It's the date of the Fourth Annual Italian American Heritage Festival in Rose Tree Park. Admission is free. The festival will celebrate Italian-American authors, artists, sports figures, automobiles, culture, heritage, food, entertainment and more.   Two separate st...

Un anonimo fotografo che nel 1942 percorre in lungo e in largo Manhattan e cattura nelle sue immagini case, persone, monumenti di un'epoca quando i grattacieli erano giovani: 'New York: Born Back into the Past' approda per un mese all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York grazie ai collezionisti Silvia e Stefano Lucchini che a quegli scatti hann...

By Corby Kummer   Boston has certainly never had a dearth of Italian restaurants. There are the North End red-sauce joints, of course, which are mostly Italian-American, and a handful of chef-owned places that happily offer inspired takes on the standards—Coppa, La Morra, and Il Casale. But there haven't been many restaurants offering much i...

July 12th — July 16th, 2013 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto - 36 Amity Street at White Plains AvenueRosebank, Staten Island, NY 10305   There will be plenty of delicious food, fun games and live entertainment Tuesday, July 16th the procession will begin at 9 AM from the grotto to the Church of St. Mary. Mass will celebr...

The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan under the auspices of the Italian Consulate of Detroit in its third Annual Celebration of Dante Alighieri presentsDANTE E LA MUSICA: LA SUA INFLUENZA POETICADANTE AND MUSIC: HIS POETIC INFLUENCE A talk by John Zaretti, President of the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan.   Read more   Fonte: Il gi...

By April Guilmet   When life handed him lemons, Phil Mastroianni went to the New Hampshire Liquor Commission. Launching his Salem-based company, Fabrizia Spirits, five years ago was no easy ride for Mastroianni, who began as a 25-year-old accountant with a dream of producing traditional Italian limoncello for the masses.   "I started...

By Mauro Battocchi Rick Belluzzo belongs to a generation of successful Italian Americans that are eager to rediscover their roots in Italy. To that end, he recently reclaimed his Italian citizenship and is also investing in Italian startups. He even found time recently to pen a book with his colleague Krish Dhanam — available on Amazon. Entitled...

Vari-Form today announced the signing of a joint venture agreement with EMARC SpA of Piemonte, Italy. The new agreement increases manufacturing footprints for Vari-Form in Europe and EMARC in North America.   Going forward, both companies will offer locally-available advanced technologies – hydroforming, roll forming and aluminum stretch ben...

On September 27th, the American Center for Italian Studies will host its annual conference "Made by Italians: The Economic and Social Impact of Italian Migrations to America: New Perspectives". Among the participants are expected promintent representatives of positive and successful Italian migration stories as Antonio Giordano, Giovanni Feder...

Secondo l'Aire all'1 gennaio 2013 i cittadini italiani residenti fuori dei confini nazionali erano 4.341.156, il 7,3% dei circa 60 milioni di italiani residenti in Italia. L'aumento rispetto allo scorso anno è di 132.179 iscrizioni, +3,1% rispetto al 2012.   La ripartizione continentale rimarca che la maggior parte degli italiani residenti f...

According to wwd, Mariagrazia Catelli, manager of New York's first Fendi Casa store, at 153 Madison Avenue on the corner of 32nd Street, says they sell to wealthy people. Fendi's leather sofas, priced $25,000 to $30,000, can be had with such signatures as the brand's horse emblem embroidered in the cushions, or the "selleria" fine stitching. While...

Secondo quanto sottolineato dal presidente dell'Italian Wine & Food Institute, Lucio Caputo, nonostante la consistente contrazione delle importazioni statunitensi, ridottesi del 6,7%, l'Italia ha mantenuto le proprie posizioni registrando un modesto incremento in quantità (1%) ed un più consistente incremento in valore (7,7%) essenzialmente det...