St. Peter's Catholic School has changed with the Mission
Back when I was a kid, my family lived on Potrero Hill, but my sister, brother and I all had a kind of dual San Francisco citizenship. We were Mission kids, too. We walked a dozen blocks every day down 24th Street to St. Peter's Catholic School on Florida Street. It was another world, then. The Mission was blue-collar, and almost all the k...
Nasce Sport Plus, il mensile di America Oggi
Con una tiratura di 12.500 copie, è nato ieri il primo numero del mensile 'Sport Plus', edito dal Gruppo Editoriale Oggi, che già pubblica il quotidiano 'America Oggi', l'unico in lingua italiana negli Stati Uniti. 'Sport Plus' sarà in edicola il secondo martedì di ogni mese, con la missione di offrire storie e approfondimenti sulla realtà sportiva...
Pizza Maestro Tony Gemignani vies for new world record
By Giuseppe Esposito In the heart of San Francisco's storied Little Italy is Tony's Pizza Napoletana, home of eleven-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani. When the restaurant opened five years ago, it brought a sense of renewed vibrancy to the Stockton block of North Beach, which at the time had many empty store fronts. Read...
Fun, Italian style
Festa Italiana drew a crowd out to the Waterloo Gun & Bocce Club on a sunny, warm, summer Sunday to celebrate the culture of the area's Italian-American community. "Our turnout exceeded our expectations," Andrea Songey-Neff said of the second annual event. "It was a celebration of everything Italian. It's food, it's music, it's family...
Apulia Attraction: la Puglia seleziona corregionali manager e imprenditori all’estero
Il Servizio Internazionalizzazione della Regione Puglia presenta "Apulia Attraction", un'iniziativa che punta alla creazione all'estero di una rete di stakeholder di origine pugliese, interessati e disponibili a diventare uno degli "snodi intelligenti" (Smart Node Apulia Attraction) per la diffusione di informazioni sulle opportunità di investiment...
Filitalia International, open enrollment for International Scholarships 2014
"Filitalia International's Scholarship – says Rosetta Miriello - programs benefit our young member's futures. All completed scholarship applications must be at 1809-13 Oregon Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19145 by 5pm ET, September 145h, 2014- no exceptions. The scholarship recipients will be announced September 30th, 2014 and the winners will...
Speedway, Italian City Expand Partnership
Speedway town officials and government leaders in Varano de' Melegari, Italy, have solidified a sister-city relationship to provide students in both cities with educational and entrepreneurial opportunities locally and abroad. The two cities established a business partnership through Dallara Automobili, which operates its only U.S. location on...
Nel 2014 l’export italiano fa boom negli USA
Nel primo semestre 2014 le esportazioni italiane verso gli Stati Uniti sono cresciute del 7,8% rispetto al primo semestre del 2013 ed a giugno l'aumento è stato del 15,6% rispetto a maggio. Il surplus commerciale ha superato gli otto miliardi di dollari, contro i 5,7 del semestre precedente. Dati che proiettano l'export del bel Paese per fine anno...
Italian Startup Eager to Help L.A. Clean Up its Act
by Bianca Dellepiane On September 16th, our valued partner PortTech Los Angeles, a public-private partnership dedicated to incubate and help commercialize sustainable technologies for ports and beyond, showcased the annual PortTechLA Pitch Competition open to the most exciting Cleantech startups from around the country and abroad. ...
St. Leo's Church Receives Donation
On September 26, the Little Italy Bocce League presented pastor Father Sal Furnari and St. Leo's Church with a $1,500 check, money collected from team entry fees during the Saint Gabriel Festival Bocce Tournament in August. The tournament this year was hosted by the Little Italy Bocce League. The committee requested that the donation speci...
Donna Gabaccia on New Beginnings: Immigrant Women and the American Experience - October 22 at 6pm
The National Women's History Museum, Washington, presents "New Beginnings: Immigrant Women and the American Experience," the fifth forum in its Initiating Change/Adapting to Change lecture series on Wednesday, October 22 at 6pm at The Marvin Center at The George Washington University.. The discussion will explore the historical experiences...
Boom di turisti a Roma, oltre un milione a settembre
"Una nuova conferma della buona salute dei numeri del turismo romano arriva dai dati elaborati dall'Ebtl, l'Ente bilaterale del turismo del Lazio relativi ai flussi turistici fino a settembre 2014", ha detto Marta Leonori, assessore a Roma Produttiva. Sono stati infatti 1.114.067 gli arrivi a Roma registrati a settembre solo negli hotel de...
