Director Emanuele Della Valle on His Creative Vision
You might think of Emanuele Della Valle—the former fashion executive and lifestyle entrepreneur—as the sort of guy who spends his time in the world’s most glamorous places, but to hear him tell it, nothing could be further from the truth. “I’ve been hanging out in and around Atlantic City for about 15 years,” Della Valle, who calls Manhattan home,...
Enrico Fermi, the "Pope of Physics"
When: MON, OCTOBER 2, 2017, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT Where: Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invite you to a conference and exhibit opening with: Fernando Ferroni (INFN, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, President): Introductory Remarks.Nigel Lockye...
The Man from Alabama, Pa.
It’s not an invasion, but for some in Hazleton, Pa., it feels like one. The northern Pennsylvania town is the home of Republican congressman Lou Barletta, whose 2018 campaign for Senate against incumbent Bob Casey has just begun. Barletta, the polished Italian American, looks the ambitious type in both style and CV: He served as mayor of Hazleton f...
Teaching Italian X: Made in Italy (Montclair State, NJ) - General and Workshop Registrations Open
Teaching Italian. A Symposium/Workshops for Instructional Materials. Meeting X: "Made in Italy" as a Tool for Language Learning. Friday, October 20, 2017. 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. University Hall - Montclair State University - Montclair, New Jersey "Made in Italy, un percorso tra italianismi e Italian sounding" - Riccardo Giumelli, Università di Vero...
Music, games and more at the Italian-American Festival
The Mercer County Italian-American Festival will present its 18th annual festival, Sept. 22-24 at the festival grounds at Mercer County Park in West Windsor. The event will feature live entertainment on two stage, where there will be 36 performances by 24 groups over three days. Performing Saturday will be the Bee Gees tribute band, Stayin' Alive....
The Story of the Hidden Jews of Southern Italy
The Italian Jewish Cultural Center of Calabria (IjCCC) is an international organization based in Calabria, the southernmost region of Italy. Founded by Rabbi Barbara Aiello, whose Jewish ancestry includes B’nai Anusim (Italians whose ancestors were forced into adult baptism and Christian conversion during Inquisition times), is the founding directo...
75 Years Ago: Patriotic doc began journey to Omaha Beach
75 years ago, Angelo Maietta left Winchester to join the army and enter the war. At age 37 he was on the older side of recruits and had a family, but he was needed and he knew it. The son of Italian immigrants, himself born in Boston, Maietta both loved his Italian heritage and was a true blue patriotic American to his very core. He also had a thir...
Gravy, chance of meatballs forecast for Wildwood Italian Festival Sept. 29-30
The Sons of Italy will serve up a heaping helping of Olde World Italy at the 13th annual Italian Festival Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29-30 in Fox Park on Ocean Avenue across from the Wildwoods Convention Center. The free two-day festival celebrates Italian culture and heritage with crafts, food, children's games, contests and continuous live entert...
R.I.P. Alberto Romilo Comini
Alberto Romolo Comini, 76, died on September 12 surrounded by his wife and best friend, Kathleen Giuffra Comini, and by his three treasured children. Born in 1940 in Imperia, Italy, the oldest of three children of Gesualdo and Iris Comini, Mr. Comini lived the years of his youth in Rome. In 1960, he boarded a boat to New York City to start his life...
The Italian influence on the American Constitution
Today the US District Court Western District of Pennsylvania and the Honorary Consulate of Italy in Pittsburgh presented an event on the Italian influence on the American Constitution, focused on the role of Cesare Beccaria, Gaetano Filangieri and Filippo Mazzei, with the participation of a delegation of judges and professors from Italy. The event...
Give credit where it’s due for the Lincoln Memorial
I was appalled by the gross distortion of facts in “A mural for memorial men” [Metro, Sept. 2]. The article about a mural recently installed near Union Station paid tribute to the African American men who “carved the marble from mountains in northwestern Georgia” and “built the 120-ton statue” of Abraham Lincoln in his iconic memorial, noting that...
Nissoli (FI) al Consolato Onorario di Clifton (New Jersey)
Ieri, Fucsia FitzGerald Nissoli, coordinatrice Forza Italia Nord e Centro America, si è recata in visita al Consolato onorario di Clifton, in New Jersey, dove ha scambiato punti di vista con il Console onorario e i cittadini italiani presenti sulle problematiche inerenti la comunità italiana della zona. In particolare, Nissoli ha evidenziato “l’ott...