An Interview with Self-Help Expert Dr. Raeleen D’Agostino Mautner
Lemons Into Limoncello: From Loss To Personal Renaissance With The Zest Of Italy, written by Dr. Raeleen D'Agostino Mautner, is the first self-help book to prescribe a traditional Italian cultural approach. This Italian-American author teaches readers how to overcome challenges with simple strategies from the "bel paese." Life is about cha...
Negative Stereotypes About Italian Americans Perpetuated by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Don Jon" Movie, Says The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition
The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition—the nation's largest Italian American anti-bias organization -- is taking "Don Jon" Director-Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt—ironically the son of parents who founded a once-famous Jewish national social justice organization—to task for stereotyping and denigrating Italian Americans and Jews in his new movie. "H...
How the Monuments Men Rescued Italy’s Art from the Nazis
In August 1943, on the eve of the Allied invasion of Italy, bombs threatened Michelangelo's David and nearly destroyed da Vinci's Last Supper. The race to save Italy's masterpieces was on. Two members of the U.S. Army's Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program—Deane Keller, a portraitist and Yale art professor, and Fred Hartt, a scholar at the un...
The Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia Andrea Canepari invites you to read the important letters and documents below
Dear Fellow Citizen, Firstly, I wish to extend my cordial greetings to you and to your families. As you may know, we recently concluded the "2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States" in the course of which a multitude of successful events were organized throughout the country and in particular in our consular jurisdiction, as a demonstra...
Rita’s Italian Ice Awards Area Development Agreement for New Mexico
Rita's Italian Ice, the world's largest Italian Ice concept with over 600 stores, announced it has awarded franchise and area development agreements for New Mexico and three cities in southern Colorado, Durango, Pagosa Springs and Trinidad, to RNM Management, Inc., owned by Dave and Mark Gaulden, Albuquerque residents and long-time entrepreneurs. A...
An Italian company is helping the US to turn waste into fuel
With the consequences of global warming eventually affecting our daily lives, more and more researchers are trying their best to develop "clean", or at least "cleaner" energy resources to limit their negative impact on the environment. However, to help our surroundings something should be done to reduce the impact of waste burials as well. ...
Visiting Italian POWs
by Suzanna Molino During World War II (1941–45), the U.S. Army had captured and shipped to the states almost 500,000 Italian, German and Japanese prisoners of war and housed them in 650 camps across the forty-eight states. Camp Meade (now Fort Meade) in Maryland, located between D.C. and Baltimore, was both a training center and h...
Congratulations, 2015 Coccia-Inserra Teaching Award Recipient!
Congratulations to Raffaella Spilotro, Oak Park and River Forest High School (Oak Park, Illinois), recipient of the prestigious national Coccia-Inserra Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Teaching of Italian (K-12). Presented at "Teaching Italian Symposium/Workshop: Meeting VIII-Imparando giocando," signature professional developmen...
Provoloni's Italian Grille
By Mary Wade Burnside Scott Sears and Larry Puccio grew up a few doors from each other in Fairmont with a tradition of big Italian Sunday family dinners and food fresh from the garden. "I've always joked about this," Sears said. "I don't think I had eaten anything from a grocery store as far as bread or vegetables until I was 10. &nb...
Washington: il Comites incontra la collettività
Presieduto da Olga Mancuso, il Comites di Washington promuove un incontro informativo con la comunità italiana il prossimo 3 marzo dalle 19.00 in Ambasciata. All'incontro, spiega la Presidente Mancuso, saranno presenti i consiglieri del Comites e membri del corpo consolare. Sarà presentata l'attività del Comites per l'anno 2016, il nuovo sito e le...
Bryan Voltaggio is opening Aggio in Loudoun County
Fans of Bryan Voltaggio's Aggio were disappointed when the chef closed the quasi-pop-up inside of Range last year, leaving behind the Italian concept's second location in Baltimore. Now Voltaggio and business partner Hilda Staples have decided to bring the restaurant back for a Washington-area audience. On Aug. 10, it will open at the One...
Russo Brothers To Be Honored At Italian American Gala
by Patrick Hipes The National Italian American Foundation will fete producer-director duo Joe and Anthony Russo at a black-tie dinner Saturday in Washington DC to cap its 41st annual gala weekend. The brothers will be honored by the group for their "cultural and social impact strengthening the Italian American identity and heritage." &nbs...