Woburn's Chief Ferullo to be honored by Mass. Sons of Italy
The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, part of the national Order Sons of Italy in America, is honoring several leaders in the Italian-American community, and will also award $30,000 in scholarships to graduating high school seniors at the Massachusetts Education and Law Awards, on Sunday, May 3. This is a continuation of a 31-year tradition of the Gra...
A taste of Italian culture makes it to the final frontier
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti got a taste of home Sunday when she tried out a new espresso maker that is part creature comfort and part science experiment. Cristoforetti made her first cup of espresso in space as teams of engineers looked on from Earth. Video recorded aboard the space station showed Cristoforetti and NASA a...
Mamma italiana vs mamma americana
1 – Mamma in carriera o in casa? Secondo un'analisi dell'Istat, in Italia, circa il 50% delle madri hanno un lavoro, mentre la restante parte si dedica esclusivamente alla casa e ai figli. Le mamme americane sono più orientate al lavoro e alla carriera rispetto a quelle italiane: infatti, negli USA, circa il 70% delle mamme lavora, cioè 7 madr...
Raccontare il made in Italy: storie, marketing e digitale
by Eugenia Paulicelli Sono appena rientrata da una serie di conferenze in Olanda, all'Aja, alla Università di Groningen e poi a Milano a parlare della figura di Rosa Genoni e del suo ruolo come anticipatrice del discorso del made in Italy o della moda italiana, quando questi erano solo un sogno di pochi, oltre che del suo impegno per il pa...
Wedding business booms in Amalfi Coast
At least 18% of couples in Italy decide to marry in June, a survey by the Monza chamber of commerce showed Monday. And while the overall number of weddings has declined 16% since 2009, the wedding business is a constantly growing sector worth some seven billion euros. Salerno with its romantic Amalfi coast is the province with the highest inc...
Vespa 946 Emporio Armani Announced
Vespa 946 Emporio Armani was developed jointly by Giorgio Armani and Piaggio to celebrate two of Italy's most established symbols of style and creativity. To mark the year 2015 – the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Giorgio Armani and the 130th birthday of the Piaggio Group – Emporio Armani has designed a special version of the Vespa...
Vislab, le auto robot di Parma comprate (per 30 milioni) dagli americani di Ambarella
di Daniele Sparisci Compravano automobili usate in America, le importavano con il container e le modificavano riempiendole di sensori, scanner e telecamere per farle guidare da sole. Dovevano coprire i loghi per evitare cause legali con i costruttori. Con il budget tutto da inventare e l'entusiasmo alle stelle di una start up a pr...
Italian culture will be focus of day camp
The Italian American Association of Monmouth County will hold an Italian enrichment summer camp in Marlboro. The camp will be held at the Old Brick Reformed Church, Route 520, from Aug. 3- 14. The camp will run Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and will accept children between the ages of 5 and 14. Cheryl Scuorzo, the p...
Boston Landmarks Orchestra presents Italian Night (Aug. 5)
When: Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 — 7 p.m. (rain date: Thursday, August 6 at 7 p.m.)Where: DCR Hatch Memorial Shell, Charles River Esplanade, Boston The Golden Age of Italian opera is about passion writ large. Its music now occupies a central place on the concert stages of the world. The thrilling voices of two stars of American opera join a coalition...
De Pasquale brings new Mare to life
by Kerry J. Byrne Frank De Pasquale was holding court with Gov. Charlie Baker on the Hanover Street sidewalk when we arrived Monday night at Mare Oyster Crudo and Seafood Bar, a 1-week-old addition to the restaurateur's North End empire. The governor had just dined at De Pasquale's Bricco. It seemed a fitting political encounter for the d...
Boston’s Towering Presence: Developer Don Chiofaro
by Nicola Orichuia "But what if you could?" Sitting in their Belmont home, Don Chiofaro and his wife, Diane, considered her question as they contemplated his notes for a 1.8 million square foot development project that would one day become International Place. It was 1981, and the challenge was bigger and more audacious than...
Best of Breslin: Marching to Sorrento
by Jimmy Breslin Probably the one subject I know better than anyone on earth is the history of Irish-Italian warfare in New York. It began at the turn of the century, when the Irish construction workers tried to get two dollars a day. As the Irish produce more traitors than any race on earth—Liam O'Flaherty, who wrote The Informer...