Tuckahoe Festival To Celebrate Italian-American Culture
The Eastchester-Tuckahoe Columbus Day Committee is set to again celebrate Italian heritage and culture at the annual Columbus Day-St. Pio Festival. This year's festival will feature food vendors, a parade and celebrity guest appearances. The event will begin on Sept. 20, and continue through the weekend. Read more Source: ht...
Taste Of Italy Benefits Italian-American Museum of L.A., Oct. 12
The fourth-annual Taste of Italy, a cultural-gastronomic event to benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), will take place at the historic museum on Saturday, October 12, 5-10 p.m., in downtown Los Angeles. In collaboration with the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West, it will showcase more than 50 of the region's winerie...
Lido Cantarutti, Founding Director of the Italian Film Festival
By Roberto Natalini The proud son of Italian immigrants from the Friuli region, Lido Cantarutti was born in Santa Cruz, California, where he and his brother grew up helping their father harvest Brussels sprouts along the central coast of California. Lido relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and eventually attended the University of California a...
Downtown-Go-Around has Italian flavor
In honor of October being Italian Heritage Month, organizers of the Downtown-Go-Around are planning to bring a taste of Italy to the streets of downtown Clarks Summit on Friday, Oct. 11. "We have reached out to many of our favorite Italian restaurants in Clarks Summit and they are working to bring some tastes of Italy to State Street. We are hopin...
Italian art: Carpaccio “misunderstood”
WTI Magazine #3 2013 Nov, 1 Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: The story of the painting of Vittore Carpaccio known as "courtesans" is somewhat emblematic and interesting because it is source of many misunderstandings and interpretations. In the nineteenth century, John Ruskin gave this table oil pai...
European Capital of Culture 2019 – Six Italian cities make it to the ‘finals’
Six Italian cities (Cagliari, Lecce, Matera, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena) short-listed for European Capital of Culture 2019. The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong European dimension. The European City of...
Number One FIAT Dealer in the USA: Santa Monica FIAT sets record for sales in a year
Santa Monica FIAT is proud to announce it was the number one FIAT store in the country in 2013. The dealership just had its grand opening in May 2012, making 2013 the first full calendar year for the store. In spite of that, the dealer sold a record-breaking 813 new cars since January 1st. That's the highest number posted by a FIAT studio sinc...
Destinazione Italia: measures 5 and 6
WTI Magazine #14 2014 Jan, 24Author : Destinazione Italia Translation by: Developed in close coordination with the economic policy priorities set out in the Economic and Financial Planning Document, Destinazione Italia establishes a set of measures to foster inbound investments in a cohesive and str...
Italy & USA. Azimut|Benetti Group at the Miami Boat Show 2014 a fleet of 18 yachts
The Miami Yacht & Brokerage Show 2014, scheduled 13-17 February, is Azimut|Benetti Group's first US boat show of the year. The Group will impress the US public with its 18 yachts, three of them making their world debut: the new version of the Azimut 84 for the US market, the Benetti Vision 145' "Told U So" and the Benetti Classic Supreme 132',...
Italian cinema: Piero Tosi and Italy at the Oscars
WTI Magazine #18 2014 Feb, 21Author : Simone doc Bracci Translation by: Without ever having won a prize in his life, without ever having set foot in the United States, without having a face in the limelight, Piero Tosi is so recognized and appreciated for his work, that he will be awarded with an Oscar during the 2014 edition of the...
Eataly Dishing Out Italian Cooking Classes
The Eatalian experience just got better. La Scuola Di Eataly Chicago opened Wednesday at the Ohio Street Italian food mecca. The school offers 90-minute classes about Italian cooking and techniques, with up to 50 students per class. Hands won't be for cooking in the class, but they'll certainly be for eating as students will be able to sample...
Massimo Banzi: “Io, De Benedetti e una vita senza timbrare”
di Alessandro Frau La storia di Massimo Banzi è una storia fatta di pezzi. Dagli inizi all'Olivetti fino alla realizzazione del progetto Arduino: un cammino che potrebbe tranquillamente trovare posto in un libro; non un'autobiografia, sia ben chiaro, ma un manuale d'insegnamento per giovani imprenditori, una sorta di self-confidence for du...