Trio Settecento Italian Baroque in Ames
Join us Saturday at 7AM or Sunday at 6PM to hear selections from the Ames concert by one of today's leading Baroque ensembles, Trio Settecento. Violin virtuoso Rachel Barton Pine, cellist/ gambist John Mark Rozendaal, and harpsichordist David Schrader perform music of the Italian Baroque as guests of Ames Town and Gown. The broadcast is part of our...
Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan Holds 15th Anniversary Gala
by Sandra Tornberg On March 8 the FADM held its 15th Anniversary Gala at the Palazzo Grande. Three hundred fifty members and friends were on hand to pay tribute to the founding members who signed the club's charter in 1999: the late Natale Bucciarelli. Mr. Tonino Corsetti, Mr. Gino Di Carlo, Mr. Leonardo Fabiilli, Mrs. Daniela Allega Fucia...
Brooklyn. Una scuola di lingua italiana
La Federation of Italian American Organizations di Brooklyn ha salutato domenica, con il 37esimo gala presso la sala ricevimenti El Caribe Country Club, l'imminente avvio del primo Centro culturale comunitario di New York, a cui seguirà un progetto altrettanto ambizioso: una scuola di lingua e cultura italiana. All'appuntamento hanno partecipato,...
15th annual Newport Beach film festival to showcase an exclusive screening of Italian cinema
On Tuesday, April 29th 2014 the 15th annual Newport Beach Film Festival will present its Italian Spotlight, an evening celebration of Italian cinema and culture. The event will feature the Orange County premiere of the highly acclaimed film, A Five Star Life (Viaggio Sola), followed by a festive post screening gala. Irene (Margherita Buy, winner o...
IAWA-WEST 2nd Saturday Literary Series
IAWA will hold its next monthly reading on May 10 with a 5-minute open mic followed by two featured writers: Stefano Vaccara, Italian journalist, United Nations correspondent at Radio Radicale and columnist and Editor-in-Chief at La VOCE di New York, will read from his latest book, Carlos Marcello: The Man Behind the JFK Assassination, which has be...
Chico Forti, un caso giudiziario tra Italia e America
By Marco Pontoni Questa è una storia che sembra la sceneggiatura di un film, una avvincente, tragica crime story. Ma è una storia vera. È la storia di un italiano, un ex-campione sportivo e un imprenditore, condannato negli Usa all'ergastolo, nel 2000, per omicidio. Se ne sono occupati in molti: giornalisti, personalità dello spettacolo, alcuni p...
Italian wine: Marsala
WTI Magazine #33 2014 June, 4Author : Vino OK Translation by: England and Marsala Port and Sherry wines have in common their history, linked to the trade travels of the English merchants. From '500, the nascent British Merchant Navy was always travelling, browsing the seas to supply the increasingly prosperous economy of the kingdom....
L’italiano è la quarta lingua più studiata nel mondoL’italiano è la quarta lingua più studiata nel mondo
by Marco Gasperetti Il rating è lunghissimo, un elenco di più di seimila nomi, ordinato rigorosamente, come una classifica universale. Sono le lingue più studiate al mondo. Al primo posto, e non è una notizia, c'è l'inglese, al secondo il francese, al terzo lo spagnolo. E, sorpresa, al quarto c'è l'italiano. Sì, proprio l'idioma di Dante,...
Italian Catholic Federation celebrates 90th anniversary
by Carol Cormaci The local branch of the Italian Catholic Federation recently helped celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the parent organization by attending an affair at Casa Italiana that drew 185 members of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Representing Branch 374 from St. Bede the Venerable Catholic Church in La Cañad...
Atlanta's Pattillo Construction to build Beretta plant in Tennessee
Atlanta builder Pattillo Construction Corp. has been selected to build Beretta USA's new manufacturing plant and research facility near Nashville, Tenn. Announced in January, the Italian firearms maker said it will invest $45 million in a state-of-the-art gun manufacturing plant and R&D facility. The facility will create 300 jobs. Rea...
Fratangelo looking for new highlight
Bjorn Fratangelo is ready to make a new career highlight. After a 2013 season in which he won two singles titles and had two runner-up finishes at USTA Pro Circuit events, Fratangelo has bounced back from a slow start to 2014 because of injuries to win a singles and doubles title in Italy and advance to today's finals of the Ursula Beck Pro Tennis...
Maserati makes grand plans for revival at its 100th birthday party
By Lawrence Ulrich Slip-sliding around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca with Derek Hill in the world's last Maserati Tipo 151 – a vintage honey that tore through LeMans in the early '60s – it's possible to imagine that Maserati's glory days were all in the past. But seeing the alluring Alfieri concept car unveiled for North America, it's clear that...