As Tech Week Closes, Italy in the Cleantech Spotlight
Italy Tech Week highlighted the Italian startup pulse in Silicon Valley and brought productive dialogues to the Bay. As part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Italy Tech Week is one of the year's many events that are showcasing Italianità in the Bay. Yesterday I attended the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco and was pleased to find Ita...
Fucsia Nissoli al Gala della NIAF
Deputata eletta in Nord America nella Lista Monti, Fucsia Nissoli ha partecipato al Gala della NIAF - National Italian American Foundation - svolto a New York. Durante l'evento, che ha accolto leaders del mondo economico, politico e culturale interessati alle relazioni Italia-Usa, Nissoli ha annunciato un seminario da tenersi alla Camera dei Deput...
Meet celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich
Foodies, fans and lovers of all things Italian will have a chance to meet Lidia Bastianich star of the Emmy award-winning show, Lidias Italy!If you've never heard the name Lidia Bastianich, you are missing out on the best Italian cooking that anyone has to offer. Bastianich has been part of several cooking shows over the past few years and owns a n...
Alto Adige Wines Invites Sommeliers to Discover Italian Wines at Their Peak Master Class Series & Scholarship Program in Partnership With Guild of Sommeliers
Alto Adige, one of Italy's smallest wine-producing regions, is also one of the country's most diverse. Education is vital to help spread awareness and understanding of these multi-faceted wines. Following the success of the 2012 Master Class series hosted by Master Sommelier, Laura Maniec, Alto Adige Wines has re-launched an educational initiative...
St. Anthony's Italian Festival: 2013 Entertainment Schedule
St. Anthony's is proud to present the very finest in both traditional Italian and contemporary pop music. We recruit professional musicians from up and down the East Coast annually. Artists join us from New York City, Hoboken, NJ, Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Baltimore–and from around the Eastern United States. We are also pleased t...
West Virginia’s Little Italy Communities
Individuals of Italian extraction constitute one of the most important ethnic groups in West Virginia. These Italian-Americans date their connection with the state to ancestors who were recruited during the early years of the 20th century to work in West Virginia's rapidly developing industrial economy. With more than 17,000 Italian immigrants in t...
Lola & Giuseppe’s Trattoria: Sage choices made in creation of authentically Italian dishes
By Jon Christensen The farfalle fantastico, a light dish colorful with tomatoes, olives and spinach Lola's Fresh Italian Cuisine is now Lola & Giuseppe's Trattoria, reflecting the role of Lola Iacobone's husband, Joe. Although the menu has evolved during the past six years, it's still basically a varied Italian lineup that goes beyond...
Three Days of Italian Opera at Rockport Festival
Natalie Dessay stars as Verdi's most beloved heroine in Willy Decker's stunning production, first seen at the Met in 2010. Matthew Polenzani is her lover, Alfredo, and Dimitri Hvorostovsky sings his stern father, Germont. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium. Conductor: Fabio Luisi; Production: Willy Decker; Natalie Dessay, Matthew...
Gaia Italian Café
Many New York restaurants claim they serve "Italian food," and cite menu items such as pizza, spaghetti, and garlic bread as flimsy proof of such authenticity. Finding true Italian cuisine, however, requires some searching as most delectable finds do not come easy! Fortunately, there's a place on the Lower East Side where you can find deli...
University of Michigan archeologists digging in Italy have unearthed a grand structure unlike anything the Romans were known to be building at the time.
ANN ARBOR—In a long-buried Italian city, archaeologists have found a massive monument that dates back 300 years before the Colosseum and 100 years before the invention of mortar, revealing that the Romans had grand architectural ambitions much earlier than previously thought. The structure, unearthed at the site known as Gabii, just east o...
Pasolini: A Film Series
by Colpa Press A sampling of the three periods of Italian film master Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975),provocative and audacious thinker, acclaimed essayist and beloved poet. On the heels of a major retrospective at MoMA in New York, and at UCLA and the American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, Luce Cinecittà and Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini/Cinet...
Un passaporto mondiale per il futuro?
di Richard Hodges Il nuovo semestre incombe; gli studenti macinano miglia in aereo. State ancora valutando l'idea di un passaporto mondiale? Sin dal Grand Tour, gli studenti hanno cominciato a muoversi, eccitati all'idea di consumare il pianeta, pronti ad imparare "dove e quando". Ora più che mai, studenti affamati girano per il mondo, co...