Janet Napolitano at Italy’s Consulate: “Looking Forward to Expo 2015”
by Mauro Battocchi Two Napolitanos featured at Italy's Consulate in San Francisco a few days ago. Along with Italy's Head of State Giorgio, in the picture, I had to honor to host Janet, the new President of the University of California, former Homeland Security Secretary and former Governor of Arizona, in person. Janet is one of the m...
Tickets now on sale for Frankie & Nina's Big Italian Wedding Comedy Show
Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort cordially invites you to celebrate the marriage of Frankie and Nina on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. in the Grand Oak Ballroom. This interactive comedy show has all of the oddities and traditions of a Big Italian Wedding. Join the New York Italian families of Frankie and Nina as they sing, dance, e...
Italian art: Piero Fornasetti
WTI Magazine #14 2014 Jan, 24Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: A major exhibition at the Triennale in Milan celebrates one of the greatest Italian designers of the twentieth century, Piero Fornasetti. Born from a very wealthy Milanese family, Fornasetti shows in the early years of his career to be a very good and valid...
Circolo Italiano Bocce, february game
Ciao, Amici, CIRCOLO ITALIANO BOCCE is again meeting in February for our monthly BOCCE GAME and SOCIAL. It will be on Sunday, February 16th at 4:00pm at Arnoldi's (corner of Cota and Olive Streets, in Santa Barbara). As in the past, no RSVP is needed and no advance payment is required. The game of bocce is free and each person will pa...
Italy's Academy of Silence wants you to travel -- quietly
by Silvia Marchetti Many people have heard of the Slow Food movement -- the global organization founded in Italy to counter fast food and the "fast life". Its adherents favor gastronomic tradition and the calm, contemplative enjoyment of cuisine and life in general. Now another idea is taking hold in the wake of Slow Food -- the ques...
Enit fa tappa in 4 città Usa per promuovere l'Italia e l'Expo
Anche in questo primo scorcio di 214 l'Italia resta al centro dell'attenzione degli operatori turistici americani. Sulla scia del successo ottenuto nel 2013, Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Usa, si protrae anche nei primi mesi del 2014 l'attività di co-marketing già pianificata dall'Enit in collaborazione con l'ITPC (Italian Travel Promotion Coun...
The 22nd edition of the Giornate FAI di Primavera
The Italian Environmental Fund (FAI) opens Italy's most hidden wonders for FAI Spring Days March 22nd-23rd, offering guided visits of 750 places of art all up and down the Peninsula. We're talking about sites that are almost never open to the public, including Rome's Mausoleum of Augustus, the interior of Teatro Marcello, and the Forum of Augu...
Italian fashion: New Opening, Roy Roger’s
WTI Magazine #24 2014 Apr, 04Author : Nadiah Ahmad Shukri for poisondrops.com Translation by: Denim Made in ItalyWay back in the Fifties, 1952 to be precise, Roy Roger's mixed a working class staple with dolce vita chic. Francesco Bacci, founder of the Sevenbell group that owns Roy Roger's amongst other brands, set out to the United...
Symphony ends season on high note
Wow, wow, wow, the Pueblo Symphony Orchestra's "Poperazzi" concert on Saturday night at Hoag Hall was a thrilling way to end the 85th season and to celebrate Jacob Chi's 20 years in Pueblo. The evening was a perfect blend of classical and popular music. Rossini's "Overture to La scala di seta" was the opening selection. The symphony's perf...
1st Annual Little Italy Cannoli Tournament
Little Italy San Jose will be hosting a single elimination Cannoli tournament to coincide with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation "Giving Day" for matching funds for Santa Clara County Non Profits on Tuesday May 6th. Please buy your tickets now for $25 and Little Italy will receive $1 for $1 match for every donation. Read mor...
The Godfather of Pittsburgh
A&E introduced four new reality programs to its lineup before its upfront presentation to advertisers in New York last tonight. One of the new reality series, "Godfather of Pittsburgh," puts the cameras on Vince Isoldi, an Italian-American who owns an empire of nightclubs and restaurants in the Steel City, where he has made friends and...
Grace Granato, last of original Granato family settlers to Little Italy in 1915, dies at the age of 102
Grace L. Rossi Zyck (nee Granato) died this week at the age of 102 and was the last child of the original settlers to Little Italy (Alta Villa) in 1915. The Granato family was one of the five original families of Alta Villa. Roger Rossi, her son, discovered our website and corresponds from Illinois. Two of his aunts were born in Little Ita...