Remembering the other saint day in March
By Mary Ann Sorrentino The Irish seem to own mid-March celebrations. Even their natural ethnic rivals compete to grand marshal St. Paddy's Day parades everywhere. The gay community fights fiercely to march wearing Erin's green while St. Joseph has no parade. Instead, he's buried upside down to improve bad housing markets. In Rhode Island, as a ca...
Tutto Italiano
Tutto Italiano is coming! Bring your Italian car, motorcycle or just your love for Italian design. We welcome you to join us and appreciate the style and grace of Italian machinery at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. Tutto Italiano is a family friendly event, featuring activities such as face painting for the kids. In addition to all the beautiful a...
An Italian new prosthesis sensitive to senses
The Sant'Anna BioRobotics Institute in Pisa is a prestigious hub for research. Engineers from Sant'Anna actively cooperated with a team from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, lit. Polytechnic Federal School of Lausanne) to developed the revolutionary invention of a robotic hand sensitive to senses. In 2013 a prototype of this...
Italian good news: The artistic heritage of Venice, just a click away
WTI Magazine #27 2014 Apr, 25Author : buonenotizie.it Translation by: More than 370 images of Venetian collections are available on the platform of Google Art Project: thanks to the recent agreement between Venice Civic Museums Foundation and Google Cultural Institute, the lagoon city fulfills a definite step forward on the road of "...
New York Italians is hiring: Playgroup leader [part-time]
NEW YORK ITALIANS is HIRING!! Italian language children PLAYGROUP LEADER [part -time] Job description: The Playgroup Leader will be responsible for the day to day running of the playgroup sessions to ensure safe, stimulating play and to provide for the needs of the children. This will involve planning, preparing and delivering play- bas...
Pininfarina’s Modulo In Atlanta Among Dream Cars
Pininfarina's Modulo will star overseas at an exhibition dedicated to the most sensational cars of the Twentieth century. "Dream Cars – Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas" is the title of the exhibition, held at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from May 21 to September 7, 2014. The exhibition focuses on concept cars and limited edition ca...
Italian Religious Events: Gigli Festival, Nola (Napoli)
WTI Magazine #33 2014 June, 4Author : folclore.it Translation by: The Gigli Festival of Nola is an ancient festival to honor St. Paulinus Bishop, who lived in the fifth century and devoted himself to the poor people by giving all of himself including his freedom, going captive of the Vandals in Africa in the place of the son of a poo...
IB&II Marks Its 3rd Anniversary
Our CEO, Fernando Napolitano tells us about the achievements and the results that the Italian Business & Investment Initiative reached in three years of activities. Dear All, At the three-year mark, IB&II has covered a lot a ground. We will celebrate our latest results next July 9 in Rome at Radio Dimensione Suono headquarters wh...
Film series: Tragedy Italian style
Escape the heat (or give in to the eery fog) with summer chills Italian style. Three films from a more disconcerting, though no less accomplished, side of the Italian psyche: Fiorile (1993, 105 min), 20 August. Register here. Romanzo criminale (2005, 154 min), 27 August. Register here.Girl by the Lake (2007, 95 min), 3 September. Register her...
Zeppoles, live music, and tradition - St. Ann’s Italian ‘Feast’ is back for the 104th time
For almost as long as Italians have lived in Hoboken, they have been coming to the feast of St. Ann at St. Ann's Catholic Church. The annual celebration began 104 years ago, when a statue of St. Ann arrived from a tiny Italian village in the Apennine mountains near Salerno. As late as 1960, nearly a quarter of Hoboken's residents were Ital...
West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival banquet to honor six individuals
The annual West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival honorees banquet will be held at 6 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Bridgeport Conference Center. Honorees include Italian-American Man of the Year, Anthony "Boo" Bellotte; Italian-American Woman of the Year, Angela Bellotte; Honorary Italian Man of the Year, Dr. Joe Momen; Honorary Italian Woman of the Year,...
Stella al merito del lavoro per i lavoratori residenti all’estero: segnalazioni entro il 15 dicembre
Saranno 80 le decorazioni della "Stella al Merito del Lavoro" che il Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali destina – per il 2015 - ai lavoratori italiani residenti all'estero. La decorazione è riservata ai lavoratori italiani dipendenti di imprese pubbliche o private, che hanno almeno 50 anni (compiuti alla data di presentazione della...