Italian American Festival provides the extra gravy
By David Foster A man shouts "fiagole" with the emphasis on the "e" trying to attract visitors to his tent. There is no shortage of this exuberance or good food at his year's Mercer County Italian Festival. "We're meeting new people and new faces and of course we're getting our regulars that come every year to the stand," said Gino D'Ame...
Rome City School District partnering with Mentoring USA to aid struggling students
by Kristin Clark This fall, the Rome City School District will be partnering with Mentoring USA to help elementary school-aged children who are struggling in school. The district is looking for volunteers to help mentor the students. Mentoring USA is a national organization that was founded by former New York First Lady Matilda Ra...
Italy & USA. Azimut|Benetti Group at Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show 2013
A fleet of 21 yachts including a world premier, and new offerings for the USA. Benetti bolsters its sales and after-sales services for the Americas.With the European boat show season barely over, the Azimut|Benetti Group is already flying to the other side of the ocean with important new offerings. Benetti's Vision 145' "Checkmate" will be making i...
Le collocazioni dell'italiano
di Silvia Simonetti Ogni lingua presenta le proprie caratteristiche peculiari, e tutte le lingue hanno proprie combinazioni di parole, dette anche "collocazioni", che i parlanti nativi spesso usano in maniera automatica e senza rendersene conto. Un esempio di tale fenomeno è rappresentato dalla comune espressione "lanciare un appello"...
Not So Fast: Italian Church Is Halted on Its Way to PS1
It was a typically elaborate, provocative move by the Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli in a career full of them: He had contracted to buy the ruins of an old deconsecrated church in the southern Italian town of Montegiordano and had planned to ship them to New York, brick by brick, for exhibition in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. His videos would be sh...
'Festa dei Sette Pesci' in Ormond Beach on Christmas Eve
La Galleria Italian Market & Eatery, 298 S. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, will celebrate "Festa dei Sette Pesci," the Feast of the Seven Fishes, on Christmas Eve. This is a traditional Italian/American meal, featuring seven courses of authentically prepared seafoods from Executive Chef David Sabato. Two seatings are planned, at 4:30 and 6:3...
Candidates host pasta dinner
Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor Charlie Baker and Karyn Polito hosted more than 175 friends and supporters to a pasta dinner at the Shrewsbury Italian-American Victory Club on Dewey Street Dec. 28. Later than evening they visited the Lakeside Bar and Grille. Donations benefited Polito's 2014 campaign for lt. governor. &nbs...
The new space for Contemporary art opened January 16th
Milan, not only Italy's capital of fashion and design, is also the place to be for Italian Contemporary art. The city already counts museums and galleries the likes of the Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (in Palazzo Reale) to its name, as well as the Museo del Novecento or 1900s Museum, recapping some of Modern art's most interesting tendencies;...
Made in Italy sul podio mondiale: le nostre aziende sono seconde solo alla Germania per competitività
Ha senso continuare ad affermare che le imprese italiane fanno poca innovazione, investono poco, sono poco aggressive sui mercati esteri? Guardando agli ultimi dati del Trade Performance Index dell'Unctad-Wto si direbbe proprio di no. L'Italia, infatti, è seconda solo alla Germania per numero di migliori piazzamenti nelle 14 classifiche 20...
Esordio letterario di Mario Fratti con "Diario proibito", l'autore di Nine l'ha scritto 70 anni fa, ma era scomodo
di Riccardo Chioni Dal teatro alla letteratura, è questo il percorso di Mario Fratti, descritto come "il sarto della parola" che prova a ripetere i successi raccolti dalla commedia "Nine", facendo l'esordio letterario con il libro "Diario proibito" presentato martedì all'Istituto di Cultura di Park Avenue. Gremita per l'occasione la sala...
Gov. Rick Snyder to lead auto-focused trade mission to Italy
Gov. Rick Snyder is heading to Italy and Germany next month for a trade mission focused on attracting auto and manufacturing investments. The Republican governor hopes to "strengthen relationships and attract job-creating business investments in Michigan" on his trip during the first week in April, said spokeswoman Sara Wurfel. Re...
La riunione dell’Inter-Comites affronta i temi della rappresentanza all’estero
Mentre la situazione politica italiana è ancora in fase di assestamento, quella legislativa in via di trasformazione e quella economica fatica a riprendere quota, l'unica certezza si chiama austerità. I tagli imposti alla Pubblica Amministrazione non risparmiano il Ministero degli Affari Esteri, mettendo a rischio la rete di rappresentanza dei citt...