New Groundbreaking Kids’ Show Teaches Italian Language, Culture, Art
Combining a deep Italian heritage with raising two young children in Scottsdale, Michael Tassoni created "Ciao Bambolini – Italy for Kids." The show was born out of Tassoni's love of Italy and desire to share it with his children and beyond. "I looked for something that would introduce Italy to my kids, and found nothing that could keep them watchi...
La nuova Little Italy di New York
di Andrea Marinelli «Little Italy sta diventando sempre più piccola», scriveva il New York Times all’inizio del 2011. «Lo sconfinamento iniziato decenni fa – con Chinatown che si allargava a nord, SoHo che si espandeva da ovest e con altre aree che venivano elegantemente ribattezzate NoLiTa (North of Little Italy) e NoHo – sembra ormai com...
Una startup italiana sbanca un premio delle Nazioni Unite, è Orange Fiber
di Arcangelo Rociola Premiati dal voto popolare e dalla giuria. Un trionfo su tutti i fronti all'Unece Ideas for Change Award per Orange Fiber, la startup catanese di Adriana Santanocito e Enrica Arena, 37 e 29 anni. Il loro tessuto ricavato dalle arance grazie al supporto di nanotecnologie ha convinto la giuria di Ginevra che il 14 aprile...
Movida rilassata, la via di Milano invidiata da New York
Gli uomini arrivano in bici e giacca e cravatta, le donne si annunciano caracollando sui tacchi sui piccoli ponti di ferro, gli studenti passano e si prendono una sedia. Sul far della sera inizia il rito dell'aperitivo, insaccati, formaggio e canapè, e le varie anime della città confluiscono qui, sulla sponda di Ripa di Porta Ticinese a Mi...
Brass City Italians thrive even after mills close
The brass mills and factories drew Italian immigrants to Waterbury by the thousands. Even though those industries have left the city, many of those Italian have families continue to thrive in other occupations. For example, there's Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe. Everybody in the Waterbury area knows, if you leave a tip in the jar at the regist...
The Italian way: Addressing the Italian Stereotypes, Myth 2 The Pizza
WTI Magazine #60 2015 May, 15Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: A recent spot by McDonald's on the Happy Meal broadcast in Italy has caused outrage all over the huge community of pizza makers and pizza lovers. In the spot, a young child prefers a happy meal while at the pizzeria with his parents and, as we always do, they a...
Treasure Hunt: Lights, Camera, Action
31 May 2015, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PMDopo il successo della Caccia al Tesoro Italiano dello scorso anno, in occasione delle celebrazioni per la Festa della Repubblica 2015, il Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York sponsorizza la Treasure Hunt: Lights, Camera, Action, una vera e propria maratona fotografica orgnizzata da Elastica e dall'Associazione...
Anthony Pilla Inducted into Cleveland International Hall of Fame
by Paul Sciria Anthony Michael Pilla, the son of Italian immigrants and Ninth Bishop of Cleveland, was inducted into the Cleveland International Hall of Fame. His education started in public schools until high school, which he began at Cathedral Latin and completed at St. Gregory Seminary in Cincinnati, OH, where he continued in c...
A pizza speakeasy in East Village
by Kerry Drew New York City has a pizza shop on pretty much every street corner. We're taking you inside a brand new pizza speakeasy called SRO in the East Village. To share his love of pizza, Chef Giulio Adriani opened SRO five months ago. There's no sign on the door. SRO is hidden inside another Italian restaurant on t...
Western Mass Italian Cultural Center Sponsoring Fourth Annual Golf Tournament
by Carla Balzano On July 18, 2015, The Italian Cultural Center of Western Mass is sponsoring its fourth annual golf tournament. It will take place at St. Anne Country Club, 781 Shoemaker Lane, Feeding Hills, MA. The tournament will start promptly at 1:00 PM. Players pay a fee of $100.00, which includes play, cart, lunch, on-course...
PM Renzi’s school reform starts by hiring 36,000 teachers and promoting school-work alternation
by Claudio Tucci The first result of the school reform will be hiring 36,000 now temporary teachers by September 1. This is the initial tranche of an intake of more than 102,000 people introduced by the Matteo Renzi- Stefania Giannini law, which will see additional 11,000 jobs in the following days and, by September 2016, the final tranche...
No to Starbucks, yes to Calabria
By Ian Anderson Later this summer, longtime North Park coffee roaster Caffé Calabria will launch its first offsite expansion in 15 years, opening a satellite coffee bar in a ground-floor storefront at the 1 Columbia Place high-rise in downtown's Columbia neighborhood. A second expansion will be quick to follow, this one south of t...