The Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation will present "Ballo in Maschera," a costume ball fundraiser for The Parade Company. This elegant event will kick-off the "2013 Year of Italian Culture in the U.S.," as declared by the Italian Ambassador to the United States. The event will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Italian...

TechShop Detroit Offers Tools For Michigan Inventors To Build Almost Anything If you walk into any of the TechShop locations, you will see a group of inventors building great things. Jim McKelvey created a prototype for the multi-billion dollar credit card processor called Square at TechShop. Patrick Buckley built and sold $4 million worth of the...

by Irene Marcuzzi   My name is Irene Marcuzzi and in collaboration with the organization "Friuli nel Mondo" I am trying to reach out to any Italian born in Friuli Venezia Giulia that lives in Michigan or in the surrounding area. Friuli nel Mondo was created in 1953, to assist Friulians in foreign countries and to coordinate the activities o...

The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan under the auspices of the Italian Consulate of Detroit in its third Annual Celebration of Dante Alighieri presentsDANTE E LA MUSICA: LA SUA INFLUENZA POETICADANTE AND MUSIC: HIS POETIC INFLUENCE A talk by John Zaretti, President of the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan.   Read more   Fonte: Il gi...

Vari-Form today announced the signing of a joint venture agreement with EMARC SpA of Piemonte, Italy. The new agreement increases manufacturing footprints for Vari-Form in Europe and EMARC in North America.   Going forward, both companies will offer locally-available advanced technologies – hydroforming, roll forming and aluminum stretch ben...

By Meg Peters   Thanks to Lake Orion bocce player Jose Botto, the United States can now boast its first medal from a World Bocce Championship tournament. Botto competed in the World Singles Bocce Championship April 25 against 32 other countries in Rome, Italy, after winning the title of the United States Champion in the men's division f...

Join us for a night of Italian tunes on Thursday, September 19th, starting at 6pm at the Auditorium of the Royal Oak Public Library.   Alfredo Elia will bring you a piece of the Southern Italian soul with his voice and guitar, accompanied by AJ Anil Sahukar and his sax.   Read more   Source: http://www.volarevia.org  ...

Anche la comunità di Detroit ha deciso di cogliere l'opportunità datale dalla re-indizione delle elezioni dei Comites e relativa riapertura del termine per la presentazione delle liste. Pubblicata sul sito del Consolato, si chiama "Italia unita" l'unica ammessa alle elezioni.   La lista è composta da 12 candidati, questi i loro nomi.&nb...

The Italian American Club of Livonia will hold its 20th Anniversary Culinary Extravaganza, supporting the St. Louis Center in Chelsea, on Sunday, Jan. 25.   Dinner service begins at 1 p.m., following Mass at noon. There will also be a silent auction, gift raffle, lottery board and live entertainment by the Optomystics, a '50s-era "doo-wop" v...

Application deadline is July 31 for The Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation's scholarship applications for those high school students who meet the following eligibility criteria.   Candidates must establish Italian Ancestry and reside in Southeast Lower Michigan, candidates must have completed their junior year of high sch...