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di Riccardo Chioni   Con la stessa pacatezza con cui si è raccontata all'Istituto di Cultura di Park Avenue lunedì, in occasione della presentazione del suo libro "Ad alta quota", Lella Golfo negli anni recenti ha condotto in Parlamento una rivoluzione culturale e silenziosa che ha portato le donne ad accedere ai vertici aziendali. Nell...

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Ciao Pittsburgh continues its series on profiling Italian-Americans across the country. This week, we are featuring Manhattan resident, Samantha DiGennaro (who goes by "Sam") founder and owner of a public-relations agency in New York City that helps CEOs and their companies define their brands in a public forum. The agency gets executives and...

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Every Wednesday night, a small group of students gather for their language course at the Italian Charities of America Inc. in Flushing, Queens. Ironically, the students are not interested in learning Italian, but a separate language that arrived during the wave of Italian immigration to New York City. These students are the children and grandchildr...

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Ha avuto un tragico epilogo la inspiegabile scomparsa di "Savoia the Tailor" il designer di ricchi e famosi, svanito nel nulla al termine di un party nel famoso nightclub Marquee nel Chelsea, a poca distanza dal natante in cui ultimamente aveva trasferito la sua dimora. Il corpo del designer è stato rinvenuto nella mattinata di ieri da unità di po...

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Aiming to promote culture and language, the Italian Consulate General in New York is working on a new initiative aimed at creating an English-Italian bilingual section in New York public schools.   The Consulate General will develop this project under the Two-Way Bilingual Education Program, an instructional design model outlining methods fo...

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I Mondiali del Brasile per gli italiani a New York si traducono in tante occasioni per stare insieme e stringersi intorno agli Azzurri e al Tricolore. Sabato 14 giugno, con la vittoria dell'Italia sull'iInghilterra, si è conclusa, a New York, nella grande sala Common dell'Hudson Hotel, la prima parte di un'iniziativa che ha visto coinvolti per la p...

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The International Motor Racing Research Center's 2014 raffle is all Italian. A Fiat 500 Abarth Hatchback Turbo and a trip to Italy combine to make a "primo" prize for the Center's annual fundraising project. The 2013 model is a sporty bright red with black interior and trim.   The drawing of the winning ticket will be on Dec. 13 at 1 p....

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A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's unique, captivating narrative promises—and delivers. The Other Side of the Tiber brings Italy to life in an entirely new way, treating the peninsula as a series of distinct places, subjects, histories, and geographies bound together by a shared sen...

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by Ryan Lavis   "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." This quote -- attributed to the Italian diplomat Count Galeazzo Ciano, and a favorite saying of former Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro -- now hangs emblazoned in bronze in the lobby of the St. George Theatre.   On Tuesday, the historic venue r...

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New York Festival of Song marks its seventh annual residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts with BEL CANTO/CAN BELTO, to be performed on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall.   A preview performance will take place at the Caramoor Center in Katonah, NY onSunday, March 15, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.   Read...

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