A “tour de force” in New York for Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno. Important meetings with officials, including one with his colleague Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Mayor Giuliani, as well as a visit to the “Mad Fun Farm,” the first urban garden created by children in New York. And he used the subway system to get around...
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The shared histories of Neapolitan singer Alfredo Bascetta and political activist/film worker Gino Bardi are revealed by a Brooklyn walkabout.
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This is the second report in the series “Italian Americans by the Numbers” which appears on my ‘i-Italy.org’ blog. The series presents demographic data about Italian Americans based on the US Census Department's “2005-2007 American Community Survey (ACS)”. This report provides tables showing the ‘total number of Americans’, ‘total number of Italian Americans' and ‘percentage of Italian Americans’ living in each State, and Census Department defined Regions, Divisions and Metropolitan Areas.
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In occasion of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, the First Family enjoyes Italy's beauties and goodies. A chronicle of their visit...with a few curiosities...
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Facts & StoriesThe US Census Bureau collects scientific survey data on Italian Americans and other ethnic groups. This article is the first of a series that will appear reporting the survey numbers for the period 2005-2007, and discussing their implications.
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An ambitious week-long event in a small village in the province of Avellino crossed many boundaries and suggested many new possibilities.
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Sergio Marchionne accepted the nomination to become the new Italian chairman for the the Council for the US and Italy, the binational non-profit organization founded in Venice in 1983, which brings together men and women from both countries in banking, business and diplomacy
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I met Franceschini after his book presentation at the Feltrinelli bookstore in Rome’s Galleria Colonna. I read the first passages as I waited for the presentation to begin, and I immediately decided that it would be worth interviewing him
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In post-earthquake Abruzzi nature restores the faith of those who remained in the areas hit by tragedy. People’s response is the desire to continue living.