Advice From Nick (Niccolò Machiavelli) To The U.S. Presidential Candidates
By Elizabeth Vallone Imagine a person so revered his tombstone has these words inscribed on it: "To so great a name, no epitaph can do justice." Do you think this phrase could be put above W's grave? How about Clinton's? Obama's? How about Nixon's? Would you believe this is what is written on the gravestone of the infamous Niccolò...
Bill to replace Columbus Day with ‘Indigenous People’s Day’ dies in Senate
After a fiery debate, the Utah State Senate defeated a bill that would have renamed Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day." "Our history did not start with Pioneer Day and the celebration we had there," Senate Bill 170 sponsor Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, said. Read more Source: http://fox13now.com/ &nb...
Sophia Loren Uncensored: "I Look Fantastic. Everybody Says So!"
Sophia Loren is 81 years old, but she's quick to note that she doesn't seem like it: "I look very well, by the way. I look fantastic," she said between laughs on the phone from Geneva, her home for the last 10 years. (The actress, Oscar winner, and Italian bombshell may be tied to Naples, but she left her native Italy after an only recently cleared...
Jethro's takes swing at Italian food in Altoona
The city of Altoona is welcoming two new restaurants across the street from each other on Adventureland Drive. Jethro's BBQ and Splash owner Bruce Gerleman opened Jethroni Pepperoni, a new Italian restaurant March 21 at the old Pizza Hut location on the corner of Adventureland Drive and NE Hubbell Avenue. "We've been looking to do an...
New Yorker brings Italian sweets to area
In her eight years living in Florida, Evelyn Barreno has never found a local bakery that offers authentic Italian desserts like she and her family enjoyed back in Queens, N.Y. Whenever she visited New York, she always flew back South with a stash of sweets, including rainbow cookies. Also known as seven-layer cookies, these colorful, Italian treat...
“L’America invidia la nostra creatività”
Giorgio Van Straten, lei da quasi un anno dirige l'Istituto italiano di cultura a New York. Come giudica questa esperienza?«Un'esperienza bellissima. Intanto essere a New York, che penso sia, dal punto di vista culturale, il centro del mondo occidentale. Poi è molto bella l'esperienza di lavoro all'Istituto: consiste nel promuovere la cultura itali...
Touch Of Italy Welcomes Delaware Technical Culinary Students To Tour Their Bakery
On Tuesday, April 26th Touch Of Italy Opened up their Bakery in Lewes to culinary students at Delaware Technical College in Dover, DE. They were able to see first hand how the bakery runs and operates on a daily basis. The Bakery makes all breads, Italian cookies, pastries, Mozzarella, Cakes, and much more. The students quickly realized th...
Exhibition "Ancient Inspirations" - Paintings by Vincent Baldassano
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is pleased to announce that the exhibition Ancient Inspirations: Paintings by Vincent Baldassano has been extended through Friday, August 12, 2016. The paintings on exhibition were made in the summers of 2012, 2014, and 2015, during Vincent Baldassano's tenure as a visiting artist at the American Aca...
Italian Cheesemakers Sue an American Soap Opera for Insulting Their Cheese
Can you disparage a cheese? The Grana Padano Consortium of Italy certainly thinks you can. That's why they're suing America's longest-running soap opera. Their cheese was insulted on a recent episode, they claim. In today's top entry to the you-can't-make-this-shit-up list, the Italian cheese manufacturers are suing The Bold and the Beauti...
Ma Songo 'N Croce Songs of the Italian Diaspora at Casa Belvedere Tues. 6/21
The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere - 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301, presents: "Ma Songo 'N Croce" Songs of the Italian Diaspora. With Carmine Giordano. Tuesday, June 21, 2016 @ 7:00 PM Because of political and economic conditions after the Italian Unification, over sixteen million Italians emigrated t...
Italian man to reunite Wendell veteran with his WWII ‘dog tags’
A metal detector find by an Italian man with an interest in World War II will reunite a Wendell native with the dog tags he lost while serving overseas more than 70 years ago. Jury Galli searches beach areas near his home in Pisa, about 50 miles west of Florence on the northwest coast of Italy, for artifacts from the war. He has found seve...
New Book: Goliarda Sapienza in Context
by Anthony Julian Tamburri Cari Tutti, as editor of the "Italian Series" from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, I am delighted to announce the publication of the following collection: Goliarda Sapienza in Context - Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture. Edited By Alberica Bazzoni; Emma Bond, and Ka...