Michéal Castaldo Releases 9th Studio CD, “Christmas in Italy,” (25 songs) Dropping on November 1
Michéal Castaldo releases his 9th CD, “Christmas in Italy,” on Vital Records on November 1, 2019, to celebrate some of his favorite Christmas songs from his Extravergine CD and new songs sung in Italian, English, and Latin. The title draws attention and celebrates seasonal favorites, including “Oh Santa Notte (Oh Holy Night),” “E Nato Il Bambino Ge...
L’Italia sulla Luna. L’intesa tra Asi e Nasa per salire a bordo di Artemis
L’Italia sale a bordo di Artemis, il programma con cui gli Stati Uniti vogliono tornare sulla Luna entro il 2024. Ieri sera, a Washington, a margine dell’International Astronautical Congress (Iac) che ogni anno riunisce la comunità spaziale di tutto il mondo, il presidente dell’Agenzia spaziale italiana (Asi) Giorgio Saccoccia ha siglato l’intesa c...
Iconic Italian Musician CARMEN CONSOLI Returns to the US
Carmen Consoli is the most successful female singer-songwriter Italy has ever produced. Throughout a 25 year career the musician has been defined by her unflinching emotional live performances of songs that examine broad themes of love, illness, solitude and friendship from a feminine — and feminist — perspective. Her innovative mixture of Italian...
Baseball legend Yogi Berra experienced combat in U.S. Navy during WWII
The son of Italian immigrants, Lawrence Peter Berra grew up in the historic Italian district of St. Louis known as "The Hill," where he was given the nickname of "Yogi" by a friend, noting his resemblance to a snake charmer seen in a movie of the era. Berra spent countless hours of his youth playing baseball in the sandlots of St. Louis, enjoying t...
Taglio degli eletti all’estero: a questo punto aboliamoli e potenziamo Comites e CGIE
Sono ormai quasi sette anni che, grazie al mio mandato parlamentare, ho l’opportunità di incontrare le tantissime Comunità locali di italiani del Nord e Centro America. Ogni volta è una differente “sfumatura di italianità”, sempre avvolgente e calda, vissuta nella loro quotidianità e con un unico comune denominatore: l’attaccamento all’Italia. Un s...
The Embassy of Italy in Washington has published six calls for proposals
The Embassy of Italy in Washington has published the following six calls for proposals for the following services: INSURANCE BROKERS; SURVEILLANCE SERVICE, RECEPTION AND PUBLIC SCRUTINY AND ACCEPTANCE AND VERIFICATION OF PARCELS AT THE EMBASSY OF ITALY; CLEANING, PORTERAGE AND SMALL MAINTENANCE SERVICES AT THE EMBASSY OF ITALY; BUILDING FACILITY MA...
La Marca (PD): il mio intervento in Commissione nella discussione sulla istituzione della Giornata degli Italiani nel mondo
“Con soddisfazione mista ad emozione sono intervenuta nella commissione esteri della Camera sulla mia proposta di legge che intende istituire la Giornata nazionale degli italiani nel mondo. Ad essa sono state associate analoghe proposte presentate dall’On. Siragusa e, proprio oggi, dalla Lega. Voglio ricordare che questa proposta fu da me presentat...
Tomato harvest brings Italian family memories back into her kitchen
Last week I gathered most of the remaining tomatoes from the eight plants on our patio, leaving only enough on the vines for salads and sandwiches at summer’s end. I could have used the small harvest to add to stews, soup or baked vegetable dishes, but a memory of my great-grandmother drew me to a simpler magic. Nonna and my great-grandfather arriv...
IAP 113 : “Why we are Neo-Bourbon” an IAP lecture on the Southern Italian roots of the Italian American community
This week we are coming at you from Cleveland, Ohio, one of America’s most passionate Italian communities! In celebration of Italian American Heritage Month, our favorite moderator John M. Viola has been invited to speak to the Northern Ohio Italian American Foundation (NOIA Foundation) about the history of Southern Italy and its impact on the Ital...
MLB executives meet with FIBS President Andrea Marcon and General Secretary Giampiero Curti in Rome
Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball (FIBS) and Major League Baseball (MLB) are committed in helping grow the game in Italy. Based on the meeting between high-ranking executives on both sides of the Atlantic at FIBS headquarters in Rome on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, Italian baseball may be on the verge of Major League renaissance. MLB was well...
The Bigotry Toward Italian Immigrants
Readers discuss an article about how darker-skinned southern Italians faced racism a century ago and had to struggle for acceptance. Re “How Italians Became ‘White,’” by Brent Staples (Sunday Review, Oct. 13): My very white Italian-American children find it hard to believe when I tell them that their four great-grandparents who immigrated to the Un...
How ‘The Fighting Santoros’ Came to Symbolize Italian American Patriotism
1.5 million Italian Americans served in the armed forces during World War II, amounting to some 10% of American soldiers in all. This is where the Santoro Family comes in. in an extraordinary act of patriotism, eight Italian American brothers enlisted after Pearl Harbor and fought for our country, with seven of them serving overseas at once. They w...