Both a Yogi Berra documentary and feature film are in the works
When it rains, it pours: two Yogi Berra films are in the works, with options for both signed in recent months. One of the films will be a documentary, while the other will be a feature film. According to the Sports Business Journal, actor Nick Basta is taking care of the feature film and hopes to finish the screenplay later this year, while Peter S...
IAP 93: POWER HOUR: “I Like the Way You Say- NOIR” An Interview with Best-Selling Author Marina Di Guardo
In this episode of the Italian American Power Hour, John scores a one-on-one interview with Marina Di Guardo, one of Italy’s best-selling authors and the mother of the most influential influencers in il bel paese! They’ll discuss the author’s early life as a “Nordic Sicilian” and just what inspired her to become one of Italy’s most renowned writer...
It's curtains for Joy
With writers and publishers working at their own, inscrutable paces, maybe it's the zeitgeist that is responsible for the spate of absorbing recent novels postulated on filling in the blanks in the biographies of actual gay men. They're kin to physicists' transfixing recent pictures of black holes. Christopher Castellani's deeply felt new "Leading...
What makes olive oil 'extra virgin'?
Have you ever wondered why some olive oils are labeled "extra virgin" and others are not? While this designation may seem small, there is a world of difference between non-extra virgin olive oil and those with extra virgin status. Extra virgin olive oil is the highest grade of olive oil you can get. To be considered “extra virgin,” European law sti...
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro discuss The Irishman at Tribeca Film Festival
Martin Scorsese, born in Queens, New York, grew up in Manhattan’s Little Italy. During this year’s Tribeca Film Festival Talk with actor Robert De Niro, the filmmaker described this particular pocket of the city as the intersection of “the Italian-Americans, the Sicilians, the Neapolitans… not necessarily in the Bronx or the West Side, but the East...
19 Italian-American Classics That Bring the Red Sauce Experience Home
There’s something absolutely perfect about a red sauce restaurant: The checkered tablecloths, the enormous portions, decor that hasn’t changed since 1973, the fact that the room is full of regulars. It’s so perfect, in fact, that you can expect to find a similar kind of experience walking into any joint, no matter where you are in America. (Read up...
Italian Trade Agency Launches Educational Wine Course
The Italian Trade Agency announces the launch of a series of educational courses for trade members. A world-class, intensive, immersion three-day course will be offered to professionals already in the industry (sommeliers, wine retailers, brand managers, and more) and will take place across the country in 10 major cities. The dates are as follows:...
Alitalia e la «dote» di oltre un milione di passeggeri tra l’Italia e gli Usa
C’è un «bottino» di oltre un milione di passeggeri l’anno nella tratta (lucrosa) Italia-Usa nel forzino di Alitalia, la compagnia aerea in amministrazione straordinaria dal 2 maggio 2017. Mentre sul fronte politico-aziendale vanno avanti gli incontri per capire chi potrebbe affiancare ministero dell’Economia, Ferrovie dello Stato e Delta Air Lines...
Ron Howard Talks New Luciano Pavarotti Documentary
If one is an anomaly, two are a coincidence and three are a trend, then Ron Howardmight strictly become a music documentarian after “Pavarotti” hits theaters. The documentary about the world-famous Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti comes on the heels of Howard’s “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week” and “Made in America,” a look at Jay-Z’s music festival...
Lou Del Bianco on the Traces of His Grandfather, Mount Rushmore’s Sculptor
Lou Del Bianco, grandson of stone-carver Luigi Del Bianco, after 25 years of struggles convinces the authorities that it was his grandfather who carved the fine features of the four American Presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, of the now famous bas-relief sculptures carved directly on Mount Rushm...
La Mille Miglia torna in Usa ad ottobre con più auto d'epoca
Ritorna con più auto che hanno fatto la storia e per seguire un percorso più ampio dell' anno scorso lungo quattro stati: la Mille Miglia 'Warm Up Usa' sbarca per la seconda volta in America. Le novità della edizione 2019 sono state presentate all'ambasciata d'Italia a Washington. Alla gara - programmata per l'ottobre 2019 - parteciperanno 40 vettu...
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo’s Film Avengers: Endgame Projected to Set Global Box Office Records
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is pleased to announce that directors Joe and Anthony Russo, who collaborate with NIAF and the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) to offer The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum, are projected by the film industry to set global box office records this weekend with the release of thei...