Basket Ncaa. Gli italiani al gran ballo d'America
The big dance. Lo chiamano “il grande ballo”. Un rito a stelle e strisce che si ripete ogni anno in questo periodo. Una follia collettiva che contagia proprio tutti negli Stati Uniti, anche quelli che la palla a spicchi non la seguono certo tutti i giorni. Tutti pazzi per il basket, non quello blasonato dei professionisti dell’Nba, ma quello più ve...
The Italian Marine Band
The group of sixteen Italian musicians didn’t know what to think. Their leader, Gaetano Carusi, had brought them to America, the land of promise. But when they arrived in Washington their first thought must have been to go back home. The year was 1805 and Carusi himself described the capital city of the new republic as “a desert. A place containi...
Racing Legend Mario Andretti Is Guest-Starring On A Disney Channel Show This Week
A new generation of racing enthusiasts is about to meet Italian-American motor-racing icon Mario Andretti, albeit in animated mouse form. The legendary driver is guest-starring on Disney’s animated series “Mickey and the Roadster Racers” as Mario Mousedretti in “Mickey’s Spring Grand Prix,” and the episode looks adorable. Mousedretti teams up with...
NIAF Congressional Fellowship Applications Are Now Open
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is proud to announce the fourth year of the NIAF Congressional Fellowship Program to encourage and support the next generation of Italian American leadership. During the fall of 2019, the Foundation will place five outstanding Italian American college students, graduate students and recent graduates i...
Leonardo’s Way: Da Vinci, symbol of the Italian Excellence in the USA
Leonardo Da Vinci, symbol of the Italian excellence in creativity and innovation: this is the key in understanding the project Leonardo’s Way: discovering modern Italian geniuses. What is it about? For the 500th death anniversary of the Tuscan talent, the Miami Scientific Italian Community will organize ten events in ten different US cities with th...
Italian Candy Billionaire Ferrero To Buy Kellogg’s Brands In $1.3 Billion Deal
Ferrero Group, the confections giant best known for Nutella and Tic Tac, will acquire a number of iconic American brands from Kellogg for $1.3 billion, the company announced on Monday. It marks the Luxembourg-based firm’s latest foray into the U.S. market. The deal encompasses Kellogg’s cookie, fruit and fruit-flavored snack, ice cream cone and pie...
The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum Announces 2019 Grant Selections
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) announce the 2019 grant selections for The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum. Spearheaded by directors Anthony and Joe Russo, the Film Forum is an initiative to fund films depicting and exploring the Italian American experience for the bene...
Cultural Support as Business Development
Italian corporate leaders have reason to be impatient with American attitudes. I write this as an American, admittedly one bearing decades of experience collaborating with Italian cultural and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. You are weary of being stereotyped as primarily a purveyor of luxury goods, wine and food. You cannot fathom...
He Was Hollywood’s Favorite Native American, But Iron Eyes Cody Wasn’t Native At All
As Hollywood’s go-to Native American, Iron Eyes Cody was a common sight in Western movies for nearly 60 years. From starring in his first uncredited roles in the early 1930s, Cody would go on to appear in dozens of celebrated films as America’s beloved sage. His early roles were usually credited as “Indian” or “Indian Chief” and it wasn’t until Iro...
For years, a cured Italian meat was banned in the U.S. The ban has been lifted — but versions made by American farmers are better
Hunter Fike of Di Bruno Bros. waited years to taste an authentic slice of imported culatello, regarded by some as the most prestigious salami in Italy. Made with the muscle from the back of a pig’s hind leg and aged inside its bladder, culatello has been called the king of cured meats for its supple texture and rich, funky flavor that evokes a ri...
Celebrating Italy: Italian design day brings the beauty of Italian cities around the world
This year, the 20th of March was not only the last day of Winter: it also celebrated the innovative beauty of Italian design around the world. The day, Italian Design Day 2019, endorsed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, was part of a wider project created two years ago, that aims at promoting the idea of “vivere all’...
Sleeping With a Celebrity. Frank Merlo, Tennessee Williams’ partner, gets his story told
“Leading Men,” the acclaimed new novel by Christopher Castellani, is the author’s fourth. But, as he told an audience at his March 7 reading at the Calandra Italian American Institute in Manhattan, he considers it his first, or rather, “the first that was fully imagined.” His previous books (“A Kiss from Maddalena,” “The Saint of Lost Things,” and...