Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons review – farewell tour has crowd beggin' for him to stay
The 77-year-old singer-songwriter David Crosby’s argument that performing keeps musicians youthful certainly applies to Frankie Valli. The legendary New Jersey singer is 84, yet pulls off a two-hour show with more than two dozen songs, many of them standards, delivering a joyous celebration of pop music at its sweetest and purest. Valli doesn’t nee...
Madonna May Have Reignited Her Feud with Lady Gaga
An innocent throwback Instagram post has gotten Madonna into a little bit of trouble. On Monday, Madonna posted an interview of herself from the 1980s to her Instagram Stories where she said, “If there are 100 people in a room and 99 say they liked it, I only remember the one person who didn’t.” While that may sound innocuous to most, many Lady Gag...
Trump asked to block Air Italy, in attack on Qatar’s investment
Eleven U.S. Senators (led by Senator Ted Cruz) have written to President Trump’s administration criticising Italian airline, Air Italy — specifically citing urgent need for action in relation to Air Italy’s routes to both New York and Miami. In 2017, Qatar Airways acquired a 49% stake in AQA Holding, the parent company of Meridiana Fly, which was l...
Ariana Grande Named 'Billboard's Woman Of The Year'
Ariana Grande has been named Billboard’s 2018 Woman of the Year. The music industry publication made the announcement on Tuesday. The pop star will be feted at the Billboard Women in Music gala in New York City on Dec. 6. “Ariana Grande is a star on her own terms, never bending to any particular musical trend or path in the industry,” explained Ros...
For Italian cooking, start with an incredible sauce like Mama used to make
Many Italian foods are so familiar they almost seem like American foods. If you ask a child where pizza is from, he is likely to say the United States. And the same goes for spaghetti and lasagna. Gelato, too. No wonder Italian food is still the most popular ethnic food in America. So it was natural — inevitable, really — that I would wrap up my ye...
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Renewed at HBO
My Brilliant Friend is getting another chapter: HBO has renewed the critically acclaimed literary adaptation for a second season, TVLine has learned. Based on the bestselling books by Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend follows Italian girl Elena and her childhood best friend Lila as they grow up together, covering a whopping 60 years of their live...
Godfather of Gore: The 5 Most Influential Lucio Fulci Horror Films
Herschell Gordon Lewis earned the moniker “godfather of gore” in the early ‘60s when he created the splatter subgenre in horror with Blood Feast. But it didn’t take long before another director would earn and share the title; Italian maestro Lucio Fulci. Fulci began his film career as a documentary director before switching gears and shifting into...
Milani (Iacc), nel 2018 bene esportazioni italiane in Usa
"Stiamo vivendo un momento davvero importante per il nostro paese negli Usa. Le esportazioni in questo 2018 hanno fatto registrare un importante progresso e anche per il prossimo anno ci aspettiamo una crescita considerevole". Lo ha detto Alberto Milani, presidente della Italy America Chamber of Commerce (Iacc). Durante il gala annuale che si è svo...
NIAF Gives $450,000 to Norcia Italia for Earthquake Relief
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) announced today that its Earthquake Relief Fund will give $450,000 to the Norcia community, a town with 5,000 residents located in Umbria, in the wake of the devastating earthquakes that struck Central Italy in 2016. NIAF is partnering with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) to build a new...
The Hidden Meaning Behind My Brilliant Friend’s Neapolitan Dialect
Italy is a 19th-century invention unified by an official language that, until the 20th century, most Italians didn’t speak. Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, the first of the four volumes of her Neopolitan Novels, takes place on the outskirts of Naples, in a neighborhood isolated by dialect as well as by poverty. Ferrante avoids transcribing th...
OSIA: Announcing the 2019 National Leadership Grant Competition
Through the Sons of Italy Foundation (SIF), and hundreds of thousands of family members located in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (OSDIA) has awarded nearly $61 million in scholarships to date. In past years, the SIF has offered 10 to 12 merit-based scholarships (National Leadership G...
Michael Angarano: What the 'This Is Us' Actor Is Worth
Michael Angarano plays the role of Jack’s brother in This Is Us. When fans heard that the character, whose name is Nicky Pearson, was being played by Angarano they had a lot of questions. Who is Michael Angarano?A native of Brooklyn, New York, Angarano is of Italian descent. His mother runs three successful dance studios in the area, all of which a...