Win a Joe DiMaggio Autographed Baseball!
To enter, click here and comment, answering the question, "Who is your all-time favorite Italian-American baseball player?" Leave your comment before 5:00pm EST on November 2, and be entered to win a Joe DiMaggio autographed baseball. The baseball comes with a James Spence (JSA) authentication. Italian America Magazine is the official publication o...
'Crimebuster', Lou Dematteis: "Se il papà italoamericano combatte i criminali"
"I miei nonni vengono tutti dall’Italia, sono emigrati tra il 1903 e il 1910. Entrambi i miei genitori, invece, sono nati negli Stati Uniti, quindi io sono cresciuto in una famiglia italo americana, molto numerosa per altro, e sono cresciuto ascoltando le storie che mi raccontavano i nonni, mia mamma o gli zii. Alla fine sono diventato uno storytel...
Italian-American Actors
Is your favorite Italian American actor really of Italian decent, or just a convincing actor? Peter Falk, the dearly missed actor who played TV’s cunning inspector Colombo, used to do such an excellent job at imitating the Italian American sleuth that most TV viewers believe he was of Italian descent. In reality, Falk was Russian and Polish, with a...
Chi è Filippo Bartolotta, il Virgilio di Obama
C’è chi gli ha chiesto un corso di cucina, come l’attrice Jessica Alba poche settimane fa, e chi invece ha voluto una degustazione di vini italiani, come l’ex presidente americano Barack Obama e, prima di lui, vip del calibro di Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson o Bryan Adams. Qualunque sia la richiesta, lui ha la ricetta giusta. Perché per Filippo Bar...
Boxer-turned-broadcaster Paulie Malignaggi
Being a professional boxing commentator is all about picking up on the patterns of the fight, the subtle stuff, and assessing how fighters should adjust their approach before it even happens. So says Paulie Malignaggi, who works as a boxing analyst for Showtime and Sky Sports, and who also used to work for Fox Sports 1. “I try to involve the fans a...
From Supermodel To Celebrity Chef And Successful Author. An Exclusive Interview With Maria Liberati
As a former international supermodel, Maria Liberati never dreamed that she would go from being a fashion diva to a domestic diva. Ironically, while jet-setting off to modeling assignments around the world, Maria became closer to the simplicity of life and food in the country setting of her family’s vineyard in the mountains of central Italy. She b...
‘Suspiria’: Stream the Original and 8 Other Italian Horror Classics
Many of us spend the Halloween season revisiting our favorite horror movies or tracking down hidden gems. Often, our watch lists are filled with the familiar names of directors who have shaped the genre from North America: Carpenter, Craven, Cronenberg, Romero. But the release this weekend of Luca Guadagnino’s remake of “Suspiria” recalls another g...
La padovana Buson fra i migliori scienziati negli Usa
Cinque giovani ricercatori italiani che lavorano negli Stati Uniti si sono aggiudicati i prestigiosi ISSNAF Awards 2018, il 23 ottobre all’Ambasciata d’Italia a Washington nell’ambito dell’Annual Event di ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation), la fondazione che riunisce 4.000 scienziati italiani in Nord America e che...
Comunicazione RAI su distribuzione segnale in Nord America
Il segnale del canali del Gruppo Rai (Rai Italia, Rai World Premium, Rai News24) in Nord America è attualmente accessibile attraverso 18 differenti operatori presenti su tutto il territorio nazionale e attivi su tutte le tecnologie distributive principali (satellite, cavo, OTT). Fra tali partner distributivi non è più presente Dish Network perché,...
Old argument returns to social media: Is it (Italian) sauce or gravy?
I was minding my own dang business last week, scrolling through my social media pages, when I noticed a post, on one of my Italian-America groups, that made me shake my head. Even if you’re not Italian, you probably have a visceral reaction every time you hear those Three Little Words — which, like bad pennies, nasty colds and certain situation com...
The Human Technopole – L’avanguardia della ricerca italiana presentata in Ambasciata
L’ambasciata italiana ha presentato oggi a Washington The Human Technopole, il nuovo istituto di ricerca italiano sulle Scienze della Vita. Il progetto - lanciato nel 2015 alla chiusura di Expo Milano nell’ambito di MIND - Milan Innovation District - ha come missione quella di sviluppare un approccio personalizzato a medicina e nutrizione, per cont...
It's time to fight discrimination and prejudice against Italian-Americans
On March 14, 1891 eleven Italian-Americans were lynched in New Orleans by a mob waving the Confederate flag who had been whipped up into believing that New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessey had been murdered by "the dagoes." It is from this incident that the term "mafia" entered the American lexicon as the thugs who lynched these 11 men, who had...