Stephan Talty a Palermo per il Premio “Joe Petrosino Sicilia”
Autore del libro “La mano nera. La vera storia di Joe Petrosino”, da cui è tratto il film che sarà interpretato da Leonardo Di Caprio nei panni del celebre poliziotto, lo scrittore e giornalista americano Stephan Talty ha ritirato ieri a Palermo il premio “Joe Petrosino Sicilia”. A promuovere l’evento l’Assemblea Regionale Siciliana, l’Associazione...
Fiat Chrysler chooses Jeep exec Manley to replace ailing CEO
Fiat Chrysler Automobile announced Saturday that CEO Sergio Marchionne's health had suddenly deteriorated following surgery and that its board of directors had chosen Jeep executive Mike Manley to replace him. Marchionne, a 66-year-old Italian-Canadian, joined Fiat in 2004 and led the Turin-based company's merger with bankrupt U.S. carmaker Chrysle...
Louis Vanaria talks meeting showbiz legends, singing at Festa Italiana
There are worse ways to start one's on-screen career than starring in a movie with Robert De Niro. That's how it began for actor Louis Vanaria, appearing in the icon's 1993 directorial debut "A Bronx Tale" as Crazy Mario. Since then, he's made a nice career of small character roles and bit parts, working on set next to the likes of Martin Scorsese...
This 1975 Vintage Fiat Campagnola Is Basically an Italian Land Rover Defender
Every major car-making country seems to have its own bare-bones, iconic off-roader. America has the Willys Jeep. Great Britain has the Defender. Germany has the G-Wagen. Japan has the Land Cruiser. It turns out, Italy has its own little off-roader — the Fiat Campagnola — and you probably didn’t even know about it. The Campagnola first arrived in 19...
Colavita Cares Partners with the American-Italian Cancer Foundation to Provide Breast Cancer Screening for Women, and Pizza from the Colavita Cares Brick Oven Pizza Truck
Yesterday, the American-Italian Cancer Foundation provided no-cost mammograms and clinical breast exams to more than 25 women at the William F. Ryan Community Health Center in Manhattan and all were treated to free pizza from Colavita, the trusted family brand. The women who signed up received life-saving breast cancer screening services on the Ame...
Borse di studio Eduitalia: l’Ambasciata italiana a Washington pubblica i nomi dei 21 vincitori
Vengono da Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, Florida, New York, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Virginia e Connecticut i 21 vincitori delle Borse di Studio messe in palio anche quest’anno dall’Ambasciata italiana a Washington e da Eduitalia, associazione che raggruppa 80 tra scuole e università che offrono corsi di italiano per stranieri. I...
Lucia, Lucia by Adriani Trigiani
If a summer romance novel is what you are craving to read as you sit by the pool or beach, Adriana Trigiani's Lucia, Lucia is a perfect choice. Set in 1950 New York City, the novel is about a young woman, Lucia Sartori, who is determined to have a career and be able to support herself, an unusual choice for a girl who was raised in a conservative I...
American cheese is no longer the most popular cheese in America
For nearly 100 years, most of the cheese made in America was American cheese. Specifically, cheddar cheese reigned supreme: The cheese is a hallmark of states like Vermont and Wisconsin, and its production currently accounts for more than three times as much as all other American cheeses combined. It’s the cheese that’s processed into Kraft Singles...
Singer Giada Valenti as tour guide on romantic Italy trip
Singer Giada Valenti, known for her stunning music special on PBS entitled “From Venice With Love, is inviting her fans to join her on a romantic trip she is organizing, May 19-27, to Venice and a part of the Veneto region. The in Venice born songstress writes passionately, almost every week, about the special things of her beautiful hometown on so...
Ddl su riacquisto cittadinanza, Francesca Alderisi (FI): “uno strappo morale, l'Italia dia risposte concrete”
“Per migliaia di italiani nel mondo l'ingiusta perdita della cittadinanza è un vulnus, un vuoto, uno strappo morale che da troppo tempo ormai esige risposte concrete, efficaci e all'altezza di un Paese civile quale è l'Italia”. Con queste parole comincia il disegno di legge sul riacquisto della cittadinanza presentato al Senato lo scorso 12 giugno...
The Making Of Beyoncé And Mariah Carey’s Couture Cavalli Costumes
Beyoncé and Mariah Carey were back in Roberto Cavalli on stage this weekend – but unlike in 2014 when both divas wore the same embellished, black dress, this time they were dressed in custom-made designs by the Italian label’s new creative director Paul Surridge. Carey kicked off her Las Vegas residency on July 5 in a couture Cavalli dress, while B...
Remembering ‘Big Nancy’ Sinatra
She was, a friend of hers once noted, “a great wife, a great ex-wife, and a great widow,” and when Nancy Barbato Sinatra died at 101 on Friday, she took with her perhaps the last living link to a world that knew Frank Sinatra not as a legend but as an impossibly skinny fireman’s son from Hoboken, who would sing for a pack or two of cigarettes and a...