Our state's Italian sports legacy
Next Sunday, I am honored to speak at the Sons of Italy Columbus Day Dinner in Charleston. I grew up with an Italian father from McDowell County who always had great admiration for Italian-American athletes. No matter the team, he always liked Robustelli, Marchetti, DiMaggio, Berra, Crosetti, Rizzuto, Bellino, Cappaletti and others. I can’t name or...
Benvenuto in Italia all'Ambasciatore Lewis M. Eisenberg
Benvenuto in Italia! Questa mattina è giunto a Roma l'Ambasciatore designato Lewis M. Eisenberg con sua moglie Judith Ann. Nei prossimi giorni presenterà le credenziali al Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella.Lewis M. Eisenberg è un importante esponente del mondo della finanza, investitore e filantropo. In qualità di Presidente della Port...
Ginsburg Praises Scalia As Volume Of His Speeches Appears
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared this week on CBS’ “Sunday Morning” to discuss the legacy of her late colleague Justice Antonin Scalia in connection with the imminent publication of a volume of Scalia’s public speeches. A volume of the late justice’s public remarks called “Scalia Speaks” will appear on Oct. 3. The book was ed...
Gemini Playwright Albert Innaurato Is Dead at 70
Albert Innaurato, author of Gemini, the longest-running Broadway play of the post-World War II period, and who popularized the phrase “Take human bites!,” died September 24, 2017, at age 70. Born June 2, 1947, Innaurato grew up in a working class Italian-American home in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a milieu he would explore in many of his pla...
Do you know your Italian roots?
In honor of Italian American Heritage Month, the Sons and Daughters of Italy is holding a contest to win a My Italian Family genealogy research project valued at approximately $2,000. Throughout the entire month of October, individuals who join, renew or gift a Sons and Daughters of Italy national at-large membership (ALM) online will be entered fo...
Teens have varied opinions on celebration of Columbus Day
When people think of Columbus Day, the general consensus among most teenagers is that it’s a day that seems to blissfully free students from school. The actual holiday doesn’t have a lot of tradition: Americans don’t have parties to celebrate it, and there aren’t certain customs that define the day. It’s just meant to revive the memory of the era o...
Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli Shares Her Kitchen Secrets
You grew up in New York City, your mom is a famous cookbook editor, and your dad is a talented home cook, right? “My parents definitely played into my career choice! My mother and father were always cooking. They generally didn’t cook together: Dad would make traditional Italian-American and Chinese food as a hobby, and my mother was all about the ...
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese, Together Again, Are Teaming Up on a Teddy Roosevelt Film a Decade in the Making
More than a decade ago, a report surfaced that Paramount intended to develop a Teddy Roosevelt biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. The year was 2006, and, at that point, Scorsese and DiCaprio had collaborated a mere three times over the previous five years: in 2002’s Gangs of New York, 2004’s The Aviator, and 2006’s T...
Authentic Italian you can hear
It's kind of like "The View" meets "The Sopranos." Real estate broker David Madrid, opera singer Tony La Stella, and mother of three Marzia Menegon are Northwest Italian Radio. "It's like we're around the table, talking with friends," Marzia said. "We've had people tell us after our show, they're hungry," David said. It was his idea. Tony is the pr...
Columbus Game. Il viaggio che ha cambiato il mondo
In occasione del Columbus Day 2017, l’associazione MamApulia, in collaborazione con l AIAE - The Association of Italian American Educators, lancerà un gioco multimediale che vede come protagonista Cristoforo Colombo, il più famoso navigatore della storia. Il percorso ludico-educativo è rivolto a bambini che studiano l'italiano come seconda lingua n...
Thanks, Chris! Nation, world remembers historic voyage of Christopher Columbus
In the fall of 1451 in Genoa, Italy, a man was born who would later discover America — Christopher Columbus. The eldest of five children, he and one of his younger brothers, Bartholomew, sometimes helped their father, a wool weaver, by carding raw wool. But even at a young age, Christopher kept his eyes on the sea and knew in his heart that the day...
Without Columbus, There Would Be No Latinos
The collective impulse to tear down statues and rename buildings to meet modern sensibilities is growing stronger by the day. Earlier this month a statue of Christopher Columbus in New York’s Central Park was vandalized with graffiti that read “hate will not be tolerated” and a creepy warning that “#somethingscoming.” The following day, protesters...