Charlie Stillitano: The US football 'player' you've never heard of
US soccer promoter Charlie Stillitano has been called many things in the past 18 months or so - with "power broker" and "mogul" among the more flattering descriptions of the ebullient New Yorker. On the downside, for his apparent suggestion that a European super league might be an idea worth talking about, he has been called "a poster boy for greed...
Award for Italian researchers and startuppers operating abroad
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has instituted the second annual Award for Italian researchers and startuppers operating abroad. The award includes two categories: The “Italian Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award" to recognize an eminent Italian scientist who, in performing his/her research abroad, has made...
Italian American Golfers: Part 6
Calcavecchia was born in Laurel, Nebraska in 1960. While he was a teenager, his family moved from Nebraska to West Palm Beach, Florida. He attended North Shore High School in West Palm Beach and won the Florida high school golf championship in 1977. While playing in junior tournaments, he often competed against Jack Nicklaus' son, Jackie and as a r...
Italian-American extras wanted for new Martin Scorsese film starring De Niro, Pacino
Legendary director Martin Scorsese will be filming a new movie shortly and is looking for extras of Italian-American extraction to be a part of it. The film, called “The Irishman,” a Netflix exclusive which is slated to come out in 2018, reunites the director with Robert De Niro for the ninth time, and features an all-star lineup of actors that als...
The importance of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is of importance not only to Italian Americans, but to the majority of Americans who have European and Latino lineage. His quest to find a route to India, while navigationally flawed, represented a new way of thinking for mankind, and a way to use one’s natural curiosity to embark on challenging endeavors. We as Italian America...
Coldiretti: L’Euro forte frena export in USA
Il rafforzamento dell’Euro pesa sulle esportazioni negli Stati Uniti dove è stato raggiunto il record storico per l’agroalimentare Made in Italy con un aumento del 7% nel 2017,rispetto allo scorso anno. È quanto emerge da una analisi della Coldiretti sulla base dei dati Istat relativi ai primi cinque mesi dell’anno. Gli Stati Uniti - sottolinea la...
Why somms are so sweet on bitter Italian liqueur
In the hospitality industry, amaro is cool. It’s the shot that a friend insists on sending to the chef after a particularly special birthday meal. When an industry person comes in to dine at a restaurant, what does the team send them as a parting gift? Mini bottles of Fernet Branca, of course. And at the dive bar after an exhausting Friday shift, a...
23 Fig Recipes To Make the Most While They're Fresh & Ripe
Never enough figs—that's what we always say. Biting into a fresh, ripe fig is one of summer's greatest joys, and when they're in season, we try to integrate them into whatever we're cooking however we can. Versatile and oh-so-delicious, figs are the luscious fruit we want with our yogurt at breakfast, our sausage at dinner, and drizzled on cake at...
North American casting search
Hello, We are doing a North American casting search for the HBO limited series, MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, based on the first book of the acclaimed Elena Ferrante Neapolitan series. The first season will cover the entirety of the first book. Saverio Costanza is directing the adaptation. Need native/fluent speakers in the Neapolitan dialect and classic It...
After Elena Ferrante, Another Powerful Italian Voice Tells A Gripping Story Of Two Women Across Two Continents
Amy moves from Italy to New York City to live near her American father. Her journey from immigrant to successful publisher is intertwined with the story of Stella, whose unfinished memoir she intends to publish.They both experience love, setbacks, and success, as their paths run parallel to the Vietnam War, student protests, hippie culture, the bir...
Italian Movies Are Struggling in U.S. Theaters, But This Distribution Experiment Could Change That
When “Indivisible” screened for a crowd at Lincoln Center as the opening night selection of its annual “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema” series, it had no U.S. distribution plan. In late 2016, it had screened in higher-profile slots in Venice and Toronto, where buyers paid no heed. But at Lincoln Center, the movie — a seriocomic story about 18-year-...
Ecco Essential, il nostro anti iPhone nato nel cuore della Silicon Valley
“Ho vissuto in Italia fino quando avevo nove anni e ora purtroppo l’italiano lo capisco ma non lo parlo bene”. Niccolo De Masi, la “o” accentata si è persa per strada, lo racconta al telefono mentre si sta recando a lavoro a Palo Alto in California. Doppio passaporto, 36 anni, ha già una lunga esperienza di Silicon Valley. E’ il presidente di quell...