Italian-Americans worried Scaramucci has revived every negative stereotype of them in one week of work
Anthony Scaramucci hasn’t even officially started his White House job, but he’s already captured a lot of attention — and helped perpetuate negative stereotypes about Italian-Americans. An advocacy group pushed back against Scaramucci’s performance a week after President Donald Trump chose him to lead his communications team and a day after he unle...
Prosecco DOC Consortium Announces Launch of Casa Prosecco DOC USA
The Consorzio di Tutela della DOC Prosecco (Prosecco DOC Consortium, www.prosecco.wine) has announced the formation of‘ Casa Prosecco DOC USA, which will serve as the denomination's official source of news and information in the United States, the second largest importer of Prosecco in the world. Sales of Prosecco have continued to increase more t...
Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
Over the course of 45 years in the film business, Francis Ford Coppola has refined a singular code of ethics that govern his filmmaking. There are three rules: 1) Write and direct original screenplays, 2) make them with the most modern technology available, and 3) self-finance them. But Coppola didn’t develop this formula overnight. Though he f...
Unbeaten Heavyweight Lee “Italian Stallion” Canalito“ The Way It Happened..
This writer remembers seeing Lee “Italian Stallion” Canalito fight in a couple of his twenty-one fights if memory serves me right. Good looking studd, physically fit and had Angelo Dundee in his corner. Canalito was a lineman at Sterling H.S. in Houston, TX, and was on Parade magazine’s annual All-America H.S. Football Team in 1971. He played defen...
Come esportare negli Stati Uniti?
Gli Stati Uniti conservano, da sempre, una speciale predilezione per i prodotti italiani e non a caso rappresentano uno dei mercati più dinamici ed in crescita per l’export Made in Italy. Tuttavia entrare nel mercato a stelle e strisce non è semplice e per farlo è necessario scegliere una strategia di ingresso efficiente e rispettare una serie di p...
The Vespa Club of America Needs You!
The VCOA is currently looking for: Regional Representatives / Club Ambassadors. Looking for members to help us engage/recruit new members. This can be achieved several ways. Simply going to rallies and speaking about the benefits of being a Vespa Club of America member, Setting up a membership booth at a local rally, engaging with your local scoot...
Barbara Sinatra dies at 90, remembered as woman who transcended role as 'Mrs. Frank Sinatra'
Barbara Sinatra, who gained prominence as "Lady Blue Eyes" and then developed her own legacy as a premier battler against child abuse, died Tuesday morning at her Rancho Mirage home after months of declining health. She was 90. She was married to Frank Sinatra, one of the greatest and most mercurial artists of the 20th century, for almost 22 years...
Remembering Broncos and Denver Dynamite coach Babe Parilli
The football world lost an icon over the weekend with the passing of the legendary Vito ‘Babe’ Parilli. The veteran of the NFL, AFL and CFL played 18 professional seasons before moving on to a lengthy coaching career. Parilli’s Denver ties ran deep, as a quarterbacks coach for the Broncos from 1977-79, as head coach of the Denver Dynamite of the Ar...
Fendi Sets Retail Expansion in the U.S.
Fendi is boosting its presence in the U.S., opening a new store in New York's SoHo district and its first units in San Francisco and Dallas. “There is such growth potential in the U.S. for the brand,” said chairman and chief executive officer Pietro Beccari. “Fendi has matured and it needs to be expressed on bigger surfaces. There is a more expansi...
Three Italian brothers seek to reconnect with their life during the Holocaust
Renting a house in the Italian countryside and eating loads of pasta is about as blissful a vacation as they come. For the three Anati brothers, however, such a trip is a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet the brothers — Bubi, 77; Andrea, 85; and Emmanuel, 88 — did just that in 2013, precisely with the aim of reconnecting with their past...
Call for Papers for 2018 Annual Conference: Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms
April 26-28, 2018 - JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE - Queens College, City University of New York - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan The 1935 song "Faccetta Nera," a paean to the Fascist imperialist enterprise in Africa, addresses the "little black face" that is the anonymous Abyssinian woman, an...
Time & Place: Remembering Italian POWS At Herlong
The Second World War prompted the establishment of many new military installations throughout California and Nevada, including the Sierra Army Depot. It was built in Herlong, California in 1942 as a storage facility for ammunition. To learn more, we join professional historian Alicia Barber for this segment of Time & Place. Located about sixty mile...