Gina Barreca on staying true to your roots and being unabashedly Italian American
In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we talk with Gina Barreca, an Italian American author and humorist. She is the editor of two books that our audience may find interesting: DON’T TELL MAMA: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITING and of A SIT-DOWN WITH THE SOPRANOS: Watching Italian American Culture on TVs Most Talked-About Ser...
Il 2016 anno record (40 miliardi) per l'export italiano negli USA
Secondo dati diffusi dall’ambasciata italiana il 2 febbraio scorso, il 2016 è stato l’anno in cui lo scambio commerciale ha superato il valore dei 40 miliardi di euro l’anno con un incremento del 18% rispetto al periodo precedente. Già nel 2015 l’asticella era stata valicata, complice soprattutto l’andamento favorevole del cambio dollaro - euro. Gl...
Joe Mantegna — life has been lucky for him, and us by association
The first time I saw Joe Mantegna in the flesh he was in the flesh, naked as a newborn baby on stage at the Shubert Theatre in a 1969 production of "Hair." It was his first professional acting job in what is now nearly 50 years of steady and acclaimed work on stage, in films and on television. "I have been very lucky," he says on the phone from Cal...
Consolati onorari negli USA: in Gazzetta i decreti su Springfield e Anchorage
Sono stati pubblicati nella Gazzetta Ufficiale due decreti firmati dal Direttore generale per le risorse e l'innovazione della Farnesina, Luca Sabbatucci, che elevano a Consolati onorari l'Agenzia consolare onoraria a Springfield e il vice consolato onorario ad Anchorage, entrambi negli Stati Uniti. Il consolato onorario a Springfield è posto alle...
The National Italian American Foundation Awards Education Grant
NIAF Chairman Emeritus Joseph V. Del Raso and the Foundation’s Board of Directors are pleased to announce the 2017-2019 Instructor in Residence Award to Elissa Ruffino. For more than 23 years, Ruffino served NIAF as its public relations and communications director and chief brand officer. She is presently teaching at area universities. “We are ve...
L'italiano alla Disney, cinque cartoon in cinque anni e tre Oscar
A dispetto del nome, di origine russa, e del cognome, di origine ungherese, Mitja Rabar è l'unico animatore italiano ai Walt Disney Animation Studios. "Nell'intera azienda ci sono un po' di italiani, nel settore dell'illuminazione c'è un altro ragazzo ma come animatore è vero sono l'unico" ci racconta da Los Angeles. Negli ultimi anni ha lavorato a...
This Cheesy Mushroom Risotto Would Make Your Nonexistent Italian Grandma Proud
Aurora Leveroni is a 90-plus-year-old home chef who became known as Nonna Marijuana after she began to support her daughter's use of marijuana to control debilitating seizures. Her YouTube series on cooking with cannabis—and her appearances on Bong Appetit—made her a household name—in certain households, that is. So, who better to teach us the intr...
L’America ama Vinitaly: USA in cima alla classifica dei buyer
Vinitaly & USA: all’inizio di marzo 2017 erano 2.000 i nuovi buyer registrati per la 51ª edizione, provenienti in particolare da USA (da una ventina di stati), Cina, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, Francia, Danimarca, Belgio, Germania, Giappone, Svizzera, Norvegia, Svezia e Russia; in aumento gli arrivi da Taiwan e Brasile e, nonostante la Brexit, il...
IAOVC places SNL on their “WALL of Shame” for Ridiculing Italians
The Italian American One Voice Coalition today placed ‘Saturday Night Live’, Executive Producer Lorne Michaels and the SNL writing staff in the One Voice ‘Hall of Shame’. The placement followed a blatantly anti-Italian comedy skit on a recent SNL. “The slurs used during this so-called comedy skit have not been heard on network TV in decades and sho...
Italy’s investments in the US outstrip American FDI in Italy for first time
Italy’s total foreign investments in the US, including in sectors such as ceramics, machinery and cars, have overtaken US investments in Italian territory for the first time, figures from the US Department of Commerce show. In terms of stock of direct investments, in 12 years (from 2003 to 2015) the US has reduced theirs towards Italy by 2.6% (equ...
NIAF Awards a Full-Tuition Scholarship to Accademia Teatro Alla Scala in Milan
New York native Gina Viteritti is the recipient of a full-tuition scholarship from the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in partnership with Accademia Teatro all Scala, one of the most renowned institutions for training professionals in the performing arts, and Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business (MIP), an internationally re...
Confirmed: Alexander Graham Bell Did Not Invent the Telephone
Who invented the telephone? The first person that comes into mind, as taught by our science teachers when we studied inventors and scientists in grade school, is Alexander Graham Bell. But it appears that we were all wrong the entire time. Bell being the inventor of the telephone has been debunked in 2002 when the US Congress casted a vote and rule...