A Summer of Pesto
By Danielle DeSimone For me, summer means pesto. It's usually our go-to, last-minute dish. It's the "There's-Nothing-In-the-Fridge-But-People-Are-Coming-Over-In-Ten-Minutes" dinner that is thrown together in a flurry of crushed garlic, clanging pots, and the hiss of boiling water. Now that I no longer live close to my family, it's the...
US share listing lined up for Fiat-Chrysler group
Chief executive Sergio Marchionne's merger of carmakers Fiat and Chrysler will probably entail a US share listing that cements North America as the group's new centre of gravity and further sidelines Italy. Two sources close to Fiat said it was likely to move its primary listing to New York as early as 2015 after a merger with Chrysler, th...
Bernardo Bertolucci's IO E TE Opening in US Cinemas
Bernardo Bertolucci's first Italian-language feature in 32 years and first feature in9 years - ME AND YOU (Io e Te), a sensual coming of age picture, opens in NewYork City on July 4th and will then expand to more theaters across the US. ME AND YOU (IO E TE) stars Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Tea Falco and is basedon a novel by Niccolo Ammaniti's novel...
Political Pundit Chuck Todd Accedes to Request from Italian American ONE VOICE and UNICO National and Makes Apology On CNBC for Comments Stereotyping Italian Americans
MSNBC political commentator and "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd today acceded to a request from the Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition and UNICO National and made a public apology for comments he made on October 21st on the air during the "Morning Joe" show on MSNBC which stereotyped Italian Americans. During the October 21st Broadcast...
Meet Mario: Charles Martinet on unknowingly creating voice of the Italian-American plumber
by Andrew Griffin Mario's "woo-hoo", and the jingle of coins, might be the most iconic sounds in video game history. And, according to the man behind them, they very nearly didn't exist. Charles Martinet, who has been the voice of Mario ever since he became able to speak, has spoken on the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. ...
Mario Batali's Feast of the Seven Fishes
What is the Feast of the Seven Fishes? According to Mario Batali, "It's what Italians do when they say they're fasting." More precisely, the Feast is a meal served in Italian households on La Vigilia (Christmas Eve). In many parts of Italy, the night is traditionally a partial fast, during which no meat should be served. But in true...
Fuggedaboutit: Sal Valentinetti needs to win America’s Got Talent
by April Neale There's nothing like a deep masculine crooner voice in the vein of Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra. Lucky for us a 20-year-old from Long Island named Sal Valentinetti packed his whole famiglia and headed to the America's Got Talent stages and, not for nothin', he earned a Golden Buzzer! Last week was all about Gra...
The Sicilian Project: American Style!
Don't look now, but a group of Sicilian-Americans is doing something besides telling each other how much they love cannoli and pasta and Godfather movies. You are reading this right....some Americans are now actively involved in raising money in the United States and supporting Sicilian students FOR FREE by issuing academic grants to a QUALIFI...
Il re italiano di MasterChef Usa conquista l'America anche in crociera
di Agnese Gazzera Da quando ha vinto la quarta edizione di MasterChef negli Stati Uniti, non si è più fermato. Luca Manfé, friulano d'origine e trapiantato da anni a New York, nel 2013 è stato incoronato nello show culinario più famoso d'America e da allora ha pubblicato un libro di ricette, inventato un servizio di showcooking a domicilio...
Why translating languages is about to become easier than ever
Whether it's the "universal translator" of Star Trek fame or the weird but effective Babel fish from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, devices (and animals) for overcoming the language barrier have long been loved in science fiction. Today, the reality might be closer than ever. Over the weekend, Google announced that it will soon release...
PBS show: People from Italian villages energized U.S.
by Mike Hughes Over the past century or so, the U.S. has been energized by people from one small country. Or, actually, from a fraction of that country. PBS' "The Italian Americans" says most of the surge came from one piece of Italy. It's "not the experience of Milan (or) Florence," said journalist Gay Talese. "It's not Rome...
John Cabot University and We The Italians' Italian-American Heritage Scholarship
John Cabot University and We the Italians are pleased to announce a new scholarship that represents the strong link between Italy and the United States that has existed for centuries. As an American university located in the heart of Italy's capital city, John Cabot University embodies this strong bond. Italian navigators and explorers, in...