Italian Studies Doctoral Disserations in Progress
Call for Graduate Students to participate in the AATI-ACTFL Conference in San Diego, CA, November 20-22, 2015. Proposals due January 11, 2015. "Italian Studies Doctoral Disserations in Progress". Organizers: Colleen M. Ryan (Indiana University); Salvatore Bancheri (University of Toronto) The AATI will for the fourth time sponsor confe...
How Alfa Hopes to Go From Zero to Sales Hero in the U.S. by 2018
The last time Alfa Romeo sold a mainstream car in the U.S. was 1995. A lot has changed since then in the luxury market, a reality that Alfa will have to reckon with as it plans to more than quadruple global sales to 400,000 by 2018 and ramp up North American sales from (effectively) nothing to 150,000 units per year. That would put Alfa ro...
2015 Pescosolido Family Scholarship Foundation
PESCOSOLIDO FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, Inc. for the TWENTY-FIRST year, will award scholarships for study at accredited and acceptable educational institutions in ITALY. You are respectfully requested to distribute the statement and the applications to interested and qualified students who may wish to participate in this learning experi...
ISSNAF Awards for Young Investigators : Call for Applications 2015
ISSNAF - Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation yearly presents awards to acknowledge the research of young Italian investigators working in North America, whose commitment to their discipline of study is innovative, potentially impactful and honors their country of origin. ISSNAF Board of Trustees encourages al...
Matt LeBlanc takes his Italian origins to his heart
by Michael Traversa To most people Matt LeBlanc will forever be the good-hearted, amiable aspiring actor Joey Tribbiani from the widely popular show Friends. The series was a must watch in the mid nineties and it ended its successful run in 2004 after ten years. The actor went on to star in the spin off Joey, which saw the charact...
Biden thanks Renzi for Italy contribution to security
US Vice President Joe Biden, meeting Italian Premier Matteo Renzi in Rome Friday, thanked him for Italy's contribution to security from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Mediterranean basin, the White House said. Biden and Renzi also discussed "our common efforts to degrade and defeat ISIS, cooperation against terrorism and efforts to combat violent...
Gary Valentti, Housewares Veteran, Dies
Gary Valenti, owner of Gary Valenti Import/Export and a pioneer in the housewares industry, died on Nov. 3, 2016. He attended Brooklyn College and City College of New York where he majored in Business Administration and Foreign Trade. After working for Sperry Gyroscope and Bendix Aviation, he was stationed in Italy with the U.S. Army. In 1...
How Nutella Conquered America
Women in sleek black dresses and men with messenger bags checking their smartphones, hipsters in flannel and sunglasses, parents with babies strapped to their chests, and lucky tourists lined the perimeter of New York's Madison Square Park on Monday. But the crowd wasn't gathered for a concert, club opening, or celebrity sighting. This was...
Francis Ford Coppola to chronicle lives of multi-generational Italian family for first time ever
By Todd VanDerWerff Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Patton, announced at the Produced By conference that he is writing "a multi-generational saga about an Italian American family not unlike his own," as per Variety. This would be new subject matter for the director, who is primarily known for his work in the...
Vincent Piazza è un Jersey Boy, italo-americano al di là degli stereotipi
By Laura Caparrotti Segnatevi questo nome, Vincent Piazza. Vi dico che presto lo vedremo con una statuetta in mano a ringraziare regista e collaboratori. Padre siciliano dalla voce colore del mare, e una mamma vivacissima di lontane origini tedesche, Vincent Piazza è sicuramente un attore in ascesa rapida. Io lo conobbi quando stavamo cer...
Italian soprano Magda Olivero dies at 104
Italian soprano Magda Olivero, one of the most prominent interpreters of the Italian verismo operatic tradition whose career spanned 50 years, has died at 104. The news agency ANSA said Olivero died Monday in a Milan hospital, where she was admitted after a stroke last month. The Milan opera house La Scala, where Olivero debuted in 19...
The National Italian American Foundation mourns the passing of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo
Attributed to NIAF Chairman Joseph V. Del Raso and NIAF President John M. Viola "On behalf of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Board of Directors, we are deeply saddened by the passing of former New York Governor Mario Matthew Cuomo. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Cuomo family. Cuomo died of heart failure on New...