Magniflex To Introduce Virtuoso Collection At Las Vegas Market
The Italian mattress giant Magniflex announced it's newest entry into the world's luxury mattress market, the Virtuoso™. The line of classic European design is uniquely Tuscan, by combining the best of nature, like horse hair, cashmere, merino wool, camel hair, linen cotton and silk with the newest innovation in memory foam technology. The...
UNICO National Congratulates Six Italian American Women Selected for the Italian National Team in Women's Lacrosse
UNICO National, and its President Rick D'Arminio, are proud to announce and congratulate six Italian American women who made the Italian National Team in Women's Lacrosse and will be competing in the European Championships this August - Alexa Cambi (Boston University), Kerrin Maurer (Duke University), Cate Soccodato (Our Lady of Mercy Academy High...
The Surprising Origins of 8 Italian-American Dishes
By Dan Gentile Sometimes the greatest food creations come from adapting to necessity, like when the Earl of Sandwich put meat between bread for a quick snack to get through long gambling sessions, or when KFC doubled down on Americans' need to be even less healthy. Classic Italian-American food is no different. When immigrants beg...
Media partnership tra RAI Italia e la NIAF
Rai Italia e la NIAF, la National Italian American Foundation, hanno siglato un accordo di Media Partnership per il 40° anniversario della stessa fondazione. La NIAF è la maggiore associazione che rappresenta e tutela gli oltre 20 milioni di cittadini italo-americani che vivono negli USA, con l'obiettivo di mantenere vivo il legame con le...
National Football League & Panini America Announce New Trading Card Relationship
The National Football League and Panini America (www.paniniamerica.net), the world's largest sports and entertainment collectibles company, announced today a new long-term physical and digital trading card and sticker agreement. The agreement, which will go into effect in advance of the 2016 NFL Draft, makes Panini America the sole manufacturer of...
Gloria LaMantia Bell and “Healing Yourself Made Simple”
Gloria LaMantia Bell is the granddaughter of Sicilian immigrants. Her Italian grandparents settled in Hammond, Indiana and raised seven children. Those children remained in northern Indiana and the Chicago, Illinois area, most of their lives. Her Grandpa sold vegetables. Joseph LaMantia, Gloria's father, worked in the steel mills and refurbished tw...
Fuhgeddaboudit! Oxford Dictionary says this N.J. exclamation is a word
A word that is synonymous with the New York and New Jersey dialect thanks to the pop culture portrayal of Italian-Americans in mafia blockbusters and television series is now in the Oxford English Dictionary. Fuhgeddaboudit is among almost 200 new words included in the September update to the dictionary, along with Yoda-like, clickbait and 'Me...
Bialetti, Italy's Leading Italian Cookware & Coffee Maker Company, Launches New U.S. E-Commerce Website
Bialetti (www.bialetti.com), the leading Italian cookware and coffee maker company, announced today that it has expanded its U.S. online presence with the launch of its own Bialetti USA e-commerce website. Shoppers visiting the new Bialetti site can purchase the company's complete line of cookware and coffee products, as well as authentic spare par...
Italian restaurant chain Sbarro to close 155 outlets in North America
Sbarro, the Italian restaurant chain that's a fixture in mall food courts, is closing 155 of its locations in North America. The move is part of a broader plan to boost financial performance under a new management team, the company said Wednesday. The closings affect underperforming company-owned stores and not franchise locations, Sbarro said...
La stilista Francesca Liberatore e le sue creazioni
One of the most sought after Italian-American musical variety acts, Ray Massa's EuroRhythms, have performed for audiences from coast to coast in the U.S., Canada and Italy. The band, acclaimed for captivating young, pop culture audiences while thrilling fans of Italian and Swing music, began their musical careers entertaining guests at Italian-Amer...
Italian chain restaurant hiring
KTAR's Main Street Minute focuses on local businesses that are hiring, opening and hosting events. Each weekday these stories air on KTAR at 7:27 a.m. More information can be found below. • Eleven Arizona golf courses have been sold as part of a $307 million deal with a New York private equity firm. The deal included Arrowhead Country Club...
At Funeral for Mario Cuomo, Praise for a Leader’s Role as a Humanist
by James Barron In the end there were the words, and the words were the son's, and the words were about his father, former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. "At his core, at his best, he was a philosopher, and he was a poet, and he was an advocate, and he was a crusader," Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at his father's funeral service on Tuesday. "Mario...