UNICO National Presents 2016 Marconi Science Award and Medal to Physician-Scientist Dr. Jon S. Odorico of Madison, WI
Dr. Jon S. Odorico of Madison, WI, was awarded the 2016 UNICO National Marconi Science Award and Medal by UNICO National President Ann Walko, at a gala award ceremony and dinner attended by UNICO National officers and dignitaries from across the country during UNICO's National Board of Directors meeting, Saturday, March 5th, 2016 in Atlantic City,...
'De Palma' Documentary Out Now
When it comes to the gangster film genre, there are several directors that immediately come to mind such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Sidney Lumet. One director that is no stranger to the gangster genre, is the subject of a new insightful documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow called De Palma about director Brian De Palma. &...
Co-Authors of Not in a Tuscan Villa, Amazon.com BESTSELLER for Travel Italy!
Interview by Marianna Randazzo GMM : Tell us about your lives before your year long sojourn in Italy. We were retired, but involved in our community on Long Beach Island, NJ. Both of us were volunteers at the LBI Foundation for the Arts & Sciences. We chaired fundraising events and Nancy enjoyed working at the clay studio where she wa...
Gli Italiani che fecero l'America a colpi di martello e scalpello
La seconda tappa dell'Italian American Country ci ha portato a Barre in Vermont, dove in pieno centro svetta la statua di un uomo con in mano un martello e uno scalpello. È Carlo Abate, "scultore, mentore e amico", come recita l'iscrizione, che da Milano alla fine dell'Ottocento portò la sua arte in America, da emigrato, e la insegnò per anni. Sul...
Mary Bonauto, l’italoamericana che ha portato le nozze gay negli Usa
L'alfa e l'omega dei matrimoni gay negli Stati Uniti è un'italoamericana di 54 anni, Mary Bonauto. È stata lei a far arrivare di fronte alla Corte Suprema federale i casi che venerdì hanno permesso di abolire in tutti e 50 gli Stati dell'Unione il divieto di nozze gay. Ed era stata lei nel 2003, quando praticamente nessuno lo credeva possi...
From the archive, 22 September 1947: New York mayor LaGuardia dies
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the most remarkable mayor of a great city in American history, who died on Saturday, was a native of New York City, born in 1882. His father, an Italian immigrant, was a bandmaster in the United States Army, his mother a Sephardi Jewess. In early manhood LaGuardia was employed in the Consulates of Trieste and Fiume, and later...
Is That Cappuccino You’re Drinking Really a Cappuccino?
by John Ortved What if the cappuccino you had this morning was not, in fact, a cappuccino? Scary. More worrisome still: What if your flat white was? There was a time when cappuccino was easy to identify. It was a shot of espresso with steamed milk and a meringue-like milk foam on top. But now the onetime king of specialty coffee drinks i...
Italian Composer Ennio Morricone to Run for a Golden Globe Award
Ennio Morricone has been nominated for 2016 Golden Globes in the category of Best Original Score. Morricone was recognized for his work on Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. The cerimony will take place in Los Angeles January 10. Today in his late '80s, Morricone has written nearly 400 scores and earned his first of five Oscar nominations...
Pagamento delle pensioni all'estero. Comunicazioni dell'INPS sulla campagna 2016 di verifica dell'esistenza in vita
Si porta a conoscenza quanto appena reso noto dall'INPS in merito all'avvio, a decorrere dal 6 febbraio scorso, della rilevazione per l'anno 2016 dell'esistenza in vita dei pensionati INPS, a cui vanno aggiunti anche quelli ex INPDAP, per un totale di oltre 360.000 posizioni. E' in corso la spedizione ai pensionati del plico contenente la...
Mickela Mallozzi on hard work, and making our ancestors proud and our dreams come true
by Anthony Fasano In this episode, Dolores interviews Mickela Mallozzi, an Emmy Award winning host and producer of the popular travel dance TV and web series "Bare Feet®." Born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut of Italian immigrant parents, she grew up with well-preserved traditions of the Southern-Italian culture, and her appreciation f...
L’Ambasciatore Varricchio presenta l'Italia in USA: Washington prima tappa della campagna #ITALIAIN
"Buongiorno. Sono Armando Varricchio, ambasciatore d'Italia a Washington. Benvenuti!". Sono il volto e la voce del capo della diplomazia italiana negli Stati Uniti a parlare a tutti gli italiani attraverso facebook e twitter. La Farnesina ha infatti scelto Washington DC come prima tappa della nuova campagna di comunicazione social #Italiain. Il pr...
The Enduring, Melty Allure of Mozzarella Cheese
by Nils Bernstein It's the most popular cheese in the U.S., and without it, pizza as we know it wouldn't exist. We're practically weaned on mozzarella. But what connects the string-cheese snacks we pack in school lunches to the sensuously creamy burrata served in the finest restaurants? The simple melty mozzarella that we're famil...