Ambassador to Italy and San Marino: Who Is John Phillips?
The new ambassador to Italy and the micro-state of San Marino is an Italian-American public interest attorney who owns a villa in Tuscany and has visited Italy "more than 50 times in the last decade." John R. Phillips, whose nomination was confirmed by the Senate along with several others on August 1, succeeds David Thorne, who had served in Rome s...
FED CUP - USA vs Italy: Williams Sisters are Ready, Vinci is out
The convocations for the play-offs and for the World Group's semifinals of the Fed Cup were issued today. Captain Mary Joe Fernandez chose the four players that will face Italy in the play-offs in Brindisi, on the red clay, on the 18 and 19 of April. Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Alison Riske and Christina McHale were called. As for the...
Linda Fratianne: Italian of the Week
Linda Fratianne was born on August 2, 1960, to former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Fratianne and his wife, Virginia. She began to take ice skating lessons when she was nine years old. Virginia saw talent in her daughter's ice skating ability and Linda loved the sport. A year later, Linda auditioned for Frank Caroll, and secured the award...
A Dinner with Luca: Luca Manfè, the Italian dreamer who won MasterChef USA.
Luca Manfè (http://lucamanfe.com) is from Aviano, in the province of Pordenone (Friuli Venezia Giulia Region), a native Italian who left his home country just out of his twenties and came to the States to follow the American Dream. At the time, however, he didn't know what that dream was. He grew up in the restaurant business and worked wi...
Frank Sinatra stage musical 'to open in 2018'
A new jukebox musical based on the life of Frank Sinatra is being developed, with plans to open it in 2018. The late singer's family has teamed up with Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) for an as-yet-untitled musical. It will feature songs from Sinatra's extensive back catalogue to tell the story of the man nicknamed the Chairman of the...
NEMLA CFP: Baltimore March 23-26, 2017. "Performing the Middle Ages in Italian Literature"
This panel explores the interplay of literature and performing arts in the works of medieval Italian writers including - but not limiting the choice to - Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. How do music, theater and dance contribute to shape the meaning of a literary work? How were they represented within a poem or prose? How were they integrated into m...
WWII’s “buffalo soldiers” commemorated in new memoir
Numbering 4,000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of the all-Black 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro division to fight in Europe during World War II. In "Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II" (published by iUniverse), author Ivan J. Houston recounts his experiences, when, as a 19-year-old California college...
Il Nord America guiderà la crescita del lusso nel futuro, secondo American Express
La crescita per il settore del lusso verrà dal Nord America. Ne è convinto l'89% degli intervistati da Ledbury Research per Departures, pubblicazione di America Express.Più dell'Asia dell'Est e di altri mercati emergenti, gli Stati Uniti potranno contribuire all'espansione del settore. Anche l'Europa, sia dell'Ovest sia dell'Est, farà la sua parte...
"Le donne italo-americane del Connecticut", l'ultimo libro del fotografo Anthony Riccio
Lo scrittore e fotografo italo-americano Anthony V. Riccio, dedica il suo ultimo libro alle donne. Da sempre impegnato nel recupero di quella memoria storica di donne e di uomini, soprattutto del nostro Sud, strappati ai loro territori da povertà e fame e delle loro nuove vite in America, Anthony Riccio, si concentra in questo ultimo lavor...
A pizza history of America
by Bob Kennedy It's a very simple dish: Some bread dough pounded flat, covered with tomato sauce and some Mozzarella cheese scattered on top, baked. Other ingredients can be thrown on (Pepperoni, sausage, black olives, green peppers, onions and anchovies are big favorites), but none of them is essential. In fact, even the tomato s...
Rita’s Italian Ice Awards Four Area Development Agreements from Washington to Hawaii
Rita's Italian Ice, the world's largest Italian Ice concept with more than 600 stores, continues its impressive expansion into the fourth quarter, awarding four new area development deals for Washington, Idaho, Hawaii, and Ventura County and San Jose, California respectively. The company opened 2015 with a renewed focus on growth at home and abroad...
Concerti, Laura Pausini: annunciato il tour americano 'Similares US & Latin America 2016'. Tutte le date
La cantante romagnola ha confermato oggi gli appuntamenti dal vivo che la vedranno protagonista oltreoceano tra la prossima estate e la fine del prossimo autunno: dopo gli appuntamenti in Italia con il tour di "Simili", Laura Pausini si sposterà in Canada, dove farà partire da Toronto il prossimo 26 luglio la stringa di date. Dopo altri tr...