Creating One of a Kind Adventures in Italy
By Carson McGrath Cassandra Lena Santoro, the founder and CEO of Travel Italian Style, believes that traveling to Italy can change a person's life. It certainly changed hers. There is something about this country, the topic of more travel books than any other nation, that gets inside your blood. As a Sicilian American, Santoro said she grew...
These Ugly But Awesome Cookies Are the Only Ones You Need to Be Eating Right Now
by Bryce Gruber If you grew up in a traditional Italian household, you're probably already familiar with the longstanding holiday tradition of baking brutti ma buoni cookies. The name sounds glam, but it actually translates to "ugly but good." That's because the recipe's end result certainly isn't beautiful: lumpy and misshapen is more like it. Bu...
Scambio dati fiscali Italia-Usa
di Cristina Bartelli Una ritenuta del 30% sui pagamenti di fonte Usa come cedole, dividendi, interessi, stipendi o rendite nel caso in cui gli intermediari finanziari (banche trust, fondi, assicurazioni) non comunichino i nomi e le movimentazioni dei clienti Usa intestatari di un conto presso il loro istituto. È questo il principa...
The music of Italian tenor Micheal Castaldo
by Miriam "Mimi" Medina Micheal is in a competition for this month of March. We are trying to get as many votes as we can to help him reach First Place and remain there. You have heard him sing, you have seen his interviews and have read his bio. Please click the link at Artist Signal and vote to help him win. CLICK HERE TO VOTE...
Apparel Veteran Pietrafesa Launches Internet Sportswear Brand
Former co-owner of a $120 million private label clothing manufacturing and marketing company, Joseph Pietrafesa, has launched a new sportswear brand called Va Bene Style. Focused on uniquely designed casual sportswear aimed at the upper crust leisure set and centered around the sports of Polo, Yachting, Racing and Equestrian, the new online label w...
Lamborghini: Italian excellence from the fields to the racetrack
In the beginning was the tractor. Surprisingly enough, farm machinery is the forefather of an icon of automotive Made in Italy that has also become a symbol of elegance and strength worldwide: Lamborghini. The history of one of the most celebrated Italian supercars, which has recently turned 50, begins in the 1960s in the Emilia Romagna re...
InItalyNow in the United States, a Way to Discover the True Soul and Beauty of Belpaese
There is an Italy which consists of small villages, hidden corners, local traditions, ancient crafts, old practices and, of course, fabulous culinary recipes. The majority of Italians still live in these little "Italys," representing the true soul of our Country. To promote the survival of these "Italys," an innovative tour operator proposes "direc...
It Wasn’t Just Japanese Americans Who Fell Under Suspicion in World War II. So Did Italian Americans
In 1942, the FBI began a program to produce and augment fear, distrust and anxiety in Americans of Italian heritage by searching their apartments at night, arresting them without warrants in daytime, keeping them in custody for questioning and examining the parents of sons who were U.S. Army Air Corps officers. I was witness to such an act...
The top six Frank Sinatra items you should consume
By Geoff Edgers I've had some e-mails after our "Why Sinatra Still Matters" piece asking for specific listening recommendations. Easy enough. You really can't go wrong, unless perhaps you pop on the future section of "Trilogy." But let's not restrict ourselves to music. Sinatra was an entertainer who crossed media lines. And his life story...
The ultimate Martin Scorsese showdown: Robert De Niro vs. Leonardo DiCaprio
By Olivia Armstrong In 1992, Leonardo DiCaprio was preparing to say goodbye to his yearlong gig as dreamy teen heartthrob, Luke Brower, on ABC's Growing Pains when Robert De Niro sought him out. During the casting call of This Boy's Life, Michael Calton-Jones' adaptation of Tobias Wolff's memoir of the same name, De Niro reportedly picked...
The Colossus of Watts: Sam Rodia – Designer and Builder of the Watts Towers
By Niccoló Graffio "Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them." – Lyof N. Tolstoy: What is Art?, 1898 When I was a teenager my father would take us every s...
AAIS Conference: Voyage to Italy. A Cinematic Journey on Contemporary Italian Cinema
Call for papers: AAIS 2015, Boulder, Colorado, 26-29 March 2015Voyage to Italy: a Cinematic Journey on Contemporary Italian Cinema (Panel)Organizer: Tina Pugliese (University of Colorado at Boulder)The panel is open to contributions that explore modern and contemporary Italian cinematic representations and most recent trends in Italian cinema, and...