Contemporary Italian auteur speaks of his new masterpiece
By Neal Dhand "La Dolce Vita is a masterpiece. La Grande Bellezza is only a movie," insists Paolo Sorrentino. He's talking, of course, about the current comparisons between Federico Fellini's indisputable classic from 1960 and his recent film, "The Great Beauty," which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Sorrentino is, of course,...
Holmes loves Facchinetti's chic designs
Katie Holmes has shared her admiration for Alessandra Facchinetti. Katie Holmes loves the "elegance" in Alessandra Facchinetti's work. The Italian fashion designer had a dinner thrown in her honour in SoHo, Manhattan, earlier this week. She was named creative director of luxury shoes and leather goods company Tod's last February and Katie, wh...
Anthony Rizzo: Italian of the Week
Anthony Rizzo was born on August 8, 1989 in Fort Lauderdale, FL to an Italian American family with roots in Sicily. He attended Stoneman Douglas High School, where his batting average was .468 with 11 home runs in his senior year. In 2007, he was awarded the Sun Sentinel Player of the Year & the Miami Herald Player of the Year. After g...
5 revelations from the Godfellas reunion
by Nick Romano On Saturday night, April 25th, the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival closed out its festivities with a Goodfellas reunion. While director Martin Scorsese couldn't attend, writer Nicholas Pileggi — who cowrote the screenplay with Scorsese and penned the book Wiseguy which was the basis for the film — joined principal cast members Ro...
NEW BOOK teaches kids Italian recipes in Italian
Let's Cook Italian, by chef Anna Prandoni, is a fun, interactive, bilingual cookbook for families that introduces the art and joy of Italian cooking. It teaches better eating habits and the importance of culture, while providing quality family bonding time. Featuring classic, simple dishes inspired by Italian cuisine, each recipe is shown...
(Italian) broccoli and US food marketing
The famous American ad agency Victors & Spoils has recently been asked to "find a creative way" to sell broccoli. Broccoli is an Italian vegetable belonging to the cabbage family and very similar to cauliflower, despites its green colour. It is a vegetable full of vitamin C and dietary fiber, as well as with high anti-cancer properties. ...
Emerging Pictures Announces “Cinema Made in Italy”
Emerging Pictures recently announced "Cinema Made In Italy," a major new initiative between Istituto Luce- Cinecittà, the Italian Trade Commission and Emerging Pictures that will pro-vide distribution and marketing support to five major Italian films with the goal of broadening the audience for Italian cinema in the United States. Emerging...
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations Coming up in Brussels
By Max Ciociola A number of newspaper headlines are claiming that the TTIP negotiations - or at least part of the negotiations - will be suspended. On the contrary, the negotiation process is still moving ahead despite complexities arising from harmonizing regulation of markets. The next formal round of talks, the fourth, will be held for...
Made in Italy Cinema Continues Its Ascent in the US
by Mauro Battocchi Yet another Italian cinematic release is coming in June to the United States, to the same country that recently lavished the Oscar on Sorrentino's La Grande Bellezza. Directed by Marco Bellocchio a native from Emilia-Romagna, this most recent film, Dormant Beauty, was called "the best political film of the era"...
Natale con Lidia Bastianich. Un'intervista
di Liliana Rosano Viene spesso definita l'erede di Julia Child. E in effetti lei, Lidia Bastianich, la chef più popolare d'oltreoceano, da Julia Child ha imparato a considerare lo chef come uno strumento a servizio del cibo e non come un protagonista del cibo. Mentre la Child ha imparato dalla Bastianich il risotto. Bastianich oggi è un n...
The Search for our Ancestry (IX)
By Angelo Coniglio If you still live in the place where your immigrant ancestors settled, your local public library probably has hard copies of the US Census covering your location. However, if you live elsewhere, you must search on-line censuses. I find that even for local information, using on-line searches is easier than using hard cop...
David Baldacci: Italian of the Week
Italian American author David Baldacci was born in Richmond, VA, in 1960. He started writing in elementary school when his mother gave him a notebook, though he didn't start writing seriously until high school. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He later attended the...