Armando Varricchio, chi è il nuovo ambasciatore negli Stati Uniti
di Bruno Guarini Armando Varricchio è stato designato ambasciatore negli Usa. La designazione è avvenuta nel corso dell'ultimo consiglio dei ministri del 2015. Il prossimo ambasciatore dell'Italia negli Stati Uniti, che sostituirà dalla prossima primavera Claudio Bisogniero, finora rivestiva il ruolo di consigliere diplomatico della presid...
Ferdinand Pecora: Italian of the Week
Ferdinand Pecora reached almost mythical fame when, for almost a year, in 1933, he publicly exposed the wrongdoing of Wall Street bankers that led to the 1929 stock market crash while serving as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Finance. His methodical questioning and thorough investigation incited the nation, and his int...
Nizza: Nicolas Leslie, studente italoamericano di Milano, morto nell'attentato
Venti anni, mamma monzese e papà americano. Milano come città di nascita e il mare e il surf - che aveva imparato ad amare a San Diego, città in cui era cresciuto - come grandi passioni. C'è anche Nicolas Leslie, venti anni, tra i morti dell'attentato di Nizza del 14 luglio scorso. Nicolas, nato a Milano e trasferitosi in California da bambino...
The Man Behind Illycaffé Says Americans Are Getting Better at Making Coffee
Andrea Illy, chairman of Illycaffé, the world-famous Italian coffee brand founded by his grandfather. How many coffees do you drink a day? Well, I have an average of four per day. Sometimes three, sometimes five, depending on how much I sleep and how my day is. When is the last one, usually? Usually the last is around this t...
Gra’it Grappa Competition to Award 10-Day Trip to Italy to Professional Bartenders and Mixologists
Gra'it, an innovative Italian grappa developed for use in cocktails, has launched The Gra'it Challenge, a five-city competition that will award seven winners a 10-day trip to Italy. This is the first-ever grappa brand to organize a bartending competition of this magnitude. Skilled bartenders and mixologists in the U.S. can submit a recipe for a uni...
Sons of Italy Foundation® Scholarship Competition Begins
The Sons of Italy Foundation® (SIF) scholarship competition is underway! In past years, the SIF has offered 10 to 12 merit-based scholarships (National Leadership Grants) annually, ranging from $4,000 to $25,000, in a nationwide competition. These figures and the number of scholarships may vary according to funding this year. U.S. citizens...
Belinelli strega San Antonio e l’Nba “E dicevano che non avrei mai giocato”
di Stefano Semeraro Marco Belinelli miglior realizzatore da tre punti della Nba: che effetto le fa?«Non è da tutti, ma non ci penso troppo. Il mio obiettivo è vincere questo benedetto titolo Nba, lo voglio con tutto me stesso. Il resto è bello, anche per il basket italiano, ma non ci do peso». Compagni e avversari la guardano in m...
Francis Ford Coppola shoots his first Italian-American film in 23 years
Why change a winning formula? We're guessing that's what Francis Ford Coppola has been asking himself before embarking on his new project: a currently untitled film that will focus an Italian-American family and span their experiences over thirty years (from 1930s to 1960s). We imagine Coppola'll be rewatching his classic The Godfather sin...
Why Italian migration is growing exponentially
With the help of Marco Mancassola, an Italian author and journalist based in London, a few weeks ago the New York Times tried to explore the reasons why Italian migration is growing so rapidly. According to the author, in the 1990s Italian migration was "mainly associated with the flight of researchers, scientists and other highly sk...
Yogi Berra at 90: The life and times of a Yankees icon
by Josh Peter Yogi Berra turns 90 on Tuesday, and for readers there is a gift: rarely heard "Yogi-isms," the inimitable quotations that turned Berra, a Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Yankees, into an American icon. Millions of people know the most famous ones: "It ain't over 'til it's over." "It's déjà vu all over again." A...
Fazoli's Launches Aggressive Search for Franchisees
Fast-casual restaurant leader Fazoli's, riding a five-year same-store sales growth streak, is taking its story on the road, part of an aggressive franchise recruitment program. Fazoli's, already the nation's largest Italian fast-casual chain, is hosting free open houses throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The first is January 26...
Consul General Antonio Verde: Spokesman of Italians Worldwide
By Valerio Viale Often, even among the most indefatigable travelers, everyone is happy to go back to the place they call home. Do you disagree with me? Please watch again E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial! At the same time, there are also people, who feel like the boundaries of their own country are too small. Their bottomless curiosity pushes t...