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Nel 1969 tutti i giornali e le tv del mondo ne hanno parlato. E’ stato forse l’unico italiano a fare la guerra in Vietnam ma non ha nulla a che a fare con John Rambo, il personaggio interpretato da Sylvester Stallone, al quale è stato spesso accostato. A 19 anni era già un veterano di guerra, un marine pluridecorato con 5 medaglie al valore. Robert...

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by Briana Palma   For decades, people in the Boston area and beyond have welcomed Ron Della Chiesa into their homes — every Saturday at 8 p.m. to be exact. That's when they turn their radios — and now, their Internet browsers — to 99.5, to listen in as he broadcasts live from Symphony Hall, transmitting the "electric" atmosphere inside the b...

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The Friends of Radio Maria and the Poor will raise funds for both causes at their third annual Family Night on Sept. 25 at Villa Brunetti in Franklin Park. A Catholic radio program broadcast around the world in several different languages, Radio Maria is spearheaded locally in Italian by the Rev. August Feccia. Fr. Feccia recently expanded hi...

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by Jacques Kelly   Mary Torrieri, the host of an Italian-American radio program who was also active in local charities, died of heart failure Dec. 29 at Riderwood Village in Rockville. The former Towson resident was 94.   Born Mary Nagro in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of Joseph Nagro, a stonemason, and Agatha "Ida" DiBrigida Na...

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710 WOR-AM, The New York Mets flagship radio station, today announced that Wayne Randazzo will join the radio broadcast team for Mets games broadcasts.   Randazzo is a seasoned sports broadcaster from Chicago, with more than 10 years of experience and will join play-by-play announcer Howie Rose and Josh Lewin. He will host a 30-minute pre-ga...

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John LaBarca's Italian house party radio program has remained on-air for many reasons, but primarily because it touches the hearts and memories of everyone that listens, not just Italians, but everyone who remembers the love and traditions of their own family. John reminisces about the little things that stay with us from childhood. All the memori...

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Join Mr. Fix-it, Lou Manfredini, as he embarks on a new broadcast series, On the Road with Lou, a bi-monthly live remote held at various locations throughout the Chicagoland area. Solve your latest do-it-yourself problems and have the chance to win great prizes, courtesy of Siding-1 Windows-1 Exteriors!   Lou's next broadcast will be on Satu...

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By Kathleen Ganster With a name like Salvatore Patitucci, it isn't hard to determine that Mr. Patitucci is Italian. Born and raised in Italy, Mr. Patitucci followed his parents to the United States in 1960. Newly married to Elena, who was already an American citizen, the young couple settled in Aspinwall near his parents.   In 1964, he...

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Nanette Rainone, who as a reporter and programmer at the New York radio station WBAI in the late 1960s and early '70s created some of the first programs dedicated to feminism and women's issues, died on May 23 at her home in Manhattan. She was 73.   The cause was complications of breast cancer, her son, Bruno Blumenfeld, said. Ms. Raino...

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by Raeleen D'Agostino Mautner   Among the many guests I have been blessed to interview on THE ITALIAN ART OF LIVING WELL (www.wnhu.net) Micheal Castaldo is perhaps among the most memorable.   Some time ago, I had chosen one of this artist's hit songs, "Calabrisella Mia", as the theme for my program, for the same reason I recently insi...

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