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Pixar has taken us to some fantastic places. We have been to space with Wall-E, the Great Barrier Reef with Nemo, Scotland with Merida, France with Remy, Mexico with Miguel, New York with Joe, and even the mind of a teenage girl with Joy. Now, Pixar takes us to Italy with Luca. Luca is set in a beautifully vibrant seaside town on the Italian Rivier...

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 Sony Pictures Television’s TriStar is adapting Laurie Fabiano’s bestselling 2010 historical novel Elizabeth Street for television, with Edoardo Ponti (The Life Ahead) attached to direct and executive produce. Tyler Hisel (Treadstone, Wayward Pines) has written a pilot for the project, based on Fabiano’s own great-grandmother’s epic struggles. Eliz...

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Written by Romano and Mark Stegemann (Scrubs, Raising Hope, Preacher), the pic follows Leo (Romano) and Angela Russo (Metcalf), living a simple, blue-collar life in Queens, surrounded by the big personalities of their overbearing Italian-American family. When their lanky, soft-spoken son, ‘Sticks’ (played by Ward), finds success on his high school...

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Italy has always been famous for its beautiful landscape and architecture, with unique locations and 55 UNESCO sites. No wonder, then, that many comics artists have chosen it as the setting for their stories, with funny, unusual and, very often, magnificent results! Here is an in-depth look at four comics set in the Belpaese. Arte We are at the hei...

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While working as a U.S. Postal Service supervisor, Frankie Imbergamo of Medford wrote a cookbook and appeared on TV’s Food Network. Upon retiring after 32 years, he launched another career working in films as a featured background actor. He also appears in lead roles of an independent film, a web series and several TV commercials.  Imbergamo’s long...

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Every now and then we read the news that some Italian soccer team is being bought by an American. Sometimes they are not Italian Americans, as in the Serie A alone, the owners of AC Milan or Spezia or Parma or Roma, whose previous owner was indeed an Italian American. As Italian American is Rocco Commisso, the owner of Fiorentina. In Serie B, where...

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With more vaccines in arms and the loosening of mask mandates, outdoor entertaining is booming. If you’re planning to host a post-pandemic get-together with friends or family, adding an Italian flair is always a people-pleaser. The food TV series Le Petit Tour on MHz Choice showcases the artisanal food products and producers of Italy’s Aosta Valley...

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Lorraine Bracco's voice sounds like a hug feels. It is a voice for belting "Oh, my God!" at news that delights or amazes her, for describing people she adores as "delicious." On "My Big Italian Adventure," the HGTV show documenting her renovation of a house in Sicily that she purchased for one euro, her voice booms joyously down cobblestone streets...

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Elon Musk’s episode of Saturday Night Live continues to court controversy. Days after he hosted on May 8, two of the episode’s sketches received backlash. A segment titled “Gen Z Hospital” was criticized for appropriating AAVE (African American Vernacular English) sayings such as “no cap” and “stan.” (In a since deleted Instagram post, SNL cast mem...

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Chicago was tugging at Mark Giangreco’s sleeve long before he called it home. When he was 8, he’d lie in bed at night — when the signal reached his home outside of Buffalo, New York, the clearest — and listen to the city’s radio stations on his transistor. He was obsessed with the music stations. He’d rock to WCFL and WLS and dream of becoming a di...

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