Fashion icon Yolanda Cellucci
It's been 46 years since dress diva Yolanda Cellucci transformed her dreams into a glittery and glamorous reality. From "rags to riches," she emerged as a successful businesswoman and recognized queen of fashion. She is simply a living legend. I had the pleasure to meet with Yolanda at her chic apartment near Boston. I felt electrified by her char...
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...
Arturo Di Modica’s Cavallo in SoHo
While enjoying a night on the town with some friends, we stumbled upon famed Sicilian American artist Arturo Di Modica's Cavallo. Best known for his sculpture Charging Bull (in Bowling Green), the towering stainless steel bronco stands outside Cipriani's Restaurant on 376 W Broadway (between Broome and Spring Streets) in Lower Manhattan....
October proclaimed Italian American Heritage Month in Crestview
Mayor David Cadle has proclaimed October National Italian American Heritage Month in Crestview. Among observances, the local Order Sons of Italy lodge is hosting its annual pasta dinner. Richard A. Capozzola Lodge President Thomas Hughes Sr. said Cadle's proclamation followed Gov. Rick Scott's statewide proclamation. "Ties of Italy to Ame...
IT and US: The Texan Italian Stories Doc Series, Compiling the stories of the Italian community of Texas
WTI Magazine #46 2014 October, 29Author : Sergio Carvajal-Leoni Translation by: The ability to tell stories is one of the most powerful skills that humans have. For thousands of years we have used stories to make sense of our lives and to pass down cultural identity from one generation to another. Nonetheless, recording technologies...
Where is the 'Cake Boss' moving next?
by Gina Columbus The Cake Boss is making a strategic southern move in New Jersey. Carlo's Bakery, a family-owned bakery featured on TLC's "Cake Boss," will open another location 11 a.m. Saturday in the Marlton Square Shopping Center at 300 Route 73 North in the Marlton section of Evesham, according to a news release. A ribbon...
Esce il nuovo numero di “It@lico” - Novembre 2014
Esce in questi giorni l'ultimo numero dell'anno di "It@lico", mensile dell'associazione "Italiano per piacere" diretto a St. Louis da Franco Giannotti. Si tratta, spiega Giannotti, di un numero "in qualche modo dedicato alla montagna con il resoconto scritto da Anna Di Palma Amelung sulla "Storia dell'alpinismo italiano", le varie foto dis...
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...
Museum Premieres “Charging Bull” Documentary and Displays Replica Sculpture
On the evening of December 3, the Museum hosted the first showing of a new documentary film, "Lucky Balls," commemorating the 25th year that the "Charging Bull" sculpture by Arturo Di Modica has been at Bowling Green Park in New York City. Over the years, the sculpture has become one of the most popular attractions in Lower Manhattan and o...
Abruzzese Christmas in New York
I was fortunate as a child to experience many old world traditions from Abruzzo. My family arrived later to the United States than most Italian Americans. My father came here in 1956 and my mother followed him in 1958. My sisters and I were born in New York. However, our home was a step back into time, a time of simplicity and of old world...
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...