Matilda De Angelis on The Undoing Finale and How Embracing Nudity Made Her More Confident
Don’t bother with your finale theories for The Undoing. The ending is almost “impossible” to guess, says Matilda De Angelis, who stars as Elena Alves in HBO’s thrilling new miniseries. Her character is violently killed in the first episode, but her demise is central to the show’s whole narrative. For the past five weeks, viewers have been obsessing...
Support NIAF on Giving Tuesday!
Despite the support the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) gave this year to the Italian American community, the pandemic is not over and our work is not done. If you are able, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help NIAF continue serving our community during these difficult and uncertain times. Donate here. Your tax-dedu...
10 Interesting Facts About Bruno Sammartino
Bruno Sammartino was the grandfather of sports entertainment. Before Stone Cold and Hulk Hogan, there was Bruno Sammartino. WWE would not be what it is today without the star power that Sammartino brought with him every time he performed. Fans across the country would gather to watch him defend his prestigious WWWF Championship, and he did so in fr...
Dalla Camera di Commercio Italo Americana un aiuto alle esportazioni del Made in Italy
Parola d’ordine: export. In un contesto economico come quello attuale, fortemente compromesso dalla pandemia, un accenno di speranza arriva da quel segno + che dal 2010 ad oggi resta ancorato davanti al dato delle esportazioni italiane. L’unica componente del nostro PIL che registra una crescita ininterrotta da dieci anni a questa parte è una delle...
The Carlo Bellini Dissertation Fellowship
The Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (hereafter “Conference”) calls for applications for the Carlo Bellini Dissertation Fellowship. The deadline is January 31, 2021, the award will be for academic year 2021-2022. The Fellowship is offered every second year to a doctoral student (e.g., D.M.L.; Ed.D.; Ph.D.) writing a...
Columbus - Why Thanksgiving?
We, the defenders of Columbus, are not fighting against the Civil Rights of others, but defending our own, and most importantly, Truth. Context and citations exonerate Columbus, but of course, if we only read out of context quotes, we would have a different stance. In “A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies,” Bartolome De Las Casas, known...
A Toast for Dante | Honoring Dante’s Legacy and Influence
Organized by Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan - Detroit Metropolitan Area. Online event. Registration is required. We Are Making Our End-Of-Year Virtual Celebration Special Join us on SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 @ 4:00 pm – ON ZOOM! Exclusive Guests: Count Pieralvise di Serego Alighieri and his daughter Countess Massimilla. They are the 20th and 21st ge...
Italian Film Festival open to all
We are pleased to share with you the Seattle International Film Festival’s 12th annual "Cinema Italian Style” going virtual for 2020, from December 10-17. The festival is an event uniting the Italian community in Seattle like no other - and now, virtually, we can share with other Italian Sister City communities. We invite your participation in this...
Celebrating Italian Excellence with the Italian Trade Agency
We have some exciting news from the Italian food world during this Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo, or World Italian Cuisine Week! Eataly is proud to announce our new partnership with the Italian Trade Agency, to help you expand your knowledge of authentic and traditional Italian food and wine. Starting in January 2021, the worldwide join...
Enel Green Power Promotes Sustainability At Solar Power Plants In US
Enel Green Power is a subsidiary of Enel, the Italian utility company. Established in 2008, it is headquartered in Rome but operates in 27 countries located on 5 continents, providing electricity generated by solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass sources to its customers. The company operates three solar power plants in the United States — one in St...
2021 Benelli Leoncino Scrambler Announced for the U.S.
For more than a century, the Benelli brand has brought innovation to the motorcycle world, playing a key role in the evolution of the modern motorcycle. This 100 year heritage of Italian design culminates with Benelli’s revered Leoncino legacy, and Benelli Motorcycles USA is proud to welcome the legend back to America with the 2021 Benelli Leoncino...
Life and legend of Frank Zappa is told in music doc ‘Zappa’
If anyone dares compose a far-ranging 130-minute profile of the life and times of Frank Zappa, it would be William S. Preston, Esq., better known to cult movie fans as Bill from “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” And that’s exactly what Bill’s alter-ego, Alex Winter, has done with “Zappa,” an often fascinating career retrospective chronicling th...