Fellini Forever
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 6:30 pm PT. Organized by IIC Los Angeles in collaboration with The Consulate General in Houston, University of Houston, Loyola Marymount University and UCLA. Entrance: Free. Register Here. The Italian Cultural Institute celebrates the 100th anniversary of Federico Fellini and the 20th Week of Italian Language in the Wor...
Sip Trip, Italy: una serie tv americana alla scoperta delle migliori cantine italiane
Sip Trip Italy è il viaggio on the road alla scoperta dei grandi territori del vino italiano, firmato e condotto da Jeff Porter, uno dei nomi del vino più influenti in Usa. L’idea è di andare in cerca dell’identità culturale dei territori mettendo in collegamento il vino, il cibo e con le persone, e con le storie che rendono questi territori così...
Celebrate World Pasta Day 2020 With A Week Dedicated To One Of Italy's Staple Dishes
October 25th will be the culmination of a week-long celebration of one of Italy's most beloved dishes: pasta. The second edition of the World Pasta Day festivities are set to kick off October 18th, 2020, with Al Dente, an event that calls the best Italian and international chefs to pay homage to the uniqueness of genuine Italian pasta. In partnersh...
Mario Puzo at 100: The Godfather author never met a real gangster, but his mafia melodrama remains timeless
Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel The Godfather was on the bestseller list for 67 weeks, selling more than 21 million copies worldwide. Puzo’s screenplay for the 1972 film adaptation, arguably the defining portrait of the Mafia in the 20th century, contained some of cinema’s most memorable lines – “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse” among them – an...
Raphael Santi/Sanzio – Celebrating His Art 500 Years After His Death
October 20th • 7:00-9:00pm - Raphael Santi/Sanzio – Celebrating His Art 500 Years After His Death. Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, all three known by their first names, are considered the greatest masters of Italian High Renaissance. Raphael created his own recognizable style -serene celestial beauty of religious paintings – but learned from,...
33 statues of Columbus have been toppled, but Italian-Americans are fighting back
In their effort to erase American history, the leftist mob has made Christopher Columbus a prime target. Columbus Day is increasingly displaced by Indigenous Peoples Day. The woke cancel culture mavens have torn down 33 statues of Columbus. Amid the Left’s onslaught, Italian-Americans are fighting to preserve the legacy of Columbus, Valerie Richard...
30+ Celebrities Join NIAF to Honor Dr. Anthony S. Fauci At NIAF’s Virtual 45th Anniversary Gala on Saturday, October 31, 2020
More than 30 celebrities will join the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in celebrating NIAF’s 45th Anniversary Gala virtually and honoring Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Saturday, October 31, 2020. Dr. Fauci will be presented NIAF’s 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Award for Leadersh...
Support Production of our Documentary on a Tragic Forgotten Injustice: "The Loneliest Road"
In a desolate valley outside Eureka, Nevada, lies the common grave where five Italian charcoal burners were shot dead in 1879 by a sheriff’s posse while striking for better wages on the burgeoning mining frontier. Lucia Mauro's new documentary, titled The Loneliest Road, is inspired by Silvio Manno’s 2016 book, Charcoal and Blood: Italian Immigra...
A Conversation with NIAF Chairman Patricia Harrison
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) will celebrate its 45th Anniversary Gala virtually on Saturday, October 31, 2020, and honor Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who will be presented with NIAF’s 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Award for Leadership in Health and Science live during the G...
U.S. labor chief: Don’t cancel Columbus Day
U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia brought a crowd of more than 100 students to its feet Monday evening inside the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Finnegan Fieldhouse. Scalia, who is the son of the late Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, spoke on Columbus Day about the history and meaning of the holiday, talked about recent efforts to “...
IAP 160: Conversations on Columbus: conclusions?
Happy Columbus Day, everybody! That is, if you’re one of the folks who still celebrates Columbus Day because, appropriate to today’s often contentious designation, we’re presenting the sixth and final segment of our “Conversations on Columbus” series exploring the life and legacy of Christopher Columbus! This week is our attempt to tie a nice big...
Why Columbus Day of 1942 is so Meaningful Today
Beginning on December 8th 1941, over 600,000 Italian-Americans were branded “enemy aliens” and were firmly under the surveillance of the US intelligence community. Out of that number, tens of thousands were experiencing a very broad range of civil rights violations and massive economic losses, and a few thousand were being held in internment camps...