10 Things You Didn’t Know About David Giuntoli
David Giuntoli is an American actor who is known for playing the part of Detective Nick Burkhardt in “Grimm” and now he’s a big part of “A Million Little Things.” He’s been popular since he first began his professional career as an actor. His performance in the NBC supernatural drama has gotten him a lot of positive attention from fans. His base of...
Italy has potential to win new American consumers
The path to further growth for Italian food producers in the United States goes through quality and collaboration between the public and retail sector to win new American consumers in relatively untapped regions, said Antonino Laspina, the new executive director of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) for the USA. In his first interview since taking the...
Il calcolatore d’Ivrea in America volle andar
Sulle tracce di un giallo. Un vero e proprio mistero storico: la cessione della divisione elettronica della Olivetti. Che, nel tempo alterato dalla immaginazione, ha generato mitologie positive e negative e ha acceso le fantasie di quanti, alimentandosi della riservatezza che si faceva segretezza nella Mediobanca di Enrico Cuccia, hanno per sessant...
Nissoli (FI) all’incontro della bilaterale di amicizia Italia-USA con l’Ambasciatore Eisenberg
“Oggi, presso l'Aula della Commissione Esteri, ho partecipato all'incontro tra i parlamentari membri della sezione bilaterale di amicizia Italia-Stati Uniti d'America, presieduta da Mara Carfagna, con l'ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti d'America a Roma, Lewis Eisenberg”. Così Fucsia Nissoli, deputata di Forza Italia eletta in Nord e Centro America. “...
Zamperla honoured in Hall of Fame
Legendary Italian rides maker Alberto Zamperla is one of two inductees to the IAAPA Hall of Fame to be announced this week during the show in Orlando. Zamperla is joined by Frederick Langford in the honours, a programme that celebrates significant and lasting contributions to the global attractions industry. Antonio Zamperla has run his family comp...
Star Wars star Gina Carano
If you’re professional fighter-turned-actress Gina Carano, what do you do when one of Hollywood’s biggest directors asks to meet? Well, like any good Italian American, you bring a bottle of wine to the meeting, of course. And not just any wine, Carano told Fra Noi in an exclusive interview. This particular vintage was one that holds a special place...
Russo Brothers Deliver Rebuttal to Scorsese’s Sour Marvel Critique
In early October, director Martin Scorsese compared Marvel movies to theme parks, he felt they lacked risk and said they weren’t cinema. His comments to Empire Magazine rippled throughout the entertainment industry, and drew reactions from fellow A-list actors and directors. In an interview on Monday with The Hollywood Reporter, Joe and Anthony Rus...
Fabio Frizzi performing ‘The Beyond’ score & more on ‘Frizzi 2 Fulci’ tour
Italian composer Fabio Frizzi is best known for his collaborations with horror great Lucio Fulci and he’s currently on tour in North America, where he’s performing a live score to a new “Composer’s Cut” of Fulci’s 1981 classic, The Beyond, as well as a “FRIZZI 2 FULCI” tribute set featuring music/scenes from many of their other collaborations. He d...
Hello America!
"My best regards sent by the wireless telegraph from Italy to America - G. Marconi, 5.47 pm". These simple few words marked one of the most revolutionary innovations ever in the history of communications. It was 19th November 1911, and Guglielmo Marconi inaugurated the radiotelegraphic station in Coltano, Pisa. The message was delivered to the New...
Roots, Romance and Wisdom: UniCal’s Italian Diaspora Studies in Calabria
I could not imagine a more difficult task than to revisit the places that inspired his commitment to learn Italian, to study with Luigi Bonaffini in New York to decipher the Lancianese dialect well enough to translate his cousins’ poetry; or to stay with the cousins we love and first met on our Sicilian honeymoon; or my cousins in Calabria where we...
The NIAF 2020 Voyage of Discovery Program Now Open to Applicants
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) announces that applications opened today for its Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery program. Now in its 20th year, this all-expenses paid cultural and educational initiative sends Italian American college students to Italy annually, to strengthen their understanding of their heritage and...
Elezioni COMITES: Nissoli (FI) interroga Di Maio
Nel 2020 dovrebbero tenersi le elezioni dei Comites. Condizionale d’obbligo visto che nel bilancio della Farnesina non c’è traccia delle risorse necessarie per lo svolgimento delle elezioni e perché in molti – ultimo in ordine di tempo il senatore Petrocelli in Svizzera – hanno sostenuto che il voto sarà rinviato. A fronte di questa situazione, Fuc...