CNN has renewed Stanley Tucci's travel and food show "Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy" for a second season, the cable outlet announced Wednesday. The show features the actor traveling throughout various regions of Italy, sampling local delicacies and interviewing chefs, restaurateurs and other people involved in the country’s food industry. The...

Writer Luca Zingaretti created the commissioner Salvo Montalbano. He’s a character that with its feet and roots deep in Sicilian ground. The company production has recently announced that March 8th is the last episode. That’s it. The last chapter is Il metodo Catalanotti. Sicily’s reaction The show’s location is Noto, a gorgeous baroque town in pro...

Steven Vincent Buscemi was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, to John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, and Dorothy Buscemi, a hostess at Howard Johnson’s. Buscemi’s father was of Italian descent; his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily.  The family moved to Valley Stream in Nassau County and Buscemi gradu...

2021 has just started and Italy and the entire world is still struggling against the coronavirus pandemic. Nevertheless, Italians are not willing to renounce the most awaited musical festival known everywhere: the Sanremo Music Festival. The Sanremo Festival has a long tradition, actually this year we celebrate its 70th birthday. Something worth no...

When “Ellen” calls, you listen. A recent phone call from the “Ellen” show landed Staten Island history teacher Gaspare Randazzo on Monday’s episode. “When the ‘Ellen’ show called me, it was like 7:30 p.m. and I thought it was one of those spam calls to extend my car warranty or something,” said Randazzo, 31, of Huguenot. “I wasn’t going to pick up,...

When Pittsburghers hear “that’s amore,” they probably think of the classic Dean Martin song or maybe former Pirates catcher Francisco Cervelli, who used the ballad as his walkup music and later in a sketch where he provided love advice for fans at PNC Park. Here’s another potential association: “That’s Amore” is a film shot around the Pittsburgh ar...

Netflix, the American media services provider, has underscored its strong links with Rome by choosing to open a base in the Via Veneto area of the capital. The Rome launch by the US streaming  giant was delayed by the covid-19 pandemic however it now plans to open in the Italian capital in the second half of 2021, according to Variety.

Over the years, Fra Noi has featured many film industry standouts who have made a positive impact on their industry, but none with a story of youthful exuberance, persistence and vision quite like 22-year-old Taylor Taglianetti. As founder of the National Organization of Italian Americans in Film & Television, the recent NYU graduate advances a sim...

Happy tears flowed on Thursday’s “Drew Barrymore Show” thanks to one chef taking a moment out of her busy schedule to honor another chef. It all started when the host of the show introduced her audience to her latest “Drew-Gooder,” a charitable caterer named Antonella Loiacono, who’s used her own company to provide food to front-line workers at 15...

Before the pandemic upended travel, Academy Award-nominated actor Stanley Tucci took a series of trips to Italy to document the glories of Italian cuisine. These weren't mere pleasure trips. In February 2020, CNN announced what Tucci was up to: creating a food and travel series that sounded like a love letter to Italy. Sadly, the letter couldn't be...