We The Italians

Auguri Sophia: la Loren compie 85 anni

Sophia Loren compie 85 anni. La diva nata a Pozzuoli il 20 settembre del 1934 non smette di stupire e accettare sfide professionali. Sara' infatti la protagonista del prossimo film del figlio Edoardo Ponti 'La vita davanti a sè'', dieci anni dopo 'Nine' suo ultimo lavoro. Il film, tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Romain Gary, racconta la storia di Madame Rosa, sopravvissuta all'olocausto, che decide...

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The Italian American Baseball Foundation returned to Italy for a second time

The Italian American Baseball Foundation returned to Italy for a second time. This time they put on five clinics in five towns. The trip was organized by FIB'S Marco Landi and IABF President Joe Quagliano. Former MLB player and MLB hitting coach, Mike Pagliarulo, and IABF board member and former FIBS player Mark Cardillo put on clinics for nearly 300 kids in a ten day span. This was Pagliarulo’s f...

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Coterie: al Javits Center la grande rassegna della moda femminile con tanta Italia

Si è conclusa martedì al Jacob Javits Center di New York la fiera di abbigliamento femminile Coterie, una delle principali manifestazioni internazionali del settore abbigliamento ed accessori donna che ha raccolto proposte di moda per la prossima primavera-estate presentate da aziende provenienti da ogni angolo del mondo. Con delle credenziali di questo genere e con più trentasettemila metri quadr...

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Fazoli’s Celebrates Excellence During National Brand Conference

Fazoli’s – the brand known for serving up premium Italian recipes at a great value – recently held their 2019 National Brand Conference in Marco Island, Florida where they awarded their brand trailblazers for driving success. “Our National Brand Conference really ignites excitement around our newest brand strategies while celebrating the big wins of the year,” said President and CEO Carl Howard. “...

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Gianfranco Gorgoni, photographer of Land Art and the New York avant-garde, has died,...

The Italian photographer Gianfranco Gorgoni has died, aged 77. The photographer, born in Rome in 1941, is best known for having captured some of the most ubiquitous images of Land Art from the 1970s onward, including remarkable aerial views of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) in Utah that he shot from a helicopter. Gorgoni came to the US in 1968 to produce a photographic essay. His stay was i...

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Giovanni Colavita, The Bruno Brothers And Rosanna Scotto To Be Honored At 2019 Columb...

The Columbus Citizens Foundation today announced Giovanni Colavita, CEO & President of Colavita, and Cosimo, Gerardo, and Giuseppe Bruno, renowned New York restaurateurs, as honorees of the 2019 Columbus Celebration. In addition, television's Rosanna Scotto – host of Fox 5's "Good Day New York" – will receive the Columbus Foundation's 2019 Humanitarian Award. All five of these celebrated individua...

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Murano keeps Italian focus in sleek restaurant setting (review, photos)

A couple of televisions hang over the bar in the sleek space that Murano occupies on E. 6th Street downtown. But if you go you won't be watching them. That's because the real sport is people watching. Order a drink and gaze at the constant street traffic flowing by the restaurant, a snug spot between the even busier Superior and Euclid avenues. Women walking dogs, business folks bustling by, stree...

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Glassboro celebrates St. Anthony’s Italian Heritage Festival

On Saturday, September 14, the Glassboro community gathered together in Glassboro Town Square and Rowan Boulevard for St. Anthony’s annual Italian Heritage Festival. The event was held all day between the hours of 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Food trucks lined Rowan Boulevard, as families and Rowan students roamed freely to sample all the delicious food offered. Everything from lunch to dinner, and even dess...

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Drink coffee like an authenic Italiano!

Why do you want to go to Italia? For delicious food, for incredibly beautiful seas and mountains, for stunning history and culture, and extraordinary wines. Yes, these are all good reasons, but you are missing one very important component to Italian culture: coffee! IS NOT JUST A BLACK BEVERAGE For every single Italian, coffee is not only a hot drink. Every morning begins with a cup (ceramic or gl...

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Healthcare advocate Murer honored

Cherilyn G. Murer received the Top Women in Healthcare Legacy Award from PR News at an awards luncheon at The Yale Club in New York City in July 2019. The president and CEO of CGM Advisory Group, Murer is an internationally recognized advocate for the advancement of quality, cost-effective health care. As founder and president of Murer Consultants for 35 years, she advised multi-hospital health ca...

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New England

Pepe's Pizza: Connecticut chain is a paragon of Neapolitan pie and a New Haven institution

Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (known simply “Pepe’s” to its legions of fans) opened in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1925 and has long been heralded as one of the very best pizza establishments in the country. A pioneer of the coal-burning oven, rathe... Read More

New York

Cabaret queen Marieann Meringolo

The mere mention of New York City, Broadway and cabaret conjures a world of glitz, entertainment and glamor. Perhaps that’s why, despite the ascent of digital forms of entertainment, the cabaret tradition has continued to thrive in what Frank Sinatra... Read More

East

Pizza & Pasta Northeast 2019 Offers Aisles of Profit Strategies At Atlantic City Event

As an avid golfer who travels the world, Bill Oakley understands the nuances of course management. In each case as he has traversed the challenges of Scotland’s toughest links or navigating the challenges of Pebble Beach, the veteran show executive k... Read More

South East

Fazoli’s Celebrates Excellence During National Brand Conference

Fazoli’s – the brand known for serving up premium Italian recipes at a great value – recently held their 2019 National Brand Conference in Marco Island, Florida where they awarded their brand trailblazers for driving success. “Our National Brand Conf... Read More

Great Lakes

Murano keeps Italian focus in sleek restaurant setting (review, photos)

A couple of televisions hang over the bar in the sleek space that Murano occupies on E. 6th Street downtown. But if you go you won't be watching them. That's because the real sport is people watching. Order a drink and gaze at the constant street tra... Read More

Midwest

Italiano per piacere: Come si insegnano le lingue con i videogiochi

Ciao a tutti! Spero che tutti si siano divertiti quest’estate. Alcuni di noi hanno avuto il piacere di vedere alcuni di voi a vari eventi come la festa di Ferragosto e The Festival of Nations mentre per altri la riunione di Ottobre rappresenterà la p... Read More

South

Pizza Domenica opens Mid-City location, offers new drink selection and weekend brunch

Pizza Domenica opened its second location (3200 Banks Street; 504-459-2072; www.pizzadomenica.com) Sept. 13, taking over the former Echo’s Pizza site at the corner of Banks and South Lopez streets in Mid-City. The new location shares the same food me... Read More

West

Gianfranco Gorgoni, photographer of Land Art and the New York avant-garde, has died, aged 77

The Italian photographer Gianfranco Gorgoni has died, aged 77. The photographer, born in Rome in 1941, is best known for having captured some of the most ubiquitous images of Land Art from the 1970s onward, including remarkable aerial views of Robert... Read More

California

Former San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White and San Francisco Giants Pitcher Dave...

The San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade is proud to announce that former San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White and San Francisco Giants pitcher Dave Dravecky will serve as 2019 parade Grand Marshals. Hayes-White was sworn in as Chi... Read More

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