Hylton Students Receive Scholarships to Study Abroad
The summer of 2018 holds great promise for six students from Hylton High School who will study in Italy for three weeks. An academic immersion program will give them first-hand experiences in the contemporary culture of Italy and enhance their understanding of the history of the language. The students are enrolled in Hylton’s Center for Internation...
Dominic Reali and the Amato's Italian are both very real
Maine is the birthplace of the Italian sandwich. They were first made by John Amato at his shop down on India Street. For the past 45 years, they have been made by Dominic Reali who has also expanded the chain to 42 stores. Mr. Reali is a real Italian himself, having immigrated to the United States in 1955. Speaking no English, he went to work and...
Ferrante Fever with Ann Goldstein
Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, published in English between 2011 and 2015, tell the story, in sometimes excruciating psychological detail, of the sixty-year friendship between two girls from a crumbling, violent neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. The books became best-sellers in America and England, and because the author had decided to...
Lucy DeVito’s favorite spot to grab Negroni with her dad
“Wikipedia is wrong!” Lucy DeVito says. “I was born in Los Angeles, not New York, but my parents and I would come here a lot, so I feel like a New Yorker.” The oldest of Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman’s three children finally made it official 10 years ago, when she moved here. Now 34, she’s starring in off-Broadway’s “Hot Mess.” From Brooklyn’s Clin...
Bertoia sound sculptures reverberate in Allentown
It began as an accident, one of those serendipitous events in an artist’s life. For Harry Bertoia, it was an accident that would launch a series of unique sculptures that would become world-renowned. The story goes that Bertoia, an Italian-born American artist, sculptor and designer, was in his studio in Bally, Berks County, when it happened. In th...
Forghedaboudit plans Thanksgiving feast for needy
Holidays bring out the best in Bob and Kim Yacone. The couple owns and operates Forghedaboudit Authentic New York Italian Cuisine and are prepping to feed the homeless and less fortunate on Thanksgiving Day. “We will be serving turkey with all the trimmings from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,” said Kim. The dinner became an annual event based on last year’s at...
Meridiana to pursue growth, rebrand as Air Italy; Meridiana has previously been shrinking
On 7-Nov-2017 Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker told the CAPA Asia Aviation Summit that Meridiana would be rebranded after its subsidiary Air Italy and aim to become "the flag carrier of Italy". He predicted robust growth for Meridiana, after an extended period of contraction. An important first step will be to secure the appointment of a new CEO fo...
Nissoli (FI) su “America Oggi”: Ammodernare i servizi consolari
Ieri, 19 novembre, l’on. Fucsia FitzGerald Nissoli, deputata eletta all’estero e coordinatrice di Forza Italia in Nord e Centro America, ha pubblicato un articolo su “America Oggi” in cui parla della sua attività legislativa per sollecitare l’implementazione di servizi innovativi anche all’estero, presso i consolati, in maniera che siano più effici...
“Tutte le strade portano a Roma” and some have very quirky names
Indeed, at the times of the Empire, all roads led to Rome, especially when you think the Romans are behind the creation of the first Italian and European communication arteries in history. Don’t we all know about the Via Aurelia, the Via Salaria or the Via Appia? Aren’t we all more or less familiar with their names and the people they were christe...
The Story Behind the Italian Villa in Call Me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino—the Italian movie director whose 2009’s I Am Love, starring Tilda Swinton, raised the bar for sensual set decoration—assembled an ace creative team for his new film, Call Me By Your Name, which opens in the United States on November 24. James Ivory, the Oscar-winning director and co-founder of Merchant Ivory Productions, wrote the s...
Larkin Hammond’s Italian restaurant Limoncello is steeped in family history
When Larkin Hammond was a young child, she began cooking on a wood stove in her Italian grandmother’s kitchen. “She didn’t cook by recipe,” Hammond says. “She was the first farm-to-table person I met.” Hammond’s mother and grandmother also owned a neighborhood restaurant together. It was those experiences that laid the groundwork for Hammond’s life...
Author Talk Video: “From Italy to Boston’s North End – The Photographs of Anthony V. Riccio 1972-1982”
Anthony V. Riccio recently presented photographs from his book From Italy to Boston’s North End – The Photographs of Anthony V. Riccio 1972-1982. The book documents the arc of the Italian American immigration experience with images of daily life taken in the rural villages of southern Italy to everyday life in Boston’s North End during the 1970’s...