Save the date: Joe DiMaggio awards dinner on April 4, 2023
The Italian American Baseball Foundation is partnering with the Columbus Citizens Foundation to present the Joe DiMaggio Award. This year’s honorees will be Baseball Hall of Famer and Team Italy Manager Mike Piazza and Lou Tallarini, President of Real Property Investors and a former CCF President and Chairman. Join us on April 4 at the CCF Townhous...
5 Extraordinary Ancient Stadiums That Influenced Future Arenas
Ancient Greeks and Romans placed immense importance on the pageantry and competition of sport, transforming modest playing fields into a connected network of stadiums designed to honor the gods and affirm their power. The stadiums’ extraordinary designs have inspired new structures for thousands of years. From the 1900s to the 1920s, college footba...
Frankie’s Sausage brings an Italian culinary tradition to Sharpsburg
Thousands of Pittsburghers hold fast to their Italian culinary heritage, and Frankie Marckisotto is one of them. His point of pride: a sausage recipe passed down from generation to generation. “The recipe has been in our family for maybe 60 years. 80 years? Maybe even longer,” he says. “I don’t know exactly how long it’s been around.” Michael Conte...
Napoli is the top art city on Tik Tok with 17 billion views
With more than 17 billion views Naples is the most clicked Italian art city on Tik Tok, followed by Rome with 11 billion and Milan with 7.5 billion. Florence with 1 billion views and Venice with about 980 million. Data released by the Identity Cities Foundation confirm the boom in tourism in the Campania capital. "It is no coincidence that our coun...
NY State Police partnering with Rochester's Little Italy Neighborhood to present 'Neighborhood Crime Prevention' information to the Community
A very special presentation will be held on January 26th from 6-7 PM, by the NY State Troopers in the Little Italy Neighborhood (at the Rochester Community Sports Complex - 448 Smith St.) to present Neighborhood Crime Prevention information to the community. The information applies to all neighborhoods, both city and suburban. The event will featur...
Travel, what are the 10 most welcoming cities in the world? First place is Polignano a Mare, Puglia
The 11th edition of Booking.com's Traveller Review Awards honors accommodations in 220 countries and territories for their commitment to consistently excellent service and hospitality throughout the year. Once again this year, Italy leads the ranking with the largest number of facilities awarded, more than 170 thousand. The site has compiled the ra...
Chef Fabrizio Facchini Receives International Recognition After Feeding Millions Post Pandemic
During the Covid-19 outbreak, Chef Fabrizio Facchini decided to call his friends, food suppliers, and networks to create an organization where Italians, Italian-Americans, and Italian Food Lovers can come together to aid communities, people in need, and the United States. This led to the establishment of Italians Feed America, which collects food f...
The World Economic Forum in Davos awarded Italy's Wsense for the underwater internet
Italy's WSense is the world's most innovative enterprise in data collection and management for the purpose of protecting the ocean environment. This was determined by the World Economic Forum-which just concluded in Davos-which selected it as the only Italian company and awarded it the Ocean Data Challenge, as part of the session "The Earth Data Re...
IAP 264: Frankie D. is Keepin' It Real in Chicago
When it comes to celebrating our Italian American culture, sometimes you need to capture every moment as it happens. Such is the case for this week’s guest, Frank Di Piero. Frank is the host of “Keepin’ It Real with Frankie D.” at ItalianAmericanLife.com. With more than 100 “Italian American Moments” to his credit, Frank believes in making our cult...
Italy sets new record for organ donations
2022 was a record year for organ, tissue and hematopoietic stem cell donations in Italy, according to a new report presented by the national transplant centre (CNT) in Rome on Tuesday. “For the first time, organ donations in Italy exceeded 1,800 in one year, with a significant increase also in transplants: 3,887, the second best result ever", said...
Italian vineyards to visit at least once in a lifetime. Here are the “15 Wonders” in Italy
The New York journalist, Shana Clarke, has selected 150 of the most beautiful vineyards in the world in South Africa, Argentina, Chile, the USA,New Zealand, Australia, China, Japan, Georgia, Armenia, Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy that she has published in an art catalogue, titled “150 Vineyards you need to visit before you die”...
Hammonton NJ, Cannoli among top 12 in all of New Jersey
Growing up in an Italian area, family and food were a big part of life. Having dinner at a friend's house might mean a big plate of meatballs covered in sauce or perhaps a piping hot tomato pie. Of course, all meals ended with something sweet. In most cases, that was a cannoli. Who didn't like that fried pastry dough tube, stuffed with a mixture...