Frank L. Rizzo, the Emperor of Philadelphia
By Niccolò Graffio"The streets of Philadelphia are safe. It's only the people who make them unsafe." – Frank. L. Rizzo "The City of Brotherly Love" began as a settlement founded by William Penn in 1682. The previous year, Penn had received a charter from King Charles II of England to establish what would eventually become the Pennsylvania Colony...
L’America, l’Italia e il G7. Parla l’ambasciatore Varricchio
"Sono sicuramente alcune delle questioni più rilevanti che ci siano in questo momento" e l'ambasciatore Armando Varricchio vuole che l'Italia non manchi al tavolo di discussione della Georgetown University, dove due giorni fa si è parlato di energia e innovazione, grazie alla collaborazione e alla ricerca portata avanti dalla storica università del...
Anno della cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti: dopo un lungo e delicato restauro riprende a suonare antico organo
WASHINGTON, 12 gennaio 2013 – Restaurato un prezioso bene dello Stato: dopo lunghi e delicati lavori tona a suonare l'antico organo eolico di Villa Firenze, residenza dell'Ambasciatore d'Italia a Washington. Lo strumento, costruito nel 1925 dalla Aeolian Company, è un pezzo raro, uno dei pochissimi organi eolici americani dell'epoca ancora attivi,...
Southern Italian Immigration
By Nicola Colella Can you imagine what it was like to say goodbye to your family, your home and your friends? To leave for a strange country, not knowing the language, and with little or no money? Who would do such a thing? Why would anyone do something so drastic?The following is not "pretty story." It is however a TRUE STORY that ends we...
Fiat's fight over Chrysler stake may not go to trial until 2015
Fiat SpA may have to wait until 2015 before a judge will decide the price the Italian automaker would have to pay to buy out a minority shareholder of its Chrysler business, according to court filings. Delaware judge Donald Parsons should allow a "reasonable time" to prepare for a trial to decide what Fiat must pay to buy part of the 41.5 percent...
Sea Isle City’s Italian Festival, Columbus Day Parade Set For Oct. 11
Sea Isle City's 24th Annual Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival will take place Oct. 11, sponsored by Mayor Leonard Desiderio and his family. Both events will celebrate Sea Isle's rich Italian heritage while delighting people of all ages with live music and other entertainment. The Columbus Day Parade will begin at 2:00 p.m. in front...
125th COLUMBUS DAY PARADE & COMMEMORATION Sunday, October 4, 2015
Join Baltimore's Italian community in the longest-running parade and commemoration in the country to honor Christopher Columbus - in its 125th year! The day-long festivities begin with 9:15 am Mass at Saint Leo's, 10:30 am Wreath Laying Ceremony at Columbus Piazza (President St/Eastern Ave), 11:30 am brunch at Little Italy Lodge (for paid ticket ho...
Mercer County Park hosts 14th annual Italian American Festival
by Mark Syp All are invited to come and enjoy family, food and fun, all while celebrating the culture and heritage of one of New Jersey's proudest and most prominent communities, at the Mercer County Italian American Festival. Now in its 14th year, the festival, which runs today through Sunday at Mercer County Park, was named one...
Heritage group honors Bloomfield leader
The 38th Annual New Jersey Heritage Festival Ball recognized Dr. Emanuele "Manny" Alfano of Bloomfield as an Outstanding Ethnic Leader. Alfano is national chairman Unico National's Anti Bias Committee and president of the Italian American One Voice Coalition. Read more Source: http://www.northjersey.com &nbs...
National Gallery of Art acquires 16 new works, from the 15th century to a New York video
The National Gallery of Art has acquired 16 works, including its first by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, a mid-15th-century group of Nottingham alabasters, a winter scene by Dutch master Jan van Goyen and a 61-minute video homage to New York. The spring acquisitions "constitute a broad span of subject matter across a range of medi...
‘A Bronx Tale’: Full of sound and fury, signifying stereotypes
On Jan. 31, at the Levoy Theater in Millville, actor Chazz Palminteri stages a revival of his original play "A Bronx Tale" (which was turned into a popular 1993 movie with Robert De Niro). The chief appeal of the show, particularly for Italian Americans of a certain era, is to wax nostalgic over memories of "the old neighborhood" — that is...
Gli italiani che scolpirono il presidente. Il viaggio si conclude al Lincoln Memorial
Ieri siamo volati a Washington, dopo aver lasciato la macchina che per un mese ha portato l'Italian American Country tour a ovest, fino a toccare la West Coast. Siamo arrivati nel luogo dove l'America celebra i suoi padri, da George Washington a Thomas Jefferson, ad Abraham Lincoln. In pochi sanno che proprio il mausoleo di Lincoln racchiude un pe...