NIAF Photo Contest!
Last chance this month to show your Italianità! in NIAF's first-ever Photo Contest! The topic is the Italian spirit or essence! Italianità in other words! Submissions may be poignant, breathtaking, humorous, provocative, heartbreaking. They may be portraits, travel photos, spontaneous moments, family celebrations, ancestors, culinary image...
California Calling for Joey Giambra
One steady and reassuring fact of our troubled times is that good fathers still produce good sons. There are exceptions to every rule, of course, but a father who cares will generally produce a good 'un who makes him proud. As a member of various fight groups and boxing associations, I regularly encounter the sons of former boxers, trainer...
Italy Picks Sorrentino’s “Beauty” As Its Oscar Contender
Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," a tribute to Rome's decadence and magnificence amid Italy's current paralysis, is Italy's candidate for the foreign-language Academy Award race. Considered a Berlusconi-era homage to Fededrico Fellini, in particular to "La Dolce Vita," Sorrentino's latest stars Toni Servillo ("Il Divo") as a novelist with wri...
Italy-Based Auto Component Manufacturer Corum USA Invests $1.1 Million In Fort Wayne, Indiana Plant
Coram USA LLC, a global manufacturer of automotive components, will invest $1.1 million to expand its Fort Wayne, Indiana, production facilities, creating up to 35 new jobs by 2016. The company, which is a subsidiary of the Italy-based Coram Group, will lease, renovate and equip a 20,000 square-foot facility in Fort Wayne. Coram USA plans...
Italian restaurant signs on to Blvd Place development
The Uptown/Galleria Houston area will have another dining option when a craving for pasta strikes.An Italian restaurant called North will open its second Texas location as the newest tenant in the second phase of the mixed-use development Blvd Place.Mike Wheeler and Jack Breard of Dallas-based United Commercial Realty represented North and Elise We...
Il Gran Fondo Giro D’Italia approda a Beverly Hills: Avvio di gara con il Console generale Perrone
Clima perfetto per la Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia a Beverly Hills domenica scorsa, con quasi mille partecipanti nella capitale del lusso mondiale. I partecipanti hanno seguito due percorsi alternativi, uno nelle montagne di Santa Monica e l'altro nell'area di Topanga Canyon. I due percorsi hanno avuto termine di fronte alla City Hall di Beverly Hills...
Folk artist Ralph Fasanella returns to Lawrence
by Briana Palma During his career as a painter, Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997) was fascinated by the struggle the working class endured both before his time and during his life. For three years in the 1970s, Fasanella lived in Lawrence while he transformed huge canvases into colorful scenes of the city's industrial past. Now for the fir...
Italian ensemble breaking new ground in Tucson
The Italian Baroque chamber orchestra Interpreti Veneziani has played two sold-out concerts in Tucson in recent years. Both were set in Crowder Hall, a venue that seats about 600 and is your classic concert hall, with seats that can grow hard after a long spell and darkness that swallows the hall and forces you to focus on the light shinin...
7 Things Americans Can Learn From Italians
If you've spent time in Italy you know that life in Italy and life in America are very different. While both cultures have their pros and cons, we think Americans can learn a lot from the way Italians live. Traditionally, Italians have an easy-going and positive outlook on how to go about daily life. Italians live "la vita bella" (the beau...
Italia-Usa, domani alla Camera convegno su cooperazione universitaria
Domani dalle 10 alle 11 nella sala stampa della Camera (via della Missione 4), si terrà la conferenza stampa "Cooperazione universitaria Italia-Usa. Il ruolo dell'università La Sapienza a New York". Interverranno: Fucsia Fitzgerald Nissoli, Adriano Redler, preside della Facoltà di Medicina dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza" e prorettore...
Italian abate fetel pears promoted on East Coast
Promotions highlighting the arrival of Italian abate fetel variety pears into the U.S. are taking place on the East Coast. Abate fetel pears from Italy's northeastern Emilia Romagna region are making their U.S. debut, according to a news release, and promotions will offer sampling events in Delaware and New York City. On Jan. 29, an Italian p...
A Staten Island nonna's recipe for Italian wedding soup
by Pamela Silvestri Of all Mary Coppola's dishes, none is loved by the Scaffidi family as much as her Italian wedding soup. She has been making this soup for 50 years. "For Easter, New Years – oh they devour it," Mrs. Coppola says. "It's easy to make but too many things to do. My bones wont let me do this anymore, but I still do it."...