Vince Naimoli, 81, Dies; Brought Major League Baseball to Tampa
Vince Naimoli, a pugnacious businessman who helped bring major league baseball to the Tampa-St. Petersburg area but whose team, the Tampa Ray Devil Rays, never had a winning season when he was the owner, died on Aug. 25 in an assisted living facility in Lutz, Fla., near Tampa. He was 81. His wife, Lenda (Hill) Naimoli, said the cause was complicati...
Italian American One Voice Coalition debuts Labor Day video in new edition of “The One Voice Minute”
The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition (“IAOVC”), America’s largest independent Italian American anti-bias organization, continues its new initiative highlighting interesting facts about the Italian American experience in America with concise, interesting and fact-filled videos. Dubbed “The ONE VOICE Minute” the latest edition concerns Labor Day....
Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition Launches Petition In Opposition to NEA Resolution to Eliminate Columbus Day
The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition (“IAOVC”), a nationwide coalition of anti-bias activists, has launched an online petition to have the National Education Association (“NEA”) resolution to eliminate Columbus Day overturned and requesting an investigation by the Secretary of Education. As previously announced, IAOVC assembled a Task Force of...
Celebrate Italian American Heritage Month with Italian American Icons
Who are the champions of our Italian American culture? What can we do to help preserve our Italian heritage? Thirty-One Days of Italians releases its 2019-20 List on its website at thirtyonedaysofitalians.com. The List provides a person of Italian heritage to learn about and celebrate for each day in October, Italian American Heritage Month. In 200...
IABF - 2019 Guest of Honor - Joe Girardi
The Italian American Baseball Foundation is proud to announce our 2019 Guest of Honor: Joseph Elliott Girardi. Joe Girardi, was born in Peoria, Illinois and grew up in East Peoria, Ill. He attended East Peoria's Neil Armstrong grade school; and Peoria's Sacred Heart/Father Sweeney, where he was coached in basketball by his father. He then attended...
Well, At Least Leonardo DiCaprio Is Trying to Do Something About the Amazon Fires
You’d hope we wouldn’t have to rely too much on individual Oscar winners to combat an international ecological catastrophe, but the world being what it is, hats off to Leonardo DiCaprio for getting in there. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star is sending $5 million in donations to aid groups responding to the...
Cecilia Bartoli talks, again, of US return
There was a time a generation ago when Cecilia Bartoli's many U.S. fans could count on seeing her regularly in opera or in concert. The Italian mezzo-soprano noted for her warm sound, dramatic intensity and dazzling coloratura agility had shot to fame in the early 1990s while still in her 20s on the strength of best-selling recordings of Rossini an...
How Sculptor Vincenzo Amato Carved Out Two Successful Careers
Vincenzo Amato has appeared in more than 20 films, earning a best-actor nomination in his native Italy’s equivalent of the Oscars. Angelina Jolie directed him in the hit film Unbroken. His TV credits include Instinct, Madame Secretary, The Blacklist, Elementary, The Good Wife and Boardwalk Empire. He also has a career as a sculptor, working in meta...
Guess who’s coming for dinner: did the Romans really make it to America?
We all know when and how the American continent was discovered — let us not delve into the unnerving diatribe about “discovering” vs “conquering” here: there’ll be a lot of that around Columbus Day, in October. It was the Fall of 1492 when good, old Christopher Columbus sailed into the New World, thinking to have reached the Indies: it was the sta...
Michael Gandolfini ‘Never Watched a Minute’ of ‘The Sopranos’ Before Auditioning for Prequel Movie
James Gandolfini brought to life one of the most iconic TV characters of all time — and made HBO appointment viewing on Sunday nights in the process — as New Jersey mafia don Tony Soprano for years on “The Sopranos.” But his son Michael, who is set to portray a young Tony Soprano in the upcoming David Chase film “The Many Saints of Newark,” had nev...
Joe Perella, il guru di Wall Street: «Cresciuto ad Harvard ma col cuore campano»
Una leggenda di Wall Street con il cuore in Italia. Joseph Perella, Joe per gli amici, nel mondo dell’alta finanza è considerato un visionario. Perella & Weinberg con un asset di 13 miliardi dollari è tra i maggiori players mondiali nel settore merging and acquisition e financial restructuring con uffici a New York, Londra, Abu Dabi, San Francisco,...
Here Comes the Neighborhood—Italian Wedding Receptions of the Past
Weddings are momentous occasions for Italians, as with any family. They are about tradition and also about fun. Many beautiful legends surround the Italian wedding ceremony; however, little is ever reported about the receptions. Here is how I remember an old-style Italian immigrant wedding reception of the 40s and 50s. Most of the Italian families...