The New York Times Has Failed the Italian American Community
On March 14, 1891 a mob of anywhere from 8,000 to 20,000 people hung, shot and clubbed 11 Italian immigrants outside Parish Prison in New Orleans. This was the largest recorded mass lynching in American history. Nine of the immigrants had been charged with the murder of the city’s police chief, David Hennessy. A lawful trial had been held and the j...
Carmelita Pope, actress, Brando friend, was in many TV commercials, dead at 94
When Carmelita Pope’s acting career began taking off, she had to fend off gibes about the folly of pursuing a life in the theater. “It’s such a terrible living,” an old friend from Chicago she called Bud would grouse.“Whaddya wanna do with acting?” But she pursued her passion anyway. And after director Elia Kazan saw her in a film in which she port...
The Sims Reveals a Collaboration with Italian Luxury Fashion House, Moschino
Moschino and Maxis™, a studio of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) announced that Jeremy Scott will host his annual Palm Springs Desert Party with The Sims ™ to celebrate the launch of a new capsule collection. Inspired by the popular life simulation video game franchise, a whole collection of ready-to-wear items and accessories including Moschino items...
How Did Italian Food Become “Red Sauce”?
Restaurants in major U.S. cities once fit into two categories: fancy French on the high end and dreary workingmen’s hash houses on the low. Then came the 1880s, and with them a massive influx of Southern Italian immigrants. Exotic yet accessible, the restaurants they opened appealed to “Bohemians,” the hipsters of that era. Red-and-white-checked ta...
2019 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize
Submissions for the 2019 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize are now open! The Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize was conceived to promote the literature of the Italian diaspora and is open to poets of Italian descent writing poetry in English. The winning poet will be awarded $1000 and Bordighera Press will publish the manuscript, along with a standard royalty con...
The US Food Market Welcomes PARMACOTTO, the Gourmet Cold Cut & Meat Brand, 100% Made in Italy
Parmacotto, LLC is a new player in the American food market. 70 percent of the company is controlled by Parmacotto, SpA, founded in 1978 in Parma, Italy. The remaining 30 percent of the LLC is owned by the founding members of Cibo Italia, LLC, Larry Saia and Alessandro Sità, who are now respectively President and CEO of Parmacotto, LLC. Parmacotto'...
IAP 92: What It Would Be like to See Your Italian American Family on Stage with Candice Guardino Italian Bred
This is the Italian American Podcast, and in this episode, we talk to Candice Guardino, star of the one-woman show “Italian Bred” about her upbringing in an Italian American family and the dream she had to become an actress. Candice shares some very interesting and funny stories, and also talks about how her acting career has brought so much fulfil...
Better than Sisters - a unique crossover novel that captures the heart of Italian-American Brooklyn in the1970s
Volossal Publishing is proud to announce the release of our fourth novel with celebrated Italian-American author Catherine Gigante-Brown. Her BETTER THAN SISTERS boldly blurs the line between Young Adult and Women’s fiction. BETTER THAN SISTERS weaves a timeless tale that spans several decades, generations, cultures and genres, telling the story of...
Novita' su iscrizione A.I.R.E.
L'iscrizione all'AIRE produrra' i suoi effetti a decorrere dalla data in cui il cittadino aveva presentato l'istanza all'Ufficio Consolare: significativo contributo dell'Amministrazione all'innovazione e alla certezza del diritto. Il Decreto Legge 25 marzo 2019 n. 22 (c.d. "Decreto Brexit") contiene, al fine di rendere piu' spedita e certa la decor...
Master podcaster John Viola
While our immigrant forebears sat by giant radio consoles to absorb the news, music and culture of Italy, today’s Italian Americans have podcasts and, among them, one has remarkable traction. How much? Try roughly 20,000 listens per episode. Not bad for a program that’s less than four years old and the product of programmers learning the ropes as t...
Pavarotti Trailer & Poster Tease Ron Howard's Pavarotti Documentary
The trailer and poster have arrived for Ron Howard's documentary, Pavarotti. As its title implies, the film chronicles the life and times of the Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, complete with archival footage of the late artist and interviews with those who knew him conducted in the present. This is far from Howard's first time calling the s...
Anitya Marlowe, from the US to Italy: How I Learned the Italian Language in Sicily
Anitya, you had a really cool approach to the Italian language. Can you explain to us how you found your Italian school in Sicily? “I’ll start with the way I was introduced to Sicily. While I was at the hairdresser, I heard about this inexpensive one-week trip to Sicily for a cooking class in October of 2017 which was all inclusive: food, excursion...