Silver Prize for Best Travel Book of the Year Awarded to La Dolce Vita University
North American Travel Journalists Association, one of the most prestigious organizations in the travel industry, has recognized the “best of the best” of travel writers, photographers and broadcast journalists in its annual competition for 2018 and selected La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z by author C...
CiaoDC Chats with Author/Chef Amy Riolo on Keeping Our Traditions Alive!
Keeping our traditions alive are mastered by Award-Winning, Best-Selling Author, Chef, Television Personality, Cuisine and Culture Expert, Columnist and Mediterranean Diet Advocate, Amy Riolo in her most recent book release, “Creating a Cookbook: How to Write, Publish, and Promote Your Culinary Philosophy.” Amy shares the process of writing, promo...
“I Have a Naive Conviction That Images Serve a Potentially Positive Purpose”: Beniamino Barrese on The Disappearance of My Mother
Not many filmmakers have a mom who’s an iconic model from the ’60s, photographed by the likes of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, a muse to Warhol and Dali. Far fewer have one that kept that past hidden. Indeed, it wasn’t until director/cinematographer Beniamino Barrese made a youthful discovery — a stash of portfolios containing Vogue and Harper’s...
Andre DiMino featured on the Joe Piscopo Show
The outcry over Notre Dame’s decision to cover up murals of Christopher Columbus – murals that have been there since the 1880’s – has sparked outrage in the Italian American community. Executive Board Member of the Italian American One Voice Coalition Andre DiMino was a guest on dozens of radio shows this week including an interview on the national...
Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years
Colleges closed more than 650 foreign-language programs in a recent three-year period, according to a forthcoming report from the Modern Language Association. The new data, which the MLA shared with The Chronicle, suggest that it took several years for the full effect of the recession of 2008 to hit foreign-language programs. Higher education, in a...
ONE VOICE is asking that to support the Notre Dame Student fighting to save the Columbus Murals
By now you have heard that the president of Notre Dame, under pressure from students and Native American groups, has agreed to cover up murals of Christopher Columbus. Executive Board Member of the Italian American One Voice Coalition Andre DiMino has been speaking about this issue on sixteen different radio stations all week- including the Indiana...
Nfl, Nausicaa Dell’Orto: l’italiana che coi suoi film ha conquistato il football
Un nome da mitologia, un’avventura da favola, da “italiana d’America”. Col lieto fine da copione Usa. Nausicaa Dell’Orto, 25 anni, vive a Philaldelphia, dove lavora da screenwriter per Nfl Films. Racconta il football dietro una telecamera, si racconta alla vigilia delle finali di Conference playoff New Orleans-LA Rams e Kansas City-New England. Anz...
Leo Vadalà’s “Some Grief, Some Joy” Will Move The Reader. A Book Review By Tiziano Thomas Dossena
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. The term is commonly used as a synonym for the historical novel. An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the period depicted. Based upon thi...
'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro challenges rival Duff Goldman to the ultimate bake-off
When Duff Goldman and Buddy Valastro are in the kitchen, it's pretty tough to say who's really the batter baker. In an effort to determine the true king of cakes once and for all, the two celebrity pastry chefs will go nose to nose in Food Network's new series, "Buddy vs. Duff." The network announced Thursday that the "baking brawl" between two bro...
‘Sopranos’ Prequel Film Finds Young Tony: Michael Gandolfini Is Chip Off Old Block
He is the son of James Gandolfini, who originated the iconic role of Tony Soprano and won multiple Emmys, SAG Awards and a Golden Globe in an anti-hero role that made possible later bad guy turns like Bryan Cranston’s in Breaking Bad and future HBO series including Deadwood, Westworld and Game of Thrones. He died in 2013. he late actor’s son has be...
Viva Italia!
Flipping through the channels the other night, I ended up watching Lidia Bastianich making meatballs on her Italian cooking show. Lidia’s homey recipes and thick Italian accent reminded me of the Italian side of my family. When I was very young, my parents drove us from our home in Queens to visit relatives in Brooklyn once or twice a year. My moth...
IAP 83: What Your Blood Tells You – Mickela Mallozzi on Using DNA Testing to Travel to Ancestral Countries
In this episode of the Italian American Podcast, we welcome back our good friend Mickela Mallozzi, four-time Emmy® Award-winning Host and Executive Producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, through which she travels around the world and learns the dances of different regions. In this episode, we talk about the importance of DNA testing and herit...