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"Stiamo vivendo un momento davvero importante per il nostro paese negli Usa. Le esportazioni in questo 2018 hanno fatto registrare un importante progresso e anche per il prossimo anno ci aspettiamo una crescita considerevole". Lo ha detto Alberto Milani, presidente della Italy America Chamber of Commerce (Iacc). Durante il gala annuale che si è svo...

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) announced today that its Earthquake Relief Fund will give $450,000 to the Norcia community, a town with 5,000 residents located in Umbria, in the wake of the devastating earthquakes that struck Central Italy in 2016.  NIAF is partnering with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) to build a new...

Italy is a 19th-century invention unified by an official language that, until the 20th century, most Italians didn’t speak. Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, the first of the four volumes of her Neopolitan Novels, takes place on the outskirts of Naples, in a neighborhood isolated by dialect as well as by poverty. Ferrante avoids transcribing th...

Through the Sons of Italy Foundation (SIF), and hundreds of thousands of family members located in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (OSDIA) has awarded nearly $61 million in scholarships to date. In past years, the SIF has offered 10 to 12 merit-based scholarships (National Leadership G...

Michael Angarano plays the role of Jack’s brother in This Is Us. When fans heard that the character, whose name is Nicky Pearson, was being played by Angarano they had a lot of questions. Who is Michael Angarano?A native of Brooklyn, New York, Angarano is of Italian descent. His mother runs three successful dance studios in the area, all of which a...

According to various reports, the cast and crew for The Sopranos prequel are starting to come together. The feature film project began with a deal between David Chase, the HBO show’s creator, and New Line Cinema. Chase and Lawrence Konner, another Sopranos alumnus, will get credit for the script, which is titled The Many Saints of Newark. Meanwh...

Love, Italy, and alternative-history fiction that travels down a what-if path to approach a truth: these have long been preoccupations of Christopher Castellani. His first three novels, the Maddalena trilogy (A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love), were published by Algonquin over a 10-year period beginning in 2...

As they say in Italian, Così va il mondo. For our US readers, hardly any of whom speak the language anymore, let me translate: “So the world goes.” From 2001 to 2017, the number of Americans speaking Italian at home dropped from almost 900,000 to just over 550,000, an incredible 38% reduction in just 16 years. Among languages with at least 100,000...

"I'm calling about a missing boy." Netflix has released a new US trailer for the film Happy as Lazzaro, originally titled Lazzaro felice, the latest film by acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (Corpo Celeste, The Wonders). This trailer celebrates the release of the film on Netflix today, for those who would like to catch this acclaimed, sh...

The offices of FoodFirst Global Restaurants on the ninth floor of downtown Orlando’s CNL Tower II are not the bustling headquarters of a national restaurant company — at least not yet. Only a handful of offices are occupied, boxes are still being unpacked and the main floor is full of empty desks, awaiting workers to bolster the startup company. Ch...

Deputata di Forza Italia eletta in Centro e Nord America, Fucsia Nissoli , nell’ambito del suo impegno sulla questione della sicurezza sociale, ha depositato una interrogazione ai Ministri del Lavoro e degli Affari Esteri, Di Maio e Moavero Milanesi, per avere risposte concrete sulla questione della totalizzazione contributiva per chi vive e lavora...

Italian-Americans, as the hyphenated name implies, represents and is a result of two distinct cultures. We can point with pride to our 15th century brethren who discovered the Americas. Colombo, Vespucci, Caboto, and Verrazano are some of the more known audacious seaman and adventurers that come to mind. Id Est: America was named after Amerigo Vesp...