Voting for Italian citizens resident abroad
The Italian Parliamentary elections will be held in 2018, and citizens who are resident abroad will be able to vote. Italian citizens can elect representatives to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate of the Republic by voting for candidates who put themselves forward for the Overseas Constituency. VOTING is a RIGHT protected by the Italian Constituti...
Bobby Cannavale, Tough Guy, ‘Can Handle a Pink Couch’
Bobby Cannavale answered his own door. There was no assistant hovering. We had to be quiet, Mr. Cannavale said, because on the first floor of their new house, the first proper house in which he has lived, his fiancée, the actress Rose Byrne, was tending to their baby, Rafa, two weeks old. Softly up the stairs (stairs! Mr. Cannavale had always been...
Vince Promuto Talks About The Compassion Of Vince Lombardi
Of the five coaches Vince Promuto played for in his 11-year NFL career – all with the Redskins – the two-time Pro Bowl guard admired Vince Lombardi by far. Despite being a quarter-century apart in age, the two felt a kinship for each other, in large part because of their Italian ethnicity. They were also tough guys from New York City. Lombardi coac...
Say Hello to Marilyn for Me - The “Yankee Clipper” Revisited
Since I began writing for this blog, my articles have dealt mainly with famous indigenous inhabitants of Southern Italy/Sicily. It behooves me to mention, though, since the destruction of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1861, the majority of the members of our ethnos were born outside the borders of the modern state of Italy in what I like to te...
1986: 3 years after his national title, 7 years before his death, Jim Valvano made us laugh
Jim Valvano leaned against an airport wall wearing a tan overcoat over a black shiny sweatsuit, looking like a senior point guard and talking about, of all things, getting old. This is something college basketball does not want to hear. Jim Valvano is supposed to stay young. How can he entertain us, how can he perform all those sideline histrion...
Silvia Love, il 'ponte' con l’America
Gli effetti della globalizzazione hanno modificato sostanzialmente le attività ed il modus operandi di tutti gli attori della filiera immobiliare, annessi gli agenti immobiliari. Se prima ci si rivolgeva solo ad un mercato locale mettendo in relazione le parti per la conclusione di affari, oggi si può fare molto di più. Per l’occasione sentiamo Sil...
Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved? on Vimeo on Demand
A cinematic collaboration between and Italian-American producer and an Italian director resulted in an award-winning doculfilm about the calamitous and controversial collision at sea between the liners Andrea Doria and MS Stockholm in 1956. Featured are several survivors, including the legendary composer, Mike Stoller, as well as naval experts. Re-...
Italiani all’estero, Leonardo Metalli è il nuovo vicecoordinatore MAIE degli Stati Uniti
Leonardo Metalli è il nuovo vicecoordinatore MAIE degli Stati Uniti. A nominarlo Augusto Sorriso, coordinatore MAIE USA. Giornalista professionista, appassionato di cultura e spettacolo, è il fondatore di Mad for Italy, una organizzazione che anche grazie alle nuove tecnologie si propone di valorizzare l’italianità presente oltre confine, a iniziar...
Valentina Sumini won the competition published by NASA “Mars City Design Competition 2017”
Ph.D. cum laude in Preservation of the Architectural Heritage at Politecnico di Milano and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute if Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, with a chosen team of other researchers – nine students of different departments and research groups – refined a project regarding the establishment of human life on Mars. “We made se...
Tony Bennett shares five favorite duet partners, and the dream artist that got away
At 91, Tony Bennett is not just the dean of crooners, he’s the king of duets. Bennett, who began his career shortly after fighting in Europe during the final year of World War II, spent much of his first 40 years in the recording industry being called the “heir apparent” to Frank Sinatra among jazzy pop singers. And, like Sinatra with his Rat Pack,...
If only a lifestyle could become World Heritage
Writing for a living is at once a curse and a blessing: a curse because, believe me, writer’s block is real and hits when you least expect it. A blessing because nothing can really beat sitting down with your thoughts, day in day out, writing them down on a piece of paper - if you like doing stuff the old fashioned way like me, that is - and mould...
How ‘Coco’ Composer Michael Giacchino Tells Emotional Stories, Musically: Crew Call Podcast
When it comes to his ascent as a blockbuster film composer whose credits total close to $14 billion at the box office, Michael Giacchino has done it his way. Typically, burgeoning film composers try to find their way into an established maestro’s studio, doing whatever they can from making tea to loading up cue tracks in the studio. But Giacchino’s...