Padoan’s American mission stresses improved climate for foreign companies and investors in Italy
by Marco Valsania Minister of Economy and Finance Pier Carlo Padoan wrapped up a U.S. "road show" yesterday aimed at courting influential American and global investors, and listening to their concerns. The Minister held two days of closed door meetings with executives from about 20 top firms, including Citigroup, BlackRock, TPG Capital, Be...
Italian Singing Sensation Giada Valenti Makes Her Debut on PBS with Her Music Special “From Venice With Love”
Italian singer Giada Valenti will make her debut on PBS with her music special "From Venice With Love", during the Pledge Week taking place on Public Television from November 28 untill December 6. In her PBS Special the songstress takes her audience on a romantic and magical journey, as she performs her own interpretations of American and...
Gay Talese Honor’s Thy Heritage (Part II)
by Alfonso Guerriero Jr. The American media and the government's vacillating policies toward immigration over the past century have contributed to many like Gay Talese to question his cultural identity as an adolescent growing up in Ocean City, New Jersey during World War II. He described when his father prepared packages for his relatives...
Food exports to the US enjoy double-digit growth despite “Italian sounding” competitors
Everything may seem like it's "Made In Italy," especially when you're talking about food products exported to the US . But the reality is that only one out of seven items really originates in Italy and lands in the US as a truly Italian product according to EU laws. And that's a big difference. It's not by chance that the issues is central to TTIP...
Michéal Castaldo Announces 2016–2017 East Coast Christmas Concert Tour
November 26, Merry Christmas – Buon Natale at Our Lady Help of Christians Parish, in Staten Island, NY (Box Office, Brown Paper Tickets, 1-800-838-3006, Event #2628132), sponsored by Kearny Bank, Sempre Avanti, and Woodpecker Press.December 4, Home For Christmas at St. Brigid's/Our Lady of Hope Chapel in Westbury, NY (Box Office, Brown Paper Ticket...
ISSNAF: un bel ponte di ricerca tra America e Italia
Un grande ponte sull'oceano Atlantico, capace di mettere in connessione uomini e donne che hanno fatto della ricerca il loro mestiere. E che per inseguire il proprio sogno e mettere a frutto i propri talenti si sono lasciati "casa" alle spalle, mettendo radici nelle università e nei centri di ricerca degli USA e del Canada. Questa è, con u...
Italian-American characters feature heavily in new film ‘American Hustle’
by Gina Mastrangelo 'American Hustle' tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild Italian-American FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of New Jer...
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"Elizabeth Street" by Laurie Fabiano
Inside each of us is at least one great story. The challenge is to put pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard — and write it. In 2009, after a 20-year career that included marketing, event planning, AIDS activism, and serving as deputy mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, Laurie Fabiano self-published Elizabeth Street, a novel about her Italian immigrant f...
Buddy DeFranco: The Clarinetist Who Swung To Bebop
Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, a brilliant jazz improviser who devised many paths for his instrument following its peak popularity in the swing era, died Dec. 24, his website announced. He was 91. DeFranco began his career touring in big bands, but as the virtuosic style of small-group bebop became the reigning paradigm for modern jazz, he ad...
John Basilone: Italian of the Week
John Basilone was born on November 4, 1916, in Buffalo, New York. Both sides of his family emigrated from Benevento, Italy. He was the sixth of 10 children, and his family moved from New York to Raritan, New Jersey, while John was still a child. Once he turned 18, he enlisted in the United States Army and served his time in the Philippines where he...
A traditional Italian Christmas-time celebration of food and family
by Pamela Stevens December is a month of celebrations including the traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner. It is also known as Festa dei Sette Pesci, or the Feast of the Seven Fishes. It's a meal without meat honoring the midnight birth of baby Jesus; a custom that originated in Sicily and has since spread throughout Italy and arou...