Negri Bossi's new owners may 'bring significant manufacturing' to US
Italian plastics equipment major Negri Bossi may "bring significant manufacturing of injection molding machines back to the United States" following its acquisition by a U.S.-based equipment firm. Sacmi Group announced April 11 that it had sold its plastics division to Kingsbury Corp., a machinery firm based in Rush, N.Y. Private equity fi...
Mogherini–Kerry meeting - First official mission to the USA for Minister Mogherini
The first official visit by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini to the United States opened with a wide-ranging discussion with the American Secretary of State John Kerry. Topics examined included the crisis in Ukraine ("we must support the national dialogue"); the stalemate in Syria; the two Italian marines detained in India; and the schoolgirls a...
Alfa Romeo Franchises Awarded to 86 Dealers in U.S. and Canada
June 10, 2014: Alfa Romeo dealer network established in U.S. and Canada Initial pool of 86 dealers drawn from existing FIAT and Maserati brand dealers Additional Alfa Romeo franchises to be awarded later this year An initial group of 86 dealers have been awarded Alfa Romeo franchises in the United States and Canada. In the U.S., 82 Alfa R...
Mark Ruffalo – That strong Calabrese virtue of embracing life
by Michael Traversa There's a saying that goes "when life gives you lemons", we've all heard it. Most of the times it comes as some sort of consolation or encouragement into turning things our way, stay positive through adversity. Finding somebody who really lives with that positive attitude is a whole other matter. Academy Award...
Vincent Celeste, at 90; JFK’s US Senate opponent in ’58
Offering an outstretched hand in 1958 to voter after voter, most of whom would end up casting a ballot against him, Vincent Celeste would bring his heels together and bow slightly. "I'm Vinnie Celeste," he said. "I am running for US senator against that millionaire Jack Kennedy." A historical footnote in most Kennedy biographies, Mr. Celes...
Barron’s taps Tom Salvino as top financial advisor
Thomas Salvino has been named to Barron's 2015 Top Advisors in America. The magazine's annual state-by-state listing recognizes America's top financial advisors and places Salvino in the Illinois ranking. Salvino; his father, Al; and his brother, John, are financial advisors with the Salvino Wealth Management Team at William Blair & Company. T...
10 Important Life Lessons – Children of Italian Immigrants
10. To Have CourageBetween 1861 and 1985, 29,036,000 Italians emigrated to other countries. Poverty was the main reason for their leaving. They risked everything in emigrating to a new country. Usually moving across the ocean at a time when Ocean Travel was precarious at best only to find that they had much Prejudice and hardship to overcome when t...
'An Unlikely Union': Paul Moses on the urban drama of New York's Irish and Italians
Few American cities, with the possible exception of Chicago, do urban ethnic drama like New York. In the late 19th century and into the 20th, Gotham's Italians and Irish mixed it up in a prizefight for power, influence and access. Pint-size pol Fiorello La Guardia battled debonair James W. Walker in mayoral politics, while Frank Sinatra jo...
Understanding Italian Diaspora
Italian immigrants arrived in America in the late 1800s as relatively unskilled labor that helped paved the way for a booming industrial economy. They were hundreds upon hundreds of thousands until they were more than four million. Fate was cruel to them as they had to face overwhelming prejudice, poverty and the isolation of being in a strange and...
What Is Tuscan Food? Let Eataly's Executive Chef Explain
This month, Eataly, the titan of Italian cuisine, is putting a Tuscan bent on the menu at its in-house restaurants. The famed region will be the focus of the entire enterprise for the month of March, including a special Tuscan-inspired restaurant debut called Ristorante Toscano. Each of the restaurants will be featuring Tuscan-inspired dishes that...
How Columbus Sailed Into U.S. History, Thanks To Italians
By Lakshmi Gandhi It's been 521 years since the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus "sailed the ocean blue/in fourteen hundred and ninety-two." Since then, there have been thousands of parades, speeches and statues commemorating Columbus, along with a critical rethinking of his life and legacy. But the question remains, how did a ma...
1950s Italy Gets the Wes Anderson Treatment
by Allison P. Davis What could make Prada, mustachioed race car drivers, and spaghetti even more Italian? Taking all of those things and running them through Wes Anderson's retro-sophisticate whimsy-cam. For its latest Prada Classics short film, Castello Cavalcanti, the Italian house commissioned the auteur to transport us to a trippy, neon-colore...