Joseph Barbera was born March 24, 1911, in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City. He was the son of Vincente and Francesca, both immigrants from Sicily. He grew up in Brooklyn and had many interests in high school. Joseph tried his hand at theater, drawing, and boxing. He even won the lightweight championship at his high school an...
di Josephine Maietta Cari Colleghi, con gioia vi comunico il risultato dell'esame AP Italian. Il numero raggiunto e' di 2573. In virtu' del successo raggiunto, addirittura con un anno di anticipo, il College Board, ha comunicato ufficialmente la decisione di stabilizzare il suddetto esame negli anni a venire, a prescindere dai risultati....
Whether you're looking forward to the mashed potatoes or the deals at Best Buy, we can't believe that Thanksgiving is only a week away! Before you get out those old, stained cookbooks and handwritten recipe cards, think about adding some new Thanksgiving favorites to your table this year! Many Italian Americans serve a pasta dish at Thanks...
di Benedetta Frigerio «In tempi di crisi umana e culturale non potevamo che scegliere di finanziare il progetto di restauro della chiesa barocca del SS. Sudario di Torino». I lavori inizieranno a settembre grazie alla sponsorizzazione della National italian american fundation (NiAF) di Washington, che rappresenta la cultura e la storia di...
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat; it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit Baldassare Forestiere was born on July 8, 1879 in Filari, a small tow...
by John Kell Barilla, the Italian company that produces one quarter of pasta sold in the U.S., is facing a lawsuit that alleges the packaging is deceiving customers into how much food they're really getting. In a lawsuit filed in a New York District Court, on behalf of four consumers seeking class-action status, it is alleged Bari...
The Islands of Divine Music, by John Addiego, is a saga of an Italian-American family spanning six generations as they move from Southern Italy to San Francisco to Mexico. I was absolutely enthralled with the lyrical journey on which I found myself. The author took me back to some familiar places and events of my childhood while introducing me to a...
Martin Charles Scorsese is 72 years young today, and since he belongs to the Mt. Rushmore of all time Hollywood filmmakers, I thought I would share my list of his best narrative films. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipi...
Italian singer Giada Valenti, is invited to film her show From Venice With Love as a television special to be broadcast by PBS stations all over the country. But Giada has to pay a large part of the costs of the filming herself and has therefore started a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo – www.FromVeniceWithLove.com For her television spe...
La manager più in vista di un marchio della moda universalmente noto come Dolce & Gabbana. È stata lei ad aprire il grande negozio sulla Fifth Avenue, il flagship store, e poi a lanciare le boutique di Toronto, Chicago, Aspen e Boston. Una vita sotto i riflettori, immersa nel mondo delle celebrity della moda e dello spettacolo. Federic...
by Barbara & Bill Schaffer There is big news at Fiat this summer -- literally -- as Fiat rolls out the 500X adding a seventh model to the Italian/American brand in a new larger size. The Fiat 500X is also the first Fiat crossover adding a whole new dimension to the brand's lineup. Developed from the same basic platform, drivetrain and...
by Stephen Edelstein Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] is set to spin off Ferrari, with plans to list it on the New York Stock Exchange later this year, but the legendary brand will remain an Italian company regardless of how the sale goes, FCA says. While most shares will remain with current FCA shareholders, there are plans...