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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...
ArgoMoon, the Italian nanosatellite chosen by NASA
ArgoMoon, a nanosatellite for deep space built by Italian Argotec and coordinated by the Italian Space Agency, has been selected by NASA as a payload for the forthcoming Exploration Mission 1 expected at the end of 2018. The Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) represents the second test flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, a spacecraft...
PBS to Present LIDIA CELEBRATES AMERICA: HOLIDAY FOR HEROES, 12/16
For most, the holiday season is a time of celebration, spending time with family and friends, observing age-old traditions and enjoying favorite foods. For members of the military, the holidays can be particularly emotional, especially when they are stationed thousands of miles away from home or are overcoming injuries from their service. ...
La battaglia (quasi) impossibile contro i falsi made in Italy
Tutto rigorosamente falso: dal Parmigiano al Pecorino in kit, dal vino con le polverine al prosciutto San Daniele marchiato Usa. Alla fine il conto da pagare per la dilagante contraffazione alimentare del made in Italy (compresa l'Italian sounding) ammonta a 60 miliardi e 300mila occupati, secondo una stima di Coldiretti. Dati difficilmente control...
United States, a market with great expectationsUnited States, a market with great expectations
A market with great potential for Italian companies of machinery for packaging and processing. The features that should not miss are: automation, flexibility, cost savings and an efficient sales service, spare parts and servicing. More than 300 million consumers with high purchasing power and faithful to the brand live in the United States...
Sopranos star unearths Italian master painting worth millions – Daily TV round-up
To millions he's Furio, the Italian mobster who fell foul of Tony Soprano, but actor Federico Castelluccio also has a keen eye for fine art. Castelluccio, these days a degree-carrying art collector, has reportedly unearthed a lost Italian master work which could be worth millions. He bought the picture, likely to be by 17th-century It...
1959 Scaglietti Corvettes Are A Rare Look At American Power And Italian Craftsmanship
It sounds like the perfect combination, doesn't it? The gorgeous, elegant lines of an Italian road-going masterpiece and the power of a no-frills American V8. If you're thinking it seems like something only dreams are made of, you'd be delightfully wrong. That's where the trio of 1959 Scaglietti Corvettes come in to sweep us off our feet. A little...
La musica dei primi migranti italiani negli Stati Uniti è stata interamente digitalizzata
di Eva Cabras Alla fine del 1800, milioni di italiani hanno lasciato il proprio paese per andare acercare fortuna negli Stati Uniti, tentando di accaparrarsi una fetta del glorioso sogno americano. Nel bagaglio culturale dei primi emigranti trovava posto una fiorentetradizione musicale genuinamente italiana, che ha finito per riversarsi ne...