The Italians Are Coming! … to Chicago’s United Center on October 1st and then to Madison Square Garden in October 4th
On Thursday, October 1st at 7:00 PM, Italian basketball powerhouse EA7 Emporio Armani Olimpia Milano, from Chicago's sister-city Milan, will face-off against Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv at the United Center in the first leg of the inaugural Euro Classic Tournament. On Sunday, October 4th at 12:30 PM, EA7 Emporio Armani Oilmpia Milano and Maccabi Elect...
La musica dei salentini Kalàscima sbarca in America. La band in concerto a New York e Miami
di Cinzia Ferilli Dal Giappone all'America. Prosegue il successo della band salentina dei Kalàscima anche all'estero. Dopo l'esperienza nella terra d'Oriente, il gruppo sbarca a New York e Miami con due concerti esclusivi. Si inizia nella Grande Mela il 14 ottobre quando i Kalàscima terranno uno show case nel noto live pub di Manh...
What would Italian Immigrants drink with Thanksgiving dinner
by Richard DiGiacomo Between 1880 and 1920 Italian immigrants flooded the shores of the New World. The United States was home to many of these new arrivals. Most of the Italian wave was from Sicily and the south of Italy. They came to start a new life in America and wanted to assimilate into their new homeland. While they held onto their...
Aperol® Joins 'Spritz' Book Tour, Highlighting History and Culture of Iconic Italian Cocktail
Aperol®, the globally renowned bright orange Italian liqueur, headlines a U.S. Spritz Tour as the official spirit partner of "Spritz: Italy's Most Iconic Aperitivo Cocktail, with Recipes" by the editor-in-chief of Punch Talia Baiocchi and former deputy editor of Punch Leslie Pariseau. The tour, which runs April through September, s...
America’s Best Cities for Italian Food
The Italian restaurant in America has changed in style probably more than any other genre of restaurant over the past several decades. Even as recently as 50 years ago, the term "Italian restaurant" conjured images of red and white-checkered tablecloths, carafes of middling chianti, and a red sauce-heavy menu with classics like chicken Parmigiana t...
Vitale to receive three awards over the year
by Doug Fernandes Dick Vitale will be busy later this year giving thanks and accepting waves of applause. The Lakewood Ranch resident and ESPN college basketball analyst will receive three awards, the biggest being the fifth annual Court of Honor Award from the National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation. It's given...
Luigi Del Bianco Recognition as Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore
by Lou Del Bianco Get the National Park Service to formally recognize Luigi Del Bianco as the Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore. Luigi Del Bianco lived the American Dream by coming to America and becoming the Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore. Luigi's job was in carving the "refinement of expression" in the faces. When you look at those 4 presi...
NIAF Anniversary Gala 2014
Register online today for NIAF's 39th Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., October 24-25! This year's Gala calendar is already filling up fast with exciting celebrities and events, including a special preview screening of the highly anticipated documentary "The Italian Americans" scheduled for nationwide PBS release in early 2015. Plus, r...
From Italy With Love Show Set to Air on Cooking Channel on November 5 at 9:30 PM ET
"From Italy with Love" show starring Francesco Zonin, Vice President of Casa Vinicola Zonin S.p.A is set to air on Cooking Channel on Wednesday, November 5 (9:30 p.m., ET). Additional episodes are available for viewing on "From Italy with Love's" YouTube channel beginning Monday, October 20 and another on October 27. The new show will be a...
Liza Minnelli pays tribute to her father and Italian heritage
Academy Award-winner Liza Minnelli was honored at the Los Angeles-Italia Film Fest on the weekend. Minnelli, who won an Oscar in 1973 for "Cabaret" picked up the Jack Valenti Lifetime Achievement Award. Named after the longtime MPAA president, the award honors Italian-Americans who have made great contributions to cinema. "I am very gratef...
Liveright to Publish ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’ in Fall 2015
by Calvin Reid The noted Italian writer Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Auschwitz survivor and the author of such acclaimed works as If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, is sometimes referred to as a Holocaust writer. But Liveright publisher Bob Weil, who is publishing the forthcoming Complete Works of Primo Levi, believes that's n...
TTIP: tra luci e ombre i negoziati procedono
Il negoziato sul Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)tra Stati Uniti ed Unione Europea procede e se dovesse andare in porto porterebbe alla creazione della più grande area di libero scambio esistente al mondo che coinvolgerebbe 850 milioni di persone, il 45% del PIL globale e 1/3 degli scambi commerciali mondiali. L'obiett...