VIVA VERDI!...life's third act may just be the best one after all!
Stories of romance, tragedy and triumph, love lost and won from Casa Verdi's marvelously eccentric artists, divas and performers abound in our documentary, VIVA VERDI! Well beyond their prime, these living treasures live out their "third act" with vibrancy, dignity and purpose in this stately retirement home bequeathed them in 1902 by Giuseppe Verd...
Il sogno americano del vino made in Italy
di Andrea Cuomo Una bella responsabilità per Vias Imports Ltd che, fondata nel 1983 da Fabrizio Pedrolli, oggi chairman, ha contribuito a cambiare l'approccio dei consumatori americani nei confronti del vino in generale e del vino italiano in particolare. «Quando abbiamo iniziato - ricorda Pedrolli - se volevamo far degustare i no...
Would "uncle Walt" approve? The Italic Institute of America lambastes new Disney Film for promoting racism to children
The Italic Institute of America (IIA), a national educational think tank, is accusing the new animated film "Zootopia" of "polluting the minds of impressionable young viewers with a rancid ethnic stereotype," says Bill Dal Cerro, the Institute's national president. Specifically, the Institute refers to the character of Mr. Big, an Arctic S...
Lady Gaga says new album a tribute to family roots
Lady Gaga said Thursday that her new album will be named after her late aunt and explore her family heritage. The superstar, revealing details of her first contemporary pop album in three years, said it will be called "Joanne" and come out on October 21. Joanne was the name of a paternal aunt who died at age 19 after struggles with lupus....
Is Valeria Golino the Next Great Hope For Woman Directors? With 'Honey' In Theaters, She Ponders the Future
by Judith Dry Valeria Golino has been reading, writing, drinking coffee, acting, and thinking about Fellini. Her impressive debut feature, "Honey," opened in New York last Friday and expands to Los Angeles this weekend, but she's in need of inspiration for her next film. "I need my '8 ½,'" Golino said in a recent interview. It jus...
Frank Sinatra: Italian of the Week
by OSIA Blogger On December 12, 1915, Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, NJ, to two Sicilian immigrants. In the summer of 1935, Frank's life would change forever. It was at this time that he saw his idol, Bing Crosby, perform live. Once the concert ended, Sinatra was determined to become a singer. He worked odd jobs performing on...
Italian manufacturers shopping for investments at SelectUSA summit
by Antonella Ciancio Seemless rolled rings manufacturer Fomas Group, global crown corks producer Pelliconi, irrigation systems supplier Plastica Alfa are among the around 40 Italian companies travelling to Washington DC this week to hunt for possible growth opportunities in the United States. Better known to sector experts than to the gen...
The benefits of learning Italian early
by Debbie Monolo What's good about teaching your child a second language? There's actually quite an impressive list of reasons according to current research. To name just a few ... Research published in Psychological Science suggests that just thinking in a foreign language can help people make quicker and better life decisions. Another p...
Sister Blandina gets her own television show
By Justin Horwath She talked an angry mob in Trinidad, Colo., out of lynching a man implicated in a shooting. She co-founded schools and hospitals in the rough-and-tumble territory of New Mexico. A 1966 episode of CBS' TV series Death Valley Days referred to her as the "fastest nun in the West." Now the life of Blandina Segale, better kno...
Pensioni all'estero: Tito Boeri risponde a Fucsia Nissoli
di Fucsia Nissoli In seguito alla mia lettera al Presidente dell'INPS, prof. Tito Boeri, ho ricevuto dallo stesso Presidente Boeri una risposta articolata ed esaustiva nella quale si evidenzia l'attenzione dell'Ente previdenziale italiano verso le problematiche dei pensionati italiani all'estero. Una risposta che r...
Kathy McCabe Dreaming of Italy
By Dianne Hales Blonde-haired, creator of the Dream of Italy newsletter and PBS travel series, doesn't look Italian—nor does her name sound Italian. But the first time she visited her great-grandfather's village in Campania, McCabe felt that she had come home. "When I was growing up in New Jersey, I spent a lot of time with my maternal gr...
Louis Prima, who would have turned 103 this weekend, is your midday music break
Saturday, Dec. 7, would have been the 103rd birthday of the late great Louis Prima, the Italian-American trumpeter, singer and entertainer from New Orleans who went on to rule Las Vegas nightlife during its bada-bing heyday from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s. Prima is gone, but his music lives on, in part because of the efforts of his fifth...