True Indie Film made with blood, sweat, and yes tears!
di Matteo Ribaudo We are Independent filmmakers striving for greatness. We live and breathe the art of moving pictures. Matteo Ribaudo is a writer and director from NY and now in Los Angeles. My current film, Broome Street Boys, is a feature film that brings us back to movies like Serpico, The Departed, and Friedkin's The French Connection...
Un guru dello sport Usa alla conquista del Milan
di Carlo Festa Diciannovesimo piano del grattacielo lungo la 43esima strada di New York tra la Quinta e la Madison. Qui si sta ragionando sul futuro del Milan e sull'offerta per rilevare il club rossonero dalla famiglia Berlusconi. In questo stabile c'è la Galatioto Sports, che negli Stati Uniti è una vera leggenda sui temi di finanza...
Valerie's Home Cooking to Return to Food Network for All-New Season, 6/11
As a Golden Globe® award-winning actress with a passion for cooking, Valerie Bertinelli never misses an opportunity to prepare a delicious dinner for her family, or have friends over for a mouthwatering meal. On the new season of VALERIE'S HOME COOKING, beginning on Saturday, June 11th at 12pm ET/PT on Food Network, Valerie is back in THE KITCHEN s...
“Technogym accelera negli Usa, poi tocca a Vietnam e Colombia”
Da Piazza Affari a Rio de Janeiro, in meno di due mesi. Era il 3 maggio quando Nerio Alessandri, presidente di Technogym, suonava la campanella della Borsa di Milano. In platea, facce note del mondo dello spettacolo e investitori che, in pochi minuti, facevano balzare il titolo del gruppo fondato in un garage all'inizio degli Anni Ottanta. ...
Student Ambassadors to serve at the USA Pavilion for the Next World's Fair in Italy
Today, Friends of the USA Pavilion Milano 2015, in partnership with the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, announced the selection of 120 American college students who will serve as on-the-ground ambassadors for the USA Pavilion at the next world's fair in Milan, Italy. As part of the USA Pavilion Student Ambass...
First on First: Zamboni
Most people are familiar with the Zamboni ice resurfacer, but did you know an Italian American invented the machine? Frank Zamboni was born in Eureka, Utah, in 1901. His parents, both immigrants from Italy, moved their family to a farm in Idaho shortly after his birth. When he was 15, Frank began to work as a mechanic at a local garag...
Lidia Bastianich on cooking as connection to heritage, keeping a family together, and what never to do when cooking pasta
In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak with Lidia Bastianich, otherwise knows simply as Lidia, Emmy award-winning public television host of "Lidia's Kitchen," bestselling cookbook author, restauranteur, co-owner of the Italian marketplace Eataly, and purveyor of the best-selling artisanal Lidia's pasta and sauce line. He...
Pamela Fiori: Women in Business 2016 Trailblazer
Pamela Fiori brought down the house at the recent SRQ Hear Me Roar luncheon, the former editor-in-chief of Travel & Leisure and Town & Country magazinesfirst listened intently to keynote speaker Anna Zornosa of Ruby Ribbon detail the inherent challenges in developing a successful women's shape-wear business in the male-dominated start-up in...
Bloomfield anti-bias group puts AFLAC on Wall of Shame
The Italian American One Voice Coalition, an Italian American anti-bias group based in Bloomfield, placed AFLAC on its Wall of Shame. The "dishonor" is bestowed for AFLAC's commercial "Family Business," which portrays Italian Americans as mobsters. This ad is unacceptable to Italian Americans and should be removed immediately, according t...
Nel 2014 l’export italiano fa boom negli USA
Nel primo semestre 2014 le esportazioni italiane verso gli Stati Uniti sono cresciute del 7,8% rispetto al primo semestre del 2013 ed a giugno l'aumento è stato del 15,6% rispetto a maggio. Il surplus commerciale ha superato gli otto miliardi di dollari, contro i 5,7 del semestre precedente. Dati che proiettano l'export del bel Paese per fine anno...
Happy 58th to America’s Favorite Little Italian, the Fiat 500
July Fourth is all about independence, remembering the birth of our great nation – and the Fiat 500? That's right, the quirky little Italian compact car shares the same b-day as the beloved United States of America. It all started in 1936 when Fiat unveiled the 500 Topolino. It was nothing like the iconic 500 that enthusiasts clamor o...
I've lived in America all my life, but a peculiar law could make me an Italian citizen
by Michael Chiaravalloti I've visited Italy just once in my life, but I felt an instant connection to the country when I stepped foot in the Milano Centrale train station in late September 2012. In March, my father and I will make our first ever pilgrimage to the remote "comune" of Polia. There, my family can trace its history back fo...