He’s the Bomb: An Enrico Fermi Biography
By Gregg Herken THE POPE OF PHYSICSEnrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic AgeBy Gino Segrè and Bettina HoerlinIllustrated. 351 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $30. In a controversial lecture more than 50 years ago, the British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow suggested that natural scientists had "the future in their bones." Snow was spea...
Italian American Culture – The Art Of Entertainment
The voice of Snow White in the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released in 1937 belonged to Adriana Caselotti. The 21-year-old coloratura soprano beat out 148 other candidates for the role. Her father Guido Caselotti, an immigrant from Italy, was a teacher of music and a vocal coach. Her mother, Maria Oref...
Piero Tosi Wins Academy Award
Renowned costume and set designer Piero Tosi received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his outstanding design career. He earned five Academy Award nominations for costume design, in the films La Traviata (1983), La Cage aux Folles (1978), The Leopard (1963), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973) – the latter three in collab...
Bradshaw International Signs North America Distribution & Licensing Agreement with Italian Cookware & Coffee Maker Brand Bialetti
Bradshaw International, a premier marketer of housewares in the U.S., today announced that it has reached an agreement with Bialetti Industrie S.p.A. (http://www.bialetti.it), the leading Italian coffee maker and cookware company as the brand's North American partner. The partnership provides a 25-year license agreement for Bialetti cookwa...
The 500-plus(!) native wine grapes of Italy, from Aglianico to Zibibbo
Got the hammock strung up? Check. A chilled bottle of Prosecco or Vermentino? Check. Notebook handy? Pen or pencil? Check. Time to do some studying. Our textbook: "Native Wine Grapes of Italy" by Ian D'Agata (University of California Press, Berkeley). That's 620 pages of hard-won knowledge about Italy's familiar and obscure grapes, includi...
Made of Italians: l’Expo 2015 per gli italiani all’estero
È rivolto agli italiani residenti all'estero e ai cittadini stranieri di origine italiana "Made of Italians", il progetto di Expo 2015 cui hanno aderito le Consulte regionali per l'emigrazione. Il progetto, si legge sul sito di Expo, è stato pensato per garantire "un'accoglienza speciale", per far vivere ai connazionali "l'esperienza emozionan...
MV Agusta USA Adds to Dealer Network
As part of its strategy to enhance and selectively grow the dealer network in the USA, MV Agusta has been working together with existing and new dealer owners to expand its regional footprint and better serve consumers. "We have a continual strategy to make changes in selected open areas where rider demand is high and the prospective MV ri...
Italian Grandmothers Try Olive Garden For First And Last Time
by Ron Dicker That's pretty harsh, nonna. In a new viral video, BuzzFeed asked Italian grandmas to try Olive Garden for the first time. For the most part, they're predictably underwhelmed -- and hilarious. "Merda" and "who the f**k made this?" may not be the kind of reviews found in certain publications, but did you really ex...
Eataly New York, Martina (MIPAAF) presenta il segno unico distintivo del Made in Italy
Il segno unico distintivo del made in Italy agroalimentare ('The extraordinary Italian taste') è un tassello fondamentale del piano per l'internazionalizzazione che Mipaaf e Ministero dello Sviluppo economico stanno attuando per sostenere l'export e rafforzare le azioni di contrasto all'Italian sounding, che prevede risorse pari a 260 milioni di eu...
Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea puts a human face on the migrant crisis in Europe
by Silvia Donati Italian-American director Jonas Carpignano is the author of the film Mediterranea, which tells the story of two African migrants, Ayiva, played by Koudous Seihon, and Abas (Alassane Sy), as they try to make better lives for themselves in Italy, after traveling from Burkina Faso to Rosarno, in the southern region of Calabri...
Lessons of Love on Mother’s Day
It's Mother's Day weekend and I can't help but reminisce about Mother's Day when I was a child. I'm sure we can all remember past Mother's Days and recall how they differed from today. Growing up Italian American, we didn't eat out in restaurants much. So our holidays and Mother's Day were spent at home at the kitchen table. There were no reservat...
Answering Columbus’ critics
Eighteenth-century Irish statesman Edmund Burke once noted that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. When it comes to Columbus, the Italian-American community seems doomed to have history rewritten right out from underneath it for the same reason. To be fair, backing Columbus has been a no-brainer for much of the last century. His...