Demand for Non-EU Workers: Italy Receives 238,335 Applications in Just 1 Hour
The demand to bring migrant workers to Italy under the country’s quota system has surpassed the number of eligible places just one hour after online applications got underway on Monday. According to the Info Migrants report, Italy saw three times as many requests as stipulated in the decree on migrant flows for this year, SchengenVisaInfo.com repor...
Family remembers life, legacy of Malara's Italian Restaurant owner
An Omaha state senator honored the late owner of an iconic Italian restaurant in the city Friday at the Nebraska Legislature. Most knew her as Grandma Malara, who founded the business that bears her name near 22nd and Pierce 39 years ago. She died this month at age 87. Caterina Malara simply loved to cook, Italian food, to be exact, of which she ha...
Tony Danza is brought to tears learning about his ancestors: 'Crazy grateful'
Tony Danza was brought to tears while learning about the struggles his maternal grandfather endured on his journey to become a U.S. citizen during an appearance on Season Eight of the PBS show “Finding Your Roots.” While chatting with the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Danza explained how he always thought his grandfather, Antonino Camisa, cam...
Napoli, Palermo and Catania are the favorite Easter tourism destinations for Italians this year
The South dominates the podium of Italians' favorite destinations ahead of the Easter vacations. These are the data provided by Jetcost, a search engine for airfares, hotels and car rentals. Once again this year, the study shows, our compatriots will favor Italy, with as many as 14 Italian destinations among the 25 most searched for ahead of the ho...
"Qui Nuova York". Rai correspondents' America in Giudici and Salvadore's docu-film
At the Consulate General of Italy in New York, at the initiative of Consul General Fabrizio Di Michele, the documentary film Qui Nuova York. America as Told to Italians by Television, by Marco Giudici and Andrea Salvadore, directed by Andrea Salvadore. It is a 90-minute adaptation of a production that aired on Rai channels abroad.Inspiring the work...
Time for pizzagaina: New Haven area restaurants celebrate Easter with Italian ham pie
Pizzagaina, also known as ham pie, is a delicacy Italian traditionalists will tell you is only to be made on Good Friday and eaten Easter weekend. Many will relay stories of doing this with their grandmothers growing up, and now doing it with their own children, nonna's recipe in tow. Some deem it acceptable to eat during Lent, and local Italian de...
Potentially Dangerous – Documentary Film Screening with Director Zach Baliva at IAM Books
Tuesday, April 4 – 6 p.m. I AM Books, 124 Salem St., Boston MA 02113 (Register Here). A feature-length documentary from executive producer John Turturro on the untold story of Italian immigrants persecuted and interned as America’s “Enemy Aliens” During World War II. Potentially Dangerous won the 2021 Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum and...
ChatGPT, the world's first artificial intelligence in an Italian robot
Giving, for the first time in the world, a robotic body to the voice of ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence (AI) developed by the American startup OpenAI and capable of simulating human language. This is the goal behind the experiment completed at the Catholic University of Milan as part of research in social robotics.On Thursday, March...
Is our 112-year-old Italian dinner in trouble? Lack of help may prompt big changes
This Sunday, as it has most every Palm Sunday during the past century or so, Sacred Heart Church's meatball and ravioli-themed Original Italian Dinner will take place in Camp Washington. And like last year, the event, which dates back to 1911 and serves as a fundraiser for the church, will be carryout only. The biannual dinner, which is also offere...
Dolce Vita Gelato In Washington Township “Soft Opening” Weekends
Dolce Vita Gelato is now open in Washington Township on weekends, during their soft opening phase. Owners Nick and Kim Corso are Williamstown residents who love traveling to Italy, where the inspiration to learn the true Italian style of making gelato… and then bringing it to South Jersey, came from. They actually opened up last weekend. I visited...
Farewell to Mrs. Elda M. Coccia
With a heavy heart, the Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America and the Montclair State University community mourn the passing of Mrs. Elda M. Coccia. Along with her husband, Cav. Joseph Coccia, Jr., Elda co-founded the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America at Montclair State University, which advanc...
Repopulating small villages: which Italian municipalities pay those who move there?
There are many municipalities looking for residents in 2023. For years, in fact, there have been several boroughs, north and south, paying citizens to incentivize relocation and try to reverse trends that see them increasingly deserted. For some time now, there have been various tax incentives to encourage housing resettlement and repopulation of s...