Andre DiMino featured on the Joe Piscopo Show
The outcry over Notre Dame’s decision to cover up murals of Christopher Columbus – murals that have been there since the 1880’s – has sparked outrage in the Italian American community. Executive Board Member of the Italian American One Voice Coalition Andre DiMino was a guest on dozens of radio shows this week including an interview on the national...
Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years
Colleges closed more than 650 foreign-language programs in a recent three-year period, according to a forthcoming report from the Modern Language Association. The new data, which the MLA shared with The Chronicle, suggest that it took several years for the full effect of the recession of 2008 to hit foreign-language programs. Higher education, in a...
ONE VOICE is asking that to support the Notre Dame Student fighting to save the Columbus Murals
By now you have heard that the president of Notre Dame, under pressure from students and Native American groups, has agreed to cover up murals of Christopher Columbus. Executive Board Member of the Italian American One Voice Coalition Andre DiMino has been speaking about this issue on sixteen different radio stations all week- including the Indiana...
Musica Serenissima
Saturday February 9, 2019. 7:30pm PST. St. James by-the-Sea, 743 Prospect St, La Jolla, CA 92037. "Italian Cultural Center of San Diego Current Members can use the discount code "ICCSD" to purchase discount tickets on line or by phone http://www.sdems.org/concerts.html Limited number of tickets available, purchase them today! Accademia Bizantina: A...
Italian director will talk about his movies – and his terrors – in Minneapolis
To hear writer/director Luca Guadagnino tell it, his appearance at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis next weekend is part movie talk, part therapy session. The “Call Me by Your Name” Oscar nominee, whose most recent movie was last year’s “Suspiria,” will be in conversation with his pal Scott Foundas, the former critic who heads up Amazon Studios...
Battello on Jersey City Waterfront Reopens After Pier Repairs
Battello, the nautically themed waterfront restaurant in downtown Jersey City abruptly closed last year after it was determined the pier on which it sits was structurally unsound and in need of immediate repairs. With those repairs done and the pier stabilized, the restaurant officially re-opened, welcoming guests last night with dinner service sta...
Red Wine - Italian bluegrass 40 years on
For Italian bluegrass music ensemble Red Wine, the analogy with culinary excellence is too good to ignore, and to learn how the ensemble determined their name shows that it isn’t fanciful. Mandolin player Martino Coppo, who started by playing the guitar at the age of 13, shares this account, revealing the derivation of the band name … “One night t...
True Italian Taste campaign and IACC Texas host seminar for Italian food and wine producers featuring U.S. food and wine experts
We are pleased to announce that on Sunday, February 24, the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Texas will be hosting a seminar for a group of visiting Italian winemakers, food producers, and Italian-focused food and wine trade distributors and importers at the Hilton Post Oak hotel in Houston’s Galleria district. For this year’s seminar, the chamber...
Primo Levi and the Holocaust, A Date to Remember
Sunday January 27 2019. 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST. Museo Italo Americano, Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd. Building C, San Francisco, CA 94123. Primo Levi and the Holocaust, A Date to Remember. Lecture followed by Wine reception with the Professors. Co-presented with the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies and the Jewish Community Library o...
Alife. “Italiani in America”, in scena all’Auditorium dell’IPIA
Italiani in America, è una commedia musicale sull’emigrazione dei nostri connazionali provenienti soprattutto dal sud dell’Italia nei primi del ‘900. Fu un esodo colossale che vide oltre 14 milioni di italiani emigrare verso le Americhe. Questo è il tema portante dello spettacolo che andrà in scena domenica 27 gennaio 2019 alle ore 20.00 presso l’A...
Taste of Italy Festival opens in Port St. Lucie
The Taste of Little Italy brings Italian culture to Port St. Lucie the last weekend in January. “Since the day it started I was down here,” said Bigtime Tommie. He’s a true Italian from New York, who never misses an Italian festival in Florida. “I put this up against New York any day,” said Bigtime Tommie. He added, “I feel like I’m back home.” The...
A Bomb Won't Stop Me: About Gino Sorbillo And His Pizzeria
It is called “pizzo” in mafia jargon, the amount of money forcibly and regularly extorted from traders by organized crime. Basically, almost all those who have a shop or any kind of commercial activity are forced to pay a “tax” to local mobsters. Otherwise, intimidation, physical violence or serious damage to facilities are the unavoidable conseque...