Gucci's Marco Bizzarri Honored at the United Nations Humanitarian Dinner
The United Nations Association of New York gathered inside the J.W. Marriott Essex House on Thursday evening to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the U.N., and to award three individuals at the 2015 United Nations Day Humanitarian Awards Gala dinner. This year's event, themed "2015 and Beyond: Education and Equality for All," honored Marco Bizzarr...
Giocomo Migliavacca and his downtown Napa winery
by Rebecca Yerger The once-prominent and award-winning G. Migliavacca Wine Co., a 19th-century Napa Valley winery, has essentially been forgotten over time. This downtown Napa winery was established circa 1866. Its founder and namesake, Giocomo Migliavacca, received a formal wine and spirits education and training in his native Italy. In...
Luis Marden: Italian of the Week
On January 25, 1913, Annibale Luigi Paragallo was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he taught himself six different languages, including Egyptian hieroglyphics. He enrolled in a photography class in high school and fell in love with the medium. When he was 19, he wrote what is considered to be the first book on 35mm color photography c...
FYI Philly: 100 Years of the Italian Market
By Alicia Vitarelli FYI Philly visited some vendors at the Italian Market that have been around since the beginning, and some newcomers who are poised to make their mark. Before the Italian Market got its start 100 years ago, Isgro's Bakery was on Christian Street in South Philadelphia, making it the oldest Italian pastry shop in the market....
A Sicilian-American Comedy
Thursday, December 10th, 6:30 P.M. - Italian American Museum - 155 Mulberry Street - (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) - New York, NY 10013 - RSVP Code: Sicily1210. For reservations, please call the Italian American Museum at 212.965.9000 or Email: [email protected] Book Presentation...
La "Piccola Cucina” arriva in Italia!
Domenica 20 Dicembre si terrà a Palermo, presso il Castello a Mare un'edizione speciale de "La PiccolaCucina", programma di successo del Centro di Cultura Italiana di Houston (www.iccchouston.com) ideato, implementato e condotto, da Tiziana Ciacciofera Triolo, direttrice dei Programmi e del Marketing del Centro. Tiziana, Palermitana DOC si è trasfe...
Dr. Roberta Marongiu: Italian of the Week
Italian-born Roberta Marongiu isn't just any medical researcher. She received her Ph.D. in medical genetics & neuroscience from the University of Rome in Italy as well as the University of California. She's an instructor of neurological surgery and also conducts research at the Molecular Neurosurgery Laboratory at the Weill Cornell Medical Coll...
The History of Carnevale and some of Italy's best Parades
Carnevale is one of the most colorful celebrations in the world. In Italy, we are serious about it. In the end, this is where it was born. We are all familiar with the Carnevale of Venice and that of Viareggio, as well as famous international renditions such as the Carnival in New Orleans, that in Rio and that in Notting Hill (London). In Ital...
Cinema Italiano Classico – Movie Line-Up
Ciao, Amici – For this year's classic series of Italian cinema, we decided to offer a retrospective of the movies directed by one of the best Italian directors of the Sixties, Pietro Germi. The first two are two comedies "Italian style". If you recall Anna's definition of this typically Italian genre, the topic is a mixture of funny situa...
Ciminnesi to honor Vito P. Cali
Società San Giovanni Bosco SS. Crocifisso di Ciminna will honor Vito P. Cali as Man of the Year at its dinner dance on March 5 at Alta Villa Banquets in Addison. A longtime leader of the Chicago-area Italian American community and standout agent for State Farm Insurance, Cali served as the society's first president. "We're honoring Vito be...
Comic Jimmy Carrane
At a time when too many comics try to wow an audience through rapid-fire delivery, Chicago comic Jimmy Carrane has honed the slow burn, winning audiences with sly subtlety, and leaving them in stitches. Then again, Carrane had to figure something out as a kid. The son of a Calabrese father and a half-Calabrese, half-Irish mother, Carrane was one o...
Italian Sea Group Ready Four Superyacht Launches
The Italian Sea Group has unveiled the launches for the year after announcing a busy first quarter this week. This news also follows reports of increased refit division activity, new headquarters in the United States and intriguing new projects. Three of four yachts are reportedly set to emerge from the Italian Sea Group yard this year, al...