Recently, actor Vincent Piazza, who plays up-and-coming gangster Lucky Luciano on the show, opened up to Men's Journal about his reluctance to play Italian characters prior to the role. Piazza himself is Italian, his father's family emigrated to the United States from Sicily, but the actor was very aware growing up of the ways Italians wer...
Vincent Gagliardi brushed his mustache briefly with his finger, thought to himself and then looked over at his friend Andy DeLucia. "That guy right there is the glue that holds this whole team together," Gagliardi said about DeLucia. "He's the man." The elder DeLucia, seated at a table overlooking the East Haven Italian American Club'...
by Nicole Danna Around these parts, there's a lot of trepidation when it comes to finding good Italian food. Even the tourists don't expect to find decent pizza this far south -- and without a neighborhood of trattorias called Little Italy. Despite the misconceptions surrounding our state's ability to churn out good pies and pasta, re...
Otto volte campione del mondo. Antonio Cairoli scrive un'altra pagina della storia del motocross confermandosi il numero uno di questa disciplina e cogliendo il sesto trionfo consecutivo nella classe regina dello sterrato la MXGP (fino allo scorso anno ribattezzata MX1). Il 29enne pilota originario di Patti, alfiere del team KTM Red Bull,...
Like many other immigrants, Adolpho and Rosaria Baldizzi struggled to keep their family together in the face of immigration laws tearing them apart. Policies put into place soon after Mr. Baldizzi arrived in the country made it illegal for his wife to follow him. Eventually, she did enter the U.S., though it's impossible to say how she managed it....
Anna Rita Alatan, also known as ARA, creates images with an almost magical sense of presence, as if the painting is a window from reality, showing us all that lies beyond. Her worlds are infused with a feeling of poise and timelessness, something that becomes clearer when one focuses on the subjects of the artworks. The female figures who...
A refurbished statue of Christopher Columbus is now on display in Pueblo. The Sons of Italy unveiled the refurbished 109-year-old statue during their annual wreath-laying ceremony marking Columbus Day on Monday. KOAA-TV (http://bit.ly/1saz3ax) reported that the ceremony unfolded as protesters, some of them in Native American headdresses,...
Saturday and Sunday, November 15th-16th, 9:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. at Casa Italiana, 595 1/2 3rd street NW Annual Holiday Market selling handmade art, fashion, jewelry, homemade sweets and more...Exclusively made by Italian women (Le D.I.V.E, Donne Italiane che Vivono all'Estero). Read more information at http://www.italianculturalsociety.org/ital...
The Neighborhood That Disappeared - by Mary Paley, John Romeo & Bernie Mulleda - Film's premier on WMHT (12/12 @ 8 pm.) Film Summary "The Italian is an intensely gregarious creature, comfortable in extended families, crowds, markets, piazzas – in song, debate, commerce. The Italian has for centuries cherished the primary agg...
arte italia is pleased to announce an exciting culinary class schedule withMichelin Star Chef Claudio Sadler from January 25 - 27, 2015! Please read about visiting Chef Claudio Sadler and enter your name in the newRandomized Selection Registration explained below. You may register anytimefrom November 24 - December 14, 2014. Arriveder...
Once again The Italian American One Voice Coalition feels it necessary to bring the perpetuation of negative stereotypes and defamation of Italian Americans to the public's attention. A&E's latest and most disgraceful "reality" series to date "The Godfather of Pittsburgh," is a meritless, crass and heavily scripted "reality" show that glorifies...
Domenica 30 novembre 2014 la Casa Italiana ha ospitato una delle prime feste natalizie della stagione, sponsorizzata da Santo Padre Pio Society, con presidente Maria Bruno, e da Maria SS. di Costantinopoli Society, presieduta da Joe Deligio. Dopo la Santa Messa, celebrata presso St. Peter's Italian Church, il sontuoso pranzo è stato preced...