IAP 24: John Maggio on the creation of Italian-American identity, our past struggles, and our many triumphs.
In this episode, we interview filmmaker John Maggio, who has spent a decade making documentaries hailed for their social impact and exceptional craft. His work includes several films for "FRONTLINE" and "American Experience." Maggio's films have been honored with the National Emmy Award, Writers Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, an...
Italy to consolidate its world leadership as main wine producer, 2016 harvest expected to be excellent also quality-wise
by Giorgio dell'Orefice An excellent harvest using the standards of last year. That is what is ahead for the 2016 Italian wine label according to forecasts made by the Italian Wine Union and by ISMEA (Institute of Services to the Agricultural and Food Market controlled by the Ministry of Agricultural Policies). These estimates wil...
Great Success of Cinema Italia SF for Anna Magnani Series
Once again, San Francisco celebrated the great success of Cinema Italia with the all-celluloid "Anna Magnani - A Film Series" at the iconic Castro Theatre on Saturday, September 24. The series began with a long line for the legendary first film at 1pm, with Roberto Rossellini's "Roma Città Aperta", with a excited crowd wrapping around the bloc...
X-rated Diavel is born in Italy for the US
It seemed highly appropriate to be test-riding the new Ducati XDiavel along the famous Skyline Boulevard, located in the hills south of San Francisco. For Ducati's North American HQ is located immediately to the east in the valley below, an oasis of real-time hedonism surrounded by several Apple R&D centres attempting to replicate similar...
November 5th: North End Premiere of “Boston’s North End: An Italian American Story”
St. Stephen's Church on Hanover Street will be hosting a free showing of the highly anticipated documentary, Boston's North End: An Italian American Story. The event is open to the public and will be held on Saturday, November 5th, doors open at 6:30pm, reservations are required and can be made by visiting NorthEndBoston.org, or by calling (617) 87...
Confessions of a Piazzalina
"What do you miss most about Italy?" I asked my first Italian teacher in San Francisco many years ago. "La piazza," she said so wistfully that I thought for a moment it might be someone's name. After years of passing time in Italian piazze, I now understand her fondness for these very special places. The piazza is an Italian's se...
Dante Ferretti Goes From Cinecitta to Madison Avenue
By Elisabetta Povoledo The last time the Oscar-winning production designer Dante Ferretti tackled New York City, he created the violent mean streets of a mid-19th-century Manhattan slum, a bleak, ramshackle neighborhood where blood and mud caked the ground, for Martin Scorsese's 2002 opus, "Gangs of New York." This time around, Mr. Ferret...
Rev. Nick Martorano celebrates the past and future at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church
By Pete Kennedy "When I was growing up, we thought the whole world was Italian Catholic, because that's all we saw," said Rev. Nick Martorano, O.S.A. An Augustinian priest, Martorano has spent 33 years as pastor at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church in South Philadelphia. He grew up in the same neighborhood and was baptized at the c...
NIAF Board Member Vincent J. Viola Nominated as Secretary of the Army
Attribute to NIAF Chairman of the Board Joseph V. Del Raso. "On behalf of the Italian American community, the National Italian American Foundation congratulates our Board Member Vinnie Viola on this prestigious appointment. He is a patriotic American who served his country as an Airborne Ranger infantry officer after his graduation from West Point,...
Washington’s Italian heritage will be on display at Citizens Library
By Rick Shrum For a half-century, click America was a land of opportunity for people in Italy. Many had been impoverished and/or suppressed politically in their homeland, cialis and envisioned sunnier times across the Atlantic. "My grandparents were among the four million Italians who left for the United States between 1880 to 1930," Tina Calabro...
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Giuliana Muscio, Joseph Sciorra, Giovanni Spagnoletti and Anthony Julian Tamburri, eds., Mediated Ethnicity. New Italian-American Cinema
New York, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2010, pp.299, $28. Versione inglese del precedente Quei bravi ragazzi (Marsilio, 2007) curato dai soli Spagnoletti e Muscio, il presente volume si arricchisce di due nuovi curatori (Sciorra e Tamburri), andandosi a inserire nel sempre più numeroso gruppo di studi dedicati nel nuovo mil...