Memories of Ol’ Blue Eyes
by Ron Onesti Dec. 12, 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey ... "Chairman of the Board" to be Francis Albert Sinatra, was born to Italian immigrants. The wiry, blue-eyed kid with a huge smile loved to sing, and at the tender age of 8 sang publically for the first time. His father, Antonio, a lightweight boxer and Hoboken Fire Department Capt...
Chazz Palminteri to talk it up at Italian American Club - Wednesday, March 9 at 7:00 pm
By John Katsilometes Chazz Palminteri tells a story about vodka, but, as so many of his stories, it is really about people. Two and a half years ago, Palminteri was told that his home country of Italy (Sicily, to be exact) had never produced a vodka. He contacted a master distiller in that region, a man named Giovanni La Fauci, to team up...
The Best Museums to visit in Italy
2015 has been a great year for Italian art. According to recently released statistics, 43 million people visited local museums creating something like 155m euro revenues for the government. If we consider 2014 data as well, Italy registered a growth of 5 million visits in 24 months, with Colosseum (+6 per cent), Pompeii (12), Reggia di Cas...
April is Italian Opera month in Albuquerque!
On April 3, 6, 8 and 10 we'll be treated to Opera Southwest's production of Rossini's delightfully zany Il Turco in Italia at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. And then . . . The students of the UNM Opera Theatre present "L'Elisir d'Amore" by Donizetti. Enjoy an evening of beautiful "bel canto" and poignant comedic moments. Sung in Italian wi...
The second home market takes off, Italians once again prefer the coast
The second home is a purchase from the heart, a choice based more on emotional criteria than rational ones. One buys in a much-loved place, where one wants to spend free time and vacations, and, why not, where the real estate can perhaps earn income for brief periods. Having said this, the purchase of a second home brings with it a series...
Announcing the publication of Italian American Review Volume 6, Number 1
We are excited to announce the publication of Italian American Review Volume 6, Number 1! Volume 6, Number 1 is a special issue on organized crime that grew out of the Calandra Institute's seventh annual conference, titled "MAFIAs: Realities and Representations of Organized Crime" (April 25-26, 2014). While the scope of the conference...
Meet the Job Fair - Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York, Sabato 14 Maggio 2016, a partire dalle 10.00 a.m.
Quando: Sabato 14 Maggio 2016 A partire dalle 10.00 a.m.Dove: Consolato Generale d'Italia, 690 Park Avenue - New York Il Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York, in collaborazione con Bocconi Alumni Association NY, Italy-America Chamber of Commerce e Italian Trade Agency, presenta la prima edizione della Job Fair, ulteriore tappa del cicl...
Vernaccia di Oristano: Taste and Tradition Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - Hours: 6:00 p.m. Site: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611 Organized by: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago Vernaccia di Oristano, considered the noble wine of Sardinia, is similar to sherry. Its origins surface thousands of years ago: according to archaeologists,...
Silicon Valley Skills Meets illy Coffee at the New illy Foundry
Announced last month from illy's global headquarters in Trieste, illy Foundry is a nimble, Italy-based unit of developers and interaction designers being drawn from all over the world. The unifying purpose of this group is to deeply understand people's habits and wishes related to the coffee experience, and then build new digital products and servi...
Kansas State University: VAP in Italian
General Description of Position: The Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, term position, for the 2016-2017 academic year, with an option to be renewed. Generalist with ability to teach introductory and intermediate language courses as well as literary and...
Italy’s Alessandro Gentile wants to play for Rockets in 2016-2017
ByJoseph Nocco According to a Tuesday report from Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports' The Vertical, Italian swingman Alessandro Gentile appears poised to ink a NBA deal this summer. The Houston Rockets currently own the draft rights to the Italian superstar after he was originally selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second-round of the...
The Accidental American Genius of Guy Fieri
By Hua Hsu At some point I realized that I had accidentally watched every episode of "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." The series, which airs, with an oddly comforting relentlessness, on the Food Network, bills itself as a road trip highlighting America's unheralded small-town haunts. Its primary appeal, though, is its host, the chef and res...