Free Italian films at Coral Gables Museum
The Coral Gables Museum is showing free Italian films once a month in the courtyard this fall. The first film will be the "L'Estate di Martino" (2010) directed by Massimo Natale (which is also being shown free at The Wolfsonian-FIU Friday). All films are in Italian with English subtitles. The film will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the court...
Italian American Heritage Club to meet Oct. 15 in Asbury
The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at the Grand Colonial Restaurant on Rt. 173 in Asbury. The guest speaker will be Sam Faiello. Faiello is a Hunterdon County resident whose public relations firm was retained by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey to develop pub...
Mario Cuomo, Vocal Foe of Italian Stereotyping, Finally Sees ‘The Godfather’
Mario M. Cuomo's hate-hate relationship with "The Godfather" has been well documented. For four decades, he refused even to see any of the movies or, presumably, to read Mario Puzo's book. He all but denied that the Mafia existed. And who could forget that unfortunate slip of the tongue during the 1992 presidential campaign, when Bill Clinton sugge...
Italian swimmer Gremizzi's U.S. dream realized
Growing up in Italy near the village of Bellagio on picturesque Lake Como — where actor George Clooney and other celebrities have vacation homes — UNLV swimmer Giacomo Gremizzi always was enamored with American culture and dreamed of attending college in the United States. It's fitting that the senior ended up in Las Vegas, home to Bellagio, w...
Italia - Stati Uniti: Cibo e cultura della tavola italoamericana
Giovedì 5 dicembre, alle ore 17,00, a Villa Rosazza, si parlerà di buona cucina, in particolare di cucina italoamericana, in un incontro organizzato da Fondazione Casa America e dall'Agenzia consolare statunitense a Genova. È una buona occasione per Casa America per rivolgere la prua verso il nord del continente americano, come altre volte ha...
Author Q&A: Gathering ingredients of father’s full life
By Tom Atwell Armando Polito sailed to the United States in 1920, when he was 10 years old, with his mother and siblings. His father, Giovanni Polito, had been in America for eight years, successfully running the Napoli restaurants in Maine. Shortly after Armando died in 2003, his daughter – Nancy Jo Polito – had trouble sleeping one...
Gilda Mignonette. Napoli New York solo andata
Il 20 dicembre scorso, presso palazzo Armieri, sede dell' Assessorato regionale alle Politiche Sociali e migratorie, è stato presentato il nuovo progetto di Asmef, l'associazione culturale che da anni studia la storia, le dinamiche e i personaggi dell'emigrazione italiana. Si tratta di un musical, incentrato sul tema che da anni promuove l'associaz...
IT and US: Dr. Maria Guarrera Wilmeth, R.I.P.
WTI Magazine #13 2014 Jan, 17Author : Luigi Maria De Luca Translation by: Last tuesday evening in Washington DC a memorial service was held for Mary Wilmeth. It was a very nice moment, attended by, among others, representatives of the Italian- American cultural organizations, institutions, many frie...
Il Sistema Moda italiano in fiera a Las Vegas
La moda italiana grande protagonista a Las Vegas. L'ICE-Agenzia sarà infatti impegnata, nei prossimi giorni, in due missioni nella città americana, che vedrà impegnata una folta delegazione di aziende tricolori attive, da una parte, nel settore abbigliamento, e, dall'altra, in quello delle calzature. Si inizia il 17 febbraio con il MRket T...
Nick's Italian Cafe in McMinnville named an 'America's Classics' restaurant by James Beard Foundation
by Michael Russell Nick's Italian Cafe in McMinnville has been named one of the James Beard Foundation's America's Classics restaurants, the foundation announced Thursday. Nick's, which was originally in 1977 by Nick Peirano, grew into a Willamette Valley wine country favorite for juice-stained vintners and day-tripping wine sippers alike...
Mangia at Soya e Pomodoro In Taste Of The Town
by Lisa Petrillo There's an Italian eatery in downtown Miami with a huge fan base of local customers because of its simple, delicious food. Soya e Pomodoro is downtown Miami's hidden gem just off First street It's Old World Italian at its best. "This is the best eggplant I've ever had," exclaimed CBS4′s Lisa Petrillo as she bit into...
Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience
Presentation of the Library of Congress-Anniversary book and lecture: "Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience." By co-author and guest speaker Dr. Mario B. Mignone, SUNY, distinguished service professor at Stony Brook University, and editor of Forum Italicum. For the first time...