Being Italian; Interview With The Author Marianna Biazzo Randazzo
Marianna Randazzo is an Italian-American author from New York City. Teacher, wife, mother and grandmother, she taught for over 35 years, both in the educational system of NYC and as an instructor at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum. After retirement, she devoted all her energies to teaching Italian culture. Marianna is an officer in Staten Island’s Capo...
Turismo internazionale oltre le previsioni UNWTO: record di guadagni per l'Italia
Nei primi quattro mesi del 2018 gli arrivi turistici internazionali sono cresciuti del 6% rispetto allo stesso periodo dell'anno scorso. A inizio anno le previsioni dell'Unwto oscillavano infatti tra il 4 e il 5% ma oggi sono state superate, a conferma di un trend in crescita dal 2017. E ci sono ottime notizie anche per l'Italia nello specifico: il...
Artemisia's INTENT Makes its Rhode Island Premiere at FRINGEPVD
Award-winning Artemisia's Intent will bring the life and work of Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi to the 5th Annual Providence Fringe Festival, FRINGEPVD. Before making its Rhode Island debut, Artemisia's Intent will receive a send-off performance in NYC on Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 7:30PM at The Kraine (85 East 4th Street, NY, NY 10009). Tic...
The top 5 spots to savor Italian fare in Minneapolis
Looking to satisfy your appetite for Italian fare? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian restaurants around Minneapolis, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to meet your needs. 1. Bar La Grassa Topping the list is Bar La Grassa. Located at 800 Washington Ave. in North Loop, the wine bar an...
ESPN, Turner reportedly at head of sudden race for Italian Serie A TV rights
For the last few moths, there hasn’t been much news on the future of the TV rights for Italy’s Serie A in the US. BeIN previously held the rights, but they expired after the 2017-18 seasonand IMG opted to bundle the rights with the rights to England’s FA Cup to encourage higher bids. Those bids never surfaced, and no one knew where in the hell eith...
Strangers among us — Little Italy during wartime
The war was getting really heavy, and a man in an officer’s uniform came to our door. He said, “I have some papers here, and I want you to read these. You have to leave your home and go to Oklahoma, and you’re going to go into a concentration camp. We’re going to take all the people who live near the waterfront because you’re too dangerous.” I said...
A Fresh Spin On Sicilian And Puglian Italian Wines
Italy is bizarrely replete with more than 350 different grape varieties. The Romans must have loved it. Northern Italy has its share of established enotourism locales—such as Tuscany and Piemonte—which are well known foci for visitors. Now other regions of Italy are realizing the benefits and potential of wine tourism. Portions of southern Italy su...
Roma Sign New Jersey-Born Gennaro Nigro to Primavera
We were pondering, exactly a week ago, over the surprising lack of conduit at Roma for hustling American players into European football. After all, it’s an American management and James Pallotta has waxed lyrical over the potential of the untapped USA playing talent. Now just a week later, on that very front, the club has signed 2000-born talent Ge...
Who will be crowned this year’s queen?
One of the most thrilling and glamorous events in the Chicago-area Italian-American community is the contest to determine who will reign as La Bella Regina of the Columbus Day Parade. “Few events in the community can match the pageantry of the annual Columbus Day Queen Contest,” says JCCIA Executive Director Jo Ann Serpico. “The queen will be the s...
America Is Developing a Roman-Style Pizza Addiction
As a kid growing up in suburban Wisconsin in the ’90s, a “surprise, we brought home pizza!" from the adults in the house meant a couple of stuffed crusts from Pizza Hut. Luigi Roditis, who now makes his own pizza at nine-month-old il Romanista in Los Angeles, had it a little better during his childhood. The LA native spent summers visiting relative...
“The Black Hand”, Stephan Talty racconta la vera storia di Joe Petrosino
Il giornalista e scrittore americano Stephan Talty, alle ore 18 di martedì 17 luglio 2018 a Palermo, incontrerà la stampa italiana presso i locali di SPAZIO AGORA’ (via XII Gennaio, 2). Stephan Talty, è autore del libro “La mano nera. La vera storia di Joe Petrosino”, tradotto di recente anche in italiano. I diritti del libro di Talty sono stati ac...
Colors Bloom Across the Great Plain of Castelluccio, Italy
In central Italy’s Umbria region, the small village of Castelluccio sits atop a hill overlooking a broad, flat basin surrounded by the Sibillini Mountains. In October 2016, a significant earthquake struck the area, badly damaging the village and roads—but farming still takes place in the Piano Grande below, where fields of lentils and poppies bloom...