Genova come Ellis Island, un passo avanti per il museo delle migrazioni
di Massimo Minella Nascerà nel porto di Genova, la "Ellis Island" italiana, tempio laico che omaggia la storia della nostra emigrazione, ricordandoci ogni giorno quando eravamo noi a salire sulle barche e cercare rifugio dall'altra parte del mondo, fuggendo da miseria e disperazione. Un passo avanti forse definitivo è stato comp...
Magione, la famiglia dell'aviatore Usa salvato dai pescatori dona bandiera americana al sindaco
La bandiera americana posta sulla bara del padre, uno degli omaggi più importanti che l'America tributa ai propri militari, è stata donata al comune di Magione dai parenti dell'aviatore americano Joseph Adrian Gately. Gately, durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, fu salvato dai pescatori di Sant'Arcangelo dopo che l'aereo su cui era in ricognizione c...
Transatlantico - CD Release Concert by Emanuele Tozzi
January 23, 2016 (Saturday) 8:00 PM. Transatlantico - CD Release Concert by Emanuele Tozzi. Le Poisson Rouge - 158 Bleecker Street, Manhattan. Emanuele Tozzi brings a modernistic touch of the Old World to New York City. His sound has been likened to a Fellini soundtrack highlighted with chocolate notes; combining jazz with fragm...
IAWA’s Open Reading Series – Saturday, February 13, 2016 – Open Mic plus Features Chiara Montalto Giannini & Frank Polizzi
The Italian American Writers Association will celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2016. Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its literary series every second Saturday of the months. Readings begin with an Open Mic: IAWA-East is held even months at Sidewalk Café and IAWA-West continues at Cornelia Street Café on odd months. V...
Coffee World Mourns Inventor of the Moka, Renato Bialetti
Renato Bialetti, son of the founder of the Italian cookware company Bialetti, died on Wednesday at the age of 93. He spent the last years of his life in Ascona, Switzerland. Every Italian home and millions more across the world has a Moka pot. Invented in 1933 by Luigi di Ponti the design was acquired by Alfonso Bialetti, an aluminium speciali...
Jodi's Italian Ice planning to open in Munster
by Joseph S. Pete A local chain of Italian Ice parlors is going to serve up its popular Philadelphia-style "water ice" in what was once a popular spot for frozen yogurt in Munster. Jodi's Italian Ice Factory, which says it's the largest Italian Ice manufacturer in the Midwest, will move into the former Eyepad Optical that closed recen...
Kansas City travelblog: The traditional trip to Garozzo's
We walked into Garozzo's on Tuesday night, and inside of 10 seconds I heard the booming voice of Mike Garozzo. "My favorite sportswriter!" roared my favorite restauranteur. I have no illusions that Garozzo has studied the issue and declared me superior to Joe Posnanski or Mike Lupica. It's plenty enough for me that Garozzo keeps running hi...
Hall of Fame broadcaster Joe Garagiola dies at age 90
By Dave Lumia Hall of Fame broadcaster Joe Garagiola died Wednesday morning following an unparalleled career in baseball spanning from his playing days in the 1940s to his role as a D-backs broadcaster on FOX Sports Arizona through 2013. Garagiola had a nine-year Major League career before gravitating to the broadcast booth, where his...
A Foodie’s Guide to Eating Italian on Staten Island
As Williamsburg, Long Island City, Bushwick, and even Bedford-Stuyvesant become more gentrified (read: more expensive), New York transplants are asking the question: what is the next frontier? May I be so bold as to suggest Staten Island? Yes, I said it. Though once the butt of every joke, I predict that Staten Island will be the next area...
Edoardo Ripari, “Italian Chivalric Literature and Cinema”
Please join us for the following lecture by Edoardo Ripari: "Italian Chivalric Literature and Cinema." Wednesday, April 20, 5:00-6:00. 501 Hamilton Hall. Columbia University (Morningside campus) This lecture aims to explore the fortune of Italian chivalric literature in the twentieth century through the examination of c...
A-B InBev Acquires Italy’s Birra del Borgo
Talk about having your finger on the pulse: Anheuser-Busch InBev will wholly acquire one of Italy's most popular craft breweries, Birra del Borgo. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed and Birra del Borgo founder Leonardo Di Vincenzo will continue to serve as CEO. In a press statement, the smaller brewery described the deal as a...
Wine is still a Cinderella in e-commerce, but has a huge potential
It looks like a good time for the growth of e-commerce in the Italian wine business, a sector that's currently worth €24 million in purchase of domestic and foreign wines, about 0.2% of the total wine market. But, according to a joint study by the Svinando Wine Club, the University of Turin and the online wine store Piuvino.it, that figure could ri...