The True Story of the ‘Green Book’ Movie
It was well after dark on a Saturday night in January 1963 when the Don Shirley Trio took the stage in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The program of show tunes, jazz and classical music, the local paper reported, was “brilliant and exciting and warmly received by the large crowd.” But its famed leader and pianist, Don Shirley, who was black, knew his welcom...
A grandfather’s prayer: La famiglia!
Saying the blessing on Thanksgiving in my family can take a long time. First of all, there are a lot of us — my two brothers, three stepbrothers, wives, kids, aunts, uncles and, until they passed a few years ago, my grandparents. Saying the blessing on Thanksgiving, Christmas or other rare occasions when the 15 to 20 of us are together usually invo...
Giuliano Gerbi: con la radio restituì agli emigrati la voce dei parenti in Italia
Giuliano Gerbi, chi era costui? Sì, il fratello di mio padre Antonello, braccio destro del banchiere Raffaele Mattioli. Ma oggi il suo nome non dice nulla ai più. Eppure ci fu un tempo in cui tutti lo conoscevano: in particolare quando l’EIAR (la RAI di allora) lo incaricò di seguire come principale radiocronista il Tour de France, in programma dal...
Un ponte di sviluppo tra Stati Uniti e Italia
Siglato nei giorni scorsi alla Camera dei Deputati un accordo economico storico tra Italia e Stati Uniti. Il primo accordo di cooperazione, con l’uso dei Fondi europei, si profila come una grande opportunità, anche per il Sud Italia, di ricevere importanti finanziamenti. Nuovi impulsi per l’industria, il turismo, l’agricoltura, la ricerca e l’innov...
‘Rocky’ superfan ranks the franchise, from worst to best
Today, “Creed II” hits theaters. And who — in 1976, when Sylvester Stallone’s original “Rocky” was released — could have imagined that a “little movie that could” would still be delivering box-office knockouts well into the 21st century? The long-awaited sequel revisits the Cold War Ivan Drago rivalry from 1985’s “Rocky IV” — and its very existence...
“Sopranos” Prequel Taps Alessandro Nivola for Lead Role
Actor Alessandro Nivola is currently in talks to play the lead in the upcoming Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark. Nivola will likely play Dickey Moltisanti, according to The Hollywood Reporter, “a charismatic but violent made man who falls in love with his father’s much younger bride, a recent immigrant from Italy.” Moltisanti is chi...
Adriana Trigiani's novel 'Tony's Wife' swings to rhythm of the big-band era
When Chi Chi Donatelli spots a boy drowning in the ocean, the young woman doesn’t hesitate to rush into the water to rescue him. The only person unimpressed with her heroics is Chi Chi herself. It’s something anyone would do, she explains, shrugging off praise from her Jersey Shore pals. Chi Chi’s lifeguarding skills are put to use only once in Adr...
Contest for college students of Italian language on the occasion of the 3rd week of the Italian cuisine in the world
During the third week of Italian cuisine, the Italian Embassy in DC, in cooperation with the Italian Institute of Culture, organized a seminar on Mediterranean Diet with acclaimed chef and author, Amy Riolo. In the course of the seminar, Matteo Galli a college student from the University of Maryland was awarded a prize for his essay describing with...
Italy defeats USMNT 1-0 to say arrivederci to 2018
The United States men’s national team closed out a forgettable 2018 with a low-energy 1-0 loss to an Italy squad made up of mostly reserves in an international friendly that was curiously played in Genk, Belgium on Tuesday evening. The Americans yielded a 94th minute stoppage-time winner to Matteo Politano who calmly slotted past exasperated USMNT...
«Big match di Serie A negli stadi USA entro un anno»
Quello di Charles Stillitano è un nome sconosciuto ai più. Eppure, l'avvocato italoamericano del New Jersey rappresenta una di quelle figure che, passo dopo passo, stanno contribuendo a cambiare il calcio per come lo abbiamo conosciuto, ben oltre i confini attuali. Nato e cresciuto negli Stati Uniti, ma figlio di emigrati da Gioia Tauro, Stillitano...
Diego Di Franco e Angela Valentino lanciano negli Stati Uniti “Diego Cortez NYC”
Diego Cortez e Angela Valentino firmano il loro sodalizio professionale all’interno del nuovo brand Diego Cortez New York, che lo scorso ottobre ha esordito alla Los Angeles Fashion Week con la nuova linea donna di costumi da bagno. Una collezione luxury, per il lancio del brand durante la sfilata al The Majestics di Los Angeles, realizzata dall’es...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to replace Columbus Day with holiday for Election day
Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday proposed getting rid of Columbus Day as a holiday and replacing it with a day off for Election Day. It started when Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday night, “how is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?” The Daily Mail’s U.S. political editor David Martosko quote tweeted Ocasio-Cortez on Su...