Sette voli giornalieri Italia-Usa nel 2015 di American Airlines
di Silvia De Bernardin Sette voli giornalieri per un totale di circa 2000 posti e una competitività che passa soprattutto dal network su America Latina e Caraibi. È questo il piano d'attacco sull'Italia per il 2015, l'anno dell'Expo di Milano, di American Airlines. La compagnia americana prepara una nuova offensiva sulla Penisola...
Italian-American Actor, David Henrie, Cast as Ronald Reagan in First Ever Biopic
Former President Ronald Reagan was the only movie star to ever become President of the United States. For some odd reason, there has never been a biopic film about Ronald Reagan, until now. Italian-American and ex-Disney Channel star, David Henrie will be cast to play a young Ronald Reagan in an upcoming biopic for about the former President of the...
Cosmetica Italia Associazione nazionale delle im : Cosmoprof North America: in 2014 +16% for the Italian export in the USA
After Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna and before Cosmoprof Asia (Hong Kong, November 11-13), the the 2015 Cosmoprof North America has taken place from July 12 to 14 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, characterised by the successful format that BolognaFiere exports around the world. Cosmetica Italia, too, makes concrete investm...
Accepting Applications for Student Trips to Italy in 2016
For the 17th consecutive year, the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) will sponsor its Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery program, an educational and cultural initiative that sends Italian American students enrolled in a college or university to Italy each year. This all-expenses-paid trip will take place in June 2016. Th...
Frank Sinatra’s Voice Saved His Life
James Kaplan's Sinatra: The Chairman takes around a thousand pages to get us from his Academy Award for From Here To Eternity in 1954 to his death in 1998. Kaplan's previous volume, Frank: The Voice (2010), used up almost 900 pages to get us from Frank's birth in 1915 to '54. The combined 1900 pages of the two books isn't long by the standards of,...
Frank Zappa: Straight outta Cucamonga
By David Allen Frank Zappa should be preparing to turn 75 on Monday. Alas, the iconoclastic musician died at age 52 of prostate cancer. He's something of a native son of the Inland Valley, even if he was born in Baltimore and achieved fame in Los Angeles. A chunk of his formative years was spent in various cities local to us: Rancho C...
We the Italians. Two Flags, One Heart. One Hundred Interviews About Italy and the US – Umberto Mucci’s New Book
by Sandra Tornberg Umberto Mucci is my "virtual" friend who lives in Rome – virtual because I met him online, a friend because we share many of the same interests and I rely on him for inspiration and support. Umberto is the founder and CEO of We the Italians, www.wetheitalians.com, a website about anything regarding Italy and the US. He h...
The Beloved Characters in A Tuscan Series Enter the 1990s
Father Lorenzo, Ezio and Donna, Dino and Sofia, Lucia and Paolo—all the beloved characters are back with new challenges and adventures in the sixth, and last, of Paul Salsini's sweeping "A Tuscan Series."The new book is "The Fearless Flag Thrower of Lucca: Nine Stories of 1990s Tuscany," and it brings the people of the fictional village of Sant'Ant...
Tony Bennett at 90 transcends the passage of time
Tony Bennett is not 90 years old. Oh, sure, he was born nine decades ago as of Aug. 3. But the man who sang from memory roughly two dozen songs — depending on how you count medleys — with hardly a pause Saturday night at the Ravinia Festival looked and sounded like an artist just beginning the autumn of his years. As for his ener...
What's the point of learning Italian?
A British Council study last week placed Italian in the top 10 most useful languages for Britons to learn. The Local spoke to Vilma de Gasperin, a senior language instructor at the University of Oxford, to find out why, despite competition from the Asian economies, Italian is still a useful language to know. Has the number of students want...
See highlights from the 26th Annual NELA Gala
Thank you to The Hon. Leon Panetta, Harry Lombardo, The Hon. Chris Dodd, LTG Flora Darpino, The Hon. Samuel Alito, The Hon. Nancy Pelosi, GEN Raymond Odierno, The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joe Mantegna and all the sponsors, supporters, volunteers and more than 700 guests of the Sons of Italy Foundation's (SIF) 26th Annual National Education &...
Finding Our Immigrant Ancestry – Details, Details!
by Angelo Coniglio While perusing individual census listings, note the township, county and state where the census was taken. You can contact churches, courthouses or public offices in those localities for other records: naturalization, birth, death or marriage records, etc. Questions varied over the years. I've previously listed...