The price tag alone will knock you out! Sylvester Stallone adds famous Rocky statue to his personal collection for $400K
Sylvester Stallone gave himself a very personal gift this Christmas. The 71-year-old Rocky actor, sources told TMZ, plunked down more than $400,000 for a statue of his iconic cinematic character, Rocky. The statue - which stands at nine-feet-tall and weighs 1,800 pounds - was a backup produced for the 1982 installment in the boxing anthology, Rocky...
IAWA 2nd Saturday Reading Series
January 13, 2018 (Saturday) 5:45 - 7:30 pm Sponsored by The Italian American Writers Association. Cornelia St. Cafe - 29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan. Admission: $10 (includes one drink); open to the public. Contact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178 [email protected] Joseph Salvatore, author of the story collection To Assume A Pleasing Shape, is a frequ...
Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar 2018
The Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar™ is a three-week summer program that takes place at Roma Tre University from June 11 to 29, 2018. It is designed to introduce participants (doctoral students and professors) to cultural studies of the Italian Diaspora from a variety of academic perspectives and to foster development of individual projects...
Servant leader: Umberto P. Fedeli finds value in every relationship
Umberto P. Fedeli plays to win. It doesn’t matter if he’s functioning as president and CEO at The Fedeli Group, as a board member at the Cleveland Clinic or as a trusted confidant who has been asked by a friend for help. It’s the way he approaches every facet of his life. “It’s ultimately about performance,” Fedeli says. “I have no interest in gett...
Goppion, il vetraio italiano che protegge la Gioconda
Il lavoro più delicato e complesso fu progettare le vetrine che avrebbero protetto i gioielli della Corona nella Torre di Londra. Furono i servizi segreti della regina a verificarne il grado di resistenza facendo esplodere bombe su un prototipo in un luogo segreto. Come andò? «Questo non me lo hanno fatto sapere», dice Alessandro Goppion, «ma il ve...
Joe Campanale is reinventing high-low dining all over again
The hottest reservation in New York City right now isn’t some old-school grand dame or Michelin-starred Manhattan boite. It’s Fausto, a laid-back Italian restaurant on a wide, commercial avenue in Brooklyn, tucked between two quiet, residential neighborhoods. Fausto opened on December 9. It was a curious move for owner and beverage director Joe Cam...
Orchestra welcomes the new year with ‘That’s Amore’ at Five Points
The Heartland Festival Orchestra presents “New Year’s Greeting — That’s Amore” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 6, at Five Points Washington. It is the orchestra’s tradition to welcome the New Year with its signature “New Year’s Greeting,” one of its most festive and popular concerts of the season. This year, the concert includes a variety of musical st...
A grandmother's hilarious interaction with a new Google Home
A grandmother’s hilarious interaction with a new Google Home she addresses as “Goo Goo” was filmed by her software-engineer grandson, Ben Actis, and posted on YouTube. “My 85-year-old Italian grandmother learns to use Google Home,” Actis wrote. The video, as of midday Saturday, had more than 534,000 views. The grandmother addresses the contraption...
Pizza mitzvah! Marine Park pizzeria goes kosher
A Marine Park pizzeria with a long tradition in the Brooklyn pizza scene has decided to adopt a tradition that’s even older — it’s going kosher. Vinny Fontana’s father Francesco opened up the first The Original Pizza location in Canarsie back in 1964, and the family still has pizzerias in Canarsie, in Bay Ridge, and in Flatlands, as well as the Ave...
La Befana Visits Little Italy
La Befana is an Italian holiday tradition taking place on the Epiphany Eve (January 5). Legend has it that La Befana is on a quest to find baby Jesus, so she visits every child's home and leaves small gifts in good children's stockings and fills naughty children's stockings with coal.La Befana will be traveling to Little Italy SJ, and your children...
Hartford Seeks Input on Resolutions for Ballot Articles
Town officials working to craft a pair of symbolic resolutions for the 2018 Town Meeting ballot say it’s not too late for the public to weigh in. Current drafts would have the town replace Columbus Day celebrations with Indigenous Peoples Day, and urge the state to ban natural gas pipelines while it pursues renewable energy targets. The Hartford Se...
Italy - US Advanced Manufacturing Conference 2018
ICE-Agenzia lancerà a Milano il 21 febbraio 2018 un ciclo di roadshow tecnologici negli Stati Uniti, aperti alla partecipazione di imprese italiane. Nell'occasione istituzioni, centri di ricerca e mondo imprenditoriale dei due Paesi si confronteranno sull'evoluzione tecnologica del settore manifatturiero e sulla possibilità di lavorare insieme in q...