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“I’ve always been a shy person, but theater helped me open up because it made me feel like I belonged. It became my home and my life.”  Italian actress and comedian Paola Minaccioni took a piece of herself and her life on …

Magician, mentalist and also director and screenwriter. It is difficult to define the career of Riccardo Berdini, an Italian artist based in Los Angeles where he has lived since 2015 and where, in an almost unexpected way, he managed to …

The Multipli Forti Festival in New York will start with a reading of a passage from I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni, read by its translator,  Michael Moore. Now in its second edition, the event was created to …

Promoting networking and cultural, scientific, academic, and technological cooperation between the US scientific community and public and private organizations in Italy. This is the goal of ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation), a nonprofit organization that connects …

Salvatore “Salvo” Maniscalcoworked his whole life as a hairstylist in Chicago, after immigrating to the United States with his family from Cefalù, Sicily, at the age of 15. His son, Sebastian Maniscalco, a renowned comedian who has achieved incredible success selling …

His grandparents, originally from Reggio Calabria, met and married in Australia, where they had migrated after the war. Comedian Joe Avati grew up in Five Dock, Sydney, Australia, but his profound Italian heritage has always been at the heart of his stand-up …

Maestro Carlo Ponti received the “Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy” honor, presented to him by Consul General Raffaella Valentini. At the end of the last concert of the season for the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra last May 12 …

Italian cinema icon Monica Bellucci will star in the show Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs at the Beacon Theatre in New York for one night only on Friday, January 27, 2023, at 8:00 PM. To celebrate the publication of the …

Pietro Schito has been passionate about animation since the tender age of seven, but it wasn’t until college that he realized his passion could be turned into a profession. Born and raised in Milan, Pietro decided to pursue his dream …

June 2nd, 1946, seventy-seven years ago, marked a historical moment that Italy celebrates as its National Day. The picture – which later became a “symbol” of the event and was published on Il Nuovo Corriere della Sera – portrays a young woman …