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Five years after his first single Fall on Me, performed alongside his father Andrea Bocelli, and two years after his first solo single Solo, Matteo Bocelli has released his debut solo album titled Matteo. Comprising 12 tracks and released by …

As we await to find out if the short film Grazie Michele will make it to the final selection phase for the 2024 Oscars, we at L’Italo-Americano have interviewed director Rosario Errico. “The short film highlights the capability, intelligence, and …

While touring in New Zealand in 2018, Cher took a break from rehearsing and decided to go get some of her favorite treat, gelato. So she chose The Giapo Store in Auckland, an ice cream shop owned by an Italian gelato-maker, Giapo Grazioli. The 77-year-old …

On December 15, 1964, the first Italian satellite, San Marco 1, was launched by an Italian crew using an American Scout rocket from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, US as a part of the San Marco Program. After that, Italy became the third …

The famous Medici Chapels in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence are the resting place of the illustrious Medici family, visited by thousands of tourists every day. All the most notable Medicis are buried inside the New Sacristy, designed …

Journalist and screenwriter, publishing and digital media expert, lover of comics, technology and the innovations it brings. Gianfranco Cordara has a very long and intense career behind him that began at the world’s most famous animation company, Walt Disney Animation. …

Go into any bookstore and you’ll likely see a well-stocked cookbook section. There are cookbooks by continent, country, and geographic region. Some are arranged by meal, by season, or by holiday. Others devote themselves to variations on a single dish …

It has been a few busy weeks for the San Francisco Bay area, and so it was for the Italian and Italian-American community. San Francisco hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, one of the largest gatherings of global leaders in …

Cinema Italian Style, which ran November 9-16 at the SIFF Uptown Theater in Seattle, presented 15 stellar films in celebration of the festival’s 15th season.   Fourteen of those films were new releases and one – Visconti’s Bellissima – was …

The journey of two young men making their way to Europe from Africa is at the heart of Matteo Garrone’s latest movie. Io Capitano, released in September 2023, is now being shown across the United States, with a stop that saw Director …