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Special guest and recipient of the namesake award, at the TaorminaFilmFest @LA first edition (January 20-21), was Italian actress/filmmaker, Valeria Golino (born in Naples, Italy, on October 22, 1965). Golino’s talent for acting was recognized internationally early on, when, in …

Nestled in Sonoma County’s Russian River Valley stand the historical Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes of Bacigalupi Vineyards.  Growers Charles and Helen Bacigalupi are internationally known after winning the 1976 Paris Tasting. Not only represents this a Californian success, but …

Michel Ponzi, co-owner of Ponzi Vineyards, one of Oregon’s pioneering wineries, has spent his entire life building a hobby business into an international company. Born in Los Gatos, California, Michel moved to Oregon as a young boy, at the age …

The streets of Sicily is where you’ll find the real people, the locals who work hard and take pride in everything they do. They do it with a smile and in my experience, they always seem happy to engage in …

Italian American movie star Sylvester Stallone is having the time of his life. Last November he brought back fan favorite character Rocky Balboa in the new picture Creed, which follows Apollo Creed’s son Adonis strenuous rise to the top, with …

Tiziana Rocca, general manager of the Taormina Film Fest since 2012, has been largely innovating the historic Sicilian festival, founded in 1955. Her main concerns are to celebrate and foster Italian young talents, as well as to assure female filmmakers …

Sicilian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza won the Sundance Institute Global Filmmaking Award for the screenplay of their feature film Sicilian Ghost Story. Shooting for the film, which focuses on a love story in Sicily during the height of …

“Being Italian-American in New York, I am very proud of my heritage. It’s something I have great pride in and I’m a little emotional, knowing how proud my father and grandfather would be if they could see me here.” It …

La spartenza is a literary jewel, a linguistic triumph and the precious preservation of one man’s journey to the USA from a small town in Sicily. Written by a semi-literate contadino who was fluent in dialect rather than Italian or …

Choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti is the new director of Milan’s La Scala Theater Ballet, superintendent Alexander Pereira told a meeting of La Scala theater board of directors Monday. The post was left vacant on January 15 by Makhar Vaziev, who moved …