Profiles

Peter Mondavi Sr., Napa Valley visionary responsible for the success of his family’s winery for more than 50 years died on February 20th at his home in St. Helena, California.  He was 101. Mondavi was born in Virginia, Minnesota, on …

Imagine a superior form of extraterrestrial life, endowed with a higher intelligence, landing on the moon’s surface. The alien picks up a human artefact, the size of half a coke can, and opens it: inside, it’s contained the historic milestones …

Gianni Infantino has become the new FIFA President after he served as Swiss-Italian football administrator and as general secretary of UEFA since 2009. Gianni Infantino was born on 23 March 1970 in Brig, Switzerland but he is of Italian origin from …

The whole world knows the feelings that come from the symphonies of his music and the images that they evoke, images associated with films (more than 60) that have won awards and for which the same music was composed and …

“My Italian origins have never been a source of particular discomfort, except for the time when, as a child, my father asked me to buy The Progresso the Italian newspaper of the time. It was raining hard and I slipped …

Perhaps some people believe history is a thing of the past. Think again.  It is all around you. You look at it every day and likely even admire it.  Examples are the many Italian cultural sites of San Francisco’s North …

The smell of freshly baked bread is arguably one of the world’s most sublime aromas. A British study last year found that the smell of baking bread topped the list of all-time favorite scents, beating out sizzling bacon, freshly mowed …

The New York Times has proclaimed Italian-American comedian/ director/producer Frank Ferrante (Los Angeles, April 26, 1963) as “the greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx’s material.” So, don’t be surprised if his current show, An Evening with Groucho, is a regular …

It took us 100 years to prove all of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and the success comes as a result of the LIGO-Virgo international collaboration that sees both Italy and the U.S as home bases to the Nobel-Prize-quality discovery. …

Renato Bialetti, the Italian entrepreneur know for having launched the Moka, has died last night in Ascona, at the age of 93. While he lived in Omegna and was raised in the family whose businesss had been founded by his …