Profiles

Robert Loggia, actor in movies and TV shows including Brian De Palma’s 1983 drama “Scarface” and “Big,” died at his home in Los Angeles at 85. Loggia had been battling Alzheimer’s Disease for the past five years, according to his widow. …

Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi is to head the UN refugee agency, succeeding Antonio Guterres. The choice was made considering the role Italy has got by being hard-hit by refugee inflows into Europe via the Middle East and northern Africa. Grandi …

The 2015 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, call for renewed global efforts to tackle the climate crisis, secure the rights of indigenous and LGBTI communities, and put an end to war. The …

To most people Matt LeBlanc will forever be the good-hearted, amiable aspiring actor Joey Tribbiani from the widely popular show Friends. The series was a must watch in the mid nineties and it ended its successful run in 2004 after …

Moira Orfei was born in 1931 in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and participated in the family’s circus act, before founding her owncircus queen wearing turban company in 1960, called The Circus Moira Orfei.   Her performances included her work as a trapeze …

“No Italians Need Apply” was the sign that Louis Rossetto’s grandparents had to read when they first moved to New York City from Bollengo, Piedmont, at the turn of the 20th century. The founder of Wired magazine is a son of …

The finalists for the 2015 WTA Comeback Player Of The Year have been released and, together with Serena Williams, Agnieszka Radwanska, and Garbiñe Muguruza, also Italian player Pennetta who made her final season on the WTA tour unforgettable at this year’s …

“Life is short. Live your dream”: the quote Franco Denari shared with us is more than a way to approach life. It is what led him to success and has also helped become both the Founder and the CEO of …

Designer Maria Mandelli, who founded fashion house Krizia, has died at 90. Mandelli, known as Krizia, “has been an extraordinary and innovative designer,” M.M.K said in the statement. With her work she “helped create and support internationally a typically Italian model …

The second part of life of Italian American singer Frank Sinatra, from the band to a solo career. At the end of 1939, Sinatra accepted an offer from the far more successful bandleader Tommy Dorsey, jumping to his new berth …