Pale di San Martino: Italy's Most Beautiful Mountain Landscape
The largest mountain group in the Dolomites, and arguably one of the most beautiful, the Pale di San Martino extend for 240 square km in eastern Trentino and part of the province of Belluno in Veneto, northern Italy. They formed 300 million years ago, and today they are the setting of a much beloved tourist area. The Pale are mountains of coral ori...
Michigan Barber Retires After 61 Years of Service
There were not many jobs around town when Tony Lombardo got back from the Army in the early 1950s. Lombardo took great pride in serving his country. But amid a stubborn, deep recession that gripped it, there was not much a young man could do to make a living. "So, a friend of mine says, 'Tony, why don't you go to barber school.'" Lombardo said to...
Proof brings artisanal excellence to St. Philip’s Plaza
Leave it to restaurateur Grant Krueger to use gunpowder and 16th century tax collectors as inspirations behind the name of his third eatery in St. Philip’s Plaza. This and other secrets were recently revealed to me at Proof Artisanal Pizza and Pasta, 4340 N. Campbell Avenue. Krueger stopped short of calling them secrets, but acknowledged that the s...
Meet Marianna Gatto of Italian American Museum of Los Angeles
Today we’d like to introduce you to Marianna Gatto. Marianna, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today. I’m a lifelong resident of Los Angeles, born and raised in Los Feliz and Silverlake, and from the time I was young, history, especially United States immigration history, was what ignited...
Association Unifier: Lawrence Caniglia Honored by Aquatics International for Industry Influence
In summer of 2017 Lawrence Caniglia had this notion that he’d go into semi-retirement. After 14 years with one of the largest regional associations in the pool/spa industry, he planned to start a new consulting business with an association management colleague. He made the big announcement and planned for the tough good-byes from a group that had g...
Let's help Ngone Seck!
Ngone Seck is an Italian immigrant with West African roots who recently began her engineering classes at Washington University in St Louis. Unfortunately, a massive amount of medical debt has caused her to get a full time job at Panda Express in St. Ann. There she often works 60 hours per week so she can pay off the debt. This has obviously taken a...
Pasta Making in NYC Taken To Next Level
When you think of a pasta making class, most would imagine it taking place in a basic culinary school setting. The highly reviewed restaurant Scarpetta took that concept and enveloped it within a three-course gourmet meal and wine experience, all inside the modern interiors of their NoMad district location in New York City. The opportunity to enjoy...
Italian-born pianist's MSU performance to be Italian-themed
Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 p.m. Akin Hall, Midwestern State University, 3410 Taft Boulevard, Wichita Falls, TX 76308. Admission: $25, $22.50 senior citizens and military. Information: (940) 397-4267. The Italian-born Alessio Bax came to music by chance. “It was Christmastime and I received an electric keyboard as a gift when I was 6 or 7. I fell in...
Lucy Ferreri, the matriarch of a large and loving Staten Island family, and a 'First Lady of the Greatest Generation,' dies at 96
Lucy Ferreri, the matriarch of a large and loving Staten Island family, the epitome of elegance, style and refinement, and a "First Lady of the Greatest Generation," died Tuesday night surrounded by those she held most dear. She was 96. Born Lucia DiSerafino, on Sept 1, 1922 on Nugent Street in Egbertville, Lucy was the fourth child and third daugh...
Robot hand 'more sensitive than flesh and blood limb'
A new Italian bionic hand is more sensitive than limbs made of flesh and blood, it was claimed at a robotics conference in Rome Thursday. The hand made by Biorobotica was first pioneered by researcher Paolo Dario in the 1980s, who created the first connection to a nervous system. The hand enables users to orient in the dark, researchers said, while...
Umami Burger Debuts Latest Artist Series Collaboration With Award-Winning Italian Butcher Dario Cecchini
Umami Burger, the world-renowned premium burger brand from global lifestyle hospitality company sbe, is thrilled to announce its latest Artist Series collaboration with famed Italian Butcher Dario Cecchini on February 22nd. Cecchini has created 'The Butcher's Burger' as an exclusive culinary creation available at 16 participating Umami Burger locat...
Dante and the Power of Satire
Wednesday 03/06/2019 - 7:00pm - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 24 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011-8604. A lecture by Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Harvard University. Dante is one of the greatest satirists of all time. His satire challenged and reshaped moral, legal, and linguistic boundaries. Popes, kings and members of Italy's most powerful famil...