7 Made-in-Italy Labels on How to Drive Growth
FN quizzed both heritage and emerging Italian labels at the Micam shoe fair in Milan last week on the year ahead. Here’s what they had to say about digital U.S. expansion and more. 1. Gio Giacobbe, CEO, ACBC (Advanced Commuter Basic Concept), a new modular footwear brand with interchangeable zip-on, zip-off skins and soles. Geographic focus: “We la...
Hoping to Fill the Italian Deli Void
It has been said by Frankie Rose’s friends that he has marinara sauce flowing in his veins instead of blood. Rose enjoys bringing his love of Italian cuisine alive, and feels the need to make his mark here in Southwest Florida. Rose is preparing to open Frankie’s Italian Deli in the new strip mall in front of the Walmart Shopping Center on SR 951 n...
11 of the best romantic Italian films of all time
Italy is a country of romance, even more so onscreen. Whether you're in the mood for gushy romance or something more realistic, there are plenty of Italian movies worth watching which tell tales of love in all its forms. Here are 11 of our top picks. Roman Holiday (1953)No list of romantic Italian films could be complete without a nod to Audrey Hep...
East meets West in Italy’s 2018 Capital of Culture
For some reason, I like to compare cities to beautiful female figures: Turin, which I know very well, is an elegant and haughty princess with a knack for the occult. Venice is coquette, colorful and well aware of her unequalled beauty and Rome, well, Rome is the Empress: with dark-silk hair and covered in gold, she has no age and leaves us all beso...
Italian restaurant preparing to enter Columbus Park Crossing
The Columbus Park Crossing area of the city is landing another restaurant and it will be Fazoli’s, an Italian fast-casual concept that is locating at 6589 Whittlesey Blvd., across from the Academy Sports and Outdoors store now under construction. “We are hoping to open sometime in the last two weeks in May. We are just starting the hiring phase and...
Library silence broken by Italian Saxophone Quartet
The Gila Valley Arts Council’s February performers, the Italian Saxophone Quartet, offered an hour-long free concert for the public at the Safford City-Graham County Public Library on Wednesday. “We decided last year, in Friends of the Library, why don’t we do some cultural literacy at the library?” said Paulette Leblanc, who serves on both the Gil...
Casina Vanvitelliana
Completed in 1782, the hunting lodge is composed of three intersecting octagons and almost looks like a pagoda. It was built on a preexisting islet that formerly housed an old building used as a storage room for fishing equipment. The Casina, or “cottage” is connected to the mainland by a wooden pier. A small garden stands across the bridge with va...
A Brooklyn arriva il sapore della Puglia…in un morso!
Dal tacco d’ Italia a Brooklyn per esportare una mezzaluna ricca di sapori della tradizione culinaria di casa. Questa è la missione di una coppia di giovani imprenditori, Vittoria Lattanzio e Pasquale De Ruvo, che dalla Puglia hanno costruito il loro sogno esattamente al 235 Smith St., aprendo Panzerotti bites dove hanno ricreato le atmosfere accog...
Italiani e italoamericani insieme per la formazione: Learn Italy USA lancia la sua sfida
Valorizzare i giovani talenti italiani. È questo, da sempre, l’obiettivo di Learn Italy USA, Agenzia Culturale Internazionale situata nel cuore di Manhattan, a New York e che ormai da anni rappresenta un punto di riferimento importante per la diffusione della cultura italiana nel mondo. Dal 2010, anno della sua fondazione, Learn Italy organizza, in...
Pessina: «Interessati a investire in mille-duemila farmacie in Italia»
L'operazione di Amazon, Buffett e J.P. Morgan, annunciata la settimana scorsa per coprire le spese sanitarie del loro milione cumulativo di dipendenti in America ha movimentato sia il mercato che il settore sanitario anche in Italia. Da oggi parte la risposta anche sul fronte della distribuzione farmaceutica: Stefano Pessina, Ceo di Walgreens Boots...
Casual Italian dining makes Sazio popular spot
MENUThe offerings are simple — appetizers, pizzas, salads, soups, pastas and sandwiches and wraps — each category boasting traditional favorites and items unique to the house. There are also homemade desserts, like cannolis. ATMOSPHEREThe half-indoor half-outdoor dining space reminds me of a small, cozy home’s front patio or porch, with floor-to-ce...
25 years ago this week, an ailing Jim Valvano returned to NC State’s Reynolds Coliseum
Every seat in Reynolds Coliseum was filled an hour before game time. The attraction was more than the advertised 10th anniversary celebration of the 1983 NCAA championship, more than the contest that followed against Duke. Fans and professional onlookers came to see the color analyst for the ABC telecast, the restless architect of that ’83 title, t...