New book publication: “My Caruso”
The twentieth century began with the promise of new inventions, art forms, the automobile and much more that would stimulate the most significant expansion of creativity not experienced since the Renaissance. Along with the promise of a new age, came a rebirth of music’s highest form…the Opera. The music of Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, and many oth...
Fine dining Italian eatery named best small-town restaurant in Arizona
Old County Inn in the town of Pine by the Tonto Natural Bridge State Park was recently ranked as the best small-town restaurant in Arizona. According to Thrillist, the quaint Italian spot in small-town Pine, population of 1,963, features a wood-fired pizza oven and fully stocked tap room. Owner Michael Dahling studied at the Culinary Institute of A...
Italian Design Day - Paola Antonelli and Mario Cucinella
Thursday, March 01, 2018 at 6:00 pm. Entrance: Free. Location: Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065. Book Now. On the occasion of the Italian Design Day, Mario Cucinella, architect, and curator of the Italian Pavilion at the next Biennale of Venice, and Paola Antonelli, chief curator at the MOMA and curator...
Snowmen and skiers in Rome after historic snowfall
Rome awoke under a blanket of snow on Monday morning, with some areas of the capital covered in five centimetres of the white stuff. It's the first snowfall in Rome in six years, and it looks stunning. Here are some pictures that capture the magic of snow-covered Italy. For anyone not currently in Rome, you can watch live-streamed footage of the sn...
Follow-up file: Antonella's to open second location inside former Q-C Food Hub space
A space inside the Freight House marketplace near Davenport’s riverfront will soon offer something new: A taste of Antonella’s Ristorante & Pizza. The Sicilian restaurant that has served pastas and pizzas in Davenport since 2002 is planning to open a second, more casual, location in the space formerly housed by the Quad-Cities Food Hub, which close...
Church of the Gesu treasures settle in for brief stay at Fairfield University
She shimmers and shines — her simple brown robe and cream cape transformed into lustrous waves of gold. She holds a quill pen in her right hand and cradles a book of her spiritual writings in her left. On this morning, Linda Wolk-Simon is standing before her. “Think about what this would have looked like on an altar, in the shadowy light of the chu...
This Italian Airline Is Now Offering Free Stopovers in Rome
Planning a trip to Europe? Why not make a quick stop in Rome, the Eternal City. Alitalia, the flag carrier airline of Italy, is currently offering free stopovers up to three nights long for their passengers. If you’re wondering what a stopover is, allow me to explain. It’s basically an intentionally long layover so you can actually spend some time...
Chef Massimo Bottura on the Gucci Connection, His New Book and Staying Fresh
“It’s like ‘Game of Thrones, no?” jokes Massimo Bottura of his wolf motif T-shirt. The animalia was courtesy of Gucci, which is run by his old grade school chum Marco Bizzarri. The two, along with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, have collaborated on a range of projects, the latest of which is the Osteria at Gucci Garden in Florence, ope...
ITALY - US Advanced manufacturing conference 2018: partono da Milano gli "Innovation Days" dell'ICE
Gli Stati Uniti investono in tecnologia con iniziative strategiche come il piano Manufacturing USA, volte a riportare il paese in una posizione di leadership nel comparto manifatturiero; si aprono quindi nuove opportunità per le imprese fornitrici di macchinari e attrezzature ad alto contenuto d'innovazione. Obiettivo dell’Agenzia Ice è quello di m...
Italian Designer Brings Style To Port
Bags, blouses, skirts, dresses—designer Jennifer Tattanelli does it all and is soon bringing her custom designs to Port Washington, a place which she is also now calling home after years of splitting her life between winters in Florence, Italy and summers in Westhampton Beach. Along with an interesting background, Tattanelli brings handmade leather...
Rustica, the Successful Italian Eatery in Chester, Opens a Second Location in Milford
You don’t have to be Italian to truly appreciate an authentic Italian meal. Conchi and Vicente Contreras, natives of Ecuador and owners of Rustica Ristorante, are proof positive you don’t have to be Italian to prepare one, either. The wife-and-husband, do-it-all duo behind the successful restaurant in Chester opened a second Rustica location last O...
Scala Contarini del Bovolo
Secluded in the middle of the sestiere of San Marco, the palazzo’s crowning feature is the large interior flight of winding stairs that spirals up into the sky, named the Scala Contarini del Bovolo. “Del Bovolo” translates to “of the snail” in the Venetian dialect, referring to the spiral shape of the scala (staircase). The winding tower was so pop...