Empson USA Announces Annual Barolo Brunello Barbaresco Tour 2020
Fine Italian wine importer, Empson USA has announced its annual “Barolo Brunello Barbaresco Tour,” which will take place January 23 – January 30. Highlighting the great reds of Northern Italy, Empson USA will celebrate its renowned Barolo, Brunello and Barbaresco producers during a multi-city celebration of events and tastings around the United Sta...
‘Italian American Reconciliation’ showcases Shanley’s lighter side at Scripps Ranch Theatre
John Patrick Shanley is still best-known for his deeply dramatic, Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Doubt,” as well as his Oscar-winning script for the movie “Moonlighting.” But 1988’s “Italian American Reconciliation” showcases an early-career Shanley’s comic voice, as he brings an almost operatic tone to this saga of ruptured romance. In its review of...
Visiting Sardinia in Winter
As I always say, Sardinia is not just sea – and if you are planning to visit the island in the low season, here you can find some advice you should take advantage of. Take part in the carnival. The Sardinia Carnival, on the 16th and 17th of January, is dedicated to the purifying fire, in memory of “Sant’Antoni ‘e su fogu”, who went to take back the...
Bruce Springsteen’s Son Sam Joins Jersey City’s Firefighters
A ceremony to welcome a new class of firefighters became a star-studded affair with “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen in the audience. Just like his father, the younger Springsteen is also making New Jersey Proud, reports CBS2’s Christina Fan. Sam Springsteen was officially sworn into the Jersey City Fire Department at City Hall on Tuesday, joining 14 o...
Gino Bartali: The Invisible Hero
Sunday January 26 @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm. Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S Cranbrook Rd, Birmingham, MI 48009. Organizer: Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan. To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, every year, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan organizes activities commemorating those Italians who suffered persecution under the...
Michele Pilla nuovo coordinatore delle pubbliche relazioni per il Nord e Centro America dell’Associazione Italiani nel mondo
’A.I.M. – Associazione per l’Italia nel Mondo, ha il piacere di annunciare la nascita del nuovo team dedicato alle Pubbliche Relazioni. Gli incaricati avranno il compito di coadiuvare il lavoro dei Segretari Nazionali A.I.M. nelle rispettive aree di competenza e le attività dei singoli direttivi nella promozione della lingua, dello stile e della cu...
The new gift box by Di Martino and Dolce & Gabbana
Pastificio Di Martino is ready to attend the 2020 edition of the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco (19 to 21 January), of which the Gragnano pasta company is one of the sponsors, where it will present the third gift box designed by Dolce & Gabbana. After more than 100 years, Di Martino pasta has in fact changed its look thanks to the creativi...
Job Opening: Marketing Coordinator for Beauty Made in Italy desk - New York
The Italian Trade Promotion Agency (ITA) seeks a motivated Marketing Coordinator (Junior Analyst) for a 1-year Beauty Desk Promotion Project in order to support the Head of US Beauty Desk in New York office. Ideal candidates will have 2-5+ years of experience in marketing or program management in the beauty industry with demonstrative skills in pro...
Blessing of the animals ceremony in Rome
Italy celebrates the feast day of St Anthony Abbot, the patron saint and protector of animals, on Friday 17 January 2020. Each year an open air stable is assembled by the Italian Association of Livestock Farmers (AIA) at Piazza Pio XII in front of St Peter’s Square in Vatican City. This traditional exhibition of animals, which includes horses, cows...
Carezza Rainbow Lake
Gorgeous mountain lakes may be a dime a dozen, but how many can boast brilliant waters whose colors are the result of a lovesick sorcerer and drowned rainbows? According to the traditions of the Ladin people in Italy’s South Tyrol region, once upon a time, a beautiful water nymph called the pristine waters of Lake Carezza, at the foot of the Dolomi...
Piedmont Paradise
DON’T EXPECT TURIN TO FIT your image of Italy. It’s Italian, all right — the evening passeggiata and a love of good food and wine are alive and well. But you’ll look in vain for medieval cobbled streets, crumbling castles and works by Michelangelo (who never set foot here). Instead, although you’ll find some Roman ruins, you’ll also find a faux med...
O.N.E. Hospitality set to open Aviano's Corner Trattoria in Royal Square District
Hospitality is in Toni Calderone's blood. It is part of her famiglia. Her grandparents, Alberto and Mary Salvo, opened the first Alberto's Pizza on 616 E. Market Street (now Anza's Pizza) decades ago. Her grandmother ran Cucuzella's Steak Shop on the corner of Duke and Maple Streets until 1947. And now, Calderone is set to open Aviano's Corner Tr...