Fiat turns Bako into N. Dakota into Italy
Is it us, or does Palermo, N.D., look A LOT like Old Town Kern? Seriously. Watch the Fiat "Gran Finale" television commercial (which can be viewed online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F82hH65LHic). About two-thirds the way through the commercial there's an image of what appears to be the old Southern Pacific Station on Sumner...
NY1's Roma Torre Receives Prestigious Award
Congratulations to our own Roma Torre, who received a prestigious award Friday night at the annual Epiphany Celebration. Torre was one of three wise women honored by the National Organization of Italian American Women. The organization, which was founded in 1980 is dedicated to preserving Italian heritage through educational and cultural...
Bone Broth Cocktails Now Available at Los Angeles Italian Restaurant Pistola
Pistola, an Italian-American restaurant in Los Angeles, is spiking the current bone broth craze with some unexpected ingredients. Enter: The soup cocktail. Bartender Aaron Melendrez is responsible for "From the Kitchen With Love," a $22 bone broth libation made with six ounces of lamb consommé plus two ounces of Glenlivet 15. And no, this...
Italian language: Vowels and diphthongs, singular and plural
WTI Magazine #53 2015 February, 6Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: Let's continue to explore the vowel usage in the Italian language. We already told that Italian has 7 vowels and that they differ in four degrees of opening (open, closed, semi-closed and semi-open). Another feature that Italian has inherit...
Save the Date: Enjoy Pino Daniele’s Songs Da Nella
by Valeria Fanelli Music lovers get ready for an exciting performance Italian way! On Saturday, Feb. 21, Pizzeria Da Nella will host a special music event that will feature a selection of songs from one of Italy's most popular singer-songwriters, Pino Daniele. From 9:30 to 10:30 p.m., blues player Breezy Rodio will honor th...
The Game of Bocce, Yesterday and Today
Bocce is a competitive sport, a strategic game, and a leisurely pastime, all rolled into one ever-popular activity. Dating back to the Roman Empire, bocce, in all its derivations, has since captured the hearts of players and spectators the world over, no matter the age or skill level, where the objective is to roll balls on a court as close to a t...
Reality within reality: Peter Shire
Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 - Saturday, May 30, 2015 Hours: 6.30 pm Venue: IIC Organized by: IIC Exhibit that highlights the collaboration of the LA BAsed eclectic artist with Memphis, the influential design and architecture collective founded in Milan in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass. More about Peter Shire's work at www.echoparkpotter...
L'evoluzione della Musica Italiana per Strumento Solo Eseguita dal Virtuoso Marco Fusi
Il musicista italiano Marco Fusi, specializzato nel panorama della musica contemporanea, ha fatto visita alla Baia di San Francisco presentando un programma di pezzi per viola e violino di alcuni dei più innovativi compositori italiani attualmente operanti. Il programma musicale è nato dalla collaborazione fra l’Istituto Italiano di Cultur...
Andrea ‘Drew’ Bacigalupa, 1923-2015: Son says early Canyon Road artist ‘felt he had left a heritage’
Andrea "Drew" Bacigalupa, a longtime artistic fixture on Canyon Road as well as a writer, teacher and World War II veteran, died Sunday at his Santa Fe home. He was 91. "He was a complex man in that he had a lot of things going on," one of his sons, Ruan Bacigalupa, said Tuesday. "He was a writer and an artist and a draftsman-illustrator for the S...
A Conversation With Veronica Mainetti of the Sorgente Group of America
by Vivian Marino Ms. Mainetti, 36, is president of the Sorgente Group of America, one of three holding companies of the Sorgente Group of Rome, which is run by her father, Valter Mainetti, the majority shareholder and chief executive. Sorgente specializes in historical preservation projects and is majority owner of New York's Flat...
Così Google si è creata da sola un pericoloso competitor: la startup di Marco Zappacosta
Anche se i giornali americani lo hanno indicato spesso nelle interviste come «an Italian startupper», Marco Zappacosta, 30 anni, in realtà è nato in California. Poco dopo che i suoi genitori si trasferissero lì dall'Abruzzo. 35 anni fa. Papà imprenditore, negli Usa per lavoro. Negli ultimi 5 anni a San Francisco si è speso esclusivamente a...
Car Club USA: Ferrari Club of America
Car Club USA heads to Florida for the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, where, for the Ferrari Club of America, the real fun begins the day after the storied endurance race. Ferrari owners from across the country gather every year to watch the pros on race day, and then take over the track to get a chance to run their Italian Stallions at speed. ...