Cornell Art Museum Presents 'ICONS of ART Italian Mosaic Portraits'
The Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority (DDA) announced the opening of the Cornell Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition “ICONS of ART Italian Mosaic Portraits” on February 15, 2025. The new exhibition showcases 30 original, one-of-a-kind hand crafted mosaic portraits of famous personalities, representing a variety of cultural fields. Featured a...
Winter Tourism in Sardinia: Exploring Tradition, Taste, and Tranquility
Sardinia, well-known for its sunny beaches and thriving summer tourism, becomes a peaceful secret spot in the winter, where visitors looking for authenticity and unspoiled beauty can enjoy a unique and peaceful experience. The island's landscape, that includes rocky mountains and undulating hills, is covered in lush foliage during the off-season, m...
Geraldi’s in Fayetteville, the Italian Eating Place
If you’re looking for a delicious Italian Eatery that has an old-fashioned neighborhood comfy-cozy vibe suitable for families and dinner-dates, then Geraldi’s in Fayetteville is your place. Andy Taber, the owner of Geraldi’s Italian Eatery in Fayetteville, knows a thing or two about pizza and pasta. When he was nineteen years old, he started workin...
The gorgeous seaside town you may have never heard of that doesn’t have a train station
Italy is a stunning holiday destination with many regions to explore, history to learn and culture to get to know - not to mention the authenticity of its food. The Mediterranean country welcomes millions of tourists every year - but many tend to explore the beaten path, heading to the more famous holiday hotspots such as Rome, Florence and Milan....
MLB: Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola: Finding Success Beyond the Diamond
The Yankees star, Yogi Berra, and one of his best pals, Joe Garagiola, had a special off-season gig, especially during the holiday season when baseball wasn't keeping them busy in the MLB. Berra and Garagiola grew up in a working-class Italian-American neighborhood in St. Louis, where they honed their sports skills on a vacant lot on Elizabeth Aven...
Why ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Resonates Beyond Italy
HOW IS IT THAT a person (me) born and raised in America could respond so viscerally to My Brilliant Friend, an Italian drama series (which recently wrapped its final season on HBO and streaming on Max) about the tortuous, lifelong relationship between two women raised in a suburb of Naples? We are all motivated by similar impulses: love, jealousy,...
Discover Italy’s Hidden Grapes at Naples’ Ambrosi & Sons
Just inside the door of Naples Italian specialty foods store Ambrosi & Sons is a prismatic map of Italy’s familiar boot. Flecks of orange represent the foggy northern vineyards where nebbiolo grapes are grown for vintages of Piedmontese Barolo and Barbaresco. Further south, patches of purple outline the rolling hills of Chianti, heavy with sangiove...
An Underrated Italian Village Called 'Venice Of Umbria' Is A Fairytale Of Canals, Springs, And Waterfalls
To skip the overrated tourist traps in Italy, get on a train and travel to the other major cities in the country besides Rome, Florence, and Venice. You can also rent a car to visit Italy's many picturesque small towns. One medieval village that provides a quaint day trip is Rasiglia in Umbria (which has all the vibes of Tuscany without the crowds)...
FSU welcomes jazz singer Vanessa Racci for Valentine’s Day show
The Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State University invites you to celebrate Valentine’s Day Italian Style with a performance by celebrated jazz singer Vanessa Racci. The concert will be given at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, in Weston Auditorium on the Fitchburg State campus. Vanessa Racci is a professional vocalist and touring artist of Italia...
Emilia Romagna. Italy's Fabulous Food Valley For Gourmets
Fly into Bologna or Milan to take an epic road trip along the ancient Via Emilia that hosts a string of beautiful Italian cities stretched through Italy’s Food Valley. This is one of the planet’s culinary hotspots. Emilia Romagna slashes diagonally from the Adriatic lapping on Rimini’s beaches in the East, through the fertile plains by the River Po...
The women behind Chicago-area based Linguini Sisters Pasta Sauces: 'A very big nickname for us'
When life gave Annamarie Gullo bruised tomatoes, she smashed them and made an amazing line of sauces. The CEO and founder of the family-owned company, Linguini Sisters, began jarring and selling marinara, vodka sauce, and other varieties while in treatment for post transplant lymphatic disorder. "Because I went through that terrible time in my life...
Record-breaking 2024 for Italian sparkling wines, also Piedmont of Alta Langa and Asti shine
If in record-breaking 2024 for Italian sparkling wines, the great protagonist, as it has happened for years, was the Prosecco world (as we explained here), all Italian sparkling wine movement grows. And Piedmont is not an exception, with the small, but increasingly more ambitious denomination of Alta Langa Docg, which has also launched innovations...