Italian delivery drone takes to the streets
Since there are still technical and legislative challenges to overcome regarding the widespread use of aerial delivery drones, ground-based models may actually end up beating them to entering frequent service. One of the latest to hit our radar is the two-wheeled self-balancing YAPE, from Italy's e-novia. Similar in form and function to Piaggi...
Gusto – A Taste of Rome in your backyard
If you live in Jacksonville, you don’t have to go far for an authentic Italian experience. Gusto – A Taste of Rome in Jacksonville Beach serves Old World Roman dishes prepared by skilled Italian chefs for a delicious and truly authentic experience. Co-owners Walter Bianchi and Executive Chef Tonino DiBella know the flavors of Italy because they’ve...
Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. By David Schwartz. Basic Books; 451 pages; $35 and £27.99. JUST before daybreak on July 16th 1945 Enrico Fermi lay down in the open desert of New Mexico. At 05:30, the world’s first nuclear explosion took place ten miles (16km) away. He counted off the...
Rarities from Alfa Romeo stand out at Gooding’s Scottsdale auction
A standout selection of Alfa Romeos will cross the block at the Gooding and Company auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, from January 19-20. Spanning the Italian automaker’s 1960s era, along with a rare model from 1951, are a number of seldom-seen Alfas, many of which are offered at No Reserve. Lot 136, a 1951 1900C Sprint, is one of the most-important...
Cantoro Market: the Italian food Disneyland
Presenting itself as the Disneyland of Italian food, or even as the Mecca of Italy’s gastronomy, Cantoro Market is indubitably a real landmark for clients looking for products from the Belpaese, as well as a symbiotic shopping experience with its own tradition. The Cantoro Market store in Plymouth, about 40 kilometers west of Detroit, has been insp...
Italian inspiration
When Maria Grazia Repetto moved from her native Italy to the Pacific Northwest in 1995, she immediately fell in love with eastern Washington’s cowboy-country charm and Seattle’s moody, rain-soaked landscapes. “It was so similar, but so different,” Repetto says. “I loved the colors of the Northwest, but they were different from Italy. The blue of an...
Italian-led team discovers cancer’s ‘driving force’
New progress in the personalized treatment of cancer has been made by a group of researchers from Columbia University, led by Italians Antonio Iavarone and Anna Lasorella. “We have discovered the mechanism behind an important genetic alteration that causes a large percentage of cancers, including glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal type of...
Haddonfield Pizza Shakeup: Villa Rosa Takes Over Casa Bella, Angelo’s on the Move
For 30 years, brothers Cesar, Jimmy, and Tony Rivas have operated Villa Rosa, their Haddonfield pizzeria, at 1 Kings Highway. This month, the family prepares to move those operations up the block, to 51 Kings Highway, the former site of Italian eatery Casa Bella Trattoria. Although the address will change, the building is well-known to the Rivases,...
Tom Baldini was one of a kind
My old friend, Tom Baldini, used to talk about it, especially in recent years late in the evening when we both realized we were getting older. “I’d crawl across the township on my knees,” he’d say, “to die on my feet and not from a stroke.” We’d agree and have a snort (Tom called it “a toddy for the body”) before he’d drive back home to Marquette f...
Elezioni politiche 2018 – Partecipazione al voto degli elettori italiani temporaneamente all’estero
Gli elettori italiani che per motivi di lavoro, studio o cure mediche si trovano temporaneamente all’estero per un periodo di almeno tre mesi nel quale ricade la data di svolgimento delle elezioni per il rinnovo del Parlamento, nonché i familiari con loro conviventi, potranno partecipare al voto per corrispondenza organizzato dagli uffici consolari...
Mill Valley man brings secrets of Neopolitan pizza to the Dance Palace
Matteo Troncone’s life came undone over the course of a few weeks back in 2006. The Mill Valley actor was in the running for a part in “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” only to be cut at the last minute. Then he had a falling out with family, and was almost killed by a Muni bus on Haight Street. “The big kicker,” he said, “was when I got an email fr...
Italian singer Adriano Celentano set to celebrate 80 years
Italian singer, composer, producer, comedian, actor, film director and TV host Adriano Celentano celebrates his 80th birthday on Saturday as his eclectic career continues to go from strength to strength. 'Tutte le migliori', a CD box set bringing together his duets with Italian singer Mina, is at third place in the charts and he is busy filming 'Ad...