A New Hunt for a 'Dark Force' Begins This Month in Italy
This month, Italian physicists will turn on an experiment hunting for a fifth, dark force of nature, the Guardian reports. You may be familiar with the hunt for dark matter. Measurements of the universe imply that there should be five to six times more mass than experiments can observe directly. Many scientists hope to find this missing mass. A ne...
Macellaio, New to Bishop Arts, is the Perfect Neighborhood Restaurant
Perhaps the biggest myth about the Dallas dining scene is that it has no great Italian food. This is not a lie outsiders spread about us; it’s something we tell ourselves. I have heard it from friends and seen the complaint on social media. As recently as 2016, former Dallas Morning News food critic Leslie Brenner called Dallas “a town that has a s...
Ferrari museum celebrates Enzo’s 120th with special exhibits
The Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy, is celebrating the 120th anniversary of Enzo Ferrari’s birth with two special exhibits, “Driven by Enzo” and “Passion and Legend.” “Driven by Enzo” features the four-seat cars driven personally by the company’s founder. “As is well-known, Enzo Ferrari used to try out every car produced at Maranello himself,...
Bruno Magli’s New Manhattan Store Is Part Retail, Part Museum and Part Café
Luxury Italian lifestyle brand Bruno Magli unveiled its new digs last night, a 2,000-sq.ft. store in New York’s trend Soho neighborhood at 120 Wooster St. “Opening our concept store in Soho is about having a more direct relationship with our Bruno Magli customer,” said Cory Baker, COO of Marquee Brands, parent of the label. “Not only are we seeing...
Italian tastes, American influence Bella Luna in Oak Ridge
Carol Shina never planned to open a restaurant. She grew up in New York, where on Sundays, she reveled in the aromas of fresh garlic, basil, mushrooms and Italian sausage, along with the sounds of sizzling pans in her Italian grandmother’s kitchen. Shina and her husband started a nuclear imaging company in their garage; they now have about 40 emplo...
The life and the works of Renzo Piano
Our country is known and appreciated all over the world for the exceptional value of some figures that have characterized recent history. One of the best known is Renzo Piano, one of the most active and prolific architects in the world. Italian Traditions will lead you on the discovery of this important figure for Italian and world architecture. We...
A Clever and Simple Robot Hand
IF YOU WANT to survive the robot apocalypse—the nerd joke goes—just close the door. For all that they’re great at (precision, speed, consistency), robots still suck at manipulating door handles, among other basic tasks. Part of the problem is that they have to navigate a world built for humans, designed for hands like ours. And those are among the...
Tuscan Sun' to downtown Fortville
Fortville is one of Midwest’s many tiny Main Street towns. Three square miles. Population 4,000. Famous for a giant statue of a pink elephant wearing horn-rimmed glasses and drinking a martini outside a liquor store. Not exactly the place you expect to go restaurant hopping. Simone and Elizabeth Lucarini see Fortville another way: a budding, easy-l...
Inside Don Chiofaro’s Long War to Make Boston’s Skyline Taller
Like all great builders, Don Chiofaro wants to see how high he can go. Rocking on the bow of a harbor ferryboat as the sun sets, he points to the horizon, between Rowes Wharf and the Custom House Tower, and describes the tallest project the Boston waterfront has ever seen. His olive-green baseball cap, atop a full head of white hair and a permanent...
My First Taste of Tuscany
Home to rolling hills of olive trees, citrus-colored villas and a sprinkling of statues from antiquity, the NYU Florence campus makes an impression from the first sight. In less than 12 hours of being on the campus, I was taken by how undeniably Italian it was. I had this preconception it’d be an American college campus contrasting its Italian surr...
Norcia Bakery reaches the century mark
CANTON Ownership has changed hands, but the Norcia Bakery recipes are intact, and it seems that everybody loves a pepperoni roll. John Norcia launched the Italian bakery in 1918 and it still is going strong after a century. The Norcia family immigrated from Italy early in the 20th century, bringing the original recipe for bread and hard rolls. Mike...
Keeping the tradition of the South Philly wedding serenade alive
On the first warm night of spring, as the wind began to cool the air and whip around the eaves of the tent taking up a block of Girard Estates, Richard DiGregorio, 29, prepared to take the microphone. "Get some drinks in you, Rich — a half hour goes quick!" the DJ joked. It was time for DiGregorio to serenade his bride, Victoria Fera. Lore has it...