Like America itself, Tampa's historic Ybor City began with immigrants.
For nearly a century, an open-door immigration policy had been the law of the land, a system that allowed anarchists, paupers, communists and free-love advocates to flood the United States. In the greatest movement of peoples in history, millions of Italians, Jews, Slavs, and Magyars flooded America with few skills relevant to an urban, industrial...
The Italian Liquors Insigned ISW: The Italian Excellence Made To Drink
The ISW Award The Meiningers International Spirits Award – ISW is an important German award that – since 2004 – rewards the best spirits. For each edition, an international competition is held, specifically dedicated to spirits, fine spirits and liqueurs from all over the world. The Award Jury is composed of experts, researchers, producers, gastron...
Italy’s Treasures, Ennio Morricone: A Living Legend
This year on the 10th November this brilliant composer and musician, often referred to as’ Parrot Estrada’, will turn ninety! The huge body of work, spanning seven decades, and the innovative and original compositions which he has created for radio, theatre and film is an achievement few could have surpassed. Indeed our memory banks are the richer...
How America Helped Shape Italian Design House Pininfarina
While the wildest Pininfarina design at Pebble Beach this year will likely be Jim Glickenhaus' Ferrari 512S-based Modulo concept car from 1970, the fastest should be the all-electric Pininfarina PF0, ready for its 2020 debut. Pininfarina Automobili's first product promises performance figures worthy of their partnership with Rimac, including a 0-62...
Ghee’s Niven Patel to Open Italian Eatery Erba in 2019
Niven Patel, the man behind one of Miami’s most successful new restaurants, Ghee Indian Kitchen, is expanding his mini culinary empire with Erba, a pasta focused restaurant debuting sometime in 2019. “When I started this career of mine I always had a fascination for pasta, and a lot of people who don’t know me perceive me as the Indian chef,” notes...
New global family award is child’s play for Verdura Resort
Verdura was the only venue in Italy to be included in the magazine’s list of ‘The 14 Best Family Hotels in the World 2018’, with the resort being hailed as “flawless” and singled out as being best for “a sleek beach estate for modernist island living.” Announcing the list, the magazine said: “Set in thousands of hectares of a relatively unknown par...
Saverio Costanzo on Adapting Elena Ferrante’s Bestselling ‘My Brilliant Friend’
“My Brilliant Friend,” based on the first of the four internationally bestselling “Neapolitan Novels” by Italian author Elena Ferrante, became the latest TV series Sunday to receive a prestigious world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The show, produced by Wildside and Domenico Procacci’s Fandango for HBO and Italian pubcaster RAI, which origi...
Dino's Italian Food Keeps the Red Sauce Simmering on West Colfax
"You're talking to a dinosaur," says Judy Duren, the 66-year-old owner of Dino's Italian Food, a restaurant that has served homemade everything — noodles, meatballs, sausage, red sauce, pizza and even ice cream — since 1961. "I think we're a dying breed. Independent restaurant owners are a dying breed," she elaborates. "You can't afford to do it an...
Lampedusa
Lampedusa is an island located in the Pelagie group of Islands in Sicily in Italy. The island is the largest one in the group of islands and is the southernmost island in Sicily; it is situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The island is only 3 Km wide and is 12 Km long. Lampedusa has a very vibrant culture and a historic past since over...
Sons of Italy's Italian Festival kicks off Friday night with live music
The Sons of Italy will host a Friday Night Festival Bash from 5 to 10:30 p.m. Friday at Veterans Park in Cañon City. Gates open at 4 p.m. There will be live music, and food, beer and wine will be available for purchase. Admission is $5. On Saturday, the event will run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Veterans Park. Admission is $2, children 6 and younger...
Hazleton native is Columbus speaker in Delaware Co.
Hazleton native Richard A. DiLiberto Jr., an attorney, has been selected by the Delaware County Christopher Columbus Monument Committee to be the guest speaker at the 63rd Columbus Wreath Placing Ceremony at the Columbus monument in Chester on Oct. 14 at 10:30 a.m. DiLiberto’s speech will focus on “Italian Heroes” including Columbus, Giovanni da Ve...
"Growing Up Italian in a Wonderbread World" by LuLu LoLo
LuLu LoLo is a founding member of the Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF) and a multifaceted artist of considerable depth. She fuses art with activism such as her campaign to get more statues of women put up around New York City, "Where are the Women?" She is an actress and a playwright whose marvelous one-person interpretation of the Triangle Shirtwaist...