Italian gardens: San Giuliano Lake Oasis
The San Giuliano Lake Oasis is located in the San Giuliano Regional Reserve, established in 2000 in the municipalities of Grottole and Miglionico, in the Matera province. The area covers about 1300 hectares and is one of the most important wetlands of Basilicata.
PIB Helps Building a Gathering Space for Earthquake Victims in Central Italy
We are excited to provide you with a brief update following the November 8th event featuring Mons. Gennaro Matino.The $5000 collected by PIB were used by the Mondo Amico Association, led by Mons. Matino, to build a community room adjacent to a newly constructed church in Arquata del Tronto, one of the towns most badly hit by the 2016 earthquakes wh...
MSU students, faculty present ‘Ciao! Travel ROME’ exhibit at Giles Hall gallery
Italian-inspired works by 11 current students, three alumnae and two faculty members at Mississippi State are on display Feb. 20-28 in the university’s Giles Hall gallery. Free to all, the “Ciao! Travel ROME” exhibition features paintings, drawings and posters by 14 students from Professor Brent Funderburk’s studio course, “SKETCHBOOK: Journal for...
Italy Uncorked
1-5 p.m. Feb. 18, The Wine ConneXtion, 117 Main St., North Andover. Italians have an expression about wine: "in vino veritas" — in wine, there is truth. The Wine ConneXtion will take guests on a journey, sharing their knowledge and passion while revealing excellent and affordable picks from Piedmont, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Sicily and other well-known wi...
Jazz Italian Style. From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra
Jazz music has a long history and many influences. With Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra (available February from Cambridge University Press, $44.99), Anna Harwell Celenza examines the Italian influences on the development of American popular music. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of Worl...
Italian dinner will benefit PIF scholarship funds
A mechanical engineer turned celebrity chef is connecting the Southeast – including Aiken – to Italian cuisine through a unique partnership among local friends. Riccardo Manieri has been commissioned for the fourth year to prepare a menu he created especially for the annual Partners in Friendship dinner Saturday, Feb. 18. Manieri hails from Orvieto...
Chapel in the Meadow: Learn about Italian POWs at Camp Atterbury
The bright blue stucco building stands out in a clearing in the southern Johnson County wilderness. A small white cross adorns the peak of its roof. Paintings of Jesus, Mary and angels bring vivid color to the interior. The place is still on a winter afternoon. Using your imagination, it’s easy to imagine Italian prisoners assembling scrap wood int...
Su Cerere ci sono i 'mattoni' della vita
Visti per la prima volta con certezza i 'mattoni' della vita fuori dal nostro pianeta, si trovano sul pianeta nano Cerere. La scoperta, pubblicata su Nature sotto la guida di Maria Cristina De Sanctis, dell'Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (Inaf), e fatta grazie a uno strumento italiano a bordo della sonda Dawn, indica che queste molecole fondamen...
Casanova Maui in Makawao Gets Best Italian in State from Open Table
Every morning Steven Cappelli, the owner of Casanova in Makawao, gets up and reads reviews from Open Table, Yelp and Trip Advisor. “My mornings start with reading these reviews,” says Cappelli. “What a way to start the day, I know. My phone gets the notifications. But I really use it as a training tool. In the beginning of social media sites like t...
Ferrari reveals 211 mph Superfast, its fastest production car ever
Ferrari will soon unveil the fastest and most powerful production car the Italian luxury performance brand has ever produced. Powered by a 790 horsepower V12 engine, the Ferrari 812 Superfast, true to its name, will be able to go from zero to 60 miles per hour in under three seconds and will have a top speed of 211 miles per hour. This won't be the...
Surge in exports (+12%) propped beauty sector up in 2016 and looks set to do the same this year
Exports helped support Italy’s beauty sector in 2016 and the outlook is positive also for 2017. According to an economic survey conducted by Cosmetica Italia, in fact, in 2016 the industry’s global sales reached €10.5 billion, up 5% from the previous year, with exports climbing to near €4.3 billion, up 12% on a yearly basis. Estimates for this year...
Trevioli Italian Kitchen progressing toward its north Columbus debut
Popular Italian restaurant Trevioli, which has operated out of a north Columbus storage complex for three years, is moving toward completion of its brand new home on Blackmon Road in Columbus. “We’re scheduled to open the second week of March or the third week of March at the most,” said Sanjay Choudhury, a Columbus businessman who is a partner wit...