Lynbrook High School Italian teacher celebrates half a century of teaching
An Italian teacher is marking 50 years of teaching at Lynbrook High School. Lenny Bruno started his career in September 1973. "Teaching is one, if not, the most noble profession because you are affecting the lives of many kids, getting them to grow in your discipline, make them more excited about learning," Bruno says. Bruno says foreign language i...
What to do in Agerola, hidden gem of the Sorrento Coast
Welcome to Agerola, one of the most enchanting villages in the South of Italy! Located just a few kilometers from Naples, this small town reveals an authentic and unspoiled beauty that will leave you breathless. In fact, Agerola is the ideal place for those who are looking for an escape from the hectic city life and want to immerse themselves in na...
Exploring Southern Italy with Radici del Sud
Ever since it was unified in 1861, Italy has remained a country of two halves. The north: traditionally affluent and commerce-focused. Southern Italy: often seen as poor, lacking infrastructure and looked down on by their richer northern neighbours. Cliche or not, these stereotypes also pervade Italy’s wine. All of the country’s blue-chip regions –...
Universal Dialogues: The Pantheon, Italy and the World
Thursday, May 25, 2023 from 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM PDT (doors open at 6 PM). Register here. Italian Cultural Institute / INNOVIT - 710 Sansome St, San Francisco, CA. Architect Gabriella Musto, Director of the Pantheon - Basilica of Santa Maria and Martyres - Ministry of Culture, will present a lesson on ArtCentrica's innovative methodologies applied to...
The Transatlantic entente: Speaker McCarthy’s trip to Rome
Kevin McCarthy is in Rome. Flanked by a bipartisan delegation of United States MPs, the Republican Speaker of the US Lower House is visiting the Eternal City for a series of high-level meetings, including with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Sergio Mattarella and his Italian counterpart Lorenzo Fontana. Shared dossiers and consolidated tie...
Barsotti’s, the Dallas Italian restaurant formerly known as Carbone’s, is open
The soul of Carbone’s Fine Food and Wine is still inside the Italian restaurant on Dallas’ Oak Lawn Avenue. But its new name is Barsotti’s Fine Food and Liqueurs. It’s now open. Owner Julian Barsotti is happy with the changes made to his 11-year-old restaurant. It’s prettier. The menu is bigger. The bar, now a focal point, feels like a place you’ll...
Countdown to 500th Anniversary of Giovanni da Verrazzano's discovery of New York City is underway!
Click here to view video announcement. Verrazzano, the son of a noble family, was born at the Castello Verrazzano in Greve near Florence, Italy. In his early 20s he moved to Dieppe to start a maritime career, and sailed on behalf of the French monarchy. In 1523, with the support of the French king Francois I, as well as Florentine bankers, Verrazza...
Amighetti’s is a St. Louis landmark
In February, a familiar name in St. Louis bread baking and sandwiches returned to the Hill after a nearly four-year hiatus, restoring a legacy that began during the first World War. Amighetti’s opened its new Hill location in the former Hanneke Hardware & Industrial Supply Co. at 5390 Southwest Ave., less than a mile from the bakery’s former locati...
Screening of the Award-Winning Film “Babylon: Ghetto, Renaissance, and Modern Oblivion”
Screening of the Award-Winning Film “Babylon: Ghetto, Renaissance, and Modern Oblivion”. At the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY) - Wednesday, May 17xth at 7:30 PM. (Free, by Registration) Co-sponsored by the American Society for Jewish Music’s Jewish Music Forum, YIVO, the American Sephardi Federation, and Salon/Sanct...
Rome, sacred ground for nearly 3,000 years, and counting
According to legend, Rome was born April 21, 753 BC, when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and furrowed a circular perimeter in the hills above the Tiber River. Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager – unhallowed open territo...
POMO brings Napoletana oven to Biltmore location
POMO Pizzeria has been bringing true Italian food to the Valley for over a decade now. With three locations, many Arizona residents are sure to find an Italian treat near them. The Biltmore location opened in 2019 and was recently revamped. This location threw a fun, little open house style party to celebrate their reopening, Thursday, and the use...
The Italian Town that Welcomes Spring with Live Snakes
Snakes evoke an almost universal awe—a mix of mesmerizing enchantment, visceral repulsion, and morbid fascination. Throughout the millennia cultures have attributed supernatural properties to serpents and devised complex ophidian cults to honor them. There was a time when snake rituals were common across Europe, but now they have mostly disappeared...