Mayor, residents visit Italy to sign Sister City agreement
Hendersonville Mayor Barbara Volk and Vice Mayor Marinella Franzetti of Verbania, Italy, signed agreements Sept. 23, to become official international sister cities. The signing ceremony took place in City Hall in Verbania, with about 50 people attending. Representatives from Hendersonville Sister Cities board of directors and official...
Happy hour of the week: Dolce Italian
On the busy street of Collins Avenue, amidst art deco buildings and swanky nightclubs, is Dolce Italian, a restaurant tucked inside the Gale South Beach Hotel. Happy hour is offered seven days a week from 4-8 p.m. at the bar and café area only. Sadly, this means you can't sit outside and watch the characters of South Beach walk by, though...
Nanni performs ‘Italian Favorites’ at Schorr
Local tenor Steven Nanni will perform "Italian Favorites" at the Schorr Family Firehouse Stage in Johnson City at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday. Binghamton audiences may know Nanni from his work with Binghamton's Downtown Singers, Catskill Choral Society, Catskill Symphony, the Summer Savoyards, Tri-Cities Opera and local churches. &n...
A job opportunity
Varuni-Napoli, the new Italian event in the pizza scene, opening in late December in Midtown, Atlanta, is looking for personnel for pastry-chef, bus, runners, waiters, cashier, receptionist and wine-bar tender. Requirements are: basic Italian (or an accent), over 18 years of age, affability of character (sociable) and good physical presence, modera...
2014 Annual Brunch & Leonardo Lecture
Called "the most thrilling art discovery of our time," the saga of Leonardo da Vinci's lost work, the Salvator Mundi, is an intriguing tale. The poignant oil painting, which depicts Christ making the sign of the blessing, was last recorded in the collection of King Charles I in 1649. And then it seemed to have vanished. That is, until it w...
Franklin's new Italian Trattoria restaurant is a one-man showBy
by Emily R. West The timer started chirping on Matthew Antonovich's phone in his back pocket. Looking up from pounding out his pasta dough, he strides toward the oven, the smells providing only a sampling of what's to come. "I do all of this myself," he said, reaching toward the handle. He then resets the timer on the bread. "This is...
The IACC celebrates 25 years of activity
2016 will be a special year for the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast (IACC) as we will celebrate, with a rich calendar of initiatives, the 25th anniversary of this fine institution. In 1991, when the Chamber was established, the Italian community in the US Southeast was made up of a few thousand people, now there are more than 30,00...
Nashville Public Television to host evening with chef Lidia Bastianich
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25 Where: Mangia Nashville, 701 Craighead St. Cost: Tickets are $200 per person for dinner, or $250 to include a copy of Bastianich's cookbook, which she will sign at the event. Info: Visit wnpt.org/lidia. Nashville Public Television is hosting a night with best-selling cookbook author Lidia Bastianich. T...
Local kids lend voices to Spoleto opera — in Italian
by Christina Riley In early February, more than two dozen area youngsters auditioned for a children's chorus. They arrived with nursery rhymes, patriotic songs and familiar numbers from "Shrek" and Disney movies. Less than four months later, 13 of them are performing a little-known Giordano opera score. In Italian. At the Spoleto Fest...
Italian filmmaker Roberto Ando talks about influences
Filmmaker Roberto Ando is one of Italy's most distinguished artists. A Sicilian by birth, his work, in both cinema and literature, is influenced by his associations with the great novelist Leonardo Sciascia and the movie director Francesco Rosi, among others. His latest movie, the comedy "Viva La Liberta" ("Long Live Liberty"), which is ba...
Italian-American Classics on Chicco's Menu
by Erin Perkins Soon-to-open venture Vincent Chicco's chef Aaron Lemieux may have a French surname that translates to "the best" and come from behind the line at brasserie Rue de Jean, but he has Italian food at heart. In a interview with Lemieux, he states his last meal would be his "mother's stuffed shells" and goes on to explain the ite...
Italy’s Bonfiglioli to Expand in Kentucky
Bonfiglioli, USA, announced earlier this week that it will expanding its Hebron, KY operations in Q4 2014. The company, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bonfiglioli Riduttori S.p.A. based in Bologna, Italy, manufactures power transmission for mobile and self-propelled machines. The expansion will include the progressive addition of n...