Cruise shipping 2013
L'attività promozionale 2013 in favore della cantieristica navale prevede l'organizzazione di una collettiva italiana alla Cruise Shipping 2013. La manifestazione, principale fiera dedicata al comparto della crocieristica, giunge quest'anno alla 29° edizione ed avrà luogo presso il Convention Center di Miami.All'edizione 2012 della Cruise Shipping...
Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen Freshens up the Florida Turnpike
Villa Enterprises Management Ltd., Inc. (www.villaenterprises.com), a global multi-concept restaurant franchisor, announced the reopening of two Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen locations along the Florida Turnpike. As part of the Florida Turnpike's multi-million dollar system-wide service plaza reconstruction project, renovated concepts opened recently...
Laura DiNello cultivates a family mosaic in Charleston
The story of Laura DiNello is as layered as the mosaic masterpieces that she's known for. The self-taught Italian-American artist grew up in Chicago in a culture that frowned upon visual art as a valid profession, especially for women. Most family and friends saw DiNello's drawings and paintings as a cute hobby. When she announced that sh...
With 1100 Millecento Done, Pininfarina Sets Up Shop in Miami
The Italian automobile design firm, Pininfarina, established in 1930 and famous for creating iconic designs for companies like Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Ferrari, and Maserati (you might have heard of them) has recently expanded its repertoire of to skyscrapers, and is setting up shop with a new office in Miami to design them. Their first ever high...
Villa Tronco prepares to celebrate 75 years in Columbia
By Allen Wallace As American soldiers arrived at Fort Jackson in 1940 to prepare for what soon would become World War II, many were served home-cooked meals by a woman who ran a fruit stand across from a bus station on Blanding Street. Sadie Tronco's acts of kindness for the soldiers led her to found a restaurant that will celebra...
Italian family thanks soldier's Rock Hill family
Gaetano and Caroline Simonelli were just children on a farm in Nazi-occupied Italy in 1943 when a fighter plane screamed across the sky and crashed within feet of their home. The pilot was killed. The Simonelli family, devout Roman Catholics, buried him right there on the farm. In a Rock Hill cemetery 71 years later an old man named Bobby...
Huntsville connection to Italian astronaut aboard International Space Station
A Soyuz spacecraft has safely docked at the International Space Station, beginning the Expedition 42 Futura mission. It transported an American and Russian astronaut, as well as Italian Samantha Cristoforetti.She's a flight engineer with the European Space Agency. But before all of that, she attended Space Camp at the US Space and Rocket C...
Marco Carola brings Music On to Miami
Marco Carola's love affair with music began when he was 12 years old, spending his time in clubs and record shops in Napoli, Italy. His penchant for DJing began at fifteen and two years later he was traveling to London to buy vinyl to hone his sound. Since then Carola has been one of European nightlife's most sought after names, leaving an indelibl...
L’Elisir d'amore (The Royal Opera) @ Miami Beach
April 5, 2015 - Sunday 12:00 PM - 3:00 PMO Cinema Miami Beach- 500 71st St - Miami Beach, Florida 33141 'The elixir of love' is a comedy of love and rural life as we watch Vittorio Grigolo attempt to woo the elegant lady of the village, Lucy Crowe, with a little help from Bryn Terfel's Doctor Dulcamara and his love pot...
Italian Wine Deconstructed – A Trip “Down the Boot”: Italian Wine Specialist Certification Course
There will be a special group of wine professionals and wine lovers gathered at Toscana Divino at Mary Brickell Village (Downtown Miami) beginning October 26, 2013. This group will be swirling, sniffing, sipping, and spitting as part of a hands-on approach to learning all that can be known about Italian wine: the regions, terroir, how to taste, Ita...
Mayor Joe Riley to raise curtain on his final Spoleto
by Bruce Smith It will be a poignant scene on Friday when the new season of the internationally renowned Spoleto Festival USA opens with a brass fanfare and speeches on the steps of Charleston City Hall. It will be the last time that Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., who helped bring Spoleto to Charleston almost four decades ago, p...
Sons of Italy to award scholarships
The Sons of Italy in America St. Augustine Lodge 2780 is accepting applications for scholarships for the 2015-16 school year. Scholarships are open to any current St. Johns County High School student with a demonstrable Italian-American heritage (of any proportion) and will be judged by the following primary criteria. ■ Applicants mus...