New Pizza, Italian Food Eatery PS 35 Caters To Round Rock Residents
A family-friendly pizza and Italian food restaurant recently opened in Round Rock, a community to which families flock for its quality of living and superior schools. PS 35 offers hand-tossed New York-style pizza, hot and cold sandwiches on fresh-basked break, a selection of inventive family-style Italian dishes and a friendly, fun space for famili...
Foreign demand growing for houses by sea in Italy
Demand for houses by the sea in Italy is recovering partly thanks to an increase in foreign buyers, according to real estate agency Tecnocasa. The percentage of non-Italians among purchasers of holiday homes in the country has gone from 7.5% of the total in 2015 to 12.1% in 2016. Foreigners are buying particularly in the southern region of Campania...
89,9 miliardi: cultura motore dell'Italia e del Made in Italy
La cultura è uno dei motori trainanti dell’economia italiana, uno dei fattori che più alimentano la qualità e la competitività del made in Italy. Il Sistema Produttivo Culturale e Creativo, fatto da imprese, PA e non profit, genera 89,9 miliardi di euro e ‘attiva’ altri settori dell’economia, arrivando a muovere nell’insieme 250 miliardi, equivalen...
Dining Out: Tuscan Kitchen elegant Italian
The Tuscan Kitchen in Salem, N.H., opened in 2010 and since then business has been hopping for Tuscan Brands founder Joe Faro. The big market soon followed in Salem and then another restaurant in Burlington, Mass. Now, Tuscan Kitchen has come to Portsmouth, just outside the heart of the city, opening with great fanfare back in March. They’ll open a...
'Toscanini: Musician of Conscience' is a feast of music, culture, politics
“When you see that man conduct, you feel that there is only one thing for you to do: take your baton, break it in pieces, and never conduct again.” This assessment of Arturo Toscanini, offered by the esteemed composer and distinguished conductor Richard Strauss, was hardly unusual, for Toscanini routinely mesmerized his fellow musicians. Critics al...
Genius of Leonardo da Vinci on display
Leonardo da Vinci was a genius, a virtuoso and a visionary. His studies, inventions and works of art created during his life from 1452 to 1519 make him the consummate Renaissance man. He drew early concepts for the car, bicycle, helicopter, glider, parachute and much more, but his legacy is best seen today in such works as the “Mona Lisa,” “The Vit...
Amanda Beagle Makes NYC Cabaret Debut with 'Italian American Songbook'
Soprano, Amanda Beagle, is making her NYC cabaret debut while returning to her roots with a celebration of the "Italian-American Songbook." Amanda Beagle debuts her latest show and recording at The Metropolitan Room on Tuesday July 25th at 7pm. Reservations are required and tickets are on sale now.This lively celebration of Italian and Italian-Amer...
Flushing poet honored in Italy for poem sculpted in marble
Flushing poet Vincent J. Tomeo has given Monterosso Calabro – the bucolic, rustic town that inspired his most acclaimed poem “A View from a Tower in Calabria, Italy” — a place in the sun. After his trip to that quiet corner of the world back in April 2015, Tomeo’s host and friend Antonio Parisi, a well-known patron of the arts, told him he had been...
Craving authentic Italian food? Carmela's Brick Oven Pizza will satisfy
Whether you're in the mood for a delicious Italian meal, a rustic brick oven pizza or a fine glass of wine and a nice variety of small plates, you can find it all at Carmela's Brick Oven Pizza and Wine Bar on Ocean Avenue in Stuart. Owned and operated by the Fatigate family, this cozy restaurant features three distinct dining venues, including a ca...
Around Sicily in ten classic Italian films
From war movies on Stromboli to heart-wrenching fishing dramas or experimental films set at the crossroads of one street in Palermo, this journey around Sicily through classic Italian cinema recounts the island’s love affair with the big screen and vice versa. Shaped like a boot below mainland Italy, Sicily’s PR has sometimes being wrong-footed...
New Paltz ditches Columbus, will celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day
At their recent regular meeting on Wednesday, June 21, the New Paltz Central School District Board of Education passed a resolution to designate the school holiday that falls on the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Curriculum will be developed for all New Paltz schools to support the new focus, with the board’s intention that th...
Favorites with flair - Arturo’s boasts contemporary twists on classic dishes
Saratoga, New York, native Matt Vinetti brought years of culinary experience to the kitchens of Northeast Pennsylvania when he transplanted to the area to oversee the Woodloch properties in Hawley. He then worked at Camelot Restaurant & Inn, Clarks Summit, before he took up the mantle of executive chef for Dupont eatery Arturo’s Restaurant. Since s...