Il Giorno della Memoria - Inferno Mittelbau Dora
Monday, January 27, 2020. 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST. Italian Cultural & Community Center, 1101 Milford St., Houston, TX 77006. Il Giorno della Memoria (International Holocaust Remembrance Day). On Monday, January 27, the ICCC will present a screening of the documentary Inferno Mittelbau Dora (2016; 53 minutes; not rated) as we remember the victims of t...
Jimmy Garoppolo’s Old School Father Taught Him How to Win
San Francisco 49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo rarely opens up about his family life, granting just a handful of interviews discussing his parents and brothers dating back to his college career at Eastern Illinois, according to Heavy.com. Jimmy’s father, Tony Garoppolo Sr., who worked as an electrician for more than 40 years, was out the door every morning...
94% of Italians ready to stop using plastic bottles -survey
Fully 94% of Italians are ready to stop using plastic bottles, a survey said Thursday. The survey by the European Investment Bank and the French market research firm BVA showed that most Italians were willing to make the move to tray and help ease the climate crisis. According to the survey, some 66% of Italians have already stopped using plastic b...
The 4 best Italian spots in St. Louis
Craving Italian food? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian spots around St. Louis, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to venture when cravings strike. Hoodline offers data-driven analysis of local happenings and trends across cities. Links included in this article may earn Hoodline a com...
The Maserati Club Accelerates into Florida with a new chapter
The Maserati Club of Florida (TMCFLA) Chapter President Todd Bernstein announced today the Florida-based nonprofit organization launched a new club on January 1, 2020 and it's entirely dedicated to the Maserati owners in the Sunshine State. Until recently, the Florida territory was under The Maserati Club of the Southeast, based out of Harriman, TN...
Revealed: The most (and least) popular baby names in every Italian region
Italian national statistics agency Istat has compiled the most recent annual list of the names most frequently given to newborns in the country, based on data from 2018. The top Italian boys' name is no longer Francesco but Leonardo. After being the most popular boys' name for over a decade, Francesco is now in second place, followed by other tradi...
14 best pizza spots in Charlotte, from Neapolitan to New York style and more
When it comes to pie of the pizza variety, everyone has an opinion. The basic combination of crust, sauce, cheese and toppings is what defines a pizza, but for so many of us, the style of pizza is what holds the key to our hearts and stomachs. Wouldn’t dare order a thick-crust, Chicago-style pie when you can find the distinctive hand-tossed New Yor...
Meet Mimi, The Aggressively Italian Grandma Taking Over TikTok
The 19-year-old content creator from Las Vegas, Nevada started making videos on the platform in late October, 2019. But thanks to his Growing Up Italian series, has reached success across other social platforms like Instagram and Twitter too. Sean’s following quickly became a fan of any of Italian-related content, and in particular, of any videos f...
The Artists Who Made The Borghese Gallery
Art had a cultural currency beyond monetary value during the Renaissance. Representing the tastes, desires and, often, whims of the elite, paintings and sculptures served as manifestations of power. Those who controlled the finest works of art would go down in cultural history. For this reason, Scipione Borghese became one of the most ruthless and...
The American success story of Joe Farruggio: I always wanted to make the best pizza in the world
If you are privy to the Washingtonian social circles, you must have heard of Il Canale, a celebrity hot spot in the heart of the nation capital’s neighborhood Georgetown. Everyone in the Who’s Who in American Power playbook has dined here. Il Canale has been a go-to place of journalists, actors and heads of states from Hillary Clinton to Brigitte M...
Mario Salerno to preside over Calabresi group
Mario Salerno has been elected president of the Calabresi in America Organization. A member for eight years, Salerno served as an advisor for two years and worked his way up through the vice presidential ranks before being elected president. “Being involved has given me the opportunity to share my Calabrese background with others and celebrate it a...
Another Italian town is selling dozens of $1 homes
For some, the prospect of buying a cheap home in Italy is a chance to leave their old life behind and start all over again. But the latest town to offer tumbledown houses priced at just over a dollar wants buyers to bring it with them -- encouraging families or groups of friends to buy multiple properties. Bisaccia, a picturesque destination in Ita...