NJ-Based Fratelli Beretta Partners with Madison Square Garden
Fratelli Beretta, a family-owned business built around Italian charcuterie tradition, is now partnering with Madison Square Garden. This partnership includes two concession stands—one on the sixth level and one on the tenth level. They will be serving four different panini-style sandwiches with both hot and cold options. When they decided to expan...
We bought a $1 house in Italy. Here's what happened next
It seemed like a deal too good to be true. A new house -- and potentially a whole new life -- for sale in sunkissed rural Italy for the princely sum of just one euro, or little over a dollar. Over the past year or so, numerous small towns from Sicily in the south to the northern Alps have been offering such bargains in the hope of attracting new re...
La pizza napoletana al centro della settimana della cucina italiana a Miami
L'arte della pizza napoletana, riconosciuta quale patrimonio immateriale dell'Unesco, torna al centro dell'attenzione internazionale negli Usa, grazie alle iniziative della Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel mondo. La Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo ha accompagnato dal 2016 la grande campagna #pizzaUnesco che con oltre 2 milioni di firme...
License to Rome: Denver International Airport getting nonstop Norwegian Air flight to Italian capital in 2020
Put on a stylish sunglasses-scarf combo and start practicing saying “Ciao” into the mirror, Denver. Come springtime, there will be a nonstop flight from DIA to Rome. Norwegian Air will launch seasonal service between DIA and the Italian capital on March 31, the low-cost international carrier announced Tuesday. The flight will be flown on Boeing 787...
How Giorgio Armani Built a Global Fashion Empire
In an era in which celebrities, influencers and the hottest young designers seem to dominate the attention of the fashion world, Giorgio Armani stands apart. While his name has become synonymous with exquisite design over the past four decades, his path to the pinnacle of the industry started from the very bottom of the mountain, a refreshing diffe...
Ambra serves up upscale Italian fare with a lively vibe
Ambra is Italian for “amber.” It calls to mind a unique kind of luxury—rich, honey-colored gemstones; a Mediterranean sunset; and, in this case, a contemporary Italian restaurant on the Strip. Having debuted late in the summer in the former Fiamma space, Ambra Italian Kitchen + Bar at MGM Grand does what Vegas does best: serve up fun, approachable...
Behold Tony Bennett's Portrait of Lady Gaga
If Tony Bennett ran his own Instagram, his bio might read "musician, painter, writer, content creator," alongside "NYC -> California" and the microphone, piano and jazz hands emojis. At 93, the show biz legend is what we today call a multi-hyphenate. On top of 19 Grammys, two Emmys and a dozen books, Bennett has been quietly and successfully painti...
“Ferraris on the Circle” a Crowd Pleaser
On Saturday, November 2, 2019, visitors to Sarasota’s St. Armands Circle were treated to a visual smorgasbord of Italian exotics at the annual ‘Ferraris on the Circle’ event. This year’s event attracted over 70 cars and included several special cars including two Ferrari 488 Pistas—the most powerful V8 in the history of Ferrari—and a La Ferrari, th...
Exploring Calabria: A Guide to the City of Crotone
The Province of Crotone was established in 1992 by a territory division belonging to the province of Catanzaro that now borders it on the southwest and Cosenza on the northwest. It is home to 27 municipalities. Its historical blueprint includes Magna Graecia, the Byzantine Empire, the Saracens, the Normans and the Kingdom of Naples. Montagnella Pa...
A Healthy Life: Prevention and Control
When: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Intercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University, 37th & O Street NW , Washington DC 20057 On the occasion of the 4th Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, The Georgetown University Italian Research Institute of Georgetown College, in collaboration with the Georgetown Universit...
Italian oil company gets federal OK to drill in Arctic waters off Alaska
Federal regulators on Tuesday gave an Italian oil company the green light to conduct exploration drilling in federal territory of the Arctic Ocean off Alaska within weeks, the first approval of its kind in two years in a move that was quickly blasted by a prominent conservation group. Officials with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcemen...
La scarpetta: a ritual for Italians
You have just finished your tasty pasta cooked al dente, and there it lies on your plate: a whole layer of delicious sauce. How could you leave it there, wasted, to be thrown away? Impossible! is the answer many Italians would give to such a question: this is why we love the scarpetta and cannot quite avoid doing it, even when, as Galateo says, we...