Cresce l’export di cosmetici Made in Italy nel mondo
Nelle scorse settimane il Centro Studi Cosmetica Italia ha pubblicato i dati del 2018 facendo emergere alcuni trend importanti che riguarderanno, nel prossimo futuro, il settore della cosmesi ed in particolare le PMI esportatrici del Belpaese. Ma partiamo dai dati: nel 2018 l’industria cosmetica tricolore ha generato un fatturato globale di 11,15...
Buona Beef opens West Loop location
Buona Beef recently opened for business at 804 W. Washington Blvd., bringing the family-run fast-food chain’s total locations to 24. “We’re thrilled to be a part of the vibrant West Loop community,” says second-generation owner Joe Buonavolanto Jr. “Our new location is steeped in Chicago tradition: a fitting way to continue the city’s great Italian...
How Mario Puzo penned ‘The Godfather’ to get out of debt — and made bank
In the late 1960s, Mario Puzo retreated to the basement nook that served as his office to work on a new book. The broom-closet-like space beneath his Long Island house had enough room for a desk, a typewriter and little more. The basement also held a pool table, and while Puzo typed away, his five children would come down and play loud games, forci...
Schools to observe Indigenous People's Day
Throughout the United States, the second Monday of October is observed as Columbus Day. Beginning this year, the North Andover schools will recognize it as both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. The vote in favor of the change was 4-1 Thursday night. David Torrisi was the sole dissenter. He said the move is "diminishing" Columbus Day, which...
Screen time in Little Italy
Our Little Italy neighborhood offers some of the finer food fare this side of the Tiber River. When it comes to Italian cuisine, visitors certainly have their pick of dining experiences. The Italian neighborhood, however, offers much more than great food, providing a host of cultural offerings at any given time. Movies, of course, are always a hit...
Giacomo Santomauro's sausages have won awards and are sold in 48 states. And he's hungry for more success
Hanging in the curing vault at San Giuseppe Salami Co. is more than just several dozen sausages that have been aging for four months. Suspended there is a history as rich and layered as the spices in the meat. A bite of a soppressata is the culmination of hundreds of years of experience across two continents. “Those traditions I learned to do were...
Invisible Biculturalism: "Italian" Literature in the United States
Thursday, 03/14/2019 - 6:30pm EST. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 4 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011-8604. On the occasion of the publication of: Un biculturalismo negato. La letteratura "italiana" negli Stati Uniti (2018, Franco Cesati Editore) by Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY,...
Comedian Mike Marino Brings His MAKE AMERICA ITALIAN AGAIN Tour To Boca Raton
Mike Marino comes to The RRazz Room at Mizner Park Cultural Center Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 7:30pm. For tickets and more information, visit: www.MiznerParkCulturalCenter.com. Stand-up comedian Mike Marino - affectionately known to fans as "New Jersey's Bad Boy" - brings his hysterical take on the Italian-American experience to The RRazz Room at...
Author Katie Parla comes to Boulder to share robust cuisine of forgotten Italian region
Katie Parla’s grandmother had told her that their family was from Naples. So when Parla moved to Rome in 2003, she took trips south to explore the city of her ancestors. She became convinced after several trips that the connection she felt to sprawling, robust, unique Naples was in her blood. Then, after her grandmother passed, Parla learned she wa...
Actor Steve Schirripa on his sports history, 'Sinatra Meets The Sopranos' & more
When you ask a New Yorker about the greatest television shows of all time, odds are that The Sopranos will be named within a matter of seconds. While the series stopped making new episodes more than a decade ago, most of the Sopranos cast members continue to work steadily, and Steve Schirripa is one of the prime examples of that. Beyond being part...
Inside a Designer’s Theatrical Apartment and Studio in Rome
The furniture and object designer F. Taylor Colantonio, dressed in a red-trimmed poet’s blouse, gives a gentle shove to a fluted Doric column in his small, theatrically furnished loft in the Campo de’ Fiori neighborhood of Rome. The column wobbles loose from the wall, revealing itself suddenly to be light as Styrofoam, phony as a stage set. “Everyt...
Museum examines love in the Renaissance
Marriage chests from Renaissance Italy will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from March 9 through May 26. The exhibition “Life, Love and Marriage Chests in Renaissance Italy” is organized by Contemporanea Progetti in collaboration with the Stibbert Museum, in Florence. The curator is Martina Beccatini, curator...