'Best putting round ever' lifts Molinari to Bay Hill victory
Francesco Molinari clinched a two-stroke victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational when he stormed home with a closing eight-under-par 64 in Florida on Sunday. The British Open champion enjoyed his "best putting day ever" which he capped off by sinking a 45-foot birdie at the difficult par-four 18th at Bay Hill in Orlando. The usually low-key Itali...
La collaborazione tra Italia e Stati Uniti al centro dei lavori della conferenza sulla sicurezza cibernetica organizzata dall’Ambasciata d’Italia
Collaborazione e “capacity building” a livello internazionale e nazionale, partnership pubblico privato, misure di “confidence building”, educazione e formazione per costruire una cultura di sicurezza, rafforzamento dei rapporti tra università, mondo della ricerca e imprese, sono questi i campi di azione necessari per rafforzare la sicurezza cibern...
Dine Out Maine: Portland’s romantic, intimate Piccolo showcases a more playful, experimental side
Piccolo’s executive chef, Damian Sansonetti, is chuckling in the background. Despite his efforts, I can hear him over the speakerphone. I’ve just asked his wife, pastry chef Ilma Lopez, what inspired her to put smoked walnuts on a dark chocolate budino ($12) – an addition that pitch-shifts the tones of the custard-like dessert from bittersweet to t...
Helicopter maker Leonardo adds 166 jobs, $65 million training center in Northeast Philadelphia
Leonardo, the Italian helicopter maker, said it will spend $65 million to build a 60,000-square-foot training facility adjacent to its Northeast Philadelphia plant over the next year. The facility will train pilots, crews, and mechanics for Air Force helicopters in partnership with Boeing’s Delaware County plant, and for civilian craft. The compa...
Alcuin School Italian Night Draws Record Crowd
Alcuin School’s Italian Night was a huge success drawing a record crowd of more than 500 attendees for a festive evening of family fun in the school’s gym on Jan. 27. The annual gathering was indeed a “bella notte,” hosted by guest chefs and servers from the Alcuin School Parents’ and Dads’ Clubs. The scrumptious feast, catered by Campisi’s Resta...
Ferrero è l'azienda italiana con la miglior reputazione al mondo
Ferrero è l’azienda italiana con la maggior reputazione nel mondo. La classifica è stata annunciata dal Reputation Institute che ogni anno elenca i 100 brand con la maggiore considerazione al mondo. L’istituto ha raccolto a gennaio oltre 230 mila valutazioni individuali su un gruppo di circa 10 mila aziende nel mondo. Ferrero è prima tra le italian...
Palizzi Social Club, South Philly’s Members-Only Hot Spot, Is Releasing an Italian Cookbook
Joey Baldino, the South Philly-bred chef famed for Palizzi Social Club and Zeppoli, is releasing his first cookbook. Dinner at the Club: 100 Years of Stories and Recipes from South Philly’s Palizzi Social Club will feature recipes from the nationally acclaimed members-only restaurant, tucked into a South Philly rowhouse at 1408 S. 12th Street. The...
Italian scholars unveil Leonardo da Vinci's 'only surviving sculpture'
The curators of an exhibition in Florence have this week unveiled what they claim is the only surviving sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci. It’s always been part of Leonardo’s legend that he made sculptures, including a giant horse, but not a single extant three-dimensional work by him had been identified. The Virgin with the Laughing Child is the mira...
How an Italian Writer’s Imaginary Garden Became a Place of Literary Pilgrimage
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is not a real place. We should say that first. You’d be forgiven for thinking that it is, and you wouldn’t be alone. It was invented in Giorgio Bassani’s 1962 historical novel of the same name, and in the 1970 Oscar-winning movie adaptation. It is a place of young love, refuge, and tennis, a place so carefully and l...
Padula: intitolato al poliziotto eroe Joe Petrosino il Comando di Polizia Locale
Si è tenuta questa mattina, in via Chiusa a Padula, l’intitolazione del Comando di Polizia Locale a Joe Petrosino nel 110° anniversario della sua morte. Diversi i momenti che si sono susseguiti durante la cerimonia, l’intonazione dell’inno nazionale italiano e americano, lo scoprimento della targa posta dinanzi alla nuova sede del Comando di Polizi...
Authentic Italian trattoria, Cesarina, opens in Point Loma
Point Loma welcomes a new and delicioso authentic Italian pasta oasis, Cesarina. Owned and operated by restaurateurs Niccolò Angius, Giuseppe Scognamiglio and Giuseppe Capasso, the Italian trattoria embodies the atmosphere and cooking of legendary Italian “nonnas,” often referred to as the best cooks in the world. Named after Niccolò’s wife, Cesari...
Robert DeProspero, 80, Innovative Secret Service Agent, Dies
Robert DeProspero, who after the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981 became the Secret Service agent in charge of Reagan’s protection and added measures to shore up the president’s safety, died on Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 80. His son, Robert, said the cause was amyloidosis, a rare disease in which an abnormal protei...