Candice Guardino finds inspiration from family for ‘Italian Bred’
Comedian Candice Guardino has been using the eccentricities of her family members and the dynamics of the Italian-American experience for inspiration on the stage. She performs impressions of everyone from her father to her grandmother, all done tongue in cheek and with a love for her relatives, her culture and her upbringing in Staten Island, New...
Tony & Elaine’s is all about Italian favorites
If you're looking for a great Italian dinner in Boston, there's no better neighborhood to explore than the North End. Thanks to its large Italian American population and collection of amazing Italian restaurants, the area is clearly deserving of its Little Italy title. Now, Tony & Elaine's hopes to become a new North End favorite by focusing on the...
Playing with the bambinos
If you’ve never heard of it, Reggio Emilia might sound like a brand of Italian wine. And as you might suspect, it does refer to a place in Italy. But it also refers to a philosophy of working with young children that was developed after World War II in the villages around Reggio Emilia, Italy. One of its foundational concepts is “the hundred langua...
The deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspires a contemporary composer
Was it coincidence or fate that the New York Philharmonic commissioned Julia Wolfe to compose a new piece about the deadly fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? For years she has passed the site on New York’s Greene Street and Washington Place where 146 young women, all Eastern European Jewish and Italian immigrants, died on March 25, 1911. The...
Nick’s Italian feeds furloughed federal employees, families
As the federal government shutdown entered its 33rd day on Tuesday, Nick’s Italian on South College Avenue offered a free dinner for furloughed federal employees and their families, as long as they could show their government ID. “We just wanted to give federal employees a bit of respite from not having a job for a while and just have them come in...
World's first traveling Italian water circus comes to Austin
Austin is known for having many different things to do and see, no matter your interests. For a couple weeks, you can add a water circus to that list. Cirque Italia, the first traveling Italian water circus, is in Austin. The circus runs from Thursday, Jan. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 3. They use a 35,000-gallon water stage and many different artists t...
Intesa Sanpaolo porta Lucio Fontana a New York
Intesa Sanpaolo e l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a New York presentano la mostra ‘Spatial Explorations: Lucio Fontana and the Avant-garde in Milan in the 50s and 60s’, una selezione di opere dalla ricca collezione di Intesa Sanpaolo sull’arte italiana del XX secolo. L’esposizione, inaugurata ieri all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a New York alla pre...
The best of tradition, innovation, and family business at the 2019 Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco
The annual Winter Fancy Food Show by the Specialty Food Association was back in the Bay Area, as the largest marketplace devoted to specialty foods and beverages on the West Coast kicked off, on January 13. It was 1952 when, for the first time, New York City hosted the just born not-for-profit trade association. Today, with two annual editions betw...
Do Italians read enough?
International notorious Italian author Umberto Eco once said: “we live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.” Several scientific data establish that reading helps learning skills, mind growth, and developing imagination by fostering our creative side of the brain. In Italy we are surrounded by literal pieces of h...
Fiore, an Italian-inspired cafe-restaurant, soft-opens in Queen Village
Fiore, a modern Italian cafe-restaurant from two pedigreed New York chefs, is now soft-open at 757 S. Front St. in the Queen Village building that years ago housed Frederick’s before The Village Belle and Kanella South. Ed Crochet and Justine MacNeil are aiming at the neighborhood with an operation that starts in the morning and adds dinner once th...
DUniBo 2019 - AWARD FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA SUPPORTING STUDENTS EXCHANGE WITH DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Olimpia Meucci, MD, PhD (Drexel University) and Renato Brandimarti, PhD (University of Bologna) received a grant from the University of Bologna to cement scientific collaborations between the two universities. The award follows a recent agreement signed by Provost Brian Blake and Il Magnifico Rettore Francesco Ubertini that facilitates and regulate...
Italian soldier who unwittingly saved Ernest Hemingway's life identified after a century
Blown to bits by a mortar during the First World War, he unwittingly saved the life of a young Ernest Hemingway, but his identity has been a mystery for more than 100 years – until now. Historians believe they have put a name to an Italian soldier who bore the brunt of the mortar explosion, in doing so saving the life of the man who would later giv...