Forget Rome: New Italian Airline Brings You Closer To Milan And Sexy Sicily
Confession: I love Rome, but I'm not in love with Rome. My relationship with the Italian capital over the years has passed from infatuation to amore to a sort of admiring appreciation—I mean, Eternal City is a tough tagline to beat—but the simple truth is that the city lacks verve. For creative punch you have to hit Milan, while for the slower, mor...
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall by Patrizio Travagli
When: From Tuesday, April 10, 2018 to Friday, June 01, 2018 From 6:00 pm To 7:30 pm - Where: Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 - Organized by : IIC Washington, Embassy of Italy - Entrance : Free - Reservation May Be Required The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute are pleased to present the exhibition...
Mimosa, Bellini and Tintoretto: masterpieces... to drink all year round!
I wonder if, in 1948, Giuseppe Cipriani, barman of Venice’s Harry’s Bar, would have thought that 5 cl of rigorously crushed (never blended!) white peach flesh and just about twice as much chilled Prosecco were to become the Bellini, one of the world’s favorite long drinks, named after the artist of the same name, because of the colors of one of his...
Swindon Business News Travel: Get on your ‘fat bike’ for a magical March ski trip to the Italian Dolomites
Love skiing in winter and mountain biking in summer? This month you can do both in the Italian Dolomites by adding fat biking – cycling on snow on bikes equipped with tyres up to five inches thick – to the traditional attractions of a springtime trip to the slopes. Fat biking now takes its place alongside the torchlit evening walks, snowshoe excur...
Old school Italian food at Buona Gente in Long Beach delivers everything you’d expect and more
One of the great joys of Second Street in Long Beach’s Belmont Shore is how walking down any given block you move between the new and trendy and the old school and sedate, with the sporty and noisy in between. New and trendy runs to such hot spots as Saint & Second, Lasher’s Kitchen, Tavern on 2 and Roe. Old school, by contrast, is deeply Italian (...
Billoni brothers to be honored
This year's St. Joseph's Day Anthony M. Castiglia achievement award is going to three brothers. Paul, Michael and Anthony Billoni will receive the recognition from the Italian American Leadership Council at 6 p.m. Monday at Ilio DiPaolo's Restaurant, 3785 South Park Ave., Blasdell. All have been involved in many local causes for years. Paul Billoni...
'Uncle Louie Show' Italians sound off on Irish culture
During the St. Patrick's Day season, Central New Yorkers love to party like the Irish, whether they're truly Irish or not. But what do local Italians think of all the blarney and craic? Italian-Americans also make up a large part of Syracuse's population, and both the Italians and the Irish host major festivals each year. But only the Irish host a...
Mambo Italiano is a dream come true for owners
Fourteen years ago, Salvatore and Briana Cardone were living paycheck to paycheck when they won $40,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket. That could only mean one thing to the self-taught culinary couple. They could finally open the restaurant they'd been dreaming about since the day they met six years earlier. "One of the first questions Sal asked...
Classical: La Fiocco presents music of Italian Baroque
There’s no question that a list of classical music’s greatest hits would include several from Vivaldi. But that list likely would also include works by other composers of the Italian Baroque, including Scarlatti, Albinoni and many others. On Saturday, in Princeton, N.J., and Sunday, in Solebury, Bucks County, early music group La Fiocco will presen...
Save New Rochelle ITALIAN FLES program!
We must not lose ITALIAN in New Rochelle Elementary Schools! Sign this petition to tell New Rochelle School District to keep Italian language and culture in the elementary schools. Children in New Rochelle start learning Italian in Kindergarten at Barnard school, and continue taking Italian through fifth grade. Their Italian studies continue in Mi...
An Authentic Sicilian Bakery Lands in Montrose
La Sicilia Italian Bakery & Cafe just opened in Montrose last weekend, bringing with it all kinds of authentic European treats. The shop at 515 Westheimer Road is the first foray into food for the family of owners, Antonio Rios who serves as general manager and part owner with his parents Antonio Sr. and Olga Rios. But Diego Chiarello, Antonio’s hu...
Blumhouse Productions is looking for 15 - 20 year old boys for the role of ALBIE
Blumhouse Productions is looking for 15 - 20 year old boys for the role of ALBIE in the Blumhouse (The Purge, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Get Out, Split) coming-of-age feature, ONCE UPON A TIME IN STATEN ISLAND. No previous acting experience required. Character Description: Male, 15-20 years old. Plays a high school student. Italian-American k...