The Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco is currently presenting a new exhibit, "Natural Expressions", featuring three contemporary Italian artists, Alberto Cristini, Vincent Galassi, and John Malveto. The exhibit runs from August 22 to November 21, 2014. Although the styles and mediums used by the artists differ, they all share the chal...
After reading a witty, self-deprecating, and insightful New York Times essay by William Alexander, where he details the benefits of learning a second language as an adult, "The Benefits of Failing at French," I decided to come clean on my relationship with learning Italian. It all started when I was a 17-year-old freshman at the University of Wisc...
More than 30 members of Clark Unico joined the Clark Recreation Department in christening a newly installed bocce court on Sept. 26. The celebration included pizza, desserts and Italian music as guests learned the game and played against each other. The court was donated by The Keith W. Dolan Memorial Fund and was installed by Steve Patern...
Though Mayor Ken Cockayne's grandfather left his native Turi, Italy to make his way to America long ago, the family's ties to the southern Italian town remain. On Thursday, Cockayne received an elaborately framed key to Turi engraved with a coat of arms depicting a bull under an oak tree. The first citizen of Turi, Domenico Coppi, sai...
Tuesday, November 4th - 6:00pmSuggested donation of $10 per person CORRADO PARDUCCI Presented by Jack P. Johnson and Jennifer Baross Corrado Parducci was an Italian immigrant who worked with the finest architectural firms in New York before moving to Detroit in 1924 during the city's building boom. For decades he worked as an architectural...
The Italian produce industry will soon be promoting a pear that is "virtually unknown" to U.S. consumers in an event at high-end New York retail outlet and cooking school Eataly. A release from the country's Centro Servizi Ortofrutticoli (CSO) said the event will take place on Nov. 13 thanks to the support of interprofess...
Italian café brand Segafredo Zanetti Espresso is bringing a hybrid coffee shop, restaurant and lounge to Orlando's Mills 50 neighborhood. The store is expected to open on Dec. 20 in the Mills Park shopping center at Mills Avenue and Virginia Drive. Read more Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com
Preserving a knowledge of one's mother tongue is essential to all those Italians who decide, either as a result of need or choice, to move abroad to live. Italy has been, and is still today, a country of emigration. The Directorate General for Italians Citizens Abroad and Migration Policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs looks to assis...
by Jo Piazza A Miami-based businessman is officially this week's fanciest flyer. Gino Bertuccio has become the first passenger to fly in what has been dubbed "the world's most expensive and exclusive" airline seat— the Residence, a "penthouse in the sky" on Etihad Airways that costs $21,000. Bertuccio's trip marked the inaugu...
More than a cafe, better than a bookstore: the Caffè Letterario tradition started four centuries ago in Europe when artists and writers used to meet in a public place, to exchange experiences, comments, and ideas on their work. The "Caffè letterario" has changed over time. Today it is that place where literature-lovers gather to drink a cu...
by Olee Fowler Many cities have sprawling Italian markets. Miami hasn't been one of them. But that'll be changing when Made In Italy Gourmet opens its doors in Wynwood on Monday, January 26 at 10 N.E. 27 Street. Part market, part restaurant and part wine store, the space is an ode to all things Italian. In the front it features a...
By Ross Parker Anthony (Tony) Bertoni, a legendary law man both at the Detroit Police Department and as United States Marshal, died this past Sunday at the age of 95. The Bertoni family grew up on the eastside of Detroit during the difficult years of post World War I and the Depression. Like many bright and capable young Irish Catholi...