La Storia Will Open in the Gold Coast Next Month
by Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer After a few months of delays, ownership now plans to open the book on La Storia (1154 N. Dearborn St., no phone yet), Ideology Entertainment's upcoming Italian restaurant, in mid-April. The address may say 1154, but the restaurant also occupies the first floor of 1156. Customers enter at 1154 into...
Italy shows off restored Pompeii villa as EU deadline looms
Italy unveiled the restored crown jewel of the ancient city of Pompeii on Friday, showing off a rare success story as it races to shore up the site marred by such mismanagement and neglect that it risked losing EU funding and its UNESCO World Heritage site listing. Culture Minister Dario Franceschini cut the ribbon to open the restored Vil...
Il Punto! Italian Cultural Center – First Annual Dinner Celebration and Fundraising Event – April 25th
Join us to celebrate the New Italian Cultural Center "Il Punto!" at our First Annual Dinner Celebration and Fundraising Event April 25th, 2015. 7pm-11pmCourtyard Hall - 720 238th St SE - Bothell, WA 98021 Our goal is to create a unique organization that becomes a centralized point of reference for the entire Italian Communi...
The Mirandola-based biotech cluster comes back even stronger after the earthquake
by Natascia Ronchetti In the biotech cluster of Mirandola, in the province of Modena, devastation has given way to innovation. The destruction of nearly two-thirds of the area's businesses brought on by an earthquake nearly three years ago was followed by an aggressive reconstruction effort that's catapulted the biggest groups back onto th...
Ariana Grande named one of most beautiful people in World
by Daniel Dentico Ariana Grande has officially being recognized by PEOPLE magazine as one of the World's Most Beautiful People. Often asked to reveal her ethnicity by fans, Ariana responded to one fan on Twitter saying she's Italian-American, half Sicilian and half Abruzzese. Read more Fonte: The Italian American...
Fattoria di Limone enters Massachusetts market with Berkshire Brewing Company partnership
Fattoria di Limone announces the availability of their Limoncello Original Liqueur in the state of Massachusetts. Fattoria di Limone Limoncello Original Liqueur is a lemon-flavored beverage made in small batches from regionally-sourced natural ingredients, mostly within New York State, following a classic Italian recipe. The company has pa...
CIAO / CIANCIA!
This is not a goodbye, but at Hello! With a clever acronym (Cortona Italy Alumni Organization), CIAO is an organization stemming from alumni of the UGA Cortona Program – funded by a legendary philanthropist, Mr. Jack Kehoe, it is likely the most famous and coveted art program in the South East of the U.S. CIAO members are joining our May e...
UConn's Geno Auriemma Receives Amos Alonzo Stagg Award
He is an anomaly, a contradiction of sorts in our "grass is always greener elsewhere" world of sports today. As others seek validation in a bigger paycheck, a different location or a more prestigious position, he has remained true to the ultimate bottom line: winning championships. When it comes to that, no one has been more successful tha...
Con Delta riaprono i voli diretti da Pisa per New York
Per questa estate Delta Air Lines e Alitalia hanno annunciato la ripresa del volo stagionale non-stop dall'aeroporto di Pisa all'aeroporto John F. Kennedy di New York a partire dal 16 giugno. Il collegamento sarà operato quattro volte a settimana fino al prossimo 29 giugno, mentre a partire dal 2 luglio, e fino al 6 settembre, sarà operato sei volt...
Author DeStefano on the Mafia, Seventh Avenue and More in ‘Gangland New York’
By Rosemary Feitelberg True to the wayward characters he writes about in his new book "Gangland New York: The Places and Faces of Mob History," Anthony M. DeStefano preferred that a recent interview start with a walk past a few haunts the city's mobsters made notorious. Readers of his latest nonfiction (Lyons Press) might be tempted to re...
Fiat 500: From utilitarian to cult of made in Italy
In the modern age of design, where even the most basic object is studied and rendered beautiful by industrial designers who have reached celebrity status, (orange squeezer or usb key anyone?), it seems that almost anything can become "cult". The rise of the hipster has done nothing to help this saturation of everyday things gaining an aest...
Police investigating graffiti on Columbus statue at Italian heritage center
By Kevin Shea A 7-foot statue of Christopher Columbus that stands in front of the Italian American Heritage Center in Hamilton was defaced with graffiti sometime this weekend, police and officials said. Columbus' face was painted black, the number 13 was written on his chest and the letters "FU" were scrawled on the ground in front of the ped...