Rudy Giuliani: Sicilian Mafia Offered $800,000 To Kill Me
The Sicilian mafia offered to kill Rudy Giuliani for $800,000, the former Mayor of New York has revealed. As the U.S. attorney and mayor of one of the largest cities in the world, Rudy Giuliani made his share of enemies. "I don't think anybody prosecuted more mafia members than I did," Giuliani recently said on "Oprah: Where Are They...
Italian fashion industry to grow in 2014
Reuters reported that the Italian fashion exports should turn the industry back towards growth in 2014 after two years in decline.The birthplace of fashion icons from Giorgio Armani to Dolce and Gabbana should see turnover rise 5.4 percent to 62.5 billion euros (51.85 billion pounds) in 2014, according to the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (C...
Carnevale di Venezia in Ohio
No need to board a plane for Italy's Venezia: Italia in Ohio is bringing Carnevale to Columbus on Sunday March 2, 2014. Carnevale, the Italian pre-Lent festival of food and frivolity, is a tradition dating back a millennium and includes parties, music, exquisite Venetian cooking, and above all the masked balls. This year the Refectory Rest...
Miami Dade College’s Miami Culinary Institute and Gambero Rosso of Italy team up
by Ina Paiva Cordle The Miami Culinary Institute at Miami Dade College and Gambero Rosso, a leading food and wine publisher and educator in Italy, have agreed to launch a new partnership that will allow students access to Gambero Rosso's "Città del Gusto" (City of Taste) cooking schools in Rome, Catania, Palermo, Turin, Naples, and Milan....
Pennetta routs Radwanska to win Indian Wells WTA title
Indian Wells (United States) (AFP) - Italy's Flavia Pennetta routed world number three Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-1 on Sunday to win the Indian Wells WTA crown. Pennetta, 32, claimed the biggest title of her career, needing just one hour and 13 minutes to blow past Poland's second-seeded Radwanska, who was hobbled by a left leg injury. &n...
Italian Company Euro Group buys Tecumseh Laminating Plant
Europe's largest steel lamination company wants to expand its operations into the United States — and they're going to do it from Paris, Illinois.Euro Group is an Italian industrial holding that supplies electrical steel laminations to the makers of electric motors and generators. Recently, the Milan, Italy-based company purchased the lamination d...
Miko's Italian Ice Ushers in Spring by Opening This Week
by Victoria Johnson You know it's spring when Miko's is open. The popular Italian ice stand in Logan Square will open Thursday afternoon while the Bucktown location will open Friday. Both Miko's Italian Ice locations close for the winter each year and then re-open when the weather warms up a bit, making it a sort of unofficia...
Carla Bruni in New York to perform new album
While the world is still savoring French President François Hollande's affair with Julie Gayet, his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, is launching a charm offensive in New York with his arresting wife, Carla Bruni. Vocalist and guitarist Bruni is performing at Town Hall on West 43rd Street on Thursday.The Italian-born former model released her fourth...
Internationalization of agri-food industry to fuel Italy's economy, officials say
by Marzia De Giuli The internationalization of the agri-food industry is "strategic" for the Italian economy, local officials said here on Monday at the opening of Cibus, the international fair on food made in Italy. Although the sector was not spared by falling domestic consumption and therefore has lost some 14 percentage points...
CGIE: Plenaria alla Farnesina/ I consiglieri
Convocata dal segretario generale Elio Carozza, inizierà mercoledì prossimo alla Farnesina la prima plenaria del 2014 del Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all'Estero. I lavori del Cgie inizieranno già lunedì 26 – sempre alla Farnesina – con le riunioni del Comitato di Presidenza, delle Commissioni Continentali e Tematiche. Prima dell...
Fabrizio Sotti, unico italiano al Blue Note Jazz Festival
Promette tre ore di musica in cui intende ripercorrere la sua carriera che è una vera enciclopedia della musica, dal jazz al reggae e al pop. Il chitarrista e produttore Fabrizio Sotti si esibirà il 4 giugno all'Highline Ballroom, unico italiano in programma al Blue Note Jazz Festival, giunto alla quarta edizione. "Fabrizio Sotti & Fri...
A Piazza for Sant’Antonio
Milwaukee author Paul Salsini has published the fifth in his award-winning fictional series set in Tuscany. In the first novel of this series, The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany, terrified villagers were trapped in a farmhouse during WWII. In the second, Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany, a partisan hunted down the collaborator...