Lombardy Travel Guide: 8 Experiences You Can’t Miss
Lombardy is an economic powerhouse — and its capital Milan often takes the crown from Rome when it comes to job prospects and quality of life. The industrial hinterlands may not offer much to the traveling aesthete, but head further out and you’ll find glittering lakes, pristine mediaeval towns and world-class art, architecture and gastronomy. This...
I train horses for Hollywood and celebrities like Beyoncé and the Kardashians. The horses prepare just like actors and get scripts to memorize their parts.
I've been in the entertainment business for 25 years as an actress — but as much as I love acting, the best day of my life on set was when I booked a commercial where I had to work with a horse for the first time. The experience was so healing and beautiful for me that I decided I would start to rescue horses. After that, I adopted my first horse,...
This Is What Makes The Maserati Quattroporte So Special
The Maserati Quattroporte has become something like the Godfather of all luxury cars. Not for nothing, Francis Ford Coppola featured it in The Godfather Part III. But legendary mobsters aren’t the only ones loving this car. In fact, movie producers, superstars, royals and oil-rich heirs all go gaga for the Quattroporte. And if you're still unsure a...
Mad Nice Brings Coastal Italian Specialities, ‘California Vibes’ to Midtown This Winter
The building at 4120 Second Ave. has undergone quite a bit of changes over the past eight years. In 2014, the aging Tom Boy Market shuttered for good in that space to make way for the relatively short-lived Will Leather Goods, a high-end luxury leather goods store that met its demise in spring 2019. Later that year, plans for Sauce, a Neapolitan pi...
Italian Researchers at Saint Louis University Help Launch New Institute to Advance Neuroscience Research
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, Saint Louis University announced the launch of the Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN). The new Institute brings together experts in biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacology, social justice, and community outreach under a shared research umbrella in order to study the physiology and diseases of the brain and central ne...
Tripologist: Where's a good village for a long stay in Italy?
My partner and I want to spend four months in a village in Italy to experience local life, based in Le Marche or Umbria and making trips from there. What locations might work, and what long-term rental sites are there? I Davies, Philip Island VIC While village life might look appealing, living there can be limited. Shops might be some distance away...
The Big Difference Between Typical Italian And American Meals
Ah, Italia. This nation has created a cuisine so iconic, it is quite literally America's second favorite cuisine behind our own (via YouGov). It is so easy to see why the country that birthed pizza, lasagna, and infinite varieties of pasta would be so popular here in America. Over a 40-year period between the end of the 19th and the beginning of th...
Secret Siena: Unsolved Mysteries from the Medieval Town
When restoration work began on Piazza Jacopo della Quercia near Siena Cathedral in the late 1980s, the number of Roman archaeological discoveries was so startling, people doubted the work would ever get finished. What if they covered the whole place with tarmac and left terracotta containers, first century jewelry or similarly precious objects fore...
Netflix Drops Trailer for ‘I Hate Christmas,’ Its First Italian Xmas Series
How do you say “Bah, humbug” in Italian? I Hate Christmas, Netflix’s first Italian Christmas series, stars Pilar Fogliati (Cuori) as Gianna, a woman who doesn’t buy into Christmastime sentimentality and is content to stay single during the holidays. “I shall not bend,” she says in I Hate Christmas’ newly-released trailer, which hypes up the Lux Vid...
When shopping and eating become history: Italy's oldest stores
In Italy, you don’t find only nice stores, you find very old ones, too. Mind, trade and commerce have a long history everywhere in the world, but there aren’t many places where you can find ateliers, restaurants, or cafés operating for more than – or the best part of – a century (although I am sure that there are a store or two in London or Paris t...
Donato’s Fresh Cheese-Centric Bocconcino Café Opens in Kaka‘ako
If you’ve ever been to Italy, you know what it’s like to fall in love. Beyond quaint countrysides, weathered city streets and works of art just about everywhere you look, it really is the carb-filled dream laced with aromas of cheese and espresso that you always imagined it’d be. For lovers of Italian foods in Hawai‘i, this means yearning. Frequent...
Sicilian Cucuzza: one name, many stories and many tasty recipes
Sicily is a land of flavors, myths, legends and stories, of folk beliefs and sayings that tell an anecdote or reveal the intrinsic character of its inhabitants. From this millenary culture come sweets and first courses, fragrances and flavors that still remain known and hidden treasures, testimony to the worlds and thousand faces of Sicily. Fruits...