Summerfest presents Italian orchestra
By Johnny Diaz You don't have to wait till fall for classical music events in South Florida. The Symphony of the Americas is back for its 22nd Summerfest, and you can catch a performance at 3 p.m. today at Trinity Lutheran Church, 11 SW 11th St., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students. Each summer, the Fo...
Segafredo set to open a new and largest location
In true Italian style, Segafredo set to open a new, largest location at The Shops at Pembroke Gardens with a Grand Opening Celebration to be held on Thursday, April 9, 2015 from 6:30 – 10:00pm. A ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Frank C. Ortis, the Miramar Pembroke Pines Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Italy-America Chamber of Comme...
Scuola, in Florida un concorso video per raccontare l’Italia dello sport
Le scuole della Florida possono ottenere l'assegnazione di corsi di lingua gratuiti grazie a un concorso promosso dal Consorzio ICoN e dalla Odli (Organization for the Development of Italian Language). Le due istituzioni hanno pubblicato un bando per la creazione di video in italiano da parte di studenti americani. Nell'anno delle Olimpiadi il tema...
Ready for the World Cafe offers Italian favorites
Students of the University of Tennessee Culinary Institute, Retail, Hospitality and Tourism college, and Pellissippi State Culinary Institute, will present their fall series of the Ready for the World Cafe beginning Thursday, Oct. 3. Italian fare will be served with a menu of antipasto with cured meats and cheeses from southern Italy serve...
Lonardi Wins Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award
Baylor women's golfer Laura Lonardi was named recipient of the 2016 Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award on Friday, as announced by the Women's Golf Coaches Association. The award is given annually by the WGCA to the Women's Golf Division I student-athlete who is an upper classman and both a WGCA All-American Scholar and a WGCA All-American. Lonardi i...
Get your nets and opera glasses out for 'Madama Butterfly' season
Opera composer Giacomo Puccini was a talented, tall, dark and handsome Italian man with a flair for fashion. The ladies loved him. His fans adored him. But under that smart top-hat was a mind full of misgivings. "You hear this stunning music and you think, this man must have been the most confident person in the world. And yet, h...
Albany Symphony to present Italian opera for season finale
The Albany Symphony Orchestra will present its season finale on April 12 in the Darton State College Theatre at 7:30 p.m. and on April 13 at 3 p.m. at the Rylander Theatre in Americus. These performances cap off a year of celebration of 50 years that the Symphony has been entertaining audiences in Southwest Georgia. A combined chorus of area colle...
2014 Atlanta Italian Film Festival: 3 Must-See Movies
Italian cinema is hot right now with Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and grossing a cool $2.8 million in the United States, good for No. 9 on the Italian-language box-office list. So it's the perfect time to brush up on some of the latest Italian movies at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival, which wi...
Music everywhere
A trio of talented sopranos, Virginia Zeani, 89, plus Marilyn Mims and daughter, Virginia Mims, 18, will perform in a free concert at 2 p .m. Jan. 25 at Helen K. Persson Recital Hall, 326 Acacia Road, on the Palm Beach Atlantic University campus. Zeani was the mentor of Marilyn Mims when she was a music student in Indiana. "I wanted to sing Vi...
Frist Center dazzles with ‘Italian Style’
by Sara Estes From Gucci to Versace, designs by the world's foremost clothing designers are currently on view at The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in the first major survey of post-war Italian fashion, "Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945." Curated by Sonnet Stanfill of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, the exhibition aims to...
Pulcinella’s owner opens new restaurant in Chapel Hill
by Greg Cox Salvatore "Rino" Fevola, principal partner in Pulcinella's in Durham, has opened Magone Italian Grill & Pizza in Chapel Hill's Timberlyne Shopping Center. Fevola named the new restaurant for a branch on his family tree. But the menu is firmly rooted in the successful formula that has allowed Pulcinella's to thrive for nearly t...
Palm Beach Atlantic honors Vecellio on American Free Enterprise Day
By Andres David Lopez In 1938, after the dawn of the automobile age but before a national highway system, Italian immigrant Enrico Vecellio and a few partners founded a road-construction company. Today, Leo Vecellio Jr., Enrico's grandson, presides as chairman, president and CEO of Vecellio Group Inc., a contractor with highway, minin...