Spoleto Festival USA begins 40th season in South Carolina
The 40th season of the Spoleto Festival USA opened Friday amid tributes to the men who established the internationally known art festival and remembrances of the nine people fatally shot in a city church last year during a Bible study. Hundreds gathered under a bright sun in front of City Hall as Mayor John Tecklenburg lauded former Mayor Joe Rile...
LED acceptance is vital to Marelli's U.S. growth
Lindsay Chappell PULASKI, Tenn. -- Chrysler, Fiat and Alfa Romeo are not the only brands Sergio Marchionne wants to advance in North America. There's also Magneti Marelli. The Italian supplier is far from a household name in the U.S. auto industry. But the big century-old maker of lighting and powertrain parts wants to change that -- and qu...
There Is An Italian Heart in the New European Pavilion for Art Basel Miami. Euart Panorama Europa Debuts at Spectrum-Miami
Led by an installation by worldwide renowned designer Antonio Pio Saracino, EUART PANORAMA EUROPA debuts at Spectrum-Miami with a heart that pulses with Italian style. Lithographs of Saracino's outstanding Hero inspired by Michelangelo's David and permanently installed with his Super Hero at Bryan Park in New York City, will cover a wall o...
2015 Keeneland Concours d’Elegance Celebrates Maserati, Supports KCH
By Elizabeth Adams The 12th annual Keeneland Concours d'Elegance at Keeneland Race Course on July 18 will showcase a diverse array of exciting classic cars while raising funds to benefit Kentucky Children's Hospital. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of famed Italian automaker Maserati, the featured marque for 2015, the event...
Granddaughter of Italian immigrants stirs tradition into every meal
by Johanna D. Wilson Debra Guglielmi, a 5-foot, 51-year-old Italian dynamo, is flitting about Bagel Café and Bakery like a cat chasing a beam of light. It is a Wednesday, but it doesn't matter – she is often a blur of busy-ness. It is clear, however, that she is dedicated to fixing folks fresh food only the most finicky cooks serve....
Flatiron Brickell, the skyscraper “Made in Italy”
Miami skyline will speak Italian. Few days ago, was presented Flatiron Brickell, a new 64-floor skyscraper by the italian real estate enterprise CMC Group to be completed in Miami, in 2018. The tower will be built in the financial district in Miami and aims to become the icon of the "Made in Italy" in Florida. "The structure of the tower will be c...
Cuoco Pazzo: Naples in Savannah
By Maria Whiteway WHEN DINING in the Deep South, one can expect to partake in those comforting classics like fried chicken, collard greens and buttermilk biscuits. However, one does not presume to find authentic Italian food in this region; it seems paradoxical, absurd really. As an Italian-American New Yorker, I know firsthand what Itali...
Cipriani Downtown opens Friday on Miami’s Brickell Avenue
Step through the revolving door into an elegant, high-ceilinged space decorated with walnut paneling, floor-to-ceiling windows and tables with white leather chairs trimmed in blue velvet, all set against sweeping views of Biscayne Bay. The venerable Cipriani opens on Miami's Brickell Avenue at noon on Friday, the group's first U.S. restaur...
Dinner and a show: Italian American Club plans July 4 blast
The Italian American Club is hosting a patriotic dinner and show for the Fourth of July. The "God Bless America From Sea to Shining Sea" Tour of America will take place from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. July 4, with an All American Buffet planned for 5:45 p.m. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. After the show, the party will move outside, where attendee...
Vulcan exhibit highlights local Italian community
A bamboo cannoli tube and an antique-looking trumpet sit just over from a large Bruno’s grocery store sign. These objects, along with others in the La Storia exhibit at Vulcan Park & Museum, tell the story of Birmingham’s Italian immigrant community. Italians came to Birmingham by way of Ellis Island or Louisiana farms and plantations....
One-legged Italian to swim Florida-Cuba in world first
Salvatore Cimmino is bidding to become the first person to complete a 166km uninterrupted swim From Florida to Cuba. As if that weren't impressive enough, he only has one leg. Cimmino, 52, lost his right leg below the middle of the femur aged just 15, when medics were forced to amputate the appendage as it was riddled with an aggressive fo...
Il Volo to tape two PBS sspecials in Miami this month! Tickets available now!
Join the three, young Italian tenors, Piero Barone (19), Ignazio Boschetto(18) and Gianluca Ginoble (18) of Il Volo from The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater as they perform two, full-length national PBS concert events across two days, March 26 & 27, 2013!