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Thomas Salvino has been named to Barron's 2015 Top Advisors in America. The magazine's annual state-by-state listing recognizes America's top financial advisors and places Salvino in the Illinois ranking. Salvino; his father, Al; and his brother, John, are financial advisors with the Salvino Wealth Management Team at William Blair & Company. T...

Italian Parmesan producers are protesting what they call fake versions of the cheese made in the U.S. that are cutting into their livelihood.   Parmesan cheese — the real stuff, that is, labeled Parmigiano Reggiano — is a globally protected Italian brand. It can only be legally produced in and around the city of Parma, following a strict pro...

Richard Haskin has always loved art and Italian culture. As a third-generation UAW-Ford member, he also takes pride in the automotive industry and Detroit culture and history. Haskin has combined these passions in his photography that recognizes two global cultures and automotive cities. His work will be celebrated in an exhibit on Friday, March 27...

Former NBA All-Star Metta World Peace has signed for Italian team Pallacanestro Cantu for the remainder of the season. After a series of teasing tweets from the 35-year-old World Peace — such as "whatever you can do I Cantu better" — Cantu confirmed the news, calling it "the coup of the century."   "When Daniele (sporting director Danie...

Navy Pier is adding a household Chicago pizza name to its growing list of new restaurants designed to boost traffic at the lakeside tourist hotspot. Giordano's Pizza is slated to move in to the 3,200-square-foot dining space on the north side of the pier's main entrance, the restaurant chain will announce today.   The highly visible spa...

WTI Magazine #58    2015 April, 17Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Hi everybody, first of all let us wish a Happy birthday to our city, the capital of our beloved country, Rome: the legend tells that on April 21st Rome will celebrate its 2768th birthday, being born in 753 BC! As you know, We the Italians has its headquarters in Rome,...

by Peter Fiorilla   The Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra, which has some of the deepest roots of any musical organization in New Jersey, is honoring its long and celebrated history in more ways than one at its next annual concert.    History is a point of pride for the orchestra, which will be playing in concert at the Bloomfield Mi...

An opening date has arrived for the long-in-the-making CiboDivino Marketplace and Caffe, at the Sylvan Thirty complex in Oak Cliff: Monday, May 4. Owned and operated by chef Daniele and Christina Puleo, CiboDivino is an Italian eatery, market and bar featuring prepared foods, pizza, wine and coffee.   A native of Sicily, Puleo is the former...

You can join the San Francisco Opera this season for the World Premiere of La Ciociara – "Two Women" in English – a story about the cruelty of war, loss of innocence and intense love of a mother for a daughter.   Nicola Luisotti, director of both the San Francisco Opera since September 2009 and music director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Na...

by Claudia Baroncelli   As one of the three Italian movies competing at the Cannes Film Festival 2015, The Tale of Tales by Italian Matteo Garrone (two-time winner of the Cannes Grand Prix for "Gomorra" in 2008 and "Reality" in 2011) is a "fantasy movie with horror elements" in the director's words, interpreted by Salma Hayek, John C. R...

10. To Have CourageBetween 1861 and 1985, 29,036,000 Italians emigrated to other countries. Poverty was the main reason for their leaving. They risked everything in emigrating to a new country. Usually moving across the ocean at a time when Ocean Travel was precarious at best only to find that they had much Prejudice and hardship to overcome when t...

di Ada Masoero   Milano. È stata presentata ieri a Milano, sotto l'affresco di Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Palazzo Clerici, la mostra curata da Emily Braun (con Megan Fontanella e Carol Stringari) che il Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum di New York dedica dal 9 ottobre al 6 gennaio prossimi ad Alberto Burri (1915-95), nel centenario della nasci...