Good thing Birmingham chef Benard Tamburello knows a little something about multitasking.   All this week, while running his Bernie's On Main restaurant in Columbiana and training a new staff for the mid-May opening of his Vecchia Pizzeria & Mercato in The Preserve in Hoover, Tamburello is also preparing to serve about 3,000 guests at Sa...

By Amy Kellogg   Did you ever wonder, why NAPLES, Florida? Or MILAN, Ohio? One Italian journalist turned this puzzle into an enlightening voyage across the United States, from Venice, Calif., to Verona, N.J., and six other towns or cities in-between. Alberto Giuffre, who works for Fox's sister network Sky Italia in Milan, talks abo...

By Molly Davidson   Craving homemade Italian comfort food? Look no further than Delicio's Pizza and Pasta on U.S. 280. The husband-and-wife run restaurant, with owner Irina Boca and head chef Peter Pappas, offers a vast menu of made-from-scratch classics.   As the restaurant's name indicates, Delicio's serves pizza—but it's not just a...

Prosegue senza sosta la missione americana di Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo: il nuotatore azzurro, 20 anni ancora da compiere, è uno dei protagonisti del SEC (Swimming & Diving Championship) in corso a Auburn. Il colpo grosso è arrivato la scorsa notte con il successo nelle 500 yards stile libero, con il primato personale migliorato di due secondi (...

by Jay Grossman   Zack Sklar recently brought upscale French cuisine to downtown Birmingham with the opening of Au Cochon at the Palladium Building in September. Now, he's preparing to open an Italian eatery at the Palladium called Arthur Avenue. The new restaurant opens to the public for dinner on Tuesday.   "Arthur Avenue in th...

Central Alabama Community College and 2a s.p.a., an Italian foundry and zipper manufacturer, announced Wednesday an agreement to create the Center for Precision Machining at CACC in response to both 2a s.p.a. and area industries which have identified the need for a machining workforce.   "Community colleges are the perfect partner for my com...

by Kelly Poe   Downtown Birmingham is getting a new Italian option for lunch. Eric Chester is in the final stages of opening Ruscelli's in the food court of the Regions building. It'll offer classic Italian food, including pizza, pasta, paninis, gelato and salad.   "It's a small-time, small start, but I'm trying to do everything...

If you were an early 20th century Italian immigrant living in Birmingham, chances are you came from Sicily. More specifically, you probably came from Bisacquino, a small Sicilian village near Palermo. Leaving family behind in Bisacquino was surely a gut wrenching decision, motivated by a desire to escape poverty and facilitated by agents canvassing...

An Italian software and IT services company now has a controlling share of a Birmingham company that provides credit union technology services.   Dedagroup NA is the North American subsidiary of Dedagroup ICT Network, located in Trento, Italy. The company supports IT and digital operations in grocery, fashion and financial institutions,...

By Michael Huebner Opera Birmingham is gearing up for an ambitious season, staging two productions, three operas, two concerts and a vocal competition that continues to gain national stature.   And if you have a liking for Italian opera (and what true opera fan doesn't?), you're in luck. Three out of three operas will be sung in that most m...