People love pasta. And brothers Ryan and Danny Nicoletto quickly garnered a following for their small batch fresh and dried pastas, made with organic ingredients, heritage wheats and time-honored practices. Success — consistently selling out at farmers markets citywide — gave them the impetus to go from mobile to bricks-and-mortar.   In Nove...

by Aaron Smith   Beretta USA says Maryland's tough new gun laws are the reason it's moving its factory to gun-friendly Tennessee. The American subsidiary of the 500-year-old Italian company has had a factory in Accokeek, Maryland since the 1970s.   The company has manufactured the M9, the U.S. Army's standard-issue sidearm, since...

A Nashville museum's groundbreaking exhibit of Italian art created between 1250 and 1550 explores the significant role of the Dominicans and Franciscans in the revival of the arts that began in Italy in the 13th century. "Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy" opened Oct. 31 at the Frist Center...

Knoxville will kick off the 14th annual Rossini Festival Italian Street Fair on April 25. The event, packed with singing, dancing, eating and shopping, draws in thousands people annually to the Gay Street area of downtown Knoxville. There will be more than 100 vendors on hand across about 16 city blocks.   This day long event start...

Opening May 27, 2016, at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Bellissima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945–1975 marks an unprecedented gathering of rare and stunning Italian-designed automobiles and motorcycles in a museum setting.   The exhibition celebrates the streamlined elegance, novel and powerful engineering, and sedu...

Milano I n Tennessee la lingua ufficiale degli affari, per chi si occupa di ceramiche e rivestimenti, è l'emiliano-romagnolo. Si capisce che non potrebbe essere altrimenti: su 1.300 occupati nel nascente settore delle piastrelle nel south east d'America, 800 lavorano negli impianti di aziende made in Italy.   E siamo solo agli inizi dell'emi...

KIIAN USA, Inc. officially opened for business on 27th September 2013 at a formal event to mark the launch of the digital textile and signage ink production and expansion of the Kiian digital business in the Americas. This exciting development was part of a strategic programme to internationally expand KIIAN's ink business.   The establishme...

The American-Italian Cancer Foundation presented its 2015 Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine to Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, director of the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies and the breast cancer program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The prize, established in 1984, recognizes groundbreaking discoveries in cancer biology, prevention, di...

Un nuovo stabilimento Magneti Marelli Automotive Lighting per la produzione di fari e luci posteriori è stato inaugurato domenica 16 giugno scorso a Pulaski, Tennessee. Si tratta del primo impianto di produzione di luci negli Stati Uniti, che contribuirà a rafforzare ulteriormente la già consolidata presenza di Magneti Marelli nell'area NAFTA, che...

by Hannah Sayle   Here, in a cozy, well-appointed house in the heart of old Cordova, Cafe Fontana's chef/owner Thomas Schranz filters his earliest cooking memories through the lens of familiar Italian classics for an unforgettable dining experience.   "Twice a year my father traveled to Europe on business," says Schranz. "When he came...