Join us this Tuesday at Caputo's Deli to celebrate the traditional Italian festival of Carnevale! Feel free to come dressed up with a mask or just as yourself. We will have light refreshments, games, and more. Be sure to come slightly early, if possible, as our time is limited and we want to have as much fun as possible with the time we have. There...

Ilaria Cinelli, 31 years old, is the head of an international mission in the Utah desert. This is a perfect environment resembling to the one of the “red planet” Mars, where the experts are getting ready to go. Originally from Florence, Ilaria now lives in Ireland where she is studying for a PhD at the university of Galway. As reported by the Itali...

È appena partita la campagna di raccolta fondi per “Your Italian Homecoming Experience – Il passato prende vita” – il nuovo progetto del Museo del Cognome creato in collaborazione con Bella Italia Genealogy, due piccole e uniche realtà della Campania, da anni impegnate nel campo della genealogia, che hanno unito le forze e partiranno il prossimo fe...

By Catherine Reese Utah Opera is welcoming music lovers back to Salt Lake City's newly renovated Capitol Theatre in grand style with an excellent production of Giuseppe Verdi's beloved "La Traviata."   Though it features a pair of festive and sparkling party scenes — staged smartly by director José María Condemi and sung with flair by the U...

by Mauro Battocchi   Enel Green Power, a portfolio company of Italian-based Enel, has completed and activated a geothermal plant at Cove Fort, its first plant in the state of Utah. Cove Fort is a medium-enthalpy geothermal plant with innovative binary cycle technology. With an installed capacity of 25 MW, the plant will be capable of generat...

The Granatos of Salt Lake City are bridge builders. Not the bridges that cross rivers, but the bridges that bring people of various religions, races and cultures together.   During the first century of Utah's existence its population was both culturally and religiously homogenous. It owed its founding and development to Mormon settlers of pr...

Robert De Niro may best be known as an Oscar-winning actor, but in a new documentary he takes on the role of a devoted son as he spotlights his own artist father, Robert Sr, for his influential but not well-known works in the New York City abstract expressionist art movement. De Niro, 70, who won Oscars for his lead role in "Raging Bull" and his s...

Watching the Gallo family converse in their native tongue is like watching a stage show, but you quickly realize language is a very important connection from one generation to the other.   "My dad always told me the more languages you know the more friends you will have. He was right," said Maryda Nicole Gallo, who speaks three languages. &...

Marco's Pizza is expanding to Utah and has several locations available for entrepreneurs to start building their franchise restaurants and customer base, according to a company press release. "Our franchisees come from a remarkably wide variety of backgrounds. But there's a common thread among our franchisees — passion for the Marco's product....

What traveler hasn't daydreamed of selling one's possessions and returning to live in the foreign country where one feels alive and full of joy? But how many people actually do it?   Salt Lake City native Lisa Condie did and is creating a new life in Florence, Italy, where she and another Salt Lake City native are building a tour compan...