Ferrari considering entering IndyCar due to F1's new budget cap for 2021
Binotto said Formula One's new budget cap of $145m for teams from 2021 would lead to staff being made redundant and the Italian carmaker was looking at options to ensure its employees retain their jobs, albeit in a different field. The budget cap had been set initially at $175m but some teams had wanted a limit closer to $100m to ensure the sport...
In Italy, Family-Run Shoe Factories Are Part of the Culture. What Happens If They Close?
A three-hour drive from Rome, through rolling hills and nestled between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic Sea, lies the region of Le Marche. With neither the Renaissance legend of Tuscany nor the dense forests of Umbria, Le Marche is quiet and rural, stretching nearly 4,000 square miles across Italy's sandy eastern coast. However unassuming L...
Eating in a rush … Italian style
Never like today the idea of having a quick lunch while walking down the main street of our town or village has been so alluring. Whatever we picture chomping on, it tastes like freedom, doesn’t it? Regardless to your country of origin, street food is a staple of traditional cuisine, a quick key to understand the secrets of a place’s tastes, the Cl...
Museums Delivered — The Story Behind Bartolomeo Schedoni’s Charity
Like many of you, we miss visiting our Dallas and Fort Wort Worth museums for inspiration, or just to lose ourselves in the canvases of Rothko or Rembrandt. Many institutions had opened exhibitions shortly before the order came for us to shelter-in-place. The world-renowned Kimbell Art Museum, for example, had unveiled “Flesh and Blood: Italian Mas...
Fontana dell’Acqua Paola: Roman Icon
The Fontana dell’Acqua Paola (Acqua Paola Fountain) is one of Rome’s most famous sites and has appeared in movies and songs. Also known as Fontanone del Gianicolo (“the big fountain on the Janiculum”), it rises at the top of that hill. It was commissioned by Pope Paul V, born Camillo Borghese, to celebrate the redevelopment of the Aqua Traiana aque...
Sam Toia of the Illinois Restaurant Association is a Chicago guy who gets Chicago things done. Is he pushing too hard on reopening?
Sam Toia, based on appearances alone, looks more Lex Luthor than Superman. The guy is bald, bald, bald, rarely the tallest one in the room, though also baldly persistent, and full of charisma, able to leap tall bureaucracies in a relatively short period of time. But not without stumbles, of course. Toia is president and CEO of the Illinois Restaura...
Kairos Italy Theater Announces The Finalists Of The First Round Of The KIT Intl Playwrights Series
On May 18, Kairos Italy Theater and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò held the online event KIT Intl playwrights series 2020 dedicated to Women in Comedy, a series of 10-minute comic plays from around the globe written by women celebrating Franca Valeri turning 100 this year. The call received 300 submissions by women playwrights from several countr...
Coronavirus: Italian winemakers want to convert unsold stock into hand sanitiser
Winemakers in Italy want to convert their unsold stock into hand sanitising gel, which is in high demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. They have excess wine in their tanks after the country's long lockdown left restaurants and bars closed. Now, with the new harvest season approaching, they are keen to free up space and help ease shortages of sanit...
Two trees get married every year in southern Italy—here’s why.
FOR THE FIRST time in 40 years, Vincenzo Labbate will not be playing the clarinet with his orchestra companions on Pentecost Sunday. As he walks through the streets of Accettura, his hometown, he notes how unusually quiet it is this year. “There’s a melancholic atmosphere these days. Normally, you could breathe excitement in the air,” Labbate says....
Export Food & Wine - Quali novità attendersi da FDA: il Webinar della Italy-Chamber of Commerce West
Nuovo appuntamento della serie di webinar “Business as usual” realizzati dalla Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West (IACCW). Si svolgerà il prossimo 27 maggio alle 18:00 (ora italiana) il webinar dal titolo “Export Food & Wine - Quali novità attendersi da FDA” per esplorare le novità della Food & Drug Administration relative all'export di prodott...
“What You Should Know About A.P. Giannini” By Museo Italo Americano, SF
On May 6 2020, the San Francisco City Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution “recognizing A. P. Giannini on the occasion of his 150th birthday for his substantial contributions to San Francisco history, Italian American culture, and declaring May 6 as A. P. Giannini Day in the City and County of San Francisco.” The Museo Italo Americano in San F...
Italy launches new north-south high speed train route
New direct high-speed services will soon start running from the northern city of Turin to the southern tip of the country, state railway company Trenitalia and its rival Italo have both announced. Italo announced on Wednesday that its high-speed trains would soon be providing a new direct link between Turin and Reggio Calabria in the south, startin...