Casa Italia to shine spotlight on Albert Belmonte
Casa Italia will honor Albert Belmonte as Man of the Year on Feb. 9 at Alta Villa Banquets in Addison. To purchase purchase event and raffle tickets, place an ad in the program book or become a sponsor, click here. The following profile was provided by the sponsoring organization. ALBERT BELMONTE If you listen to Al Belmonte, you’d think that Casa...
The 3 best Italian spots in York
Looking for a mouthwatering Italian meal near you? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian spots around York, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to fill the bill. 1. Brewvino Topping the list is Brewvino. Located at 251 N. George St., the bar and kitchen — which offers pizza, craft beer, wi...
Speakitaly: «Quanto amano l’italiano a New York»
Divisa tra due città, unita da due lingue: la vita di Raffaella Galliani, insegnante di italiano dal 2012 a New York e fondatrice di Speakitaly, è sempre stata così. Un po’ milanese, «perché Milano è una città che mi dà sicurezza e stimoli». Un po’ newyorkese, «un amore che coltivo dalla prima volta nel 1999». E che l’ha portata ad aprire una scuol...
Fabiola Gianotti wins 2018 Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced today that it has awarded the 2018 John Torrence Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics to Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti. Named after the celebrated American physicist John Torrence Tate, the Tate medal was established in 1959 and is awarded every two years to non-U.S. citizens for...
The Divine Comedy: A Poem that Makes Students and Prisoners Recite Together
What do a dozen inmates at the MacDougall-Walker maximum-security prison in Connecticut; a dozen Yale theology students; 140 children from Kibera, a neighborhood on Nairobi’s periphery and the largest slum in Africa; and 1,000 residents of Ravenna; all have in common? The fact that they all were able to accomplish a feat bordering on the impossible...
Publico Owners Will Open a European Food Hall-Inspired Restaurant Near Faneuil Hall
The Trio Restaurant Group — which operates Publico Street Bistro & Garden, was the opening team behind Backyard Betty’s, and collaborated on Casa Caña — is expanding downtown. The group will open Bar Mercato inside the Hyatt Centric (68 Devonshire St., Boston), near Faneuil Hall, drawing inspiration from European food halls. This means that the men...
From legal briefs to linguine: Veteran defense attorney Fred Gagliardini to retire in Italian countryside
Veteran defense attorney Fred Gagliardini is trading in the stress of witness questioning and closing arguments for leisurely afternoons sipping cappuccino in the Italian countryside. Gagliardini, 60, completes his move next month to Colledimezzo, a village in central Italy in the mountainous region of Abruzzo. How does Colledimezzo compare to Bake...
Review: Cantata Profana Captures the Death of a Saint
Imagine a Renaissance-era nun, a mystic in the throes of dying, uttering her visions and predictions in sporadic, rapid-fire bursts while novices stand guard trying to understand and write down her words. This is believed to be what happened to Saint Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, who died in Florence in 1607. The Italian modernist composer Salvatore S...
Ralph Papitto, philanthropist, entrepreneur, dies at 92
Ralph R. Papitto — philanthropist, corporate executive and former chairman of the board of trustees of Roger Williams University — died Friday at the age of 92, according to a spokesman for his family's foundation. Papitto was the founder of Nortek, Glass-Tile Industries, AFC Cable Systems and the Read to Succeed Program for South Providence studen...
Mascognaz, snow and starry skies
Mascognaz is one of the Ayas Valley’s 35 towns at 1,800 meters of altitude. It is also a wonderful albergo diffuso (a virtual hotel solution with accommodations spread in an area, instead of concentrated in a single building) that belongs to “that ancient world” of the “eternal winter that dominated summer pastures”, so beautifully described by nov...
Ligori's known for chef's salads, meatball sandwiches, and of course — the pizza
How about the Italian chef’s salad, or the meatball sandwich? “And, of course, the pizza,” Ted Ligori added, listing some of his restaurant’s headline menu items. Ligori, 73, said he has been making pizzas for 57 years. That included 28 years at Tony’s Pizza in South Ogden. He then opened Ligori’s Pizza and Pasta in Ogden in 1991. Ligori’s current...
L’officina delle meraviglie Alfa Romeo a San Francisco
Vi abbiamo raccontato la Silicon Valley dell’auto del futuro. Quella che si guiderà da sola, quella che ti assiste alla guida e ovviamente quella elettrica, di oggi e di domani. Ma esiste anche un’altra faccia di questa regione della California che abbiamo scoperto, a sorpresa, durante la realizzazione del nostro reportage. Ed è un lato incredibilm...