In Franciacorta arriva il fitness tra le vigne con il "personal wine trainer"
Dimenticate le palestre corredate di macchinari di ultima generazione, la nuova frontiera del fitness è tra i vigneti della Franciacorta. Ne sono convinti alla storica cantina Al Rocol di Ome, nel Bresciano, dov'è stata lanciata la ginnastica nelle vigne. Sotto la guida di un "personal wine trainer", chi vuole tenersi in forma svolge esercizi ispir...
Trouble & Sons Pizzeria to open this week in Whitefish Bay
Trouble & Sons Pizzeria, Whitefish Bay's newest pizza hotspot, is scheduled to open its doors to the public on Tuesday, Oct. 16. Located at 133 E. Silver Spring Dr. in the former home of Roman Candle Pizzeria, Trouble & Sons is the second restaurant from hospitality entrepreneurs Anne Marie Arroyo and Tamela Greene, who also own MOXIE Food + Drink....
Architecture of Ancient Rome: Atriums, Amphitheaters, and Arches
Wednesday October 24, 7:00 pm. Westchester Italian Cultural Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY. Admission: Members $20; Non-Members $25; open to the public. Contact: Lindsay Brewster 914-771-8700 [email protected] The ancient Romans were innovative architects and engineers who invented building methods still in use today. Roman monume...
Verona, Italy: Where To Visit, What To Eat And Drink
When it comes to romantic getaways or solo weekend trips, few cities deliver quite like Verona. The Italian city, famous as the setting for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," offers walkable streets, decadently rich gelato and impromptu dancing in the streets. Here's how to spend a weekend in Verona. Start with a short half-hour trip outside the cit...
Staten Island Nightlife: Riviera, a little piece of the Mediterranean right here in Dongan Hills
Riviera Mediterranean Cuisine is a Dongan Hills dining spot with unique fare. It's menu boasts of Greek, Italian and Albanian specialties at its finest. Frank Beqiri is the executive chef who sits at the helm at one of our borough’s best kept secrets. The warm and welcoming eatery, that opened its doors to diners in March of last year, features...
John T. LaBarbera Presents Charlie Chaplin's “The Immigrant” with New Original Score
Performer, composer, and author John T. LaBarbera performs his original score for Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck on October 28 at 4:00pm. LaBarbera’s score creates an emotional atmosphere through the melodic themes that are reminiscent of the Italian immigrant music published during the early 20th century. C...
Alfa Romeo in USA cresce del 29% a settembre 2018
Continua il buon momento di Alfa Romeo negli Stati Uniti. La casa automobilistica del Biscione ha visto aumentare le sue immatricolazioni anche nel mese di settembre che si è da poco concluso. A differenza di quanto avvenuto in Italia dove le immatricolazioni il mese scorso hanno subito un vero e proprio crollo, negli USA le cose per il Biscione co...
Food Selling In Modern Times: Two Different Models
We are what we eat. Also, what we eat reflects what we are, I would say. In recent times indeed, people became more conscious about the risks of an unhealthy diet and more aware of the threats posed by intensive industrial food production. Issues like that have arisen even in Italy, the cradle of the Mediterranean diet, traditionally devoted to hig...
Cirque du Soleil brings 'Corteo' back to Portland in 2019
Get ready for another trip on the flying trapeze. Cirque du Soleil is bringing one of its most-popular shows, the Italian-themed "Corteo," back to Portland in early 2019 for a four-day run at the Moda Center. The French-Canadian circus troupe first brought the production to Portland in 2008, when it had a six-week run in a big-top tent along the Wi...
Lady Gaga isn't done shape-shifting yet
Lady Gaga did not so much arrive at the Venice Film Festival this August as she floated into it, a platinum Aphrodite borne on the waves, black stilettos skimming the sea foam. Which is to say, she took a water taxi. An image of her zooming across the canal — perched precariously on the side of the lacquered motorboat in a little black dress, her l...
Meet Cesare Casella, the Tuscan Chef Who's Known as the "Prosciutto Whisperer"
You’ve probably never heard of him, but in the world of restaurants few chefs are more beloved than Cesare Casella, a bighearted Tuscan who strolls through life with a smile on his face and a sprig of rosemary in his pocket. “Cesare knows everyone. He knows everything about food, and he’s the most generous guy in the world,” says Patrick Martins, a...
Dante's last laugh: Why Italy's national poet isn't buried where you think he is
Dante Alighieri will forever be associated with Florence, city of his birth and the dialect he helped elevate such that it would one day become the basis of Italy's national language. Yet when Dante died nearly 700 years ago this week, Florence isn't where he ended up. The story of how Dante's remains came to be in Ravenna isn't that complicated. I...