New and classic flavors from Boston Market
Boston Market has unveiled its new Sweet & Spicy Apple rotisserie chicken flavor. The new flavor contains slow-braised smoky apples, apple cider vinegar, sweet brown sugar, onions and a hint of roasted jalapenos. In addition, Boston Market brings back fan favorite Parmesan Tuscan rotisserie chicken with Italian herbs, spices and a garlic Parmesan s...
BWW Review: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI at Sarasota Opera House
The opera, L'italiana in Algeri, (The Italian Girl in Algiers), by Gioachino Rossini, (The Barber of Seville, William Tell, Ivanhoé), bears an avant-garde theme contemporary to the struggle women are still facing today - some sense of equality. The opera buffa, (comic opera), written in 1813, when Rossini was 21 years old, was reportedly completed...
An Italian shoemaker has made the world's first 24-carat gold shoes
Filthy rich and already boast enough glass slippers to win a dozen princes? Italian shoemaker Antonio Vietri has the thing for you: 24-carat gold shoes. Vietri, from Turin in northern Italy, hopes to attract shoppers from wealthy Gulf countries with his blue or black suede moccasins with stitched gold-plated uppers.| "These are the first shoes in t...
Suave Italian Designer Stars with Houston’s Best Dressed: Soccer in Cashmere Never Looked So Good
veryday luxury,” the term once considered an oxymoron, has gained international acceptance thanks to the transformative talents of Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli. After all, the man who admits to playing soccer in a cashmere sweater knows his rough sweats from silk parachute pants. His concept was never more apparent than on the catwalk at the...
Researchers reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state by using 3D technology
By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of years ago. Unique video material has now been produced, showing their creation of a 3D model of an entire block of houses. A...
There’s a reason there are no Italian food versions of Chipotle
It’s a space that’s been conquered by salad bars, burrito chains, bakeries, and burger joints. And yet pasta remains a white whale in the ocean of fast-casual dining. The absence of a large fast-casual Italian food chain is more an issue of complication than choice. To be sure, the fast-casual segment of restaurants remains popular among consumers....
Minnesota's JavaCycle turns coffee-bean waste into sweet-smelling fertilizer
If you are a java junkie, you may be unwittingly contributing to landfill waste. But a Faribault coffee roaster thinks he has found a sustainable answer to the conundrum. The parent company of Hills Bros. Coffee and Chock Full O’Nuts has partnered with the tiny Minnesota-based operation to convert millions of pounds of roasted coffee-bean waste int...
Cahoon Museum of American Art Presents Paul Moro Retrospective Curated by Dr. Valerie Ann Leeds
The Cahoon Museum of American Art, in Cotuit, Mass., presents a significant and large-scale exhibit, Paul Moro: A Painter's Journey as its opening exhibition of the 2017 season. This landmark exhibition is a retrospective of artist Paul Moro (1886-1953), whose oil paintings showcase a masterful vision of Cape Cod in the early twentieth century. Cap...
Hundreds head to Canarsie to try Frank Seddio’s cooking
Hon. Frank Seddio, the Democratic Party boss in Kings County and current president of the Brooklyn Bar Association, is a man of many talents, but perhaps his most distinguished ability is his flair for cooking. Every year, hundreds of members of Brooklyn’s legal and political communities head to Seddio’s office in Canarsie, like they did last Frida...
Convivio Communitas Award for Leadership 2017
When: May 23, 2017 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Where: Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Room CD. For tickets, please follow the link. We look forward to seeing you! Join us as we honor Stephen Ferruolo, Dean of the USD School of Law, and we present him with the 2017 Convivio Communitas Award for Leadership. The awards luncheon will be held o...
The great names of Italian supercars, Ferrari included, join forces with universities for a new kind of degree
An unprecedented alliance has created a new sort of school, the Motor Vehicle University of Emilia-Romagna (Muner). On one side, the automotive giants spread along Via Emilia, famous around the world such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Ducati, Maserati, Dallara, Toro Rosso, Haas and Magneti Marelli. On the other, universities of the region—Bologna, Moden...
Wilmington Selectmen laud Sons of Italy
In addition to approving the appointment of 70 election workers for the upcoming town election, the board granted three hawker and peddlers licenses. Wilmington Taxi received a Taxi Cab license and Timothy Flynn a Taxi Operator's license. The board also approved the Police Department's request to hold their fourth National Night Out Aug. 1. The eve...