The Buzz: Parma to open Monday in Grand Chute
Parma is a new locally owned Italian farm-to-table restaurant that makes its debut Monday at 3775 W. College Ave. in Grand Chute. The building it took near U.S. 41 was originally built as an O'Charley's restaurant. Parma's owner, Marc Waltzer, purchased the building last fall. Between the real estate and renovation, he said it was a multim...
Alitalia brings in two-person cockpit rule
The new Alitalia measure is already in place and applies to all its flights, a spokesman for the airline told The Local on Friday.The decision to have two people in the cockpit at all times follows the announcement on Thursday that a co-pilot deliberately caused a plane crash in which all 150 people on board died. Andreas Lubitz was named...
Italians in the Delta: "Pioneers of Monroe"
The Italians in Monroe, Louisiana, are a small, tight-knit group of successful, family-oriented people who have established deep roots in the Delta while maintaining a connection to each other and to their home country, despite pressures to become mainstream Americans. Even though Italians were the largest immigrant population of turn of the 19th c...
Natuzzi Italia Store Opens in the Miami Design District
The fifth Natuzzi Italia store opened in South Florida in the Miami Design District on February 12, at 3818 N. Miami Ave. amid grand opening festivities. The new franchise joins stores in Aventura, Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton and Orlando with two other stores in the development phase in Pinecrest and Naples. "Natuzzi Italia is the most pres...
The Tiber, the Arno, and the Gran Canal: A Celebration of Italian Choral Music – May 2, 8 pm
CoroAllegro takes you on a journey through Italy as we celebrate the art of choral music, brought to us by the country's most esteemed composers. The centerpiece of the concert features the Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass) by Italian master Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and also includes works by Gioacchino Rossini, Claudio Monteverdi,...
Expo, contro danni clima o Xylella, arriva il software Italo-Usa per l'agrobiodiversità
Ricercatori italiani e statunitensi scendono in campo a Expo 2015 per salvare l'agrobiodiversità grazie ad uno strumento, nato per preservare la biodiversità nel settore agricolo. Si tratta di una tecnologia basata su un software che simula il funzionamento di un ecosistema e, per la prima volta, consente di intervenire scientificamente contro le c...
Italian traditions: The Race of the Candles in Gubbio
WTI Magazine #60 2015 May, 15Author : folclore.it Translation by: Every May 15 in Gubbio (Perugia, Umbria), keeps repeating the ritual of the "Corsa dei Ceri" (race of the candles), emotionally involving all citizens and the public of visitors in a show that is mystical and profane at the same time.The "Corsa dei Ceri" in Gubbio is o...
The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere presents "Growing Up With Italian Music"
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 @ 7:00 PM Growing Up With Italian Music. A Program with Film by John Orlando This presentation is a story of a time gone by; a time of remembering how we listened to Italian music at Nonna's house with our families on Sundays and how our fathers and mothers played it regularly at home. Music was as much a part...
Barbara Seelig Brown, l’italo-americana che insegna a mangiare healthy
di Liliana Rosano Ha abbandonato grigi tailleurs da alta finanza per il più simpatico toque blanche, il celebre cappello da chef. Computer e calcolatrici in cambio di coltelli e padelle. Dopo anni al lavoro come account in società finanziarie, Barbara Seelig Brown, americana di origine italiana, decide che dalla cucina inizierà la sua...
The Light in the Piazza brings Italian ardor to Merry-Go-Round
by Len Fonte Halfway through "The Light in the Piazza," the gorgeously realized musical now on the boards at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, a sophisticated Florentine woman reminds us that "Risk is everything. Without risk, there is no drama." She is talking about affairs of the heart, but she can also mean affairs of art. "The Lig...
Italian Book Club | Agostino by Alberto Moravia
Fri, July 17, | From 7:00 am - 9:00 am Dante Alighieri Society Book ClubFriday, July 17, 2015 7 pm 630 N Old Woodward – Time: 7-9 pmSuite 102 Birmingham, MI 48009 Agostino By Alberto MoraviaThirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan sea-side resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new...
Conversations with Lawrence Ferlinghetti Part II - The Man and His Lasting Legacy
by Catherine Accardi Part I of my Conversations with Lawrence Ferlinghetti appeared in the last, June 25th, 2015, issue of L'Italo Americano. Below we continue with the man and his lasting legacy. Mr. Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, N.Y. in 1919, son of Carlo Ferlinghetti, from the province of Brescia, and Clemence Albertine Mendes-Monsanto...