Hackensack Couple, Regional Chamber, Award Italian Nonprofit With $3,000
The Hackensack Regional Chamber of Commerce recently presented a local Italian-American nonprofit with a $3,000 check to be used for charity, according to a statement on Upper Saddle River Town Square , a community website. The donation, presented June 14 on behalf of Dr. Richard and Linda Santucci and the Chamber of Commerce, will benefit...
Studying (in) Italy: How to Study Abroad Inexpensively
WTI Magazine #81 2016 July 15Author : John Cabot University Translation by: Studying abroad doesn't need to break the bank. If you're interested in studying abroad but are worried about finances, here are our top tips to save money during your semester or summer session abroad. Apply for study abroad scholarships. John Cabot Universi...
Pasquale Jones Brings a Little Novelty to Little Italy
As a New Yorker who wants each neighborhood to be different, each block to be like a pocket with a secret tucked inside it, I have strongly mixed feelings about gentrification. As a critic confronted with shiny new restaurants in changing neighborhoods, though, I have to admit that I often end up liking the shiny new places more than what came befo...
Sempre più turisti italiani a Miami
di Roberto Zanni Gli italiani, lo abbiamo raccontato nei giorni scorsi, continuano ad arrivare più numerosi negli Stati Uniti e questo trend non si ferma, anzi è colto al volo si potrebbe dire, dalle compagnie aeree. Con una destinazione che sta crescendo sempre più. Si sa ormai da tempo che Miami è la più amata dagli italiani in America, più di N...
Elisa Costantini Shares Family's Italian Recipes
In 1961, at age 23, Elisa Costantini left her native Abruzzo in Italy for Philadelphia, bringing with her a slew of family recipes representative of traditional Italian cuisine. Over 50 years later, after raising three children with her late husband, Francesco, Costantini has compiled her signature dishes in her new self-published cookbook, Italian...
Vegetable Love, Italian Style
By Julia della Croce It's no surprise that vegetables are the bedrock of the Italian diet. For one thing, the climate is temperate and the growing seasons are blessedly long. For another, there is a relationship between the Italians and their vegetables that can only be described as sacred. This is in no small part because until relativel...
Il Posto Will Soon Move From 17th Avenue to RiNo
Chef/restaurateur Andrea Frizzi's hands are full these days: While running his charming Italian eatery, Il Posto, on East 17th Avenue in Uptown, he's also getting ready to launch Vero inside the Denver Central Market, which will open before the end of September. Vero will offer pizza from an imported wood-fired oven, fresh pasta and a sele...
Two South Florida pizzerias make national list
Pizza offerings in South Florida are as deep and delectable as they have ever been, but the region — and state — came up thin in a recent ranking of the nation's best pies. Only two pizza restaurants that began in Florida made the annual 101 Best Pizzas in America list compiled by the Daily Meal website: Scuola Vecchia Pizza e Vino in Delray Beach...
The world's most beautiful Baroque, in Ariccia's Chigi Palace
Ariccia, thirty kilometers from Rome, has a beautiful Baroque heart. A heart that started beating 350 years ago thanks to the creativity of the most important artist in 17th-century Rome. That heart is of course Chigi Palace, and the artist behind it was Neapolitan sculptor, painter and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Bernini d...
Ucima Goes to Chicago to Promote Italian Technological Excellence
The Italian Evening@Pack Expo, to be held on 7 November, will host the presentation of an exclusive study conducted by Euromonitor on the opportunities offered by the US market Pack Expo International, a leading international event in the field of processing and packaging to be held in Chicago from 6 to 9 November is the next promotional s...
S.F. festival showcases finest in Italian cinema
By David Lewis There are few places in North America that rival San Francisco when it comes to sampling Italian movies, thanks largely to the New Italian Cinema film festival, which for 20 years has been a marquee cultural symbol of the historical ties between Italy and the Bay Area. This year's marathon of Italian cinema, being held Wedn...
Italy’s Nominee for Best Foreign Picture is a Vivid Documentary about the Refugee Crisis – Screening on Dec 8th @ NW Film Forum
Beginning on December 8th at 7:30pm, "Fire at Sea", the newest film from acclaimed Italian director, Gianfranco Rosi, and winner of the 2016 Berlinale Golden Bear will be making its Seattle premiere. The film centers on Samuele, a young boy who lives on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, which is the closest European landmass to Libya and Tunis...