Italian restaurant preparing to enter Columbus Park Crossing
The Columbus Park Crossing area of the city is landing another restaurant and it will be Fazoli’s, an Italian fast-casual concept that is locating at 6589 Whittlesey Blvd., across from the Academy Sports and Outdoors store now under construction. “We are hoping to open sometime in the last two weeks in May. We are just starting the hiring phase and...
Library silence broken by Italian Saxophone Quartet
The Gila Valley Arts Council’s February performers, the Italian Saxophone Quartet, offered an hour-long free concert for the public at the Safford City-Graham County Public Library on Wednesday. “We decided last year, in Friends of the Library, why don’t we do some cultural literacy at the library?” said Paulette Leblanc, who serves on both the Gil...
Casina Vanvitelliana
Completed in 1782, the hunting lodge is composed of three intersecting octagons and almost looks like a pagoda. It was built on a preexisting islet that formerly housed an old building used as a storage room for fishing equipment. The Casina, or “cottage” is connected to the mainland by a wooden pier. A small garden stands across the bridge with va...
A Brooklyn arriva il sapore della Puglia…in un morso!
Dal tacco d’ Italia a Brooklyn per esportare una mezzaluna ricca di sapori della tradizione culinaria di casa. Questa è la missione di una coppia di giovani imprenditori, Vittoria Lattanzio e Pasquale De Ruvo, che dalla Puglia hanno costruito il loro sogno esattamente al 235 Smith St., aprendo Panzerotti bites dove hanno ricreato le atmosfere accog...
Italiani e italoamericani insieme per la formazione: Learn Italy USA lancia la sua sfida
Valorizzare i giovani talenti italiani. È questo, da sempre, l’obiettivo di Learn Italy USA, Agenzia Culturale Internazionale situata nel cuore di Manhattan, a New York e che ormai da anni rappresenta un punto di riferimento importante per la diffusione della cultura italiana nel mondo. Dal 2010, anno della sua fondazione, Learn Italy organizza, in...
Pessina: «Interessati a investire in mille-duemila farmacie in Italia»
L'operazione di Amazon, Buffett e J.P. Morgan, annunciata la settimana scorsa per coprire le spese sanitarie del loro milione cumulativo di dipendenti in America ha movimentato sia il mercato che il settore sanitario anche in Italia. Da oggi parte la risposta anche sul fronte della distribuzione farmaceutica: Stefano Pessina, Ceo di Walgreens Boots...
Casual Italian dining makes Sazio popular spot
MENUThe offerings are simple — appetizers, pizzas, salads, soups, pastas and sandwiches and wraps — each category boasting traditional favorites and items unique to the house. There are also homemade desserts, like cannolis. ATMOSPHEREThe half-indoor half-outdoor dining space reminds me of a small, cozy home’s front patio or porch, with floor-to-ce...
25 years ago this week, an ailing Jim Valvano returned to NC State’s Reynolds Coliseum
Every seat in Reynolds Coliseum was filled an hour before game time. The attraction was more than the advertised 10th anniversary celebration of the 1983 NCAA championship, more than the contest that followed against Duke. Fans and professional onlookers came to see the color analyst for the ABC telecast, the restless architect of that ’83 title, t...
Remember When Italian-Americans Were ‘Enemy Aliens?’
Clara and Guido Bronzini came to the United States from a town near Pisa, Italy, in the late 1920s, after World War I devastated Italy. There were no crops, no jobs, no future. And the Fascists were gaining power. Al Bronzini remembers his mother telling him that Fascists came to her house when she was a teenager. “My grandfather, her father, he re...
Sangalli’s owner revives family’s restaurant in Pekin
When Dave Sangalli of Pekin decided to open Sangalli’s Italian Steakhouse at 2217 Court St. in Pekin, his choice of a location was not driven by opportunity or even by its situation on one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares. A major factor in his choice of a site to open a new restaurant was a chance to renew a family legacy. “This location was my...
Commercio estero: export in crescita del 7.4% nel 2017
I dati relativi al Commercio Estero nel mese di dicembre 2017 diffusi dall’ISTAT fotografano una moderata crescita congiunturale dell’export (+0.6%) e una più significativa dell’import (+3.3%) con un avanzo commerciale di 5,3 miliardi di euro (+5,7 miliardi a dicembre 2016). L’export italiano registra una performance positiva in ragione della cresc...
Compositions of Italian immigrant to be debuted by RIT Concert Band
In what could be called Mr. Porcelli’s Opus, compositions of an Italian immigrant who lived in the Rochester area will be performed for the first time at Rochester Institute of Technology. The RIT Concert Band, conducted by Dean Davis, will present “From Italy to America, The Italian Diaspora,” at 7 p.m. on March 1 at Ingle Auditorium on the RIT ca...