The Italian Way (2015, 86’) by Luigi Maria Perotti
When: Monday, November 20, 2017 At 6:00 pm - Where: West Charleston Campus of College of Southern Neva - Organized by : Casa Italiana di Las Vegas - In collaboration with : Club Italiano at CSN & IIC Los Angeles The documentary narrates the stories of a few young Italian men and women who, after overcoming the tribulations of life away from their h...
Adventure in Matera: A Most Unusual City
Matera is a haunting city nestled among the rolling hills of Basilicata in southern Italy. Four hundred metres above sea level, it is bisected by a ravine through which the River Gravina flows. On the cliffs along this deep gorge are cave dwellings in which families lived in poverty from Palaeolithic times until the 1950s when they were rehoused by...
Il Lazzarone offers authentic Neapolitan pizza
For authentic, Italian pizza, look no farther than Fredrick Avenue. Il Lazzarone opened in St. Joseph in 2014. Since then, the restaurant, located at 1628 Fredrick Ave., has become a destination for Neapolitan pizza. Josh Young recently bought both Il Lazzarone St. Joseph and its second location in Kansas City. Young has been with the restaurant si...
Fabrizio Renzi: multiculturalismo e tecnologia migliorano le nostre vite
Fabrizio Renzi da oltre venticinque anni viaggia e lavora fra gli Stati Uniti e l’Italia. È entrato in IBM nel 1990, facendo ricerca come ingegnere biomedico ed elettronico fra l’Italia e i laboratori di ricerca di Austin, Texas e Yorktown, New York. Oggi è il direttore tecnologia e innovazione di IBM Italia. Ma da allora non ha mai perso l’abitudi...
The right side of the road
This article is a preview of a video documentary. View it online at www.hmbreview.com/immigrant-project. Growing up, Bruno Giusti didn’t really think of himself as “American,” “Italian,” or “Italian-American.” However, he’s always identified strongly as a Coastsider. Giusti has deep roots here. His family farmed the land as early as the 1930s, a...
Italy plies visitors with wine in bid to boost tourism
Eating lunch in Italy's Bolgheri wine country, it is not hard to understand why the number of international visitors to this bucolic corner of Tuscany has doubled in five years. "People have always come in the summer for the beaches," says Riccardo Binda, cutting into a succulently tender slice of Florentine steak, grilled over embers. "Now we're g...
Luxottica eyewear giant trimming 208 jobs at Hickory Hill facility Dec. 31
Luxottica Retail North America has advised Tennessee officials it will permanently lay off 208 employees at a Hickory Hill facility Dec. 31. The Department of Labor and Workforce Development alerted Memphis-area officials Thursday that Luxottica filed a notice that a layoff would occur at 5780 E. Shelby Drive. Luxottica designs, makes and distribut...
Nutley-Belleville celebrates Italian Heritage
October is Italian Heritage Month and Nutley and Belleville celebrated with the 35th annual Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade along Franklin Avenue on Sunday, Oct. 8. This year’s dignitaries reflected on their heritage, why they celebrate Christopher Columbus and showed gratitude for their honors. Nutleyite Henry Meola is the lighting designer...
New Version of ‘Sing & Cook with Andy LoRusso The Singing Chef’
It’s been 25 years since Andy “The Singing Chef” LoRusso — a onetime R&B singer who moved to Santa Barbara in 1977 — first published Sing & Cook Italian, thereby launching a full-fledged career as a chef/performer who’s since sang and sizzled at food events around the world. This edition dusts off and updates some of those original recipes — such a...
A Washington si premiano i giovani ricercatori italiani top negli Usa: tre giovani scienziate del Nordest in gara
Non chiamateli cervelli in fuga: sono intelligenze integrate nelle comunità scientifiche del Nord America, grazie al loro talento e alle competenze acquisite in Italia. E un giorno, c’è chi sogna di rientrare e applicare proprio in Italia l’esperienza fatta. Sono quattromila i ricercatori e docenti affiliati alla fondazione ISSNAF (Italian Scientis...
Team Italy's Anthony Rizzo wins 2017 Roberto Clemente Award
Chicago Cubs‘ All-Star Italian American first baseman Anthony Rizzo was presented the 2017 Roberto Clemente Award at Minute Maid Park prior to the start of game three of World Series between the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers on October 27, 2017. The Roberto Clemente Award, Major League Baseball’s prestigious award that recognizes sportsman...
Osteria returning to downtown Milwaukee in early 2018
Osteria, the Italian restaurant concept from local restaurateur Marc Bianchini, will soon make its return to Milwaukee and could make its debut as early as March of 2018. After a roughly six-year hiatus, the dining spot revealed this past March that it would reopen in the first-floor space at the 330 Kilbourn building in downtown Milwaukee. Now Bia...