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...
Alongside spaghetti Westerns, Italy was also making “spaghetti thrillers” in the ’60s
With more than 5.5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute or trying to find that 15-minute window when a pear is neither rock-hard nor complete mush. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,502,304-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Giallo What it’...
Venezia Honored at Essex County Italian Heritage Celebration
Bloomfield Mayor Michael Venezia was recognized at the annual Essex County Italian Heritage Celebration on Monday afternoon. "It's a real honor, especially since I admire my other two honorees" Venezia said in an interview with TAPinto Bloomfield. Venezia's fellow honorees were Eleanor Guarino, a community activist in Belleville, and Carmel Poetue...
Barilla to Receive HRC Corporate Equality Award
The Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ) Chicago Steering Committee today announced that Barilla will receive the HRC Corporate Equality Award at the HRC Chicago Gala on Saturday, November 18, 2017, at the Fairmont in Chicago. The award recognizes Barilla's exceptional growth and commitment to equality for the LGBTQ community. "Barilla has made huge stri...
NYC gallery launches first major US exhibition of Italian artist
Upper East Side art gallery Di Donna has launched the first major US exhibition of Italian artist Nuvolo — whose art was collected in the ’50s and ’60s by Peggy Guggenheim, but later fell into obscurity outside of Italy. The new show as curated by Germano Celant hangs Nuvolo paintings alongside works by his peers and influences including Cy Twombly...
Tony Cortese, Amerigo’s owner for 6 decades, passes away
An iconic Throggs Neck businessperson has passed away. Antonio ‘Tony’ Cortese, described by family as “a force of life in any and all his endeavors,” was the owner of the popular Amerigo’s Italian Restaurant at the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Sullivan Place, from 1980 to 1998. Cortese passed away from natural causes at the age of 89 on Friday...
'Feast' to celebrate 15 years of Italian traditions
As the Feast of Little Italy gets ready to celebrate its 15 years in Palm Beach County, organizers look to celebrate it with food, music, art, traditions and Sal “The Voice” Valentinetti. Keeping their focus on family, culture and community is foremost. This festival, to be held in Abacoa from Nov. 3 -5, has become an annual tradition for generatio...