The Underrated Tuscan Wines You Should Be Sipping, According To An Oenologist
Tuscan wine is often revered as among Italy's finest, with bottles like Brunello di Montalcino and Super Tuscans garnering endless praise and hefty price tags. U.S. consumers are top fans, buying volumes equivalent to around 35% of the region's international exports in 2022 (via Wine News). Red wines represent the majority, accounting for about 85%...
This Casual Pastaria In Denver's RiNo Neighborhood Is Serving Some Of The Freshest Pasta In Colorado
There are so many great restaurants in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood – I’m certainly making an effort to try them all. I love dining in this fun and happening part of town and so far, I’ve been impressed with almost every single place I’ve tried. One spot that’s especially worthwhile in this part of town is Dio Mio Handmade Pasta on Larimer. This coun...
1 euro houses in Italy 2024
Can you still buy a house in Italy for 1 euro in Italy in 2024? The answer is a definite yes, with 1 euro houses in Italy still stealing the headlines this year. As Italy's abandoned villages continue in their quest to repopulate, new schemes are also emerging. And after the success of 1 euro homes for sale listings in 2023, in 2024, many more Ital...
music > How I Met Puccini
The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington presents musicians Valentina Ciardelli and Stefano Teani in “How I Met Puccini”, a project with which we celebrate Puccini’s music and poetics a century after his departure. “How I Met Puccini” pays tribute to Giacomo Puccini, renowned as the second most frequently performed Italian composer globally. Pu...
A street food tour of Genoa
Genoa-born chef Ivano Ricchebono looks like a Hollywood actor playing a chef in a movie. His restaurant The Cook is in a 14th-century palazzo in the old town, and as I step into the dining room I stop and stare – the entire place is covered with frescoes. It’s wildly romantic. “People get engaged here all the time,” Ivano says with a smile. Awarded...
Navy Yard’s Osteria Morini comes to DC’s Mount Vernon Square with new concept
Altamarea Group, the restaurant operator behind Osteria Morini in Navy Yard, is opening Cucina Morini at 910 4th Street, Northwest in D.C.’s Mount Vernon Square neighborhood. Osteria Morini, one of the first restaurants to stake a claim to Navy Yard more than 10 years ago, focuses on Northern Italian cuisine. Cucina Morini will focus more on South...
Sicilian wine once again in the international spotlight, thanks to Planeta
Italy’s top wine brands continue to rack up international awards. And, in the headlines, Sicily rises once again, with one of its leading realities, Planeta, elected “Wine family of the year” of the “Meininger Awards Excellence in Wine & Spirit” No. 18, one of the most prestigious awards in German wine, staged in Dusseldorf, during the days of ProW...
Italian Body, American Heart: Next Alfa Romeo Guilia Based On New Dodge Charger Platform
As first reported by Motor1 Italy, Alfa Romeo CEO Jean Philippe Imparato remarked at a press event at the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese (most likely the March 10th ALFA WOMEN conference) on the future of the Giulia sports sedan, "What we designed is a bomb, we couldn't finalize the style of this car without being absolutely in love with it. And now we...
MSU Opera brings Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' to the stage
Almost every opera lover agrees, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” is among the finest. Opera librettist E.T.A. Hoffmann called it “the opera of all operas”. Michigan State University Opera Theater will be presenting the work in four shows; Melanie Helton, director of the Opera Theater and a professor of voice, will stage-direct it. The opera will be sung i...
Genoa, an exhibition on Italian migrants in the U.S. at Galata Museo del Mare
The Galata Museo del Mare in Genoa presents from March 14 to April 14, 2024, Giovanni Cerri's exhibition "L'Italia che partiva. Via mare verso l'America," bringing attention back to one of the most pregnant social and cultural phenomena of Italian history, which saw between 1876 and 1925 more than six million Italians leave their country to reach t...
Fondazione Arezzo Wave Italia is bringing the energy of Italian music to Los Angeles
Fondazione Arezzo Wave Italia is bringing the energy of Italian music to Los Angeles with "Arezzowave in Los Angeles," during the prestigious Musexpo in Burbank on the 17th and 18th of March. This unique event aims to promote and enhance Italian music in America and around the world, just like the Italian Music Office, a department of FAWI dedicate...
Italians in America - Our Immigrant Stories: Remembering Mother Cabrini, the bold saint who built an empire of love and hope
Our immigrant stories would not be complete without the story of our patron saint of immigrants, Francesca Xavier (Saverio) Cabrini, whose remarkable life and times inspired the major motion picture “Cabrini,” which opened nationwide on March 8. Born in Lombardia two months before she was due on July 15, 1850, Maria Francesca Cabrini was the younge...