Festa di Ferragosto Returns!
Join us on August 14th at Gino's Market in Hollywood for the second annual Festa di Ferragosto, a party to celebrate the Italian summer holiday (that actually takes place in Italy on August 15th). This is one of the funnest events we participate in and we look forward to seeing you! Buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/festa-di-ferragost...
Lamborghini takes Alabama kit-car company to court over its supercar replicas
By Nick Kurczewski / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS If the idea of owning an extremely fast and hugely expensive Lamborghini sports car for less than $4-grand sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. To drive the point home, Lamborghini Automobili is taking legal action against CARKITINC, a kit-car company based in Albertville, Alabama. For...
Harvesting from Italy to Georgia
What happens when a girl gets a Bachelor's degree in History and can't find a job? She learns a trade. And for Lauren Cox, that meant serving in a restaurant in her hometown in Arkansas. "It was crap. The food was from Sysco, there was no passion," Cox said. "I started to develop an overall consideration for what I was putting into my body...
Why a 16th-Century Italian Is a Key Influence on Today's Architecture
by Patrick Sisson A sparse glass-and-metal home may be complimented for its Miesian proportions, and any tower balancing on a curvaceous leg of concrete might get noticed for its debt to Niemeyer, but as far as the dictionary is concerned, just one architect is significant enough to be the official namesake of an architectural style. &nbs...
New Honorary Consul Aims to Raise Italy’s Profile in Georgia
by Trevor Williams Italy's new honorary consul in Georgia is aiming to raise the profile of a country with a heavy business influence here that hasn't been appropriately recognized. "Unlike countries like Germany that have a very organized presence in Atlanta, the Italians to date haven't really had that, and so one of my goals is...
Ky. Voices: Kentucky culture rooted in opportunities for immigrants
By Kiran Bhatraju In the late 1920s, an Italian immigrant with a funny last name arrived in the heart of Appalachia to join the thousands of Scots-Irish who found good wages in the coalfields. He could have moved to New York or Chicago, but he instead came to Perry County to work as a stonemason. His arrival was not uncommon. Appalachian...
38th season of internationally known Spoleto Festival USA opens in South Carolina
With a shower of confetti and the pealing of church bells, the Spoleto Festival USA on Friday opened its new season with a lineup including three operas, a production by Ireland's Gate Theatre and a concert by banjoists Béla Fleck and his wife, Abigail Washburn. The 38th edition of the festival concludes June 8 with a concert and fireworks at Midd...
Michelangelo Exhibition at Frist Center Offers Rare Opportunity to See Renaissance Master's Work in the U.S.
Marking the first time works by Michelangelo have ever been exhibited in Nashville, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts proudly presents Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti, on view from October 30, 2015, through January 6, 2016. The Casa Buonarroti, the artist's family home in Florence, Italy, possesses...
On Style with Giordana Andretta
by Lynn Trenning December was a busy month for Giordana Andretta. She celebrated a birthday (36), got engaged to be married, and set up the Giordana Cycling Pop-Up Shop in the former Colony Furniture building on Providence Road, which is open through Jan. 9. Giordana is a brand of Italian-made cycling clothing created by Gita Sporting Goo...
The Italian marionnettes are back for Spoleto 2015
By Ishani Chatterji The best-known Italian puppet, Pinocchio, may not be among the 165 handcrafted marionettes performing at the Emmett Robinson Theater beginning today. But with "Sleeping Beauty," the real-life Geppettos of the Carlo Colla and Sons Marionette Company have dusted off another fairy tale best known to American audiences thro...
Do This: Don't fuhggedabout Festa Italiana
Food, adult beverages, entertainment and all-ages fun will fill the streets of Tampa's historic Ybor City during the multiday extravaganza that is Festa Italiana. The annual celebration, started in 1997, honors Italian culture and heritage over four days, though Friday's Krewe of Italia Invitational is sold out. Thursday's wine-filled open...
A Tale of Two Pizzas
On Saturday, June 8th, the merchants of Lafayette Village will come together to bring the Raleigh area a little taste of Italy. Join us for a day of food, fashion, music, and fun for the whole family! The Triangle Sons of Italy Lodge Chapter 2817 will have a booth and we are selling our membership cookbook that will delight your taste buds and...