Antonello Pileggi President of the Miami Scientific Italian Community
Antonello Pileggi has been elected President of the Miami Scientific Italian Community (MSIC). Officers of the MSIC will be Vice President Fabio De Furia (Consorzio Roma Ricerche), Secretary Alessia Fornoni (Director and Chair of the Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center at the University of Miami) and Treasurer Ant...
The Florida Keys History & Discovery Center shows The Rose Tattoo Nov. 4
by Jill Zima Borski The Florida Keys History & Discovery Center in Islamorada features The Rose Tattoo for November's Midweek Matinees. Movies are shown in the new state-of-the-art 4K theater on the first Wednesday of each month. This first year will feature movies made in or about the Keys, and will include a historical introduction by the Di...
Attend the Columbia Italian Festival and Bocce Tournament and Stay at Nearby Hilton Garden Inn Columbia SC Hotel
The Hilton Garden Inn Hotel in Columbia SC (Northeast) offers convenient accommodations to guests attending the 6th Annual Italian Festival and Bocce Tournament. The free event will take place September 28, 2013 at the historic Robert Mills House and Hampton-Preston Mansion, located at 1616 Blanding Street in downtown Columbia. Sponsored by the So...
Vasanello sbarca in Florida
Vasanello sbarca in America, per la precisione in Florida. Qualche tempo fa, infatti, il sindaco Antonio Porri ha ricevuto a nome suo e di tutta la cittadinanza, le chiavi della città di Fort Myers, una ridente cittadina nella contea di Lee che conta oltre 60.000 abitanti. La consegna è avvenuta direttamente dalle mani di Joe Mazzola, un a...
Italian festivals in Charlotte
This is a busy weekend in the Charlotte area for local Italian festivals. We will be at the 19th Annual St. Philip Neri Italian Festival in Fort Mill from 11am-8pm on Saturday so please come see us! This is a significant source of revenue for our club so we really need your support! Then, on Sunday, the 9th Annual St. Anthony Festa Italiana is at...
Dinner theater coming to Cape
Cape Coral citizens may no longer have to cross the river to enjoy dinner theater thanks to a joint venture between a local club and an acting troupe. The Cape Coral Italian American Club and the Sand Flea Players have partnered to present two productions in the coming months, with future shows planned depending on the response from the community....
Italian Heritage Festival has a new Home at The Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn
Back for its fifth annual celebration of the colorful culture of Italy, the Italian Heritage Festival will be held on Saturday, September 13th from 11am to 4pm. While the fun and fabulous food factor will remain the same, the festival is moving its location to the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn. What has made the festival so...
Italian twins who were put up for adoption in US after their mother died in childbirth track down relatives via Facebook 55 years later
By Corey Charlton Twins born in Italy and put up for adoption in America have managed to track down their biological family in Europe via Facebook 55 years later. Jana Bennett and her twin sister Lisa Keeler were born in 1960, in Palermo, Italy. But now more than half a decade later and after numerous failed attempts to find...
Chef Jacques Larson blends Italian, southern culture
by Bret Thorn Jacques Larson started cooking in Iowa City, Iowa, while studying English and history at the University of Iowa, but he has been cooking in the Southeast for most of the past 17 years. He arrived in Charleston, S.C., in 1996 as the opening sous chef of the Peninsula Grill. In 2001 he moved to Greensboro, N.C., for hi...
Old country comes to the Lowcountry
Every September for the past three years, South Carolina's sneaker, (aka Hilton Head Island), gets pulled off and refitted with an Italian boot, known as the Italian Heritage Festival. If you've missed out on this annual event before now, then you have denied yourself the greatest fun, the best food, the most bodacious wine extravaganza, y...
Dr. Alberico Sessa Receives Third Patients' Choice Award
While the world has been busy looking for the ObamaCare girl, she will probably not help us find a good doctor. And now that we know that the smiling brunette is a woman called Adriana from Maryland, our focus is back on a more important question: How can we find a good doctor? And how do we know he or she is really as good as they claim to be? &n...
Feast of Little Italy
The annual Feast of Little Italy, now in its twelfth year, and presented by Arrigo Fiat, returns to Jupiter on November 7, 8, and 9. This celebration of the very best of Italian culture draws thousands of visitors who will enjoy over 150 booths featuring everything from traditional Italian food to jewelry and home furnishings. This year th...