Salvatore Ferragamo Celebrates 100 Years in Hollywood With ‘the Ferragamo Signature Film’
by Jasmin Rosemberg As a grand finale to its 100 Years in Hollywood campaign, Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo is premiering a new short film project, "the Ferragamo Signature Film," starring Ethan Peck, grandson of late Oscar-winning actor Gregory Peck ("To Kill a Mockingbird," "Moby Dick"), and Elettra Wiedemann, daughter of Isabella Ro...
Breaking Bread Café brings homemade Italian food to Michigan Center
By Nathan Clark Touting a plentiful variety of homemade Italian and traditional dishes, the Breaking Bread Café in Michigan Center is open and ready to dazzle the taste buds of hungry visitors. Restaurant owners Erica Cole and Doug Grodi opened the Breaking Bread Café at 115 Fifth Street in November, offering a vast selection of food...
L’ultimo cartaio di Fabriano: “Io, come un artigiano del ’200”
di Federico Taddia «Io non faccio una carta qualsiasi, io faccio la tua carta, esclusiva e personalizzata. Non mi serve a nulla essere bravo come un artigiano del 1200, sarei solo una rievocazione storica: io voglio essere bravo oggi, utilizzando la stessa tecnica di ieri per realizzare prodotti eccellenti, attuali e appetibili nel contemp...
Check out all the Italian cars you can buy in the US in 2016
by William Fierman "The next wave of Italians has come to America," a 2010 commercial for the Fiat 500 proclaimed. Brightly-colored examples of the itty-bitty city car slid around typical Italian alleyways paved with cobblestones and then ... dove suddenly into the sea, to then emerge from the depths on the beaches of Brooklyn. ...
Musement, the Italian App to travel “as you like”
by Claudia Astarita Musement – the Italian innovative online platform – has launched a new App that works as a real portable concierge. It allows users to live every city as if it was their own, offering a personalized list of all the local attractions. Starting from a list with thousands of "things to do", the user can select the...
Il Sindaco Doria ravviva il legame con la diaspora genovese a San Francisco
I genovesi non amano apparire. Molti di loro hanno fatto dell'Understatement una loro filosofia di vita. Cosi' puo' succedere che a San Francisco, la citta' piu' genovese d'America, con una presenza fortissima della diaspora ligure dall'Ottocento sino ad oggi, Genova non sia molto conosciuta come citta' industriale, d'arte e di cultura, tanto meno...
Success on the silver screen for a son of Queens
Talented, widely acclaimed and prolific actor and director John Michael Turturro was born in Brooklyn on Feb. 28, 1957. Appearing in over 60 films, Turturro has worked with Spike Lee on nine features and has acted in four Coen Brothers movies. He comes from a family of actors; his brother Nicholas starred in the TV series "NYPD Blue" and h...
Frank Sinatra Jr. dies of cardiac arrest while on tour
Frank Sinatra Jr., who carried on his famous father's legacy with his own music career and whose kidnapping as a young man added a bizarre chapter to his father's legendary life, died Wednesday. He was 72. The younger Sinatra died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Sinatra family said in a statement to...
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to host Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and manufacturing leaders at Italian Trade Agency's i3 forum
The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) today announced that Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will make his first official visit to Chicago on March 30, 2016. The visit by the Italian head of state will focus on Italian manufacturers in the Midwest at the ITA's i3 Forum=Impact. Innovate. Integrate. at the University of Chicago's Gleacher Center. The U.S...
Le vernici intelligenti da Trieste alla conquista del mercato Usa
Oltre 4 milioni di euro di investimenti in ricerca e sviluppo negli ultimi anni, mirati a ottenere brevetti innovativi in 22 Paesi (in particolare in Usa, Messico, Giappone, Cina, Russia, Europa, Eurasia, Israele) nel segmento degli additivi ritardanti di fiamma e di vernici intelligenti di nuova generazione, anticorrosivi e materiali innovativi, e...
When the French try to beat the Italians at Italian food, things get ugly
Italians hate to see their delicate cuisine bastardized by foreigners—especially when those foreigners are French. So it was when Italians—or those of us who cared enough to pay attention to bad cooking advice from the other side of the Alps—became outraged over Demotivateur, a French entertainment site that on April 7 published perhaps the mo...
New Italian restaurant opening on Kauai's North Shore
The Foodland-anchored Princeville Center on Kauai's North Shore is adding a new Italian restaurant called Piazza, the leasing firm for the center confirmed to PBN. The eatery will serve pizzas cooked in a wood-fired oven, among other Italian dishes. Piazza is scheduled to open later this year and is owned by two local families, one of whic...