Ten great bike trails in Italy
Writer Alfredo Oriani once claimed, "A bicycle can be well worth a library". Of course any book-lover will take that statement to be ironic, but bicycles are indeed a great tool for knowledge. Even Hemingway would agree: It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them...
New restaurant brings taste of Little Italy to Bay St. Louis
A pit stop in Bay St. Louis made such a big impression on two restaurant owners, they decided to adjust their plans and settle here. Italian Garden Restaurant opened Saturday at 828 U.S. 90 in the Bay, across from Bay Arts Center, and is owned by Giovanni Karelli and his wife, Mergita Sadiku. Karelli, originally from Bartlesville, Okl...
Arriva a Torino "BEST", il programma Italia-USA per corsi e stage nella Silicon Valley
Mercoledì 9 novembre, alle ore 18, nel Salone d'Onore della Fondazione CRT, in via XX Settembre 31 a Torino, il Console Generale degli Stati Uniti d'America Philip T. Reeker interverrà alla presentazione di "Best Program" - il progetto bilaterale Italia-Usa per valorizzare giovani imprenditori di talento - con il Segretario Generale della Fondazion...
The Sicilians: Installment 1
by Mark Spano Through the 19th Century, serializing books in magazines was a very popular practice in both Europe and America. Among the authors whose books first appeared as serials are Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas (Sr. & Jr.), Henry James, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert to name only a few. This custom h...
FESTA DI NATALE 2016
When: Sat, December 10, 2016 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM PSTWhere: Italian Cultural Center, 1669 Columbia Street, San Diego, CA 92101 It's our annual Holiday Potluck! Come one, Come All! Bring your favorite seasonal dish, some holiday cheer,and your best Italian smile! Live music with the fabulous Iris Moné, raffle-prizes, tombola, and much...
Fazoli's Italian restaurant returning to Huntsville
By Paul Gattis The largest fast-food Italian restaurant chain in the U.S. is returning to Huntsville. Fazoli's announced plans Monday to open a franchise in the Rocket City in 2017. Fazoli's formerly had a location in Huntsville on Whitesburg Drive. The restaurant said Monday it had signed a franchise agreement with Nareshkumar a...
This coffee shop is more like a time capsule
By John Crudele It's definitely not Starbucks. In fact, the first impression you might get of Caffe Reggio, the Greenwich Village coffee house — yes, with two "f"s — is that its name could be Nobucks. It's cramped, very old and dark. And the bathroom! Well, you are better off waiting until you get home. "Old World quaint" i...
The Bronzes of Riace
The Bronzes of Riace were discovered by Mr Stefano Mariottini, an amateur scuba diver from Rome, during a holiday on the Calabrian coast. They turned out to be one of Italy's most important archeological finds of the last 100 years. The two sculptures look human and divine at the same time, between reality and myth.&nb...
Full-gallery installation depicts immigrant American household
BATAVIA — When Thomas MacPherson looks at an empty gallery he doesn't see blank walls.He sees a dining room table covered in linen, set with antique china awaiting a Sunday dinner. Or maybe, his grandmother's bedroom arranged with period furniture. And in another area, he's likely to find a living room with a sofa, love seat or the La-Z-Boy recline...
I Sebastiani Present “The Pedant” at Charles River Museum
When: Sunday, February 3, 2013 — 3:30 p.m.Where: Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation — 154 Moody Street, Waltham, MA [map]Cataldo, a scholar from Venice, has been employed by the wealthy Pantalone to tutor his son Oratio... but is Pantalone getting more than he bargained for from this mysterious pedant? His once-respectable household...
Italy-USA: Terzi opens Piero della Francesca exhibition in New York
New York 05 March 2013Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has opened an exhibition entitled "'Piero della Francesca in America" at the Frick Collection in New York. The event came at the end of his two day-visit to the city, during which he met the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the General Assembly, Vuk Jeremi...
ITALY-USA: Biden Pays Tribute To Year Of Italian Culture In The Usa
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and his wife Jill paid tribute to the Year of Italian Culture in the USA on the occasion of the "Opera Ball", one of the American capital's most important cultural events, which was organized with the help of the Washington National Opera (WNO) at Villa Firenze, residence of Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero.Over 5...