7TH Annual Belmar Restaurant Tour Dedicated To Tracie Orsi
Belmar's 7th Annual Restaurant Tour will take place on Sunday, March 8th and this year's tour is dedicated to the life and legacy of Tracie Orsi, the beloved chef/owner of Ragin' Cajun who passed away last month after battling cancer. The restaurant tour runs from 11:30am until 4:30pm. Taste your way through more than thirty restaurants, r...
Screening of the film “How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini” by Ettore Scola
Date: Saturday, March 28, 2015 - Thursday, April 02, 2015 Hours: See description for screening times Site: Gene Siskel Film Center - 164 N. State Street - Chicago, IL Screening of the film "How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini" by Ettore Scola (Che strano chiamarsi Federico). Closing night film! 2013, Ettor...
Italy: A Top Dream Destination for 2015
by Becky Zeferino Tripadvisor has officially announced the results of the study TripBarometer run for half a year. The study was about the world's greatest and most popular places to travel to. About one in every four people surveyed (28%) said that if money was not an issue they would love to travel to Italy, making the "Bel Paes...
Reaching Across Cultures in Italy
There is no better way to experience a culture than to be immersed in it -- just ask DePauw University junior Clare Polega, who's studying human development as it relates to interactions across cultures in Italy this semester. Polega is taking the "Human Development in Culture" class at the Umbra Institute, a study abroad program in Perugia, Italy....
Buon Appetito: Osteria da Nino Opens in Shirlington Village
by Mary Ann Barton There's a new restaurant in Shirlington that held its soft opening over the weekend: Osteria da Nino. The new Italian restaurant and bar takes the place of The Curious Grape, the longtime Shirlington wine store and restaurant. The restaurant is located at 2900 S. Quincy St. in Shirlington Village. The Curious Gr...
Announcing the 2015-2016 Rome Prize Winners
The American Academy in Rome presented the winners at the Arthur & Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, held at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City on April 16th. The ceremony featured a presentation by artist Carrie Mae Weems, FAAR'06, which was followed by a discussion between Weems and Academy president Mark Robbins, FAAR'9...
First CEO Summit of the USA Pavilion
Giovedì 23 aprile, presso il Circolo del Commercio di Milano, AmCham Italy ha promosso un incontro riservato ai CEO delle aziende sponsor del Padiglione americano a EXPO Milano 2015 che ha visto la partecipazione, come Ospite d'Onore, dell'Ambasciatore David H. Thorne, attuale Senior Advisor del Segretario di Stato John Kerry. L'obiettiv...
Ah, cruel love! Italian madrigal masterpieces in Chestnut Hill with piffaro, the renaissance band and vocal quartet the laughing bird
May 16, 2015 - Saturday 8:00 PMPresbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill - 8855 Germantown AvenuePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19118Cipriano de Rore wrote some of the most sublimely beautiful madrigals and motets ever to set ladies' hearts fluttering in Italy's 16th century villas and basilicas. Piffaro, the nation's foremost Renaissance...
Look Inside Dolce Italian, Bringing 'La Dolce Vita' to River North Tuesday
by Brett Hickman Just announced yesterday, Dolce Italian is set to open on the ground floor at the Godfrey Hotel this coming Tuesday. This marks the second location from LDV Hospitality (the team behind New York's Scarpetta empire), with the first being in Miami. The space, which you can see in the gallery above, is refined, but n...
Four Guys From the Neighborhood
Book Presentations and Panel Discussion by Vincent LaBarbera, Richard Rinaldo, John Anselmo and Thomas DiGrazia. The Italian American Museum and Four Guys from the Neighborhood cordially invite you to a stimulating discussion on growing up in the Neighborhood on Friday, June 5th at 6:30PM. Featuring three books about Little Italy...
Paul Pope, National Enquirer heiir, sells family story to Fox 21 television studios
by Kyle Swenson Knowing a good story has been part of Paul Pope's family business. It's obvious why. As the son of Gene Pope, the Italian-American businessman whose nose for gore and sex created the National Enquirer, Paul grew up surrounded by a business that literally changed the tone of American pop culture. The younger Pope's...
Biblioteca vaticana, ecco i manoscritti di Dante
I manoscritti di Dante Alighieri saranno presto accessibili a tutti. Le opere del padre della lingua italiana potranno essere sfogliate da chiunque e gratuitamente, senza dover ricevere permessi speciali come Robert Langdon, lo studioso protagonista de "Il codice da Vinci" e degli altri libri di Dan Brown. Lo hanno annunciato la Biblioteca...