To Visit Milan, Start in SF!
By Mauro Battocchi If you were thinking about visiting Milan in 2015 for the Expo, you can get a taste of this remarkable city without leaving the Bay. Before August 11th, swing by the Cannery (2801 Leavenworth) and check out the New Italian Design 2.0 Exhibition, which boasts intriguing design displays brought to the Bay by Milano's Trie...
Excellent year for Italian wines seen
The Association of Italian Enologists' has indicated that 2013 may well be an excellent year for the production of both red and white local wines if the current climatic conditions carry on, according to preliminary forecasts of the outcome provided by Riccardo Cotarella who heads the body on Friday. "It's going well, this climatic situati...
Virginia’s Millionaire Winegrowers
By Roger Morris For those of us who were writing about wine at the time, it was a surprising, even humorous-sounding, development. The Italians were coming to Virginia to make wine. The year was 1976, and we had already been shocked once that season. Napa Valley (with some help from Sonoma grapes) had just won both red and white categories of...
IASA Annual Conference Subsidy
In an effort to defray some of the traveling costs for graduate students attending the Italian American Studies Association annual conference, the association has set aside limited funds for student travel. (Please note: This is a separate application process from the Memorial fellowship application guidelines. You may certainly apply for a fellows...
Texas: Prada Marfa is illegal roadside ad
The Prada Marfa art installation has stood alone in the West Texas plains for eight years, its high-end Italian fashion goods available to no one. Now, state officials say the shack-sized building along a rural U.S. highway near Marfa is an illegal roadside advertisement, and they're considering what to do about a structure that's a must-s...
Persistence and Determination Serve Filmmaker Quintino Zaccardelli
The story of the Zaccardelli's quest for the American dream is one fortified with generations of demonstrated persistence and determination. Ilvio Zaccardelli is one of five brothers born in the small village of Goriano Sicoli in southern Abruzzo. He and the rest of his siblings followed the lead of their uncle, Guglielmo Zaccardelli, who came to t...
Staten Island's Bocelli serves up Sicilian style pumpkin ravioli
by Lauren Glassberg Bocelli's restaurant is hidden away in the non-descript Hylan Shopping Center on Staten Island. "We were all born in Italy, developed a palate for real Italian food and that's what we try to bring to this restaurant," Vincent Damonte said. On the inside, it's a totally different feel: wood work and murals and food...
Naples & San Francisco sign accords on Human Rights, Technology & Science
Important cooperation agreements were signed between Naples and San Francisco in the fields of human rights, technology, and science this past Friday, October 25th. Creating new cooperation programs between Neapolitan and San Franciscan organizations, these agreements were penned in the presence of Naples' Mayor Luigi de Magistris at the Italian C...
Artist Nicola Verlato to Paint Italian Masterpiece inside Fiat 500L
FIAT Brand North America will bring a splash of color to this year's Los Angeles Auto Show by commissioning noted Italian artist Nicola Verlato to paint an Italian masterpiece, inspired by one of the most recognized fresco works of the Renaissance era, inside a Fiat 500L. Verlato will paint his masterpiece, which will pay homage to elements of Mich...
Italian-American Profiles of Success: Marcella Nardi
Ciao Pittsburgh continues its series on profiling Italian-Americans across the country. This week, we are featuring Duvall, WA, resident, Marcella Nardi, who teaches basic English to other Italians, Italian to local people as well as computer technology and arts and crafts. She was born close to Venice and lived in Milan until June 2008, w...
Through a daughter’s eyes: A conversation with Marina Viola
by Briana Palma "I don't even consider myself a writer," Marina Viola told me over the phone in November, just weeks before she set off to Italy for another round of speaking engagements to promote her book, "Mio padre è stato anche Beppe Viola." Despite her humble attitude, there's no denying that Marina has earned her writer's b...
Dearborn's Gino Polidori dies; served as fire chief, councilman and state rep
Former state Rep. Gino Polidori — a Dearborn politician known for supporting military veterans and for introducing a bill that helped foster kids be placed with relatives or those with a similar religion — died Sunday of complications from prostate cancer. He was 72. In 1973, at age 32, Polidori was appointed fire chief in Dearborn, the yo...