Screen Visions: From Italy to Outer Space to the Mall
Less than two months after the end of the Rhodes College Tournées French Film Festival and some six weeks after the Memphis Jewish Community Center's Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival comes another annual movie event with an international perspective, the Italian Film Festival USA at the University of Memphis. Like its p...
Review: A square deal at Sicilian Oven
I had pizza on the brain, but not in my belly, after the troubled recent inaugural edition of the Fort Lauderdale Pizza Festival. Like other attendees who felt short-sliced, I wound up hankering and hunting for cheesy goodness in the aftermath. Such is the power of pizza. It is America’s ultimate communal comfort food, the stuff of teen sleepovers,...
FIU names stadium for entrepreneur, real estate investor Riccardo Silva
Florida International University just named its stadium after Riccardo Silva, an Italian entrepreneur whose holdings include soccer teams, modeling agencies, restaurants and a real estate investment firm. Silva, the owner of Silva International Investments, has donated more than $3 million to the FIU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics since 20...
Get a Taste of Italy in South Florida, the Heaven of Seafood
Are you looking for a weekend gateway and wondering where you can go? Enough of the hustle bustle of the city. Why don’t you get the taste of sea therapy? Yes, salt water, breeze, sand and food; this is the combination that can melt anyone’s heart. And if you want a perfect combo of all the above-mentioned things, visit South Florida. Don’t you thi...
Italiano luxury at C’Art
If you like the quality of luxury goods, but snarl at the prices, you’re gonna love the new boutique: C’Art Miami. They’re all about affordable luxury! But that’s not all. C’Art sells only Italiano! Shireen is crazy for their sunglasses and satchels. Tonight, it’s one of her favorite things. Ever dreamed of shopping in Rome? How about Venice – gond...
Biloxi loses jitterbugging, bingo-playing former councilman, justice
While his brothers hunted, Roy Mattina Sr. danced. The 92-year-old Biloxi native was always one of a kind. He was from a tight-knit generation born and raised on Point Cadet, a peninsula settled by immigrants on Biloxi’s eastern tip. Mattina was proud of his Italian heritage in a neighborhood where there were societies for residents of French, Ital...
Festa Italiana returns to Ybor for 20th year
For 20 years, Festa Italiana has filled the streets of historic Ybor City, celebrating Italian culture and heritage by showcasing cuisine from area restaurants, live entertainment, a variety of wines and spirits and an assortment of activities. It was in the spring of 1997 that people first gathered in Centennial Park, 1800 E 8th Ave. for the inaug...
Honorary Fellowships will be presented at the AIA Conference on Architecture
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded 8 Honorary Fellowship Awards for the year 2017. Recipients include Italian architect Mario Cucinella and architect Giancarlo Mazzanti, winner of the 2016 edition of the Next Landmark contest sponsored by Floornature. The Honorary Fellowship Award is an annual award for architects who are not US...
There’s a new Italian restaurant opening in Boynton’s Las Ventanas
Father and son restaurateurs Steven Pellegrino Sr. and Steven Pellegrino Jr. are the latest to give Boynton Beach’s Las Ventanas a try. On April 12, they will open Baciami (Italian for ‘kiss me’) Italiano in the spot formerly known as Lucertola Ristorante & Birreria and before that, Bad Ragaz Restaurant & Bar. You might be familiar with the Pell...
The XI Italian Film Festival is here
Hard to believe that this is our 11th edition, but our traditional Italian Film Festival is here! Dubbed as the most relevant annual event for Italian culture and community in Atlanta, the Festival is at its 11th edition. This initiative is funded and fostered by the amazing Claudio Di Persia. As primary sponsor of the Film Festival, Ciancia has be...
Leonardo to build T-X in Alabama, killing off plans for Mississippi production facility
If Leonardo DRS wins the T-X competition with its T-100 trainer, the company will manufacture the aircraft in Alabama, it announced Thursday. The Italian firm plans to build an assembly center at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, if awarded the T-X contract. Upward of $200 million will be spent on construction including buildings, infrastructure an...
BWW Review: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI at Sarasota Opera House
The opera, L'italiana in Algeri, (The Italian Girl in Algiers), by Gioachino Rossini, (The Barber of Seville, William Tell, Ivanhoé), bears an avant-garde theme contemporary to the struggle women are still facing today - some sense of equality. The opera buffa, (comic opera), written in 1813, when Rossini was 21 years old, was reportedly completed...