Anima Domus expands its operations in South Florida
Anima Domus, South Florida's resource for contemporary and modern luxury Italian furniture, recently opened a new 4,000 square feet showroom in the City of Doral at 1629 NW 82nd Ave., Doral, FL 33126. This new showroom, based at the company's main offices, represents the group's third location in South Florida, complementing&nbs...
Italian-American Profiles of Success: Franco Corso
In this week's installment of Ciao Pittsburgh's Italian-American Profiles of Success, we reached all the way down south to Palm Beach, Florida to chat with Franco Corso, a pop-opera international recording artist originally from San Remo, Italy. His voice offers a blend of pop Italian and American operatic style. Known in the music circle...
Il Circolo, the Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches, hosted a pleasant afternoon of fun at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
Il Circolo, the Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches, hosted a pleasant afternoon of fun at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Dr. Ilaria Serra of Florida Atlantic University and Julie Rowe of Jupiter Maltz Theater combined to produce a program called "Italian Folk Dancing History and Review." While Prof. Serra told the story, a scree...
Villa Bellini brings upscale Italian to Tio Pepe space
It's got pilasters and curved archways and marble statuary and carved fireplace mantles and complicated deco wrought-iron work. In short, the new Villa Bellini in the 1928 building that housed Tio Pepe for decades is a knockout. There's valet parking, a gracious gaggle of lovely young women at the front desk, bartenders who ask your name a...
An Italian in America with Emanuele Pettener
by Rick Zullo I met Emanuele Pettener back in 2009, and it's safe to say that the meeting changed my life in many ways. I was enrolled in the Italian Studies program at F.A.U. in Boca Raton, Florida where he teaches. The class was Italian Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, taught entirely in Italian, which at the time stra...
First taste: Nicoletto’s Italian Kitchen on Gallatin Pike
People love pasta. And brothers Ryan and Danny Nicoletto quickly garnered a following for their small batch fresh and dried pastas, made with organic ingredients, heritage wheats and time-honored practices. Success — consistently selling out at farmers markets citywide — gave them the impetus to go from mobile to bricks-and-mortar. In Nove...
Have Bollito Misto at Salumeria 104 on Tuesdays
by Carla Torres Miami winter is almost over, and we've barely experienced what it feels like to be cold. Does that mean we shouldn't get the pleasure of having winter food? Salumeria 104 doesn't think so. Chef Angelo Masarin likes simple and traditional Italian flavors. For him, no food is simpler than animal parts, which is why he loves c...
Alabaster exchange student shares American experience
Before coming to Alabaster about five months ago, Alice Zanotti had never experienced softball, attended a Thanksgiving feast or fought Black Friday shopping crowds. Today, she has a much better grasp of American culture, as Alabaster's Morris family has hosted the 17-year-old high school student through an exchange student program. ...
Valentino and Chopard to open at Brickell City Centre
by Nicholas Nehamas The luxury lineup at Brickell City Centre is growing: developers announced on Tuesday that Italian fashion house Valentino and Swiss watch and jewelry designer Chopard will open shops at the 500,000-square-foot shopping center. Both brands will open stores on the street-accessible first floor of the four-story...
Why Beretta is moving its gun factory to Tennessee
by Aaron Smith Beretta USA says Maryland's tough new gun laws are the reason it's moving its factory to gun-friendly Tennessee. The American subsidiary of the 500-year-old Italian company has had a factory in Accokeek, Maryland since the 1970s. The company has manufactured the M9, the U.S. Army's standard-issue sidearm, since...
Women of the Italian American Club of Hilton Head
Toss out any preconceived notion of what an Italian-American woman should be like. The Italian-American Club of Hilton Head (IACHH) powers that be, passed a rule a few years ago declaring... NO RULES (ta-da!) regarding one's ethnic heritage when applying for membership to the club. That's right, you read it here first. You don't have to be Ita...
Get a Look Inside Michael Schwartz's New Italian Mecca, Fi’lia
The godfather of farm-to-table dining in South Florida, Michael Schwartz, is at it again with his sixth Miami restaurant, a rustic Italian eatery named Fi'lia, officially opening its doors today inside the SLS Brickell at 1300 South Miami Avenue. This marks the first Italian concept for the James Beard award-winning chef, and it showcases a menu f...