With 1100 Millecento Done, Pininfarina Sets Up Shop in Miami
The Italian automobile design firm, Pininfarina, established in 1930 and famous for creating iconic designs for companies like Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Ferrari, and Maserati (you might have heard of them) has recently expanded its repertoire of to skyscrapers, and is setting up shop with a new office in Miami to design them. Their first ever high...
Villa Tronco prepares to celebrate 75 years in Columbia
By Allen Wallace As American soldiers arrived at Fort Jackson in 1940 to prepare for what soon would become World War II, many were served home-cooked meals by a woman who ran a fruit stand across from a bus station on Blanding Street. Sadie Tronco's acts of kindness for the soldiers led her to found a restaurant that will celebra...
Italian family thanks soldier's Rock Hill family
Gaetano and Caroline Simonelli were just children on a farm in Nazi-occupied Italy in 1943 when a fighter plane screamed across the sky and crashed within feet of their home. The pilot was killed. The Simonelli family, devout Roman Catholics, buried him right there on the farm. In a Rock Hill cemetery 71 years later an old man named Bobby...
Huntsville connection to Italian astronaut aboard International Space Station
A Soyuz spacecraft has safely docked at the International Space Station, beginning the Expedition 42 Futura mission. It transported an American and Russian astronaut, as well as Italian Samantha Cristoforetti.She's a flight engineer with the European Space Agency. But before all of that, she attended Space Camp at the US Space and Rocket C...
Marco Carola brings Music On to Miami
Marco Carola's love affair with music began when he was 12 years old, spending his time in clubs and record shops in Napoli, Italy. His penchant for DJing began at fifteen and two years later he was traveling to London to buy vinyl to hone his sound. Since then Carola has been one of European nightlife's most sought after names, leaving an indelibl...
L’Elisir d'amore (The Royal Opera) @ Miami Beach
April 5, 2015 - Sunday 12:00 PM - 3:00 PMO Cinema Miami Beach- 500 71st St - Miami Beach, Florida 33141 'The elixir of love' is a comedy of love and rural life as we watch Vittorio Grigolo attempt to woo the elegant lady of the village, Lucy Crowe, with a little help from Bryn Terfel's Doctor Dulcamara and his love pot...
Italian Wine Deconstructed – A Trip “Down the Boot”: Italian Wine Specialist Certification Course
There will be a special group of wine professionals and wine lovers gathered at Toscana Divino at Mary Brickell Village (Downtown Miami) beginning October 26, 2013. This group will be swirling, sniffing, sipping, and spitting as part of a hands-on approach to learning all that can be known about Italian wine: the regions, terroir, how to taste, Ita...
Mayor Joe Riley to raise curtain on his final Spoleto
by Bruce Smith It will be a poignant scene on Friday when the new season of the internationally renowned Spoleto Festival USA opens with a brass fanfare and speeches on the steps of Charleston City Hall. It will be the last time that Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., who helped bring Spoleto to Charleston almost four decades ago, p...
Sons of Italy to award scholarships
The Sons of Italy in America St. Augustine Lodge 2780 is accepting applications for scholarships for the 2015-16 school year. Scholarships are open to any current St. Johns County High School student with a demonstrable Italian-American heritage (of any proportion) and will be judged by the following primary criteria. ■ Applicants mus...
Your New Italian Tour de Force Goes Like This
With all due respect to Nonnas around the world... Please, take a seat. For now we share a world with Mazzi Cucina, a new sliver of eccentricity serving some of the most authentic Italian we've seen around these parts in a while, now open in North Miami Beach. Before you launch into one of those "Oh, another Italian restaurant" m...
Dal Cuore brings Italy's flavor to Johns Creek
by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson Nestled behind the QT and Waffle House on the corner of State Bridge and Jones Bridge roads in Johns Creek sits a taste of Italy with a dash of New York. Dal Cuore restaurant, located at 2100 Ray Moss Connector in Johns Creek, is an authentic New York-Italian restaurant featuring family recipes passed do...
New season of Spoleto Festival USA opens Friday
The new season of the Spoleto Festival USA lights up stages across Charleston beginning on Friday. Here's a guide to this year's edition of the internationally known arts festival. A bit of history — Spoleto was founded in Charleston in 1977 by the renowned composer Gian Carlo Menotti, modeled after and as a companion to his Festival of T...