Visita presso il contingente della Rappresentanza dell'Aeronautica Militare Italiana (RAMI) di Sheppard AFB, Texas
Si e' svolta presso il Kemp Center for the Arts a Wichita Falls, la tradizionale serata conviviale organizzata dalla RAMI. Il Comandante della Rappresentanza Militare di Sheppard T.Col.Vincenzo Repici ha voluto dare con l'occasione il benvenuto ufficiale a Federico Ciattaglia, Console Generale d'Italia della circoscrizione di Houston, con la conse...
Former Cowgirl All-American Erika Piancastelli helps Italy earn spot in 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Former McNeese All-American Erika Piancastelli reached one of her lifelong goals last weekend by helping her Italian National team qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after defeating Great Britain5-0 at the WBSC Softball Europe/Africa Qualifier in Utrecht’s, Netherlands. “It still hasn’t hit me yet, it doesn’t feel real,” Piancastelli said. “...
Pelicans sign Nicolò Melli
The New Orleans Pelicans announced today that the team has signed free agent forward Nicolò Melli. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Melli, 6-9, 235, joins the Pelicans after a successful 12-year professional career in Europe with stops in Italy (Reggiana, Olimpia Milano, VL Pesaro), Germany (Brose Bamberg) and most recently Tu...
Puopolo's Italian Ice & Creamery brings shades of Philadelphia to south Tulsa
A co-worker told me about an off-menu item at the new Puopolo’s Italian Ice & Creamery. “Just ask for the Uncle Dan,” she said. “They will know what you want, and you have to try it.” So, by golly, I did just that, and it was delicious. The Uncle Dan had a bottom layer of vanilla soft-serve ice cream, a middle section of sour apple Italian ice and...
Co-founder of Anthony’s Italian Deli in Baton Rouge has died
Anthony Saia, co-founder of a longtime Italian deli in Baton Rouge, has passed away, his family announced Sunday. He was 71. Family says Saia died peacefully in his sleep Saturday morning. “It is with great sadness and very hearts that we announce the death of Anthony," according to a post from the deli’s Facebook page. "He died peacefully in his s...
Festa di Ferragosto by American Italian Renaissance Foundation
Thursday, August 15, 2019. 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT. American Italian Cultural Center, 537 South Peters Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. Join the American Italian Cultural Center for a light Italian summer dinner paired with three classic Italian cocktails in celebration of Ferragosto! Ferragosto is a public holiday celebrated annually on August 15 in I...
Bonci’s Roman-Style Pizza Debuts in New Orleans Today
Pizza al taglio, the Roman-style pizza cut with scissors and sold by weight, lands in New Orleans today. The highly-anticipated third U.S. location of Italy’s acclaimed Bonci Pizzaopens its doors in the Warehouse District at 9 a.m. Bonci made its American debut in Chicago two years ago, kicking off an U.S. expansion of the pizza empire built by Gab...
Downtown Dallas is getting a new market: Italian shop CiboDivino
CiboDivino, an Italian market, will likely be a talker when it opens in downtown Dallas. So here's how you say it: CHEE-boh dee-VEE-no. It means "divine food" in Italian. Now you know. The shop, expected to open the third week of August, sells house-made bread, Italian food, gourmet groceries and wine. It's essentially a bodega: a small market whe...
Amaro Montenegro Announces 2019 U.S. Winner of ‘The Vero Bartender’ Competition
Yesterday, Amaro Montenegro, the award-winning Italian liqueur, hosted its much-anticipated 2019 international cocktail competition, The Vero Bartender, at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans. The annual competition crowned Zachary Sapato, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the most innovative and talented bartender in the U.S. Amaro Montenegro, a bran...
Autismo, studio italo-americano rivela che l’intelligenza artificiale applicata a un semplice elettroencefalogramma è in grado di riconoscere il disturbo
Un semplice elettroencefalogramma (EEG) può consentire di rilevare in fase precoce e in maniera pressoché automatica se un bambino è affetto o meno da disturbi dello spettro autistico. Anche una registrazione standard contiene infatti le informazioni necessarie per arrivare a distinguere, attraverso l’utilizzo di sofisticati sistemi di intelligenza...
Mille Lire’s Summer Pastas Are an Overlooked Gem in Oak Lawn
This has been a bad month for Mille Lire, Oak Lawn’s criminally underrated Italian restaurant. On June 30, co-owner Brian Ellard, wife Ornella and her two teenage children were killed in an airplane crash in Addison. The restaurant kept its doors open after the tragedy and Ellard’s co-owner and brother-in-law, Giuliano Matarese, continued to lead t...
Origins of Siena: Myth vs Memory
Thursday, August 8, 2019. 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT. American Italian Cultural Center, 537 South Peters Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. With no clear textual or physical proof of an ancient Roman settlement, Siena faced considerable challenges to its assumed antiquity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Far more than a point of pride, an associat...