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American Amanda Knox will not return to Italy for a retrial in the 2007 death of her British roommate, a spokesman for the Knox family said. David Marriott said Knox had never agreed to attend, and there's "no requirement she be there." Still, there remains the possibility that Italy could request her extradition from the United States.   R...

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by Brynn Grimley   A little piece of Italy is staking a claim to Gig Harbor Bay, where Croatian fishing fleets have a storied history. "Nelly," an authentic Venetian gondola, made her debut in the Pacific Northwest this month. The black, 36-foot wooden vessel belongs to John Synco.   He launched the boat two weeks ago and ha...

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A hybrid restaurant opened in Seaview last July, in the location that once hosted a dollar store and then a gun shop. In the morning and early afternoon the building is home to the Metro Espresso, offering breakfast, lunch and coffee. In the evening the establishment is Galletti's, an Italian restaurant filling what owners Ron and Sue Ann Starheim...

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To walk down Ballard Ave is to notice that funny old green house. It looks like a home where Laura Ingalls Wilder and family might have hunkered down for a long prairie winter, dropped improbably in a tight-shouldered row of brick and stone storefronts otherwise pulsing with bars and boutiques.   The structure is actually two houses fitted t...

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Da alunno delle elementari di Gioiosa Jonica, in provincia di Reggio Calabria, a docente d'italiano tra i più apprezzati negli Stati Uniti. Giuseppe Tassone insegna nella Seattle University e nella University of Washington, università pubblica fondata nel 1861 a Seattle, nello stato di Washington.   È la più grande del Nord-Ovest americano e...

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On Friday, Oct. 3, who should walk into Il Terrazzo Carmine, the classic Italian restaurant in Pioneer Square? It was one of American cinema's greatest actors Al Pacino, in town to visit family. Pacino was dressed in black, with his hair standing straight up. He arrived in a party of seven, choosing Carmine's because he wanted great Italian food an...

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By Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue   Italy's winemaking history goes back millennia, and today the Mediterranean country produces about a third of all the wine in the world. When Italians emigrated to the United States, they brought their winemaking prowess with them. As early as the 1850s, Italian immigrants arrived in Washington's Walla...

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The ISSNAF-Seattle Chapter fall meeting was just another great success. Almost 100 people gathered to listen to our four amazing speakers and to visit the BAM.   After the visit we enjoyed talks form Claudio Mazzola, PhD and Senior Lecturer at the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington that talked about...

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by Rita Cipalla   In an industrial area just south of downtown Seattle, under the shadow of CenturyLink Field and down the street from several auto repair shops, sits a small nondescript brick building whose no-frills exterior belies its interior hidden treasures.   Known as Big John's PFI, which stands for Pacific Food Importers, the...

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Never let it be said that Joe Fugere, owner of Seattle's Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria, won't move heaven and earth, or even a pizza oven, to create delicious, perfectly baked pizza for a customer, particularly when that customer is Barak Obama.   During President Obama's 2012 visit to Seattle, Fugere arranged for a 4,000-pound portable wo...

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