Rome 2024 bid will put Colosseum, Circus Maximus to use
By Andrew Dampf A cycling sprint alongside the Roman Forum. Beach volleyball at the Circus Maximus. The marathon passing through St. Peter's Square and finishing under the Arch of Constantine. A nightly parade of athletes at the Colosseum. Rome's historic monuments are at the center of the city's bid for the 2024 Olympics, details of whic...
Buona, The Original Italian Beef, announces its first location in the city
Buona, The Original Italian Beef, has been tantalizing Chicagoland for 35 years with its famous beef sandwich. Locals will understand the euphemism "Chicagoland" means suburbs and those suburbanites, from Berwyn (where the original Buona is situated) to St. Charles have been able to experience the best Italian Beef sandwich in the Midwest. ...
IT and US: Welcome to the Italian American Podcast
WTI Magazine #77 2016 March 18Author : Dolores Alfieri Translation by: November 2015 marked the launch of The Italian American Podcast – the first podcast dedicated to helping Italian Americans learn about and celebrate their brilliant heritage. Recent guest Lidia Bastianich, famed chef and host of "Lidia's Italy," said this on an ep...
Restaurant Review: Giuseppe’s Ritrovo
by John Marshall Giuseppe's Ritrovo has been a fixture in Bexley for 20 years, and the name "ritrovo"—Italian for "hangout"—is fitting here. Most nights of the week, the place is bustling, and most weekends, it's jammed. Guests come because their friends do, because of the way the family who runs the place treats them and because of the wo...
The cute little Italian Wine making robot that may revolutionize winemaking
For thousands of years, Italy has been instrumental in producing some of the world's finest wines including the ubiquitous Pinot Grigio. So, in a technological twist, the Enosis Meraviglia wine research company introduced high-tech Genesis, the adorable wine fermenting robot guaranteed to disrupt the wine industry as we know it. This should be of...
Dolce&Gabbana transforms Smeg's FAB28 refrigerator into a work of art
Italian companies Dolce&Gabbana and Smeg have collaborated to create 100 limited-edition refrigerators that celebrate the decorative richness of sicilian traditions. Six artists took the FAB28's sinuous lines and nostalgically retro form and hand-painted them with images the reference the island like lemons, the trinacia symbol, cart wheels, me...
Robert Davi has a licence to croon
He may be best known for his tough guy roles in (Licence to Kill and Showgirls), but as Robert Davi put it, when it comes to singing, he's "not just your grandmother's Oldsmobile." This is an interview that almost wasn't. Within hours of posting word that Robert Davi is going to perform an evening of Sinatra tunes Saturday, May 7, from abo...
All-Purpose Opens in Shaw with Italian-American Eats
Two Bloomingdale powerhouses–the Red Hen and neighboring pub Boundary Stone–have teamed up for Shaw's hottest new restaurant: All-Purpose. Chef Michael Friedman tapped into his Jersey/Italian-American roots for the 90-seat eatery, whose menu centers around pizzas, house-made charcuterie, and riffs on red sauce classics like eggplant parm and sweetb...
Anthony Sammarco - Book signing and presentation
When: Domenica 12 giugno dalle ore 10:00 alle ore 12:00 in EDTWhere: I Am Books, 189 North St, Boston 02113, MA Referred to as the "Balzac of Boston History," Anthony Mitchell Sammarco is a noted historian and author of over sixty books on the history and development of Boston, and he lectures widely on the history and development of his nati...
How to think like a genius: The Montessori method
Most of us think of radical scientific innovation as the whiz-bang invention or discovery that displaces what came before and reshapes the world as we know it. Transistors, assembly lines, and radiation, for example, were revolutions that wiped out whole industries and replaced them with new ones. Computers, cars, and X-rays/microwaves cam...
Elise Wiggins Will Open Cattivella in Colorado This Fall
Award-winning Denver chef Elise Wiggins will open Cattivella, wood-fired Italian this fall as part of the Eastbridge project in the Stapleton, Colorado, neighborhood where she lives. Cattivella translates to "naughty girl". "I can't believe I'm opening my own restaurant in my own neighborhood, just a few blocks from my own house," says Wig...
Renzo Picasso: A Lesser-Known Architect Who Had Creative Plans for NYC
New York City has many buildings and other infrastructure that were planned by some of the best-known architectural heavyweights in history including McKim, Mead and White, Cass Gilbert and Frank Lloyd Wright. But New Yorkers are less likely to have heard of Renzo Picasso, a 20th-century Italian architect and engineer who created plans for "future...