Festa Italiana presents cultural feast at Seattle Center
by Madeline Mckenzie Festa Italiana performances, food, a grape stomp, a bocce tournament, beer and wine gardens and classic Italian vehicle show will help celebrate and explore cultural roots of Italy and Italian-Americans in the Northwest this weekend at Seattle Center. The popular festival, in its 27th year, offers free activities for...
Italy and the American South Collide Head-On at Rolf & Daughters
Philip Krajeck, the chef-owner of Rolf and Daughters in Nashville, came to Italian cuisine through early exposure. He spent part of his childhood in Belgium and lived near families who'd immigrated from the Boot. He learned to make pasta from Italians he worked alongside in a Swiss hotel-culinary school. After nearly a decade in Florida (h...
Premiere of Italian Film Festival Opens in San Diego
"Welcome to feStival 2014," reads Victor Laruccia's website announcement; "It's an Italian Party in the Piazza." So begins the 8th Annual San Diego Italian Film Festival beginning October 16 and running through the 25th. The first offering is Anni Felici, Daniele Luchetti's discerning look at his childhood through the antics and acting of...
Rinnovo Comites: “L’Italia siamo anche noi” l’unica lista ammessa a Miami
Si chiama "L'Italia siamo anche noi" l'unica lista ammessa alle prossime elezioni del Comites di Miami. Quindici i candidati che hanno avuto il via libera dal Comitato elettorale del Consolato. Questi i loro nomi. Caputo Gino, Cavallini Augusto, Cornacchia Barbara, Dimarco Santo, Garufi Giuseppe, Merlo Michele Maria, Modica in Navarro Ros...
Falcone Foundation Visits FBI Headquarters
Giovanni Falcone will always be remembered as a prosecutor who devoted his career to dismantling the Sicilian Mafia. It was a devotion that ultimately cost him his life—he was assassinated in a roadside bomb attack on May 23, 1992, near Palermo, Italy. But the Italian judge will also be forever remembered as a champion of the rule of law, one of th...
Moschino Barbie heads to Miami
The luxury Italian fashion house Moschino is jetting off to Art Basel Miami Beach for a one-off, Barbie themed installation created by designer Jeremy Scott. Moschino and Jeremy Scott are inviting fans to 'Live the Dream', with a new project celebrating the intersection of pop culture and art during the 13th Edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. A...
Italy targets trio of major international events
Rome: Italy has set its sights on hosting three major international events -- golf's Ryder Cup in 2022, the rugby World Cup in 2023 and the Olympic Games in 2024. The Italians on Thursday announced they were lining up a bid for the rugby World Cup backed by Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi and National Olympic Committee (CONI) president...
Doris Italian Market and Bakery: I’ve never felt so Italian!
By Dan I. Cook So I get an email from Ira who contributes to Coral Springs Talk and he recommends that I should go and review Doris Italian Market. Basically, I told him that was piece of cake. Man, I've been a big fan of this joint since I moved to Coral Springs and I've also written about them on Yelp. So here I go back to Doris...
La Befana will fly through Addison
January 10th the children and families of the Club will come together to wait for La Befana to come looking for the Christ Child and in doing so leave the children with bags of treats. Lunch, symbolic lentils and sausage plus pasta with sauce, Befana Bread with the secret fava bean will be served. The children and adults will participate i...
Magniflex To Introduce Virtuoso Collection At Las Vegas Market
The Italian mattress giant Magniflex announced it's newest entry into the world's luxury mattress market, the Virtuoso™. The line of classic European design is uniquely Tuscan, by combining the best of nature, like horse hair, cashmere, merino wool, camel hair, linen cotton and silk with the newest innovation in memory foam technology. The...
Italian Dialects: endangered varieties
On Saturday, January 17th, it took place the third edition of the Italian National Dialect and Local Languages' Day, jointly organized by The National Union: Pro Loco, Lazio Legautonomie, the Documentation Center For Dialect Poetry "Vincenzo Scarpellino", the International Center "Eugenio Montale" and N.G.O. School as an Instrument of Peace – E.I.P...
Academic Opportunity to study in Trieste
A course entitled "Origini Italia", has been promoted by the ITA (Italian Trade Agency) in Rome and also by MIB (School of Management) based in Trieste. The course is for young men and women who already have a university degree or diploma, preferably with a few years of industry experience, interested in learning more about entrepreneurial and man...