A Taste of Italian Manufacturing
File this under better late than never. The Italian Trade Agency in late March hosted a manufacturing forum featuring presentations from Italy's top machine tool manufacturers, as well as live displays of Italian innovations. The presentations discussed the trends poised to have the greatest impact on the industry. Held at the University of Chicag...
Così una startup del food italiana ha conquistato il mercato americano: il modello Eattiamo
L'illusione di molti esportatori di Made in Italy negli Stati uniti è di avere successo per il semplice "fatto" che i loro prodotti sono eccellenti. Ne ho visti parecchi sbarcare a New York con programmi faraonici e tornarsene a casa con la coda fra le gambe. Perché l'eccellenza non basta, se non si capisce poi come funziona concretamente il mercat...
Italian schoolgirl unearths woolly mammoth bone
A seven-year-old girl has found part of a woolly mammoth's leg bone on a riverbank in northern Italy. Emma Persico stumbled upon the fossilised chunk of tibia while walking along the River Po near the northern city of Cremona, and promptly dug it up, Corriere della Sera reports. Only a blackened tip was sticking out of a sandbank, and even her...
The Genius of Bernini: How one Man Created Many of the Top attractions in Rome
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was one of Italy's most beloved and prolific artists. His career spans some 70 years and includes everything from fountains and vases to grand palazzi and office buildings. He designed churches, painted portraits, and sculpted major biblical scenes and famous busts for six different popes. Though his mother was Neap...
Italian street food chain coming to Oakland
For those hoping for a little more amore in their lives, Oakland will be getting itself a new Italian restaurant. Piada Italian Street Food, a chain of fast casual eateries similar in style to Chipotle, is planning to expand into Pennsylvania for the first time with a shop at 3600 Forbes Avenue — the former site of Quaker Steak and Lube. A com...
Roma Lodge's Italian Fest
Roma Lodge's Italian Festival returns to Festival Park, 5 Fifth St., July 29-31. Festival hours are 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, noon to 1 a.m. Saturday and noon to 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission costs $5 at the gate; $4 for advance purchase tickets. The 38th annual festival will feature a variety of live entertainment and traditional I...
A Slice Of Italy In Enfield
This year, the Mount Carmel Italian Festival will be entering its 91st year. Despite the festival being 91 years old, it still has plenty of new festivities to offer people, including the largest collection of Dean Martin memorabilia – which is a special addition to the festival this year. "[The goal of the festival] is to carry on a cult...
Extraordinary summer for tourism: visits up 9.5%, turnover by an astonishing 17.2%
It's been an extraordinary summer season for Italy. The international political "climate" has clearly contributed to this, as Islamic terrorism, lone wolves, and failed coups that turned into counter-revolutions kept tourist away from other destinations abroad. For the country's tourism industry, the first tally of the summer season shows a 9.5% ov...
Salvatore Ferragamo Marks New Las Vegas Boutique With An Exclusive Shoe
If you find yourself winning a jackpot in Las Vegas, we know what you can buy with your winnings. Italian luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo will mark its latest boutique in Las Vegas by launching an exclusive gold leather lace-up stiletto. The new 4,370-sq.-ft. boutique, which is set to open on Sept. 9, is inside the Wynn hotel. It will be...
The Early Word on Italian-American Restaurant Sophia’s
Sophia's debuted early last month in Bess Bistro's former spot on West 6th Street. Owners Matt Deichl, Jonathan Gillespie, and James Brown of BDG Hospitality Group reinvented the space and tapped Mark Sparacino—chef and owner of Prosecco Ristorante in Chicago—to helm the kitchen. Read on for the early word on the contemporary Italian-American suppe...
MEDITERANEAN TALES How a movie director and a writer tell migrations
When: Monday, October 24, 2016 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm Where: Italian Cultural Institute of NY, 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021 Organized by : IIC - Entrance : Free European migrants' crisis is a crucial and present topic for our society. The ability to deal with it is currently at the center of the debate taking place within...
Leonardo drops plans for AW169 production in USA
Faced with difficult market conditions and a problematic initial ramp-up, Leonardo has dropped plans to build AgustaWestland AW169 helicopters in the USA. Its initial proposal called for two assembly lines for the medium twin – one in Vergiate, Italy and a second in Philadelphia in the USA to serve the North American market. Read...