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by Joanne Shriner   Adding a Touch of Italy to Ocean City was an opportunity that could not be refused for both the Harrison Group and restaurant ownership. Touch of Italy opened its first location on Baltimore Ave. in Rehoboth in October of 2009, serving fresh handmade mozzarella cheese, pasta, pizza, cookies and crispy bread as well as ma...

This unique performance celebrates the birth of the Futurist movement. Actor and director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory will deliver an effervescent monologue of explosive Manifestos, which heralded the start of the Futurist revolution in 1909 in diverse fields of knowledge, from the arts and life.   Inspired by the Italian Futurist tradition,...

Buddy Valastro will be on a new search for the next rising talent in the baking world and will be mixing it up with 10 aspiring pastry chefs for TLC's hit competition series, Next Great Baker.Premieres on May 5, the series will air every Monday to Friday at 7 PM only on TLC. The eight part series showcases the hidden talents of these pastry chefs...

The gig: Mary Micucci, 63, is the owner of Along Came Mary Events, one of Hollywood's leading catering and special events businesses. Often called the "caterer to the stars," Micucci has handled more than 400 movie premieres, from "Titanic" in 1997 to "The Hangover Part III" earlier this month, as well as numerous Grammy, Emmy and Academy Awards pa...

By Danilo Taino Forse per l'Occidente è arrivato il momento di prendere un rischio e di rispondere alla nuova aggressività di Vladimir Putin: a maggior ragione dopo che Mosca ha firmato con Pechino un importante accordo per la fornitura di gas alla Cina.   La risposta ovvia e probabilmente più efficace alla strategia post-sovietica del Crem...

Father's Day weekend is a busy one in the Wildwoods.A new event gets underway June 13th-15th, one that John Siciliano, executive director of Greater WIldwoods Tourism Authority, says will surely have dad hooked: "The Wildwoods Beach N Boat Fishing Challenge is a part of a bigger tournament, which is almost an all-summerlong tournament.  ...

The Friends of the USA Pavilion Milano 2015, the coalition responsible under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State for organizing the U.S. presence at the next world's fair, has announced a partnership with Uvet – a market leader in travel management services in Italy.   Through an agreement effective June 2014, Uvet will serve as the...

Every summer, Rockford's Ethnic Heritage Museum honors some of the men in the community as "Father or Man of the Year" award recipients. These men are being recognized not only for being great fathers and mentors, but also for their many accomplishments and contributions to life in the Rockford area.   Throughout the month of July, the museu...

by Susan Carpenter   Vespa is the Harley-Davidson of scooters. Sixty-eight years old and counting, it is the oldest continuous-production scooter maker, the most iconic and the most likely to raid its brand heritage and push it forward with new models that recall vehicles of generations past. Take the new 2015 Vespa Sprint. The smallest and...

by Cody Smith   The Denver Nuggets didn't make many moves this off season, but there will still be faces seen on the court that weren't there last year. Either from a trade, or return from injury, the Nuggets will look a little more familiar. JaVale McGee, Nate Robinson, and Danilo Gallinari are coming back from a season where they barely sa...

When: Sunday, September 7, 2014 — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Where: Coolidge Corner Theatre — 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MADirectly from the Salzburg Festival: With its epic scale, Don Carlo lacks the dramatic concision of Verdi's later works, while maintaining a unique structure that builds over its five acts, with the monumental auto-da-fé at the center....

In the current academic year 2014-15, the Department of Humanistic Studies, in cooperation with the Department of Political and Social Sciences, will start at UniCal a series of scientific and didactic activities focused on Italian diasporas. The first activities are dedicated to the Italian American Culture and Literature of the United States. On...