A Tavola con Barilla - at Academia Barilla restaurants
Good taste, Italian culinary tradition, original recipes, highest quality ingredients. The school of cooking and gastronomic culture becomes an emotion, a taste, an appetite: something to experience and share, Italian-style. The first Academia Barilla restaurant is born: high quality ingredients, Italian dishes, fast service, the enjoyment of a gre...
Diesel Heiress Alessia Rosso Loves a Good Tan, Will Serve You Beer
Continuing on from our chat with Violante Nessi, for this week's edition of Life Alla Moda, we sat down with the lovely and low-key Alessia Rosso, video artist and daughter of Diesel founder Renzo Rosso. Born in Veneto, Rosso currently divides her time between New York and Los Angeles. Click ahead for her thoughts on skin care, dinner-part...
Get Ready for the OC Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival
One of the largest events that draws people to the Jersey Shore during the shoulder season is the annual Ocean County Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival. Now in it's 23rd year, the event will run from October 10th to October 12th in Seaside Heights and is about so much more than just marching bands and food vendors. Organizers say it...
Middletown concert association presents “Three Sicilian Tenors” Oct. 18
The nationally-acclaimed Three Sicilian Tenors will appear in Middletown Oct. 18 as the first concert of the Greater Middletown Concert Association's upcoming season. Four other performances will follow during its 2014-2015 Series, which all will be held at Middletown's 700-seat MHS Performing Arts Center, 200 LaRosa Lane. Tenors Aaron Caruso, Elio...
Mellace Siblings’ Pet Express Sets Standard for Quality
Pet Express owners Rob and John Mellace recently took part in a select group of retailers from across the country that were called by the American Kennel Club to form a Retail Advisory Committee. Along with their sister Lucia, the Mellace brothers founded Pet Express in 1995. "It was all Rob's fault," says John while smiling. The oldest of...
Lecture on Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor - November 24, 2014 at 6:00 pm
The extraordinary and sometimes underestimated legacy of Frederick's reign between 1220 and 1250 is the subject of a lecture by Louis Hamilton. The era of Frederick's rule has justifiably been described as the "first Renaissance." However, whereas the later Italian Renaissance flourished primarily in the center and north of the peninsula, this firs...
Lakewood Ranch's Festa Italiana stirs up memories of Ratpack crooners and delicious cooking
Growing up in a large Italian family in Buffalo, N.Y., Anne Wolfe -- now one of area's top amateur Italian cooks -- remembers her father, Mike Tramontana putting 45 RPM records on the record player. Sounds of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Louis Prima, Tony Bennett and Perry Como filled her house and mixed with the aroma of cannolis and Itali...
Dopo cento anni l’incendio del Triangle non si è ancora spento
Triangle è il nome della fabbrica tessile che prese fuoco nel 1911 a New York causando la morte di 146 persone, la maggior parte emigrate italiane ed ebree. Sistemi di sicurezza inesistenti e porte chiuse a chiave, perché i padroni temevano che le operaie facessero pause troppo lunghe o commettessero furti, furono tra le condizioni che causarono un...
Sacred Heart Church hosts 103rd Italian Dinner fundraiser
Sacred Heart Church in Camp Washington will host its annual Italian Dinner Sunday. Sunday's event will mark the 103rd Italian Dinner. Organizers said the dinner is more than a meal. It is a tradition and a fellowship based in love and friendship. Read more Source: http://www.wlwt.com
A Democrat to watch this year
With the New Year comes a new slate of officeholders whose careers warrant close attention and whose fates could have broader political implications. Put Gina Raimondo near the top of that list. She's the first woman to be elected governor of Rhode Island, and when she's inaugurated this week, she'll become, at 43, one of just two Democrat...
Fancy Food. Fiasconaro presenta le sue specialità a San Francisco
C'è già aria di Pasqua al 40esimo Fancy Food di San Francisco. L'evento, che punta i riflettori sul mondo del cibo, ha appena chiuso i battenti con numeri in crescita: 20 mila visitatori, 1500 espositori. Quindici paesi ospiti del padiglione internazionale con una particolare attenzione all'Italia, in vista dell'Expo che si inaugurerà a Maggio. No...
Andrea Morricone: cinematic visions - February 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Maestro Andrea Morricone will conduct the Amor Symphonic Orchestra and Choir. This evening concert will feature the Maestro's newest arrangements of some of the greatest films scores of all time, including The Godfather and a suite of themes from Cinema Paradiso. More at http://www.thebroadstage.com/andrea_morricone/ So...