Italian team Pallacanestro Cantu signs Metta World Peace, calls it 'coup of the century'
Former NBA All-Star Metta World Peace has signed for Italian team Pallacanestro Cantu for the remainder of the season. After a series of teasing tweets from the 35-year-old World Peace — such as "whatever you can do I Cantu better" — Cantu confirmed the news, calling it "the coup of the century." "When Daniele (sporting director Danie...
Giordano's to open at Navy Pier
Navy Pier is adding a household Chicago pizza name to its growing list of new restaurants designed to boost traffic at the lakeside tourist hotspot. Giordano's Pizza is slated to move in to the 3,200-square-foot dining space on the north side of the pier's main entrance, the restaurant chain will announce today. The highly visible spa...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 58
WTI Magazine #58 2015 April, 17Author : Umberto Mucci Translation by: Hi everybody, first of all let us wish a Happy birthday to our city, the capital of our beloved country, Rome: the legend tells that on April 21st Rome will celebrate its 2768th birthday, being born in 753 BC! As you know, We the Italians has its headquarters in Rome,...
Mandolin Orchestra entertaining crowds for 74 years
by Peter Fiorilla The Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra, which has some of the deepest roots of any musical organization in New Jersey, is honoring its long and celebrated history in more ways than one at its next annual concert. History is a point of pride for the orchestra, which will be playing in concert at the Bloomfield Mi...
Chef-driven grocery and cafe gifts Oak Cliff with Italian goods
An opening date has arrived for the long-in-the-making CiboDivino Marketplace and Caffe, at the Sylvan Thirty complex in Oak Cliff: Monday, May 4. Owned and operated by chef Daniele and Christina Puleo, CiboDivino is an Italian eatery, market and bar featuring prepared foods, pizza, wine and coffee. A native of Sicily, Puleo is the former...
Italian Story “Two Women” Trending in Bay
You can join the San Francisco Opera this season for the World Premiere of La Ciociara – "Two Women" in English – a story about the cruelty of war, loss of innocence and intense love of a mother for a daughter. Nicola Luisotti, director of both the San Francisco Opera since September 2009 and music director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Na...
The Tale of Tales: Real life Fairy tale locations in Italy
by Claudia Baroncelli As one of the three Italian movies competing at the Cannes Film Festival 2015, The Tale of Tales by Italian Matteo Garrone (two-time winner of the Cannes Grand Prix for "Gomorra" in 2008 and "Reality" in 2011) is a "fantasy movie with horror elements" in the director's words, interpreted by Salma Hayek, John C. R...
10 Important Life Lessons – Children of Italian Immigrants
10. To Have CourageBetween 1861 and 1985, 29,036,000 Italians emigrated to other countries. Poverty was the main reason for their leaving. They risked everything in emigrating to a new country. Usually moving across the ocean at a time when Ocean Travel was precarious at best only to find that they had much Prejudice and hardship to overcome when t...
Dopo 35 anni Burri si prende tutto il Guggenheim
di Ada Masoero Milano. È stata presentata ieri a Milano, sotto l'affresco di Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Palazzo Clerici, la mostra curata da Emily Braun (con Megan Fontanella e Carol Stringari) che il Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum di New York dedica dal 9 ottobre al 6 gennaio prossimi ad Alberto Burri (1915-95), nel centenario della nasci...
Bobby's South Bay Italian caters to adults and children
by Megan Garringer Sometimes, it can be hard for parents to find a restaurant that both they and their kids enjoy, but Bobby's South Bay Italian has solved that problem for South Bay families since its opening last year. While there isn't an official kids' menu, half-servings of many dishes can be prepared and everyone in the family will enjo...
Little Italy hotter than ever
By Michele Parente As he has on most nights for the last 46 years, Nick Pecoraro was watching the world go by on Wednesday from the porch of his ornately embellished two-story house on India Street, right at the foot of the Little Italy sign. The Sicilian-born Pecoraro, 73, is a reigning member of the historic neighborhood's old g...
Aquitaine Group To Open La Motta’s Italian Specialties in South End
by Carla Balzano The vacant building at 1357 Washington Street in the South End, will now be occupied. The Aquitaine Group, which closed the building's last vendor, Union Bar & Grille, over a decade ago, is opening a new Italian restaurant this summer. The group will open La Motta's Italian Specialties late this summer. La Motta's is...