Columbus Italian Festival has aroma, amore
by Lori Kurtzman We'll talk about the sights of the Columbus Italian Festival — the sausage selfies, the BONGRNO license plate, the woman in cherry red heels navigating the brick streets — but, first, can we talk about the smell? It doesn't hit you right away. As you make your way to the festival's 4th Street entrance, there's barely...
Beaumont, SE Texans celebrate heritage with Italian History Month
by Dan Wallach Much of what Americans know about Sicily comes from the 1972 movie "The Godfather," but that's only a movie, which isn't the same as history. Jefferson County Commissioners Court on Monday proclaimed October as Italian History Month. Commissioners might easily have called it Sicilian History Month, because they appear...
Boy Scout Creates Bocce Court in Downing Park
by Brian Marschhauser Joseph Prestigiacomo, a Boy Scout with Troop 174, constructed a bocce court in Downing Park as part of his Eagle Scout Service Project. Prestigiacomo completed the project with the help of Circolo da Vinci, a non-profit organization that promotes Italian-American heritage. Club President Dorothea LaScala said Pr...
‘Sinatra 100’ gets his good side
By Timothy R. Smith "Sinatra 100" is a spacious and mesmerizing picture book, documentingFrank Sinatra's life, from his birth in Hoboken, N.J., through his final years. It's full of the cool and class we expect from the Chairman. We see him reading sheet music at a lectern, cigarette in hand; dressed as a sultan and riding a camel...
Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nov. 24, 2015—Jan. 6, 2016. Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 Fifth Avenue - New York, New York The Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a long-established yuletide tradition in New York. The brightly lit, twenty-foot blue spruce—with a collection of eighteenth-century Neapolitan...
8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Pompeii
Here, Roman historian and archaeologist Dr Joanne Berry shares eight lesser-known Pompeii facts... 1) Pompeii is not frozen in time, nor is it a perfect time-capsule The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 caused vast damage – fires were started, rooftops were swept away, columns collapsed. Most of the inhabitants of the town escaped into t...
Great Italians of the Past: Altiero Spinelli
WTI Magazine #74 2015 December 11Author : Giovanni Verde Translation by: The first name that comes out when every European thinks about the European Union, is Altiero Spinelli. He was the one to dream a continent in harmony after being the scene of two world wars. The ideas of this Italian dreamer marked the exciting season of Europe...
Pasta presentation puts pupils in touch with Italy
by Maureen Daye Linda Schiano, who teaches Italian at the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School, enthusiastically shared her knowledge about how to create and cook pasta with more than 100 eighth-graders on a recent day at the school. Some 10 years ago when Schiano began teaching at MEMS, she came up with the idea of having an annua...
Five facts about Steve DiFillippo, CEO chef from Davio's Boston and Foxborough's Patriot Place
By Sarah Platanitis Meet Steve DiFillippo, restaurateur and owner of Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse in Boston and Patriot Place in Foxborough. He's been in the restaurant industry for 30 years, was inducted into the Massachusetts Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2008 and awarded Restaurateur of the Year in 2014. Want to know a more about hi...
That’s Amore: Gelato and art come together in Coral Gables
by Linda Bladholm Soon, the stretch of Giralda Avenue in Coral Gables known as restaurant row will be converted into Giralda Plaza, a pedestrian-friendly streetscape with pavers and mature palms. One place you will want to go before, during and after the project is Amore Gelato Art Caffe. The white-on-white spot was formerly Pete'...
St. Pio Reliquary On the way to Rome for Jubilee
The remains of Saint Pio - known as Padre Pio of Pietrelcina - were taken from the church in San Giovanni Rotondo, Apulia, and started their journey to Rome. Pope Francis wanted the remains to be moved to Rome as part of the extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. The remains are set to arrive at the Capuchin church of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls later...
Perché Amazon ha comprato l’astigiana Nice, il cloud made in Italy che ha conquistato Bezos
di Giancarlo Donadio Amazon fa compre in Italia e acquista un'azienda di Asti, specializzata in soluzioni cloud. Nice, questo il suo nome, non è una startup. Fondata nel 1996 da Giuseppe Ugolotti, ingegnere informatico 70enne, ha una lista clienti da far invidia ai giganti del tech: Airbus, Audi, Bridgestone, Ferrari, Fiat, fino a...