Original Carrabba's Named Top Italian Restaurant in Texas Leading a host of Top Businesses Into Oprah Magazine
TOPS In America announced today its Top Italian Restaurant in Texas (Houston Edition) -- The Original Carrabba's on Kirby Drive, still owned by Johnny Carrabba and family, which will appear in Oprah's O Magazine, Food & Wine, and four other national magazines. "Carrabba's the national chain is a great Italian Restaurant. But it's still...
Castellani’s families have been fact, fiction, and fulfillment
In Christopher Castellani's "All This Talk of Love," Italian immigrant parents raise American offspring, mirroring the author's own life. Although the novel, Castellani's third, isn't drawn entirely from personal experience, he offered that "certain dynamics in the book are resonant to my family," including the complex idea of home. "There...
Zucchero “Sugar” Fornaciari Announces U.S. Album Release, Tour
When: April 18, 2014 – 8:30 p.m.Where: Berklee Performance Center, Boston MAZucchero "Sugar" Fornaciari, the Grammy-nominated Italian blues-rock singer, and one of Europe's best-selling artists, will release his latest album, La Sesión Cubana, on February 18th via Manhattan Records. Known as a musical wanderer, Zucchero achieves a long-hel...
Italian Food Heaven In Spring Hill Tennessee
It was a day...freezing temperatures and broken pipes being repaired made dinner out a most attractive prospect. As I said it had been "a day" and while I was remarking to my husband that I didn't want to have to drive too far out he suggested we try the new Italian place. Read more Source: http://www.examiner.com &...
The ‘future’ of Lancia according to Marchionne
It was Sergio Marchionne who announced the future plans for all of the brands in late January. Fiat brand will be concentrated in two families, Alfa Romeo will become the entry premium brand of the group, Maserati will continue to grow in the top premium segment; Jeep will become more global, while Chrysler and Dodge will enlarge their range of pro...
6th Annual Italian Film Festival: Politics, history, and intimacy
The Twin Cities is blessed with a cornucopia of cultural and ethnic film festivals: Nordic, Black, International, Cuban, Polish, African, Latin, Asian. This past weekend, March 6 - March 9, the 6th Annual Italian Film Festival, organized by the Italian Cultural Center with the support of the MN Film Society, took place at the St. Anthony Main Cinem...
Esce oggi "La meglio Italia. Le mobilità italiane nel XXI secolo" di Tirabassi e del Pra’
Esce oggi "La meglio Italia. Le mobilità italiane nel XXI secolo", volume di Maddalena Tirabassi e Alvise del Pra' (Torino, aAccademia University Press, 2014). Il libro scrive l'ultimo capitolo della storia migratoria italiana che è ripresa con cifre a cinque zeri: 106.000 nel 2012, con un incremento del 115% rispetto al 2002 e un aumento...
What’s behind a cup of Pasquini’s coffee? Real Italian espresso lovers
Bringing authentic Italian caffé in Southern California wasn't a random nor easy task for Ambrogio Pasquini. He fought hard for it. And he finally made it to the States in 1946, after fighting in the Resistance against the Germans, after seeing Mussolini's body hung upside down, after being deported twice and after travelling illegally in a trunk....
Anita Laing Memorial Documentary Project postponed
There will not be a screening this SundayOh no! The San Diego Italian Film Festival must postpone the rest of the documentary series! The Anita Laing Memorial Documentary Project, which began with an overflow house and three directors showcasing their films, is now in a state of limbo: Our previous schedule was disrupted because there are...
Italian politics: In Italy, Tangentopoli never ends. Fortunately, neither does the fight to corruption
WTI Magazine #30 2014 May, 15Author : Francesca Papasergi Translation by: Twenty-two years after the scandal that killed the "First Republic" and subverted the old political order, the Italian situation looks worse. The issues that brought businessmen, politicians and wheeler-dealers to conviction seems to be just the peak of the inv...
Italian traditions: The contest of Ferrara
WTI Magazine #32 2014 May, 29Author : folclore.it Translation by: The Palio (contest) of Ferrara, in addition to being the oldest in the world, is peculiar for the type of race, which is a festival unlike many other contests with a competition formula that comes from actual wars between the contestants.
Italian group OU performs June 13 at Emerald of Siam in Richland
A group of Italian musicians who call themselves OU will bring their European sound to the Tri-Cities on June 13 at the Emerald of Siam in Richland. The band will be accompanied by their American musician friend Amy Denio from Seattle. "OU is egg in the Sardinian dialect," Denio told the Herald in an email. "This is OU's first tour of the...