Italian Wine Exports In 2015 Set New Record
The value of Italian wine exports grew buy an estimated 6 per cent to €5.4 billion in 2015, compared to €5.1 billion in the previous year. However, reduced product availability after 2014's disappointing harvest meant that the volume of wine exports was lower than the year before, reaching just over 20 million hectolitres. Growth was mainl...
BelloMoto: How a passion for vintage Vespas turned into a unique store - Collection
by Serena Perfetto Audrey Hepburn. Gregory Peck. Rome. A Vespa. Nobody can forget the funny and entertaining scene of one of Italian most popular movies, Vacanze Romane, and this is mainly because the characters, the location, the style perfectly represented Italy and the Italians. When thinking about lifestyle, the green Vespa dr...
Vinny's focuses on fresh flavors, family in Ocean City
by Hannah Carroll Two things are very important to Vincent Sebastian; his family and his pizza. Naturally, his downtown Ocean City restaurant,Vinny's Italian Pizza & Grill, pays homage to both. The menu features authentic pies, pasta, subs and salads made from old family recipes and the highest quality ingredients, such as im...
The Amici Club
The Amici Club is a social organization for anyone wishing to enhance their appreciation of Italian heritage and culture. The club was founded by Maria Mastrolanardo, who moved with her family to Naperville in 2004 from an Italian neighborhood in Chicago. Disappointed she could not find stores that sold the Italian foods she was used to, Maria...
Bruno Magli to relaunch in U.S.. with Lucy Liu as Ambassador
Bruno Magli is making a comeback in the U.S. market. The Italian luxury shoe company will relaunch after a three-year hiatus for the fall-winter 2016 season and has tapped Lucy Liu as its ambassador. The brand, which was founded in 1936 and sold in Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue, is targeting the same core cu...
O Sole Trio an Italian celebrazione
Italy came to Pueblo last night, well, an Americanized version of it, in the form of O Sole Trio, a two-singers-and-a-piano-man team from New York City, who performed an enjoyable variety of Italian-flavored songs as the latest installment of the Center Stage Performing Arts Series at the slightly warm Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center....
5th Street Pub's New Location is a Little Slice of Italy
Geoff Kies recently unveiled the second 5th Street Pub on Monroe Street in Sylvania. Taking the methods from his successful Perrysburg location, 5th Street Pub serves burgers hot off the grill, pasta, fire roasted sandwiches and most importantly, Neapolitan Pizza: cooked in 90 seconds in their wood-burning oven. Developed 300 years ago in...
Joe Petrosino: the Legendary Italian-American Detective who Fought the Mafia in New York
New York City police officer Joe Petrosino stood in Palermo's Piazza Marina, waiting to meet an informant supposed to give him information about the Mafia. No informant ever arrived. Instead, Petrosino was gunned down. Four shots. There ended the life and career of the Italian American who had made it his mission to fight and eradicate organized cr...
Primo’s founder raised family of entrepreneurs
Marino Soave escaped life in war-torn Italy to pursue the American Dream. He came to Detroit with family values, work ethic and determination. That was a foundation for a family that would develop many new homes and businesses in and around Livonia – including Primo's Pizza, one of the city's legendary eateries. Mr. Soave died Saturday fr...
«Amo l’Italia e voglio comprare un club»
«Mi sono innamorato dell'Italia e ci torno spesso». Parola di Mike Piazza, la stella del baseball che la scorsa settimana ha visitato la nostra città e ha incontrato il presidente della Reggiana Stefano Compagni per intavolare una trattativa, che secondo indiscrezioni prevede l'acquisto del 60% della società granata per 3 milioni di euro. Intervis...
Battle of the Storytellers Recap Part I
So, Monday was the Battle of the Storytellers event! It was a fun night that brought lots of great people together. I'm sad that it's already over! There were five teams that competed for first place. I really enjoyed when each professor introduced their class and talked about some of the highlights of their semester before the videos played. The...
Tony Gemignani talks Slice House Walnut Creek, opening Friday
The final piece of the puzzle is just about in place for the eye-catching new development located on what's known as Cadillac Corner in downtown Walnut Creek. Following the openings of Teleferic Barcelona and Rooftop Restaurant & Bar in the second and top floors of developer Brian Hirahara's latest project, Tony Gemignani of North Beach's popu...