Italian Street Food Festival
When: 60 W Wattles Rd, Troy | Michigan | 48098 - Where: Troy Museum and Historic Village * The extra parking is on Lange Street, just north of Wattles, you can park along the street. Appetizers * Pasta * Piadine * Oil & Vinegar tasting * Drinks * Dessert * Coffee-$30.00 DAS Member – Adult (individual)-$35.00 Non -Member-$10.00 children under 12 Adu...
Vogliamo Tutto: Post War Italian Art
When: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 At 7:30 pm - Where: Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum Italian art after World War II experienced a remarkable renaissance as artists began experimenting with traditional forms and styles in provocative ways—from the Arte Povera movement in which everyday materials replaced the stones and precious metals of traditional...
Bellagio debuts Italian-inspired summer garden display
Summer arrives at Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens with First Italian-inspired display on June 12. The summer display by designer Ed Libby and the Bellagio Horticulture team brings the island of Capri to the Las Vegas Strip. Featuring a rugged landscape with multicolored villas high above a cove-studded coastline, 16-foot stone archways,...
Meet the developer behind the West Austin retreat with Italian style (ICE)
Italian developer combines touches of the Old World at Hotel Granduca Austin. Giorgio Borlenghi strives to get even the tiniest detail right at his West Austin hotel. Without too much of a stretch, Giorgio Borlenghi could play a suave, playful diplomat in a Federico Fellini movie. Relaxed yet formal in the relaxed yet formal setting of his hilltop...
Dino Luciano makes Top 20 on ‘MasterChef’
Combining artistry with cooking, local Murrieta resident Dino Luciano has made the Top 20 in the eighth season of FOX network’s popular cooking show, “MasterChef.” According to Luciano, approximately 37,000 people applied for the show this season. Potential contestants were invited to present a plate that represented who they are – his being a vega...
Ten colourful Italian idioms and the strange meanings behind them
Idioms - those little stock expressions whose meanings aren't what they first seem - are often the hardest part of learning a new language. And Italian has an abundance of the confusing sayings. This means that you can understand every word that someone is saying to you, and yet still not have a clue what they're talking about. In particular, the w...
Mt. Carmel to celebrate 124th feast
The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church will celebrate 124 unbroken years of devotion to the Blessed Mother from July 13 to 16. Festivities will culminate on July 16 with a 9 a.m. Solemn Mass in Italian in the church, a morning procession to a noon field Mass and a second procession following the Mass. A street festival will run from July 13 to 16, and a...
Italian exchange student 'lives a movie' while at CHS
When Elena Mullano first landed on United States soil, she was not stepping into a different country, but jumping into one of the many American films she had seen as she grew up. The 17-year-old Italian hailing from Sardinia, a large island in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, said it was an almost immediate reaction when she stepped off the plane....
La lingua, lo stile, il Paese: l'italiano che piace
L’Italiano piace, e non si parla solo di stile di vita. Gate-away.com, il portale immobiliare per l’estero, unico in Italia e dedicato esclusivamente ad acquirenti internazionali in cerca di una seconda casa in Italia, a distanza di pochi mesi dagli “Stati Generali della Lingua Italiana nel mondo” ha condotto un sondaggio su un nutrito campione di...
10 Years After The Sopranos Ended, Its Legacy Lives on at New York’s Italian Restaurants
On June 10, 2007, nearly 12 million TV watchers all had the same thought: “Did the cable just go out?” They’d seen the Soprano family squeeze into a booth at Holsten’s ice-cream parlor, eating “New Jersey’s best onion rings” while waiting for Meadow. When that front door opened, though: blackness. The final scene of the final episode of The Soprano...
Italian guard Moretti pledges to Texas Tech men’s hoops
After taking a four-college, 11-day trip to the United States, Italian guard Davide Moretti has made his final decision. Moretti, who visited Lubbock during the June 2 weekend, committed Saturday afternoon to Texas Tech, per a source. The 19-year-old, high-level guard is expected to part of the Red Raiders’ stacked 2017 recruiting class and will ha...
Sugar Land To Host International Italian Film Festival In 2017
Sugar Land City Council recently approved an agreement with the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce, the International Film Festival of Spello (IFFS) and the Region of Umbria for the creation of an Italian Film Festival in Sugar Land. The multi-day festival called Umbria in Sugar Land is scheduled for Sept. 27 through Oct. 1 at locations throughout Sugar...