Six breathtaking Roman ruins that you've never heard of
Italy has so much history that it's hard to know where to visit when the weekend arrives. Here are six uniquely, fascinating and downright spiffing Roman sites that are well worth a visit. The Anfiteatro Campano in Campania was built in the first century AD and is 49m high, with a circumference of 170 metres. It once hosted thousands of baying, blo...
First student delegation from Copertino, Italy, to Cupertino finds love for roller coasters and hamburgers
As it turns out, kids from Cupertino and Copertino, Italy, really aren’t so different. The first student delegation from Copertino, Italy—Cupertino’s first sister city—visited the West Valley May 24-June 1. The Cupertino-Copertino relationship began in 1963 when then Cupertino mayor John Benetti visited the Italian town. The four eighth-grade stude...
Save the Dates: Holy Family Roman Catholic Church Italian Festival returns to Nutley in September
Holy Family Roman Catholic Church on Brookline Avenue will hold their 26th Annual Italian Festival from Thursday September 21 through Sunday September 24 in the church parking lot. The annual event includes food, music, games, and rides.
The ultimate ranking of Pasta shapes
Pasta. It’s one of the simplest and quickest things to whip up, but if done well, can be one of the most delicious and comforting meals in the world. We all love pasta, and we’re inundated with with types - never mind what the pasta is actually made of, one of the most divisive dining dilemmas can be choosing a pasta shape. Do you play it safe with...
40 decades later,’The Fever Still Burns’
It could be argued that there were three truly significant Italian American movies that cemented Italian culture into the zeitgeist. The Godfather, Rocky and Saturday Night Fever, the latter of which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year. Each of those movies was sold as ‘The American Dream’ all with anti-hero leads, all with flawed charact...
Manufacturing Plant Locates in Weirton
An Italian manufacturing company that supports the natural gas industry is setting up shop in the Northern Panhandle. The Italian-based company Pietro Fiorentini broke ground in a ceremony this week to announce the purchase and development of a 26-acre plot in Weirton. Fiorentini has been operating an office in West Virginia since 2013, but the Wei...
The scores of Ennio Morricone: a cinematic giant
The word prolific is one of the more overused descriptions that writers often apply to artists. Very few actually deserve the title as it is one that implies an artist that creates a huge volume of work without sacrificing its level of quality; the dichotomy and balance that any creative person struggles to overcome. With the changes in film indust...
Il Giardino review: Aquebogue Italian restaurant serves familiar fare prepared with care
John Gambino is the constant gardener of Il Giardino, which has sprouted where Petulant Wino once poured. You’ll quickly identify the vintage house by the wine barrels outside. They’ve been turned into signage that spells “bistro.” Before Petulant Wino uncorked here, this was the address of the short-lived Comtesse Thérèse Bistro. Gambino, formerly...
How Google Photographed A Lost, Rogue, Remote Italian Village That Artists Rebuilt
Roughly 120 years before Google launched its Google Street View Technology in several cities of the USA, a major earthquake struck the region of Liguria in northwest Italy. On Feb. 23, 1887, at 6:21 a.m. most buildings in the small village of Bussana Vecchia were severely damaged. The old village was abandoned and all of its buildings declared dang...
One for the Coach: The Vince Lombardi Story
Americans love sports! Though the same could be said truthfully about elsewhere, it is especially true here. The reasons for this are manifold. The fact that television, which gave spectator sports to the masses, was invented and first popularized here no doubt played a large part. Capitalism may have been a Dutch invention but crass Capitalism...
From Prato to Ferrara, culture and food are driving urban renewal
Across Italy, former hospitals are becoming museums, ex-warehouses are being revived as centers for culture and food, and formerly abandoned areas are turning into locations for special events. Right in the middle of its historic enter, the Tuscan city of Prato has created a cultural center by reclaiming the old Campolmi textile mill, a monument of...
Consumi: Coldiretti, in 40mila salvano Made in Italy da estinzione
Salgono a 40mila gli agricoltori che nelle proprie aziende nel 2016 hanno salvato semi antichi e le piante rare del Made in Italy dal rischio di estinzione. E’ quanto emerge dall’analisi della Coldiretti/Ixe’ presentata insieme alla Sis, la Società Italiana Sementi sul ritorno delle antiche sementi della tradizione italiana che dopo aver rischiato...