After volatility of Nebraska, Pelini finds comfort at home
by Ralph D. Russo The heroes of northeast Ohio cover the walls at the most popular Italian restaurant in Bo Pelini's hometown. Bernie Kosar's No. 19 Cleveland Browns jersey next to the door that leads to the kitchen. The photograph behind the bar of Ron Jaworski, the former Youngstown State quarterback who took the Philadelphia Eagles...
LED technology will help see The Last Supper under a new light
Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper changes its lighting thanks to a new LED installation, guaranteeing energy savings and much lower heat emissions. This solution pollutes less and helps to better preserve Da Vinci's very delicate masterpiece, which can now only be visited in small groups. The new lighting system was prepared by Marche-based comp...
Healdsburg’s Lou Colombano, owner of Rainbow Club, dies at 100
Now and again throughout his industrious and agreeable 100 years of life, Lou Colombano would be asked where he attended college. He remarked in an interview earlier this year at his home in Healdsburg, "I always say I went to the College of Geyserville." His education in the verdant valley town of northern Sonoma County encompassed t...
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics, 1909-1944
May 13 2015 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics, 1909-1944 explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909, Futurism sought to propel Italy into the modern world...
Sante Fe Line heading to Italian Festival
by James Beaty The Santa Fe Line is set to pull into the Italian Festival this week for a performance that will double as a homecoming concert for two of the band's members. While the group has been creating quite a buzz in Texas, the band always looks forward to returning to McAlester. That's because two of its members, Chuck Justice and...
Bianchi's Italian to open second restaurant in June
by Andi Berlin Fans of the popular west-side pizza and wings joint Bianchi's Italian will be pleased to know, the restaurant is now shooting for a June 1 opening date for their second location. The Tucson staple is opening the former home of Marana's sprawling The Steak Out restaurant. Owner Vincent Bianchi says the new spot...
Labor and electoral reforms persuade OECD to upgrade Italy’s outlook
by Marco Moussanet The OECD gives a pass to the government and upgrades Italy's economic outlook , writing that "the combination of factors that foster Italian growth is the most promising in years." The combined effect of a weak euro and falling oil prices, exports that are expected to increase by 3.4% this year and by 5.1% in 2016 (+5.5...
Italian Craft Brewer Collects 6 Medals at Beer Competition
Emerging craft brewer Tenute Collesi was recently awarded six medals--four gold and two silver--by the highly prestigious Beverage Tasting Institute in Chicago, Illinois, America's oldest international beer competition. The tasting competition took place on May 6 and saw Collesi collect top prizes for its Bionda, Rossa, Nera and Malto beers. Gold...
Italian cinema: Cinema ritrovato
WTI Magazine #63 2015 June, 27Author : Edoardo Peretti Translation by: In these days takes place one of the most important and internationally known Italian film festivals, at least among the movie enthusiasts: the Bologna "Cinema Ritrovato" (from 29 June to 4 July). It is not the dear old Venice Film Festival, or the Festival of Cin...
Time to stare at a live feed of this underwater garden
By Russell Brandom Holidays can be exhausting, but it's nothing an underwater garden can't solve. This is Nemo's Garden, an underwater greenhouse anchored off Italy's Ligurian coast, recently detailed in The Washington Post. Stationed 20 feet underwater, Nemo's garden is able to take advantage of high humidity, even temperatures a...
Hidden Tuscany: Discovering Art, Culture, and Memories in a Well-Known Region’s Unknown Places.
by Kenneth Scambray John Keahey is a journalist turned travel writer who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some years ago on a visit to Italy he became enamored with Italian culture: its history and art. His falling for Italy in such a big way is understandable. He joins the legions of writers since the seventeenth century who have written ab...
Café Mercato offers inviting Italian-American fare
by William Porter Whatever other virtues Café Mercato possesses — and there are several — the newish spot in Denver's Lowry neighborhood has to be the only upscale Italian restaurant anywhere with a close-up view of a B-52 Stratofortress. That's how close the establishment is to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, where...