ENF13 Meet New Italian American Author, Deborah Stevens...Book Signing and Wine Giveaway!
Join us on Monday, October 21, 2013, and meet Italian American author, Deborah Stevens! Deborah has recently completed her first novel, a fiction thriller, entitled " The Serpent's Disciple". The book's springboard is derived from the 1978 event in which Pope John Paul I was about to release a list of y within the Vatican who belonged to an illega...
Annapolis dining: Maggiano's Little Italy set to open, new bistro from Severn Inn team
An outlet of Maggiano's Little Italy will open in the Westfield Annapolis mall on Oct. 14. This is the first Maryland location, and the 45th overall, for the traditional Italian restaurant concept, whose Italian menu includes pastas, salads, steaks and seafood. Maggiano's restaurants serve lunch and dinner and offer both delivery and carryout servi...
Berkeley premia la startup biotech Tensive di Alessandro Tocchio
Un incrocio quasi impossibile, un'ora prima della partenza mia da San Francisco, al termine dell'Italiani di Frontiera Silicon Valley Tour con gli imprenditori romagnoli, breve chiacchierata su Skype con Alessandro Tocchio, appena arrivato in Italia... da San Francisco, con il prestigioso premio conquistato a Berkeley, con la sua startup Tensive....
Merigan Sub Shop, Italian-American Fare in SoMa
Liza Shaw has been on a quest since she moved to the Bay Area 14 years ago. Her goal? The kind of fresh, meaty Italian sub that's ubiquitous back home on the East Coast, but not nearly so easy to find in SF. Eventually, the former A16 executive chef decided to take matters into her own hands, and today she's debuting the result: Merigan Sub Shop, a...
Italian language: Bufera (Storm)
WTI Magazine #10 2013 Dec, 20Author : Alessandro Masi Translation by: The word originates from the verb "to buff", indicating the action of strongly blowing, whether if related to humans or to the wind. The last few weeks have been full of storms, both real and metaphorical. The real ones leave dismayed,...
Italian American Culture – The Art of Musical Composition
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 – 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). "Amahl" was the first ope...
Annual Abruzzese Salami and Sausage Making Extravaganza
by Sandra Tornberg More than 35 years ago a tradition was started by the late Giulio and Connie Badia. They opened their home to about ten paesani for the purpose of making sausage, salami, and prosciutto in the Abruzzese tradition. Back in those days they started out with one hundred pounds of pork meat, and eventually worked the...
Voltaggio Introduces New Italian Concept Within Range
Don't fret Bryan Voltaggio fans. Range, the "Top Chef" alum's Friendship Heights hot spot, isn't biting the dust. The chef's vague social media flirtations that an Italian concept is coming to 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW, which is the address of Range, left some to speculate whether Voltaggio is opening a new space within the Chevy Chase Pavi...
Rosati's celebrates 50th anniversary, new Schererville location
Rosati's Pizza in Schererville may have a new location, but there's nearly a century of tradition behind the name that began in Coney Island, New York and then Chicago's Taylor Street. The name goes back to the 1890s when Italian immigrant Ferdinand Rosati opened a New York restaurant. The family later moved to Chicago where in 1927 Ferdinand's so...
La comunità italo-americana a Milwaukee: storie di successi oltreoceano
Alcune settimane fa vi ho parlato del fatto che a Milwaukee non esista una Little Italy, dove si ha la sensazione di essere in Italia perché si sente parlare solo italiano come a Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco o anche Pittsburgh. In città però la presenza italiana è quanto mai vivace. Il centro della vita della comunità qui da mo...
Bulgari to Fund Renovation of Rome’s Spanish Steps
Italian jewelry and luxury goods company Bulgari on Thursday answered the Italian government's appeal for help in financing a renovation of Rome's famous Spanish Steps. Bulgari, which was bought in 2011 by French luxury giant LVMH, will put $2 million towards the refurbishment which will begin in 2015 and last two years, Rome's mayor Ignaz...
L'Italia, il design e Paola Antonelli
By Jacopo Colò Paola Antonelli è arrivata al MoMA, uno dei più importanti musei del mondo, nel 1994. Aveva 31 anni. Ha iniziato la sua carriera lì semplicemente rispondendo a un annuncio di lavoro e poi non se ne è più andata, arrivando fino a diventare la curatrice del dipartimento di design e architettura del museo. Le sue acquisizioni...
