Rome: City and Empire
Frist Center for the Visual Arts - 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN. February 23–May 28, 2018. One of the most extraordinary geopolitical powers in history, the Roman Empire continues to capture the imaginations of people across the globe, nearly three thousand years after the city of Rome arose from a cluster of villages in central Italy. Rome: City an...
Here's what La Centrale, Miami's first Italian food hall, will look like
Loosen those belts, South Florida: Pasta, pizza and imported wine highlight the bill of fare at Miami food hall La Centrale, a three-story homage to Italian cuisine expected to open in February at Brickell City Centre. The 40,400-square-foot food hall (pronounced “Lah-chen-TRAL-ay”) is the brainchild of restaurateur Jacopo Giustiniani and hospitali...
Kennesaw May Get New Fazoli's Italian Restaurant
Kennesaw is likely to be the new home of one of three Atlanta area Fazoli's restaurants opening in 2018, according to reports. The other likely new locations will be in Canton and Rome. The Tribune Ledger News reported that local entrepreneur Amit Patel is "extremely excited for this development opportunity... Fazoli's is a great and unique concept...
Italian root biologist joins University's fight against citrus greening
An inventive fruit tree researcher has joined the University of Florida Indian River Research and Education Center. Lorenzo Rossi is the center’s first-ever root biology professor and will support the university’s statewide Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ commitment to restore Florida’s $9 billion citrus industry. “Healthy roots are es...
Buon Appetito! Alpharetta’s Casa Nuova Italian Restaurant Announces Its Year-Long Celebrations To Mark 20th Anniversary
Casa Nuova Italian Restaurant today announced to residents of Alpharetta, GA that it is holding a year-long celebration to mark twenty years of serving up plate after plate of Southern European cuisines to the local community. The celebration will be marked throughout the year with monthly events and special occasions, starting in February, exactly...
New UT baseball coach Tony Vitello emphasizes leadership
Tony Vitello grew up in a baseball family in the baseball-crazed city of St. Louis and spent a decade playing and coaching the sport at the University of Missouri. So it's only natural Vitello is using a concept he attributes to former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa as he begins his first head coaching job at Tennessee. Vitello remembers...
Santa Margherita USA Welcomes Two Italian Wineries to National Import Portfolio
Santa Margherita USA, a national wine importer, has announced the addition of two Italian wineries to their portfolio; Cà Maiol of Lombardy and Cantina Mesa of Sardinia. These two wineries join the company's stable of wine producers, which now number ten in total. The addition of these wineries to Santa Margherita USA's parent company, Santa Margh...
Meet the Italian grandmother who went viral with her new Google Home
Maria Actis can FaceTime with her grandchildren and use Facebook with no problem, but the 85-year-old Flagler Beach resident was a little scared when her grandson presented her with a round small speaker on Christmas and told her to say, "Hello, Google." The results of her first interaction with her present, a Google Home Mini device, unexpectedly...
Strano restaurant to move to East Memphis
Strano! Sicilian Kitchen & Bar is moving. The restaurant, which opened in 2014, at 948 Cooper, will move to the site of the old Jim’s Place Restaurant & Bar at Poplar and Perkins, said chef/owner Josh Steiner. Steiner is excited about the move. "We're moving to a bigger and better spot."He plans to give “a nice facelift” to the old Jim’s restaurant...
An Atlanta entrepreneur searching for the perfect home base finally found it in a Tuscan ruin — see the before and after photos of her 12th century Italian fortress
Stylist, photo producer, and author Annette Joseph wanted a space to expand her workshop and teaching business. What she found, or — as the Italian saying goes — the house that found her, is an 8,500 square-foot 12th century fortress in Lunigiana, Italy. "I knew it would be the perfect location to conduct creative workshops and retreats, and, ever...
Sale e Pepe names Antonio Minichiello as new executive chef
Sale e Pepe, the elegant Italian restaurant overlooking the Gulf of Mexico within the award-winning Marco Beach Ocean Resort, has named Antonio Minichiello as executive chef. Raised in the small, southern Italian town of Avellino, Minichiello's love for cooking began at an early age alongside his mother and grandmother, eventually leading him to en...
Buon appetito at the Boca Italian Fest!
Boca Italian Fest parties for 3rd annual festival. When you say “Italian,” and you mean music, food and wine, you have to head to the 3rd Annual Italian Fest in downtown Boca Raton Feb. 3. Head for the many Italian food booths, and stick around for the live entertainment, cooking demonstrations, grape stomping, rides, face painting, a sketch artist...