Viscuso, lo scultore che visse due volte
Certo, nascere la notte di Natale da un papà falegname e una mamma di nome Maria, "morire" a 33 anni e poi resuscitare, non prendere mai moglie e vivere "spiritualmente" in un vero e proprio paradiso, può aiutare. Emanuele lo sa e ci scherza sopra: "Sono molto religioso, come la mia famiglia del resto. Però credo molto alle coincidenze. Se...
Italian Heritage Festival has a new Home at The Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn
Back for its fifth annual celebration of the colorful culture of Italy, the Italian Heritage Festival will be held on Saturday, September 13th from 11am to 4pm. While the fun and fabulous food factor will remain the same, the festival is moving its location to the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn. What has made the festival so...
Cavalli Miami presents Halloween Jungle hosted by Roberto Cavalli - October 31, 2014 at 9:30 pm
Hotspot Cavalli Miami, owned and conceptualized by internationally celebrated couturier, Roberto Cavalli, has rapidly become the dining, entertainment and celebrity destination since its opening in January. Exuding a blend of Mr. Cavalli's sense of elegance and distinctive aesthetic along with Miami's unmistakable vibrancy, its no wonder it will be...
Italian twins who were put up for adoption in US after their mother died in childbirth track down relatives via Facebook 55 years later
By Corey Charlton Twins born in Italy and put up for adoption in America have managed to track down their biological family in Europe via Facebook 55 years later. Jana Bennett and her twin sister Lisa Keeler were born in 1960, in Palermo, Italy. But now more than half a decade later and after numerous failed attempts to find...
Chef Jacques Larson blends Italian, southern culture
by Bret Thorn Jacques Larson started cooking in Iowa City, Iowa, while studying English and history at the University of Iowa, but he has been cooking in the Southeast for most of the past 17 years. He arrived in Charleston, S.C., in 1996 as the opening sous chef of the Peninsula Grill. In 2001 he moved to Greensboro, N.C., for hi...
Old country comes to the Lowcountry
Every September for the past three years, South Carolina's sneaker, (aka Hilton Head Island), gets pulled off and refitted with an Italian boot, known as the Italian Heritage Festival. If you've missed out on this annual event before now, then you have denied yourself the greatest fun, the best food, the most bodacious wine extravaganza, y...
NBA Sensation Stephen Curry Says Montessori Education a Key to His Success
"Montessori has helped me become the person that I am today," says the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry, the best 3-point shooter in a single season in NBA history. In a video just released by the American Montessori Society, Living Montessori: The Curry Family, the NBA standout reflects on the impact of his early Montessori education. ...
Dr. Alberico Sessa Receives Third Patients' Choice Award
While the world has been busy looking for the ObamaCare girl, she will probably not help us find a good doctor. And now that we know that the smiling brunette is a woman called Adriana from Maryland, our focus is back on a more important question: How can we find a good doctor? And how do we know he or she is really as good as they claim to be? &n...
Feast of Little Italy
The annual Feast of Little Italy, now in its twelfth year, and presented by Arrigo Fiat, returns to Jupiter on November 7, 8, and 9. This celebration of the very best of Italian culture draws thousands of visitors who will enjoy over 150 booths featuring everything from traditional Italian food to jewelry and home furnishings. This year th...
Cena di benvenuto per il nuovo console generale d’Italia a Miami, Gloria Marina Bellelli
Nell'elegante ristorante italiano "Arturo's" di Boca Raton si è svolta la manifestazione in onore del nuovo console generale d'Italia a Miami, la dott.ssa Gloria Marina Bellelli. Erano presenti la senatrice Maria Sachs, col marito Peter, il prof. Luigi Tommasini, marito della console generale, l'ex console Pasquale Centracchio e circa un centi...
Nuovo orario al Consolato di Miami
Novità nell'orario di apertura del Consolato italiano a Miami. Dal 1 ottobre il Consolato rimarrà chiuso al pubblico il giovedì. Per i restanti giorni della settimana è confermato l'orario di apertura attualmente in vigore: Lunedi, Martedì e Venerdì - dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 12.00; Mercoledì - dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 12.00 e dalle ore 15.00 alle o...
Graduate program in Italian at University of Georgia
The Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia invites interested students to apply to our M.A. and Ph.D. degree programs in Romance Languages with a specialization in Italian and Italian Studies. We especially welcome students interested in combining work in Italian with work in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese or Classics. Students...