Seattle

Ralph Bufano’s decades of museum management expertise have had a major impact on art and aviation museums from Maryland to Missouri, New York to Wisconsin. On the West Coast, from 1991 to 2005, he was president and CEO of Seattle’s …

Go into any bookstore and you’ll likely see a well-stocked cookbook section. There are cookbooks by continent, country, and geographic region. Some are arranged by meal, by season, or by holiday. Others devote themselves to variations on a single dish …

Cinema Italian Style, which ran November 9-16 at the SIFF Uptown Theater in Seattle, presented 15 stellar films in celebration of the festival’s 15th season.   Fourteen of those films were new releases and one – Visconti’s Bellissima – was …

Sister-city friendships come with economic, artistic and cross-cultural benefits, but even more than that, they offer meaningful personal relationships and ongoing friendships. The idea of creating global understanding person-to-person was a driving force behind President Dwight Eisenhower’s creation of the …

Founded in 1907, Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market attracts about 10 million tourists and local residents every year. Seventy farmers have fruit and vegetable stalls, and another 160 artists sell their handcrafted products and artwork there. And don’t forget the …

Students enrolled in Gonzaga University’s kinesiology and sport management program will soon be able to apply for an internship unlike any other: A chance to team with Pistoia Basket 2000, a professional basketball club in Tuscany. The sport management professional …

Dr. Susan Gaylard has been fascinated with clothes for years, but not in the way you might think. Gaylard, an associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Washington, researches Italian culture and clothing and how they have evolved throughout the centuries. …

To say that Iole Alessandrini would travel to the ends of the Earth to capture images of light, time and space is no exaggeration.  In fact, the Seattle artist spent two weeks this past October in the Arctic Circle, traveling …

Author and cooking school owner Fabrizia Lanza grew up in Sicily, immersed in the world of food and wine. Raised on her family’s 200-acre agricultural estate in Regaleali, southeast of Palermo, she is part of a well-known Sicilian winemaking family. …

The great wave of Italian immigrants to the United States began in the 1880s and lasted until 1920. More than four million Italians made the journey, with about 75 percent settling in cities on the East Coast. A small contingent …