Dining - May 29, 2007
Badia's rep adds spice to black truffle dinner
It's promoted as a "black truffle dinner," but the June 14 culinary event at Dream Dance, the luxury restaurant at Potawatomi Bingo Casino, should be hyped for its special guest instead.
Tags: Badia a Coltibuono, Tuscany, Chianti, truffle, Dream Dance, Potawatomi, Stucchi-Prinetti

Milwaukee Buzz - Dec. 22, 2006
Tuscans gather to toss cake at Libiamo
Tony Piacentini is a Milwaukeean with Tuscan roots and Wednesday night he brought an old Sienese tradition to Brew City. At about 9 p.m. at Libiamo, Piacentini and his Wednesday night gang held what might be the first ever Panforte toss in Milwaukee.
Tags: Panforte, Siena, Pienza, Piacentine, Piacentini, Tuscany, Toscana, Groppi, Libiamo, Barga

Arts & Entertainment - Dec. 11, 2006
Cousin's story fuels Salsini's fiction debut
What does it take to turn a life-long journalist and university writing teacher into a first-time novelist? Well, in the case of Paul Salsini, who teaches at Marquette, all it took was a little inspiration to fuel the passion. Salsini's first novel, "The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany," is the fruit of conversations he had with a cousin in Italy.
Tags: Salsini, Tuscany, Lucca, Cielo, partigiani, partisans, Allies, Nazis, Stazzema