The San Diego Italian Film Festival will begin its 12th annual FeStivale Wednesday. The title of the 12-day festival is a play on words, said artistic director Antonio Iannotta. “Stivale” means boot in his native tongue, he explained, and refers to the well-known shape of Italy. From an unusual documentary about the legendary painter Caravaggio to...
At a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen, chefs adept at diverse cuisines are sharing their secrets with home cooks in classes at the newly opened North American Pizza & Culinary Academy in Lisle. Several celebrity chefs will be guest faculty this autumn. In addition, the academy and a center in San Francisco are the only two professional school...
Tuesday, October 9th @ 7:00 PM - The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301. Since hitting the road in 1946, eighteen million Vespa motor scooters have buzzed the Earth. Vespa's success lies in the uniqueness of its design -- in the unmistakable sheet metal skin that, over the span of decades, has d...
L’On. Francesca La Marca venerdì 28 settembre ha incontrato il Direttore di RAI Italia, Dott. Marco Giudici, per discutere con il responsabile della maggiore struttura dedicata agli italiani all’estero extraeuropei di una serie di questioni sulle quali si manifesta una maggiore sensibilità da parte dei nostri connazionali. Nel corso del lungo e cor...
Vincent Tropepe Fashions (VTF) made their debut at Brooklyn Borough Hall in Brooklyn, New York recently. Vincent Tropepe known as an award winning chef veered into fashion after a project presenting itself to him to design chef footwear, when Tropepe evolved the project into more mainstream footwear for everyone as well as designing handbags, walle...
Valley Regional Lodge #151 Sons of Italy, Lorenzo Durante, president, in cooperation with the cities and towns of the Naugatuck River Valley cordially invite you to help us celebrate Columbus Day 2018. Monday October 8, 2018, 11 a.m. Sons of Italy – 73 High Street – Derby, CT Program: Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance & National Anthem, Italian Flag...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 6pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036. Italian immigrants to the United States and Argentina hungered for the products of home: Merchants imported Italian cheese, wine, olive oil, and other commodities to meet the demand. As a result, migrant marketplaces came i...
Sparkling wine lovers have declared a day of mourning after video footage emerged showing 30 thousand liters of prosecco being unceremoniously wasted after a tank exploded at an Italian reservoir. The tragic spillage was filmed on Tuesday in Conegliano Veneto, in the province of Treviso, after the pressurized tank exploded because it was overfilled...
Tickets for the Second annual Columbus Day Hall of Fame dinner are on sale. The dinner will held at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, 210 N. Santa Fe Ave. Cost of the tickets is $35. They may be ordered by calling 719-671-0205. This year's inductees include: The Knights of Columbus Organization; the late Hector Ch...
“It’s a pity you’re here when the weather is so bad!” I had heard again and again upon arriving in northeastern Italy’s Südtirol province just as it was getting pounded with three days of rain, more than residents said they had seen all summer. If ever a region were made for dramatic skies, it was this one. Its landscape is dominated by the Dolomit...
Italian gelateria Dri Dri debuted its vegan Italian-style gelato in the United States this month with a mobile gelato truck at Los Angeles’ Huntington Library. Custom designed in Italy, Dri Dri’s authentic retro truck serves gelato made from a blend of rice and almond milks in flavors such as Almond, Espresso Coffee, Cookie Dough, Pistachio, Coconu...
For the vast majority of us, the love of the automobile starts long before obtaining a license to drive them -- and for the vast majority of that group, not long after figuring out this whole breathing on our own thing. Cars evoke an unmatchable mix of positive emotions. Their alluring beauty, sonorous sound and roller-coaster-ride excitement combi...