Passion For Joy: Book Tour With Author Dianne Hales
Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT. Italian Cultural and Community Center, 1101 Milford St., Houston, TX 77006. The Italian Cultural and Community Center is pleased to be a part of the New York Times best-selling author Dianne Hales' book tour. Dianne Hales will present her new book La Passione - How Italy Seduced the World, a lyrical portrait of a...
Luisi brings command, precision to Dallas Symphony program
Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director designate Fabio Luisi will step onto the podium as the orchestra’s fulltime music director orchestra in the fall of 2020. This weekend, however, he reintroduces himself to the orchestra and the audience with a set of two non-subscription concerts at Meyerson Symphony Center, the first of which took place Thu...
Acclaimed Chef Chris Cosentino Will Open an Italian Restaurant in Houston
CHRIS COSENTINO, A RENOWNED CELEBRITY CHEF who is known for appearances on Top Chef Masters and The Next Iron Chef, is opening an Italian restaurant in Houston. At a press conference Thursday at The Hay Merchant in Montrose, chef Chris Shepherd announced that Cosentino, who won season four of Top Chef Masters in 2016, and is co-owner at Cockscomb i...
The New York Times Has Failed the Italian American Community
On March 14, 1891 a mob of anywhere from 8,000 to 20,000 people hung, shot and clubbed 11 Italian immigrants outside Parish Prison in New Orleans. This was the largest recorded mass lynching in American history. Nine of the immigrants had been charged with the murder of the city’s police chief, David Hennessy. A lawful trial had been held and the j...
Maine is on the verge of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
A bill to officially change the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day in Maine received final approval from the Senate on Thursday, paving the way for it to become law. The bill from Rep. Ben Collings, D-Portland, will change the name of the holiday that dates back to the 1930s and falls on the second Monday in October. While Indigenous Pe...
2018 Best of the Best Italian Restaurants in Washington County, Greene County and the South Hills
Nothing beats a hearty plate of homemade spaghetti and meatballs, and it just so happens that our region’s rich history produces plenty of it. Many of our local Italian restaurants have been staples in their communities for decades. And if you don’t find their pastas appealing, there’s plenty of other tantalizing items on the menu. But don’t take o...
Passaporti - Missione Funzionario itinerante a Dallas
Si porta a conoscenza dei connazionali regolarmente iscritti negli schedari consolari di Houston che intendono presentare la domanda per il rilascio del nuovo passaporto che un funzionario di questo Consolato Generale si rechera' a Dallas esclusivamente per acquisire i dati biometrici (impronte digitali, foto e firma). La pratica del passaporto ver...
Carmelita Pope, actress, Brando friend, was in many TV commercials, dead at 94
When Carmelita Pope’s acting career began taking off, she had to fend off gibes about the folly of pursuing a life in the theater. “It’s such a terrible living,” an old friend from Chicago she called Bud would grouse.“Whaddya wanna do with acting?” But she pursued her passion anyway. And after director Elia Kazan saw her in a film in which she port...
New Bloomfield Groceria fills old space in Pittsburgh’s ‘Little Italy’
Visitors will notice the crisp chef hat with the blue stripe. It adorned the head of Bloomfield Groceria owner Rich Trocchio as he created a made-to-order hoagie for a customer Thursday. “You remember Isaly’s?” he asked, referring to one of Pittsburgh iconic family-owned dairies and restaurants. “This is an old Italy’s hat. It’s a classic.” Trocchi...
Seduced and Abandoned on Morningside Heights
The year 1927 was a milestone in Italian American assimilation. Its immigrant culture was literally electrocuted in Boston as its classical heritage was reborn on Manhattan’s west side. There was no connection between the state execution of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti and the opening of the Italian House at Columbia University. But, in retros...
Dennis Tufano at the Dick Biondi Film fundraiser!
It's official! Dennis Tufano, the Original Lead Singer of The Buckinghams, WILL PERFORM at the Good Times Rock and Roll Fundraiser on Sunday, April 28th!!! WOO HOO!!! Dennis will sing with Carl Giammarese, AND the two will join Jim Peterik--THREE LEGENDS ON STAGE- to show their love and support for the man who helped make their careers, Top 40's le...
Carnevale! event funds scholarships for culinary industry trainees
Cape Region food industry professionals recently teamed up to help local high schoolers realize their dreams. Every spring, the business of eating here in the Cape Region faces the inescapable fact that trustworthy, skilled help in professional kitchens is getting harder to find. In response to this, the Delaware Restaurant Association stepped up t...