New Ronnie Grisanti's restaurant to open at former Heritage Tavern and Kitchen spot
Judd Grisanti will open an East Memphis location of Ronnie Grisanti's Italian Restaurant within the next couple of months, taking over the spot at Regalia where Heritage Tavern and Kitchen closed Wednesday. "We're going to keep the one in Collierville too," Grisanti said. "I still have a lease there." The spot at 6150 Poplar was for years Mikasa J...
Balsamic Vinegar of Modena Campaign in the US: Great Satisfaction for the Project's First Year
Balsamic Vinegar of Modena has just come back after a successful participation in the Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) in Miami. For the first time, the Consortium's information campaign in the US market called "Balsamic Vinegar of Modena, the Original" was presented in Florida, receiving a positive feedback...
Pantochino's New Musical ITALIAN WEDDING SOUP To Debut In Milford
Pantochino Productions Inc., a not-for-profit professional theatre company for family audiences, presents it's new musical, "Italian Wedding Soup" for a three-week run at the Center for the Arts in Downtown Milford beginning Friday, April 20, 7:30pm. Inspired by the memories of growing up in a large Italian-American family, the new musical follows...
Josephine Marino: Staten Island's well-connected Energizer Bunny
Last year, in April, Amoy Barnes, the community relations representative for the mayor's office on Staten Island, called her acquaintance, Josephine Marino, and asked if Mayor Bill de Blasio could check in briefly at her home in Great Kills during a whistle-stop tour of the borough devoted to complaints regarding sky-rocketing water costs. Josephi...
A Star-Spangled OperaWine Opens Vinitaly 2018
Although Italy’s attention has recently shifted on the Asian wine market, the United States does remain the strongest ally of Italian wine. Paying homage to this connection and the works of American street artist Shepard Fairey, on April 14th Vinitaly and Wine Spectator will present an urban OperaWine 2018 at Palazzo della Gran Guardia in the heart...
IAWA Features Philadelphia Poet Maria Fama and Author/Performance Artist Annie Lanzillotto
WHERE: Sidewalk Café, 94 Avenue A (6th Street) East Village, NYC-10009 - WHEN: Saturday, April 14, 2018 @ 5:30 – 7:30 pm WHO: Maria Fama’ is the author of seven books of poetry including Mystics in the Family, Looking for Cover, and the newly released, Other Nations :an animal journal. Her work appears in numerous publications and has been antholog...
Michelangelo 'self-portrait' found in poetess sketch
Michelangelo may have hidden a self-portrait in a sketch of an aristocratic woman poetess friend held in the British Museum, a new study from a Brazilian university says. The study by art expert Deivos de Campos of Porto Alegre's federal university of health science saysthe Renaissance genius hid a caricature of himself in the 1525 sketch of Vittor...
Bob Ray Bocce Tournament
Stop by Mackle Park and see firsthand how bocce’s popularity has continued to grow each year. There you may find a group of residents who play every single day year round, when the Marco Island weather permits. Luckily, living in paradise allows for many days of outdoor fun playing bocce at Mackle Park. In addition to the Italian-American Society o...
Agostino’s Pizza serving up exotic specialty slices
The chicken Caesar salad pizza is topped with romaine lettuce, Parmesan cheese and Caesar dressing. There are very few menu items New Jersey transplants Shari and Tony Agostino won’t put on a pizza. The pizza restaurant veterans are loading up pizzas at Agostino’s, their new restaurant, with tortellini, barbecue chicken, penne pasta and, yes, taco...
L’Aquila: prima città storica antisismica in Italia
“Si ricomincia, chissà perché, sempre dal suono”. Gru, ruspe, martelli pneumatici, scavatrici: a un certo punto, nel 2014, a cinque anni dal terremoto del 2009, il centro storico dell’Aquila iniziò la ricostruzione. “Sentire il rumore è stata la differenza. Da città storica, deserta e silenziosa, L’Aquila aveva ripreso vita. Avevamo chiuso una fase...
New Partnership between Chapman Italian Studies & Bowers Museum
The Bowers Museum and the Chapman Italian Studies Program have established a new internship in Museum Education and Administration for students of Italian at Chapman. This year, interns review and research exhibition content and assist in developing educational materials and programs for general public and schools to engage in the Knights in Shinin...
D'Italia is one of the top online Italian specialty food retailers in the country
From the outside, it's a typical warehouse. But on the inside, you'll find some of the best ingredients from Italy to ever hit your tongue. "Kinda a hidden gem. A lot of people don't realize this premier Italian food specialty business is here in the heart of The Grove in St. Louis," said Vince Di Piazza. D'Italia Fine Italian Imports owner has tes...