East Boston pizzeria owners honor World War I vet
The menu never changes at the Italian Express Pizzeria, an agreeable little place on the corner of Sumner and Cottage streets in East Boston. “That’s because it works,” says co-owner Jim Iannuzzi, proudly, and a little defiantly. “Everything is made fresh to order, and we have something for everybody. So, no, we won’t ever change the menu.” Why sho...
Eduitalia Scholarships for AP Italian Language and Culture students: Results to be published by the end of the second week of July 2018
The official results of the 21 Eduitalia scholarships for students who have taken the AP Italian Language and Culture 2018 exam will be released by the end of the second week of July 2018. The list of winners will be published on the website of the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC and of the Italian Consulates in the US. The winners and their prof...
Valle dei Mulini (Valley of the Mills)
The deep crack in the rock which houses the crumbling buildings originated during a huge eruption which devastated the Mediterranean area 35.000 years ago. The flour mills, built from stone as far back as the 13th century, took advantage of the constant stream at the bottom of the valley. They ground all the types of wheat needed by the Sorrentine...
A 'victory baby' born into a family commited to America
The hospital staff called me “the victory baby.” My mother, however, was not happy about the vivid purple V on my forehead and was much relieved when the two dark veins close to the surface of my skin faded and disappeared. My mother’s letter to her brother, Cpl. Anthony Greco, announcing my birth in 1943, found him somewhere in Belgium, where he a...
President readies Italy for snap polls to be fought on EU, euro
Italy’s president set the country on a path back to fresh elections on Monday, appointing a former International Monetary Fund official as interim prime minister with the task of planning for snap polls and passing the next budget. The decision to appoint Carlo Cottarelli to form a stopgap administration sets the stage for elections that are likely...
Studenti di tutto il mondo: venite a studiare in Italia!
Nel 2018, l’Italia partecipa per la prima volta alla fiera della alta formazione NAFSA a Filadelfia con un padiglione istituzionale. La fiera, che si svolgerà nella città americana dal 29 maggio al 1 giugno, è la più grande manifestazione di settore a livello internazionale. Ogni anno vi partecipano centinaia di università e istituti di formazione...
Review: ‘A View from the Bridge’ at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
The 1950s Brooklyn waterfront setting of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge has long since disappeared. The container revolution, beginning in the 1970s, ended forever the traditional longshoreman’s role of manually loading and unloading cargo vessels, and the ships themselves now dock in New Jersey. The more recent gentrification of Brooklyn h...
A Critic Finds a ‘Sopranos’-Worthy Muffuletta
Michael Nagrant finds the muffuletta of his dreams at Rosie’s Sidekick. The sandwich shop, an offshoot of Italian bakery Sicilia, offers a host of delights. Eggplant parm is “supremely slutty, the cheese oozing over the flaky bread and the sauce and juicy eggplant dripping out the edges. This was some serious Tony Soprano-shit.” The aforementioned...
Louisiana forbids naming public buildings for living persons; here's the latest exception
Louisiana proscribes the naming of public buildings for living persons. But the Legislature regularly makes exceptions, one of the latest being a law letting Kenner name its $12 million police headquarters for former Chief Nick Congemi, 75. The House of Representatives approved the exemption in an 83-0 vote on April 6. The Senate followed with a 32...
The Relaxed Charm of South Tyrol’s Mountain Villages
South Tyrol, Italy’s ‘less-Italian’ region, is a fine blend of natural wonders (hello, Dolomites) and historic charm, with its well-groomed mountain villages, to be savored slowly, just as slow is the pace of life here, where tradition and modern coexist rather than clash. Here are three villages in South Tyrol to include in your Italian travel wis...
Corona D’Italia Lodge #807 Annual Mother-Daughter Scholarship Dinner
Corona D’Italia Lodge #807 held their annual Mother- Daughter Scholarship Dinner on May 2, at the Wolverine Restaurant. Attendees were registered by Treasurer, Louis Vitullo, and her member daughter, Patty Kuhn. Trustee, Pudue La Cava directed seating of all guests and members. Orator, Valerie Valentino presented each arrival with a bouquet of wood...
Italian food exports set a new record in 2018
Italian food exports set a new historical record with a 3% increase in the first quarter of 2018, approaching for the first time the value of 10 billion euro. This is what emerges from an analysis by Coldiretti on Istat data for the first three months of the current year. This is an excellent result right at the beginning of the Year of Italian Foo...