Scavolini winning its bet on the US market, growing double digits thanks to the contract channel
by Giovanna Mancini The coming six months will be challenging for Scavolini, the furnishing group especially well-known for its kitchens but that some years ago also started bathroom and living room furnishing collections. After the inauguration of a large flagship store in the heart of Boston and of two sales points in Milan (all within the last...
Downtown Syracuse dining: Apizza Regionale starts lunch; Peppino's Pomodoro coming soon
By Don Cazentre The latest news on the downtown Syracuse dining scene involves two places that specialize in Italian food and brick-oven pizzas. • Apizza Regionale. It opened in April at 260 W. Genesee St., and his been serving dinner only since then. Today, it starts serving lunch as well. Lunch hours are 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through...
Celebrating 40 years of "Rocky"
On December 3rd, 1976, two simple words boomed from the silver screen that changed movie history forever. They have stayed with us for 40 years, all from a movie which wasn't even considered to be that significant when first being produced. Yet forty years later, we still watch it and cheer for the main character through our imitation of h...
That's lunch: La Famiglia a new option for Italian
This week's review is about La Famiglia at 1 Genesee St. in New Hartford. News Intern Ben Mehic and his friend Amanda Paladino ate there recently and had this to say: About the restaurant: La Famiglia opened Oct 22., replacing DeFazio's Pizzeria, which had been a staple in New Hartford for years. It serves authentic Italian cuisine at rela...
Sons of Italy gives to “Jersey Battered Women’s Service”
By Frank Cahill Joe Jannarone, President of Sons of Italy Lodge 2561 of Parsippany, and Mayor James Barberio are seen presenting gift cards to Regina Braham. Regina is the Director of Community Relations for Jersey Battered Women's Service (JBWS). Sons of Italy has been supporting the charitable needs of JBWS and other organizations f...
Memory Traces: A Collection of Italian Memories of Boston
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and the MIT Mobile Experience Lab, in partnership with COMITES (Committee of Italians Abroad) of Boston, has developed Memory Traces: A Collection of Italian Memories of Boston. Boston's Italian community dates back to 1860, when the first imm...
Marco Portaluppi, Tra l’Appennino e l’America. Una rete di affari lungo il XIX secolo
Reggio Emilia, Edizioni Diabasis, 2011, pp.114, € 15. Lo studio di Marco Portaluppi si inserisce nel progetto di ricerca del Centro Internazionale Studi Emigrazione Italiana di Genova (cisei), che nel 2005 ha dato vita alla collana «Dal porto al mondo», diretta da Antonio Gibelli, di cui Tra l'Appennino e l'America costituisce il quinto vo...
Verdi, Britten tributes head up Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-14 season
Following a year mark¬ed by cancellations and illness of its music director Riccardo Muti and marquee veteran conductors Pierre Boulez and Bernard Haitink, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced on Wednesday its 2013-2014 subscription season with 13 weeks of concerts to be led by these much admired leaders now in their 70s and 80s.While the Richa...
Call For Papers
Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference: The ItaliansNovember 8-9 Loyola University Chicago Call for Papers: The conference invites 20-30 minute papers that look at the late 19th and 20th century Italian immigration, with an emphasis on Chicago and the Midwest. Presentations may be given from the viewpoint of ethnic studies, urban and cultural his...
In San Francisco, An All Day Seminar Celebrating Italian Culture & Its Impact
On Saturday, April 13, 2013 from 10-4 in celebration of the Year of Italian Culture in the US, the Museo Italo Americano of San Francisco will have an all day seminar on the impact of Italian culture.
A Joe Mantegna il "Puglia's Italy Award of excellence in America"
Sarà consegnato all'attore di Hollywood Joe Mantegna l'edizione speciale del "Puglia's Italy Award of Excellence in America". La cerimonia di consegna del premio si terrà venerdì prossimo, 3 maggio, alle ore 18.30, nella sede dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles. Saranno presenti il console generale d'Italia a Los Angeles, Giuseppe Pe...
"Settimana della Cucina Europea": la Sicilia a Houston
La cucina è magia, e con un moto d'orgoglio possiamo dire che quella mediterranea è senz'altro la più ricca in fantasia. Per celebrarla si è inaugurata a Houston, in Texas, la "Settimana della Cucina Mediterranea", una manifestazione che durerà da sabato 11 a sabato 18 maggio, inquadrata nel contesto dell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uni...