Upper East Side Italian Restaurant Vivolo Closes After Over Four Decades
After serving Italian food to uptowners for 41 years, Angelo Vivolo’s Vivolo has closed its doors at 140 East 74th St. near Lexington Avenue. A sign posted outside the restaurant announces the closure but does not provide any details for why it’s closing. The phone number is no longer in service, and Eater NY has reached out for more information. A...
NOIAW Acquires Access to the Grants Gateway!
On May 23rd in Manhattan, Dolores Alfieri, Director of Italian American Affairs, Office of the Governor, coordinated a gathering for the Italian American community to acquire information regarding the New York State grant application process for nonprofit organizations. NOIAW Chair Maria Tamburri and Communications and Development Manager Eileen Co...
Camera Commercio americana in Italia, nuove nomine a vertici
Sono state nominate nuove cariche sociali nel corso dell’Assemblea Annuale dei Soci dell'AmCham Italy, la Camera di Commercio Americana in Italia, affiliata alla US Chamber of Commerce Di Washington, la Confindustria statunitense. La 103esima edizione dell’Assemblea di AmCham Italy, di cui fanno parte oltre 500 aziende, ha visto la nomina di Giulia...
Raffaele Scalzi Dishes On Boston’s Mouthwatering Pizza Festival
A little slice of heaven is returning once again this year to City Hall Plaza. Next weekend, the Boston Pizza Festival will be satiating nearly 20,000 hungry appetites as attendees sink their teeth into some of Boston and Italy’s best pizza. (That’s right – they will be flying in pizza chefs from Italy to showcase their talent). Next Saturday and S...
Marra Forni Celebrates NRA ‘18 With Pair of Accolades
In what is truly the making of a movie script, the Marra brothers are writing what may someday hit the big screen. Francesco and Enzo Marra came to the US with nothing more than a dream and a commitment to hard work. They launched their food service career in the United States in 1999 with the opening of a food distribution company. AF evolved into...
Al Vento Dies, Co-founded Franco's Italian Army, Owned Pizza Shop
Al Vento, the owner of Vento's Pizza in East Liberty for decades and the 1970s co-founder of Franco's Italian Army, the fan club for Steelers Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris, died Tuesday. Mr. Vento, of Whitehall, was 89. A pillar of the East Liberty business community, Mr. Vento operated his Highland Avenue pizza parlor and was a well-know...
Va Bene Caffe brings pasta perfection to intimate lakeside setting
Italian-American restaurant Va Bene Caffe anchors the downtown cultural corridor on East Superior Street with its bright facade, tall windows and warm color palette, set in front of the backdrop of Lake Superior. It's an intimate space — small enough to be romantic on a beautiful summer night in the main dining room or on the enclosed patio with sp...
Bensonhurst Italian-American cultural center finally opens after years of delays
Call it a slow-cooked Italian dish. The city’s first Italian-American community center, “Il Centro,” finally opened its Bensonhurst doors on June 21 — nearly a decade after the project was first announced. Construction of the center, at the corner of 18th and Benson avenues, was delayed for years because of hundreds of complaints neighbors filed wi...
Canova’s Washington Returns to the U.S. at the Frick Collection
Visitors to the Frick Collection will encounter an exhibition exalting the only work Antonio Canova (1757-1822) created for the United States — a full-length statue of George Washington, on view until September 23. “Thomas Jefferson, believing that no American sculptor was up to the task, recommended Canova, then one of Europe’s most celebrated art...
For Southern Italian, Sinatra's is top of the heap
In search of Italian-American cuisine worth celebrating, I have encountered miles of pallid pasta and oceans of weak tomato sauce. There have been bright spots, certainly, places with plenty of dishes to recommend. But of the 20-something red sauce purveyors whose Southern Italian dishes I've had the privilege to evaluate, none ran the table. Then...
Barbania, the tiny Italian town with 37 sets of twins
Barbania, a tiny town in the north-west of Italy, might just have the highest rate of twin births anywhere in the country: 74 of its 1,600 inhabitants are twins. The town, which nestles in the Piedmont countryside north of Turin, doesn't officially bear the title but, with 37 sets alive today and family trees testifying to generations more, locals...
Leonardo DRS to provide Trophy system for US Army’s Abrams tanks
The US Army has awarded a new contract, worth $193m, to Leonardo DRS for the delivery of active protection systems for its new M1A2 Abrams tanks in order to support immediate operational requirements of the service. Under the deal, the company will deliver the Trophy active protection systems developed by Israel-based partner Rafael Advanced Defens...