Students at SLU Are Learning Italian by Playing ‘Assassin’s Creed II’
A professor at Saint Louis University is using video games to teach language skills to students. Simone Bregni, Ph.D., started playing games in 1975 when he was 12, according to a press release. During the mid-’80s, he realized playing text adventures helped him learn English. That revelation inspired his research and teaching methods, along with w...
La Trattoria Italian restaurant replaces Casa Ole on Olive, likely opening in June
A locally owned, casual Italian dining restaurant called La Trattoria is coming to the Ferry Pass area of Pensacola in late May or early June, according to the new eatery's co-owner. Julio Xec, a half-Italian, Guatemalan-born chef with 12 years of industry experience, and his business partner leased the building on 2256 E. Olive Road from property...
Italian Heritage Spring Gala honors new court and Regina Maria XL
The West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival Spring Gala brought introduced a new royal court Saturday evening. They also introduced the new Regina Maria XL, Miranda Lang. The new title-holder expressed her excitement to be able to take the reigns of the Italian Heritage Festival throughout the upcoming year and be a figurehead for the community. "...
Mario ‘Marty’ Martini, 96, Navy veteran who arrived at Ellis Island in 1927
Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Mario “Marty” Martini, 96, of Virginia Beach, passed away Tuesday, April 24, 2018, of natural causes. Born June 4, 1921, in Rivisondoli, Italy, to Vincenzo and Raffaela (Ferrara) Martini, Mario immigrated to the United States, arriving at Ellis Island in 1927. The family settled in Warren, Ohio, where Marty graduated from Wa...
'When you eat a cone it is love': Five favorite gelaterias in Rome
I turned 62 last month. But as I licked my way across Rome, I felt the same as I did when I first came to Italy and had my first gelato in front of the Duomo in Milan. I was 22. I’m firmly convinced if I keep eating gelato in Rome I’ll be young forever. Like everything else in Italy, gelato is all natural, as pure as the olives in olive oil and gra...
Meet United States Senate candidate Tony Monetti
Warrensburg business owner, Christian author, veteran and flight school instructor Tony Monetti is “pleased as punch” his name will be first on the Aug. 7 Republican party primary ballot. The placement is a happy accident. Candidates who declared their bids for election on the opening day of the filing cycle were assigned placement by random drawin...
‘Viva Verdi,’ Say Fans With Very Verdian Names
Luisa Miller did not attend “Luisa Miller” at the Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday night, but Falstaff and Un Giorno di Regno did. That is not absurdist nonsense. It is a matter of quotation marks. Keep your eye on them. Luisa Miller, without quotation marks, is a man in his early 60s who works as a nurse in an Italian prison and could not take the...
Il Mulino Comes To Wainscott
This May, the Hamptons will add another Italian restaurant to its seasonal dining lineup: Il Mulino, the Italian brand with outposts in Las Vegas, Roslyn, Manhattan, Atlantic City, San Juan, Puerto Rico and South Beach, will open in Wainscott’s former Osteria Salina space.The restaurant space, which abuts East Hampton’s Georgica Pond, has been oper...
Emilio Cavallini: Objectual Abstractions
Opening reception ay IA&A at HILLYER. Friday, May 4, 6-9pm (Free, no registration required). On Display: May 4 – May 27, 2018. Locations: IA&A at Hillyer, 9 Hillyer Court, NW, Washington DC 20008 and Italian Cultural Institute, 3000 Whitehaven St, NW, Washington DC 20008 The Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C., and I...
Supervisor Bosworth Meets with Cellini Lodge No. 2206 Members
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth spoke to members of the Cellini Lodge No. 2206 Order Sons of Italy in America during their meeting on April 9 at Clinton G. Martin Park. Bosworth provided attendees with an updated on the projects impacting New Hyde Park residents, updates on the town’s financial stability, information on upcoming event...
It's a labor of love and pizza
Rooted in a love story that first sparked in San Guiseppe Jato, Italy, the owners of The Pizza Shop have been mixing up thousands of quarts of dough to create nearly a million pizzas since their late December opening a little over three years ago. And now, Maggie and Giovanni Canepa, along with baby Nico, are about to add a new chapter to their...
Talk explores Italian Augustinian ministry in South Phila
The next American Catholic Historical Society’s Spotlight on Local History event is Sunday, May 6. With the theme, “The Italian Augustinian Mission in South Philadelphia.” The talk begins at 2 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The American Catholic Historical Society is located at 263 South 4th Street in the old city section of Philadelphia....