Review: Tavernonna seeks to transcend the trappings of the hotel restaurant
It’s a bit of a cliché, the underperforming hotel restaurant, but it’s endured for good reason. Consider the challenges facing hotel chefs: the marathon hours, the high customer volume, the pressure to offer something to please every necktie with a breakfast voucher. Never mind the problem of motivation. Each traveling circus or T-Swift tour means...
Utah Opera's 40th Anniversary Season Continues with PAGLIACCI and GIANNI SCHICCHI
Utah Opera's 40th anniversary season continues with a celebratory double-score production of Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi." The shows will be performed five times at the Janey Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre on March 10, 12, 14, 16 at 7:30 PM, and March 18th at 2 PM. Tickets, priced from $15-$105, are available for purcha...
Little Italy Church Rectory Hits the Market as $14M Development Site
The dying carcass of Little Italy continues to get picked apart. Mere days after a devastating fire knocked out Angelo’s on Mulberry Street comes word that the Most Precious Blood Church is selling its rectory. (The church itself is on Baxter Street.) The fifty-foot-wide property in question, located at 109 Mulberry Street, currently houses the thr...
Gratzi bringing 'modern, fresh' Italian cuisine to Midland in April
Gratzi, which touts a "modern, fresh approach" to Italian cuisine, is opening soon in Midland. The restaurant will open to the public at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, inside The H Residence development in downtown Midland at Ashman and Main streets, according to a Mainstreet Ventures Inc. news release. Mainstreet Ventures is the restaurant management...
Sons of Italy scholarships
Sons of Italy Lodge 2738’s 19th scholarship and Italian Citizen of the Year dinner will be held at 6 p.m. March 3 at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center. Nineteen students of Italian heritage will be awarded scholarship and a gift bag. The theme of the event is “2 Divas and Piano,” as the entertainment lineup features celebrity tributes...
John Guerriero, chief of Continental Foods, dies
John C. Guerriero, founder of Continental Foods and a leader in the Little Italy neighborhood, died of pneumonia Monday at Mercy Medical Center. He was 86. Born in Kincaid, Ill., he was the son of Pete Guerriero and his wife, Mary, who left Sicily for the United States in the 1920s. His father had a Chester Street grocery store that faced the North...
Eldorado
Halfway through the painful but beautiful Eldorado, an Italian humanitarian compares the journey of an African refugee to that of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem. First there is the hell of travelling north through Libya, crossing the Mediterranean, second there is purgatory, arriving in Italy and then finally the paradise of arriving in Northern Europ...
Ben Brock's Amerigo turns 20 with a big anniversary dinner
All restaurants have a story, but the one behind Amerigo is better than average, not just the history of a place but a testament to a man, a vision, the vagaries of fate. Ben Brock was a kid when he went to work at Amerigo in Ridgeland, Mississippi. A college student who started as a dishwasher and worked his way up to wait tables and tend bar, he'...
A Story for Louise
Eric Lanzieri of Connecticut has published the true story of finding his relatives in Italy nearly fifty years after his grandmother’s last contact with them. Eric, an attorney and a teacher of college courses in law, explains how a confluence of circumstances allowed him to travel to his grandmother’s home town of Scafati in 1994, where he told th...
Italian Design Day 2018: Aldo Cibic | Designing Sustainability
The Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, in collaboration with DZINE, are pleased to present architect and designer Aldo Cibic, a co-founder of the Memphis movement, who has developed over the years a number of research projects that investigate different levels of the meaning of sustainability. Find out m...
Amarone Is Italy's Great Meditation Wine: Its New Release Is For Thinking Livelier
It was a difficult year. In 2014, throughout Italy the summer never quite got up to speed. Instead of grape-ripening sun, northern vineyards especially were covered in clouds and rain, a lack of light and warmth that hit red wine places like Veneto's Valpolicella hard. With the cool dampness came vine damage, destructive downy mildew and flavor-cha...
IAOVC Board of Directors Engages Envoy Social for Launch of Social Media Campaign for 2018 Membership Drive
The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition (“IAOVC”) Board of Directors has announced its 2018 membership drive to be launched on social media by Envoy Social, a social media consultancy. President and Founder Dr. Manny Alfano stated, “If this Coalition is to become a force to be reckoned with, it needs the support of a large membership of defenders....