Celebrate all things Italian at Festa Italiana
There's a big event coming to downtown Pensacola this weekend, and you just might smell it before you see it. Sausage and pepper sandwiches, meatball sandwiches, and of course the classic spaghetti and meatballs will be served at Festa Italiana. The local branch of Order Sons of Italy in America is all about celebrating Italian-American culture. Th...
Brother's Pizzeria wins 'Best Grandma & Sicilian' pizza on Staten Island
That first bite of a Brother's Sicilian square and Grandma slice yield a remarkable taste and textural sensation. Since 1975, the Giove family has turned out these pie recipes from their corner parlor with remarkable consistency. And those matters figured into Brother's win in the Advance's 2017 Best of Staten Island Awards. Bite into one of those...
La Lingua Italiana si rafforza negli USA
Un importante passo sarà compiuto a New York il 27 e 28 ottobre prossimi, quando verrà firmato un protocollo di collaborazione tra la Società Dante Alighieri e il John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, istituto universitario del Queens College della CUNY, City University of New York, diretto da Anthony J. Tamburri. A New York infatti la Dante...
Alfa Romeo and FCA Trademark “Giulietta” with U.S. Patent Office
Rumors of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta’s death may be greatly exaggerated: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles recently filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the long-running Italian car nameplate. Filed by FCA last week, the trademark application signals an “intent to use” by the Italian-American company. Whether t...
Couple turns private Italian art collection into Magazzino
Set back from a leafy stretch of U.S. 9 in Cold Spring stands an industrial building that has served as an agricultural products distribution center and a computer factory, but you wouldn’t know it now. The structure has been remodeled, expanded and reborn as an art exhibition space called Magazzino Italian Art, home to a rotating display of one of...
Love & Salt Is Still One Of The Best Italian Restaurants In The South Bay
Manhattan Beach is a resort town. It has impossibly soft sand, modernist beach-front properties, an iconic pancake house, and just enough sports bars to remind you that Redondo Beach is only a couple miles south. It also has impossibly good food. The tiny, blocks-long commercial stretch of Manhattan Beach Boulevard is home to M.B. Post (arguably th...
A cut and a cappuccino on Garfield Place: Ferrari Barbershop and Coffee Co.
Fausto and Emilio Ferrari were part of a steady migration of Italians who came from Fuscaldo, a small town in the southern province of Calabria, to Cincinnati (Here's a story about it). It was common for Fuscaldese to work in Cincinnati's tailoring shops, or to become barbers. Barbering is what the Ferrari brothers went into. Fausto came first and...
Beautiful alternatives ... to beauty: lesser known ltalian locations
One of the cons about traveling to Italy is the country has so many touristic hot spots it’s almost impossible to enjoy some quiet. One of the pros of traveling to Italy is that for each of those hot spots there are just as many - if not more - equally beautiful places to check out, where a peaceful visitor can breath in some fresher air and hear s...
Don Angie Redefines Italian-American Cuisine In The West Village
Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli cook some of the best Italian food in New York City. If you ever dined at Quality Italian you know this to be true; same goes for their stint at dinnertable, the tiny restaurant located in the back of an East Village bar. The moment I knew I would follow them unto the ends of the earth: their outstanding pasta omakase...
An Evening in Sicily
The Italian-American Cultural Center of Iowa will be continuing their annual fundraising dinner with An Evening in Sicily to be held at the Embassy Club downtown Des Moines on November 9, 2017. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and is divided into nine provinces. The region of Sicily, which has even earned the nickname “God’s Ki...
Cleveland Park’s Getting a New Italian Restaurant, Plus More Intel
The former home of Cleveland Park’s now-closed Ripple space is about to have a new tenant. Popville reports that Italian restaurant Cucina Al Volo is moving in soon. It’s a bright spot for Cleveland Park dining, which faced a spate of closures earlier this year. Cucina Al Volo is growing its DC footprint: it already has locations in Union Market an...
Essex County Honors Local Italian-Americans During Heritage Month
A longtime local union leader was among those honored as part of Essex County’s 2017 Italian Heritage Month Celebration. Bloomfield native and Bloomfield High alum Joseph Calabro, a father of two, has been a “dynamic and influential labor leader” with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), according to a news release from Essex...