‘I’m just a cook’: Meet the Eldorado’s new executive chef
Ivano Centemeri, the new executive chef of the Eldorado Resort Casino, doesn’t mind seeing red (it would be hard, after all, for an Italian chef to avoid tomatoes). But white? He doesn’t want to see white. As in a white chef’s coat. The Word Against White came the other morning in La Strada, the property’s flagship Italian restaurant, as Centemeri...
Italian singer Giada Valenti's Bethlehem appearance to promote PBS special, Sellersville Theater shows
Italian recording artist Giada Valenti, who has performed on Broadway, will be live in the studios of PBS station WLVT-TV Channel 39 in Bethlehem at 7 p.m. March 13 during the airing of her concert special "From Venice With Love." Valenti will do live interviews during pledge breaks in the broadcast, which celebrates the 500th airing of her concert...
Bologna, l'architetto Iosa Ghini alla conquista di Miami
A ridosso del più grande (e meglio conservato) quartiere Art Decò del mondo, proprio di fronte all’Oceano, avrà un segno italiano il futuro panorama urbano di Miami. Nella città della Florida, infatti, sorgerà a breve un ampio complesso residenziale di lusso, il Brickell Flatiron, 64 piani, nel distretto finanziario, costo medio per metro quadro ci...
Cibus food fair goes annual with Connect event
Cibus, the world's oldest and most famous Italian food fair, is going annual. For 40 years Cibus has taken place every even year. But from now on there will also be an event in odd years - Cibus Connect. The new fair, organised by the Fiere di Parma trade-fair centre company and Italian food-industry federation Federalimentare, will focus primarily...
St. Ambrose Parish on the Hill invites everyone to the St. Joseph Altar on Sunday, March 19, 2017
St. Ambrose Parish on the Hill invites everyone to the St. Joseph Altar on Sunday, March 19, 2017. There will be a Mass in Italian in St. Ambrose Church at 11:00 a.m., followed by a short procession to the School Building, right in back. The Mass will last about one hour, so the festivities in the school will begin around 12:30 p.m. There will be...
Old-school Lombardo’s serves up reliable comfort food in a comfortable space
Lombardo’s is the kind of reliable, Italian-American neighborhood restaurant that the people living nearby — around the 132nd Street and West Maple Road area — must really appreciate. It’s not a chain. It’s affordable. And it’s serving giant portions of things like saucy pastas, classic lasagna and a few surprisingly good appetizers, including a f...
Italian Festa a 44-year-old tradition in Washington County
The aroma of Italian cuisine wafted through the lobby of the Ramada Plaza on Sunday, signaling a 44-year tradition near Hagerstown. It was the Antietam Exchange Club's Italian Festa, one of the biggest fundraisers for the local service organization. Organizers were expected to dish out enough spaghetti and sauce for at least 750 people in the feast...
An ardent Italian evening from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
It is a little astonishing that Giuseppe Verdi wrote 26 operas before delving into the string quartet genre in 1873—at age 60. After Aida cooled his interest in stage works, he wrote his Quartet in E minor in a Naples hotel room, but as with the opera, the premiere’s reception was discouraging, and the quartet was not revived again for three years....
Italian restaurant, rooftop bar coming to new development in downtown Huntsville
A new hospitality development will be coming to downtown Huntsville next year. The Original Public House and Beauregard’s owner, Rahul Arora is working with Chef Lee Gregory, Old Town Beer Exchange Managing Partner Matt Fowler and his Director of Operations Missy Davis to launch a new 15,000-square-foot development project where the old CityScapes...
Fuscaldo to Cincinnati: How one small village shaped Italian culture in the Queen City
The Frommeyer kids – one girl, five boys – loved Sundays when they were growing up. That was the day for dinner at their grandparents, the Bonavitas, who lived on the West Side. "You'd have to make a couple of stops up and down the street first," said Matt Frommeyer. "We'd get something at Uncle Lou's and Uncle Joe's and then stop at Aunt Annie's,...
Vivaldi & Leopardi Concert: music and poetry
Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, Inc. in collaboration with Boston Conservatory at Berklee and The Poets' Theatre under the auspices of Consulate General of Italy in Boston present a special event to benefit Italy earthquake relief effort: Vivaldi & Leopardi "Four Seasons" - "Four Cantos"Friday, March 31, 2017. 8:00 - 9:30 pm. Join us for...
Italian Importing Co., a midtown lunch favorite for generations, will close soon
In its heyday in the 1990s, well before the surge of new restaurants and bars on the midtown grid, Italian Importing Co. was known as an essential destination for lunch. The sandwiches were well-crafted, affordable and delicious, and you’d often get a little bit of banter on the side. Current owner Larry Otten, an alumnus of the famed Corti Brother...
