ArtsNaples World Festival to Open with Venetian Masquerade
ArtsNaples World Festival a ten-day festival that will take place May 1 through 10 in Naples and feature a magnificent array of performances, exhibits, films, and experiences celebrating the cultural arts of Italy - is pleased to announce that it will open with a Venetian Masquerade on Thursday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m. at The Club at Olde Cypress. &nbs...
Medicine: From Salerno to Philadelphia, Dr. Joseph Gonnella
Medicine: From Salerno to Philadelphia, first John Price lecture by Dr. Joseph Gonnella. This is a RSVP only event. Please RSVP to [email protected] by October 19th and put "DR. GONNELLA LECTURE" in the title of the email. The event is the first of a series of tribute lectures to John Price, former President of the...
Italian family witnessed crash of WWII pilot, meets his Rock Hill family 71 years later
Gaetano and Caroline Simonelli were just children on a farm in Nazi-occupied Italy in 1943 when a fighter plane screamed across the sky and crashed within feet of their home. The pilot was killed. The Simonelli family, devout Roman Catholics, buried him right there on the farm. In a Rock Hill cemetery on Monday – 71 years later – an old m...
Crestview Sons of Italy Lodge makes Shelter House donation
Shelter House now has extra support for its programs benefiting domestic violence survivors. The Order of the Sons of Italy in America, Richard A. Capozzola Lodge in Crestview donated $1,000 to the organization. The lodge has also pledged an additional $500 a month throughout 2016 to the organization. Source: http://www....
Columbus Statue Relocation to Marquette Park Project – Donate once get a lifetime of recognition!
Any donation amount is appreciated and will help. We are making great progress. Only $6,300 to go. Now is the time to ensure that your name is on the monument. What an opportunity to leave a lasting legacy for your family. The UNICO Memphis Chapter Foundation (UMCF) (an IRS recognized 501c3) is now accepting tax deductible donations to relocate the...
Spoleto Festival prepares ‘Veremonda’ by Cavalli
"Veremonda, l'amazzone di Aragona," by Baroque composer Francesco Cavalli, is one of Spoleto Festival USA's two festival-produced opera productions. Conductor Aaron Carpene and director Stefano Vizioli worked hard to unearth and reconstruct the obscure opera, which was last performed more than 350 years ago, in Naples and Venice. ...
Tastes of Italy congregate in Columbia for annual festival
If there's one thing most people are familiar with when it comes to Italian culture, it's food. Cannoli, gnocchi, stromboli, zeppole, gelato and, yes, more than a few slices of pizza – if you weren't filling your belly at Saturday's Italian Festival in downtown Columbia, then what were you doing? The annual festival drew thousands of atte...
Feast of St. Mark Italian Food Festival set for April 26
By Cassandra Mickens Organizers of Feast of St. Mark Italian Food Festival say the event is bound to excite the taste buds. The third annual rain-or-shine feast is set for Saturday, April 26 from 4 to 11 p.m. at Saint Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Birmingham. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children ages 6 through 12....
Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival celebrates 10 years with a special guest appearance this fall
This fall, CofC's Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival welcomes Italian director and screenwriter Massimo Gaudioso to the Holy City in honor of the 10th annual film fest. Gaudioso is best known for his screenplays of Gomorrah (2008), Reality (2012) and Tale of Tales (2015), starring Salma Hayek. Gaudioso is one of many writers and directors who will...
Giulia Rozzi doesn’t care if you’re offended
by Brent Owen Giulia Rozzi is a quick witted Boston girl, raised by Italian Catholic parents who immigrated to the states before she was born. It's that background that has developed her rather blunt, deeply personal and highly animated style of comedy. And for the record, for her, personal means talking a lot about her sex life....
2016 Festa della Repubblica
On June 1, 2016 our honorable Consul General of Italy in Miami, Gloria Bellelli hosted a private reception at the Coral Gables Country Club for the Italian community in Miami to celebrate La Festa della Repubblica, known in English as Italian National Day. This is national holiday in Italy, formally acknowledged on June 2, that commemorate...
Mangia Nashville goes all out for Big Night feast
"Everybody," the waitress' voice carried over the din of the dining room, "raise your arms!" All seated at our table stopped talking and turned to the young woman. She moved from table to table, demonstrating uplifted arms, and began swaying right to left in time with the music — a Young Rascals hit from the '60s, "Groovin' on a Sunday Afternoon."...