Italian journalist makes visit to Texas State
by Darcy Sprague Italian journalist Lucio Luca joined Texas State March 26 for a special lecture on his latest book. Luca focused on Sicilian immigrants who found their way to success in the United States. Luca was joined by his editor, Maria Elena Vittorietti, and the only two native Sicilians living in Texas, Fabio and Tiziana T...
Insediato il COMITES di Houston
Ieri, presso la sede del consolato Generale d'Italia a Houston, si è tenuta la seduta di insediamento dei neo eletti nel COM.IT.ES per la circoscrizione del Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Lousiana. Il Presidente uscente Vincenzo Arcobelli lascia la presidenza al neo eletto all'unanimità Valter Della Nebbia. Le altre cariche sociali sono state cos...
Inside the Soul of a Sicilian Poet
By Steven Campo I am the descendent of Sicilians from both my father and mother's side of the family. I grew up in a small town in Louisiana that had a large Sicilian population throughout the 1900's. We were raised to be proud of our Sicilian heritage. Our grandparents spoke English, but often spoke to us in Sicilian. Hearing non...
2015 NM Italian film & culture festival generates record donation to the UNM children’s hospital
On June 3 members of the board of Italian Festivals of New Mexico made an official presentation of $37,384 to UNM Hospitals CEO Steve McKernan. Later in the month the ceremonial check was presented to a gathering of Hospital administrators by members of both the festival board and the festival production committee who received a standing ovation fo...
Luciano Owner Given Huge Award at The Ferrari Kid Annual Gala
Luciano Italian Restaurant owner Gennaro 'Jimmy' Centofanti (pronounced Chento-Fahn-tee) was given the "Campione peri Bambini" (Champion for Kids) Award from The Ferrari Kid organization at their Annual Gala at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort & Spa, Saturday, November 12, 2016. The Ferrari Kid experience is designed to give children copi...
American Italian Federation of the Southeast Scholarships
$1,000 Scholarship Award to high school senior or college student. Applicant must be a member, child or the legal ward or direct descendant of a AIFEDSE organization member. Application deadline April 30th. Click American Italian Federation of the Southeast Members Scholarship. $1,000 Scholarship Award to an Opera student of Italian descen...
Beaumont, SE Texans celebrate heritage with Italian History Month
by Dan Wallach Much of what Americans know about Sicily comes from the 1972 movie "The Godfather," but that's only a movie, which isn't the same as history. Jefferson County Commissioners Court on Monday proclaimed October as Italian History Month. Commissioners might easily have called it Sicilian History Month, because they appear...
Cathy Cummings, an Italian restaurant owner, is running for Oklahoma lieutenant governor
Cathy Cummings, a restaurant owner who is running a Democratic campaign for lieutenant governor, differs from her Republican opponent on unemployment compensation fraud. Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb said recently that he often hears from small business owners about their lack of success in challenging questionable unemployment compensation claims from forme...
Oklahoma artists to make Cultural Connections in Italy
by Brandy McDonnell O. Gail Poole never went to Italy, but his work is heading there more than three years after his death. "He spent all of his time in Oklahoma and Taos (N.M.); he went to France and London, but that was it," said the late artist's daughter, Nicole Poole. As part of Cultural Connections, Poole, Douglas Shaw Elder an...
Italy gets some love in film fest
The Italian Film Festival USA Denton, a free, two-evening festival, will take place April 22-23 at the University of North Texas. Screenings will be in Room 184 at the Radio, TV, Film and Performing Arts Building on campus. The closest parking lot that does not require a pass is the small parking garage on Union Circle; guests can pay with a credi...
Italians in Arkansas
Few people associate Arkansas with Italian immigration to America, assuming immigrants settled only in the urban Northeast. Yet many communities throughout the United States have a significant proportion of Italian Americans. Lured by work and regional ties, immigrants gravitated to places they could find work, whether in garment factories, coal mi...
HOUSTON - Treasures of the Venice jewish quarter
The lost silver treasures of the Venice Jewish Quarter will be displayed, for the first time, through 28 April at the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston (MFAH). The objects from the Venice synagogue were hidden away in 1943 and restored by Venetian Heritage Inc after their rediscovery 10 years ago. They include Jewish religious objects from the 18th to...