Friday: Little Italy Open Air Film Festival: “Moonstruck”
Pop icon and Twitter mom/poet Cher’s Oscar-winning performance in “Moonstruck” as a very, very Italian-American widow from a very, very Italian-American family is as big and memorable as, well, her hair. After losing her husband, Loretta Castorini is done with love, settling for the first drab fellow to get down on one knee (well, after she insists...
The Fallen One True Love Is Tragic ... And Forever!
The Fallen One, an original adaptation of La Traviata. Saturday August 12th, 7:30 p.m. | Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 The Fallen One is an original adaptation of La Traviata, the opera masterpiece written by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1853. The Fallen One is about a beautiful young wo...
Buona Beef Opening In Frankfort: Free Italian Beef For Early Guests
The much anticipated opening of the Buona Beef restaurant in Frankfort will come to fruition on Thursday and those who wait in line early will get a free Italian Beef sandwich. Buona, The Original Italian Beef will officially open its 19th location at 20950 S. La Grange Road in Frankfort on Thursday, July 6 at 10:30 a.m. Those in line at 10 a.m. wi...
Natuzzi Italia opens a 9,000-square-foot store at CityPlace in West Palm Beach
Natuzzi Italia has opened a 9,000-square-foot store at CityPlace in West Palm Beach, a move that signals the shopping, dining and entertainment center continues to boost its home furnishings offerings. The Italian furniture brand is located on Rosemary Avenue, just south of the Cheesecake Factory restaurant. Natuzzi’s products, made in Italy, featu...
Feast of San Donato
St. Donatus Church will celebrate the 108th annual Feast of San Donato from Aug. 2 to 6. Festivities will culminate on Aug. 6 with a 10 a.m. Mass, followed by a procession featuring Caliendo’s Banda Napoletana, plus a $10,000 raffle. A street festival will feature live entertainment; rides and games; bingo; a beer garden; and food and beverage boot...
Dante Alighieri Society of Pueblo: 37th Annual Scholarship Awards Celebration
Who: Dante Alighieri Society of Pueblo What: 37th Annual Scholarship Awards Celebration When: May 7 Where: Pueblo Country Club Highlights/honorees: The Dante Alighieri Society of Pueblo held its 37th annual Scholarship Awards Celebration, featuring presentations in Italian by each scholarship winner followed by the Little Italy Buffet and an array...
Il Montebello delivers near-perfect Italian meal
Service was impeccable at Il Montebelloo and the food was amazing enough to stop conversation. Two different couples we’re friends with suggested that we try Il Montebello Italian restaurant in at King’s Way in Yarmouth Port. Both had dined there twice since it opened on Mother’s Day and both enjoyed it immensely. One of the couples agreed to go ag...
Mancusi: «Caruso cerca ancora casa nella sua Napoli»
«Nei dialoghi immaginari con lui gli chiedo spesso cosa fare con tutti i suoi ricordi, ci teneva tanto a farsi chiamare commendatore, e ora sono commendatore della Repubblica italiana anche io...». Aldo Mancusi non trattiene l’emozione. Da più di quarant’anni ha raccolto cimeli e memorabilia e realizzato al secondo piano della sua casa il Museo Car...
Vivere all’Italiana – Casa Castiglioni
“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time.” Achille CastiglioniThis year’s Design Week, June 14-22, 2017, brought Casa Castiglioni to San Francisco, an exhibit that explores the work of one of the greatest industrial...
Sporty Italian: Sampino’s Kitchen at Joe Marty’s
Sacramento has had phenomenal Italian grocers for decades, but until recently the Italian restaurants didn’t follow suit. Yes, there’s Biba, that iconic fine-dining institution so famous that its namesake earns nationwide respect. But really, if you wanted good pasta on a weeknight, your best bet was Corti Brothers, the (late) Italian Importing Co....
Rilanciare il gemellaggio con Viterbo: Il Console generale De Santis a Springfield
Sindaco di Springfield, Domenic J. Sarno ha ricevuto nei giorni scorsi Nicola De Santis, Console generale d’Italia a Boston, con cui ha discusso su come rafforzare i rapporti tra la città Usa e Viterbo. “Vista la crescita di 3.3 miliardi di dollari dello sviluppo economico di Springfield – ha detto il sindaco Sarno – il console generale De Santis e...
Columbian Lawyers honor outgoing president
The Columbian Lawyers Association (CLA) paid tribute to Brooklyn attorney Dean Delianites, who just wrapped up a year as president of the group, during the gala Installation Dinner Dance held at El Caribe Country Club in Mill Basin on Friday, June 9. In addition, Delianites passed the gavel to the organization’s new president, Linda Locasci, a trad...