How Nutella Conquered America
Women in sleek black dresses and men with messenger bags checking their smartphones, hipsters in flannel and sunglasses, parents with babies strapped to their chests, and lucky tourists lined the perimeter of New York's Madison Square Park on Monday. But the crowd wasn't gathered for a concert, club opening, or celebrity sighting. This was...
A Look at the 2014 Festa della Madonna del Sacro Monte at Holy Face Monastery, Clifton, New Jersey
This past Saturday was such a beautiful day, and attending the Feast of the Madonna del Sacro Monte at Holy Face Monastery in Clifton, New Jersey made it more so. Everything about the celebration was wonderful; the attendees, the food, the music, and most of all the devotion to the Blessed Mother. It felt good to witness such at large numb...
Francis Ford Coppola to chronicle lives of multi-generational Italian family for first time ever
By Todd VanDerWerff Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Patton, announced at the Produced By conference that he is writing "a multi-generational saga about an Italian American family not unlike his own," as per Variety. This would be new subject matter for the director, who is primarily known for his work in the...
Vincent Piazza è un Jersey Boy, italo-americano al di là degli stereotipi
By Laura Caparrotti Segnatevi questo nome, Vincent Piazza. Vi dico che presto lo vedremo con una statuetta in mano a ringraziare regista e collaboratori. Padre siciliano dalla voce colore del mare, e una mamma vivacissima di lontane origini tedesche, Vincent Piazza è sicuramente un attore in ascesa rapida. Io lo conobbi quando stavamo cer...
Mokena’s first Festa Italiana celebrates heritage
About 1,000 people came out Sunday to support Mokena's first Festa Italiana. After the Mokena Lions rolled up the carpets from the Firecracker Dance on Saturday night, the Mokena Downtown Merchants Association and Knights of Columbus rolled out the welcome mat Sunday. Organizers of the two events found a way physically and financially to...
Inventiva, tecnologia, avventura e un tocco di italianità: così vendiamo immobili a New York
L'agente immobiliare nell'immaginario collettivo è avvezzo a girare incravattato, mostrando gli immobili sul mercato secondo gli schemi tradizionali. Ma New York è la città dell'innovazione e, se è vero che nella megalopoli a stelle e strisce il made in Italy è tuttora sinonimo di qualità, non è la mera nazionalità a rendere la Vivaldi Real Estate...
Opening Night at the 2014 Santa Rosalia Feast, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
By Giovanni di Napoli As I have done so many times before (and hope to do for years to come), I dropped by 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn yesterday for the opening of The Feast of Santa Rosalia. Making my way through the crowd to the outdoor chapel, I pinned my donation on to the Saint's ribbons and picked up some prayer cards for my loved-o...
Italian soprano Magda Olivero dies at 104
Italian soprano Magda Olivero, one of the most prominent interpreters of the Italian verismo operatic tradition whose career spanned 50 years, has died at 104. The news agency ANSA said Olivero died Monday in a Milan hospital, where she was admitted after a stroke last month. The Milan opera house La Scala, where Olivero debuted in 19...
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Italian-Americans plan ‘push back’ on dumping of Columbus Day
By Joel Connelly A bevy of Italian American groups, voicing their "deep frustration," will unveil on Thursday morning a "comprehensive push back program" against the Seattle City Council decision to dump Columbus Day in favor of a new Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October. Italy's ambassador to the United States,...
Welcome to Matera, 2019 European Capital of Culture in Italy
In 1985 the Council of Ministers of the European Union started regularly designating what they labelled the "European Capital of Culture". Florence, Bologna and Genoa are among the Italian cities that have already obtained this prestigious title, and in 2019 this honour will go to another Italian location, Matera. As stated in the European...
Fratelli's Towne Tavern opens in New Cumberland with homemade Italian food
Fratelli's Towne Tavern in New Cumberland borrows from Italian restaurants in northern New Jersey. The restaurant and bar opened Tuesday in the former Carahan's at 209 Third St. with a menu packed with homemade Italian food. Chef and co-owner Anthony LaBarck invests nearly 16 hours a day in the kitchen making meatballs, marinara, rice bal...