Once-Heralded Italian Restaurant A Voce Shutters Its Final Location
The remaining location of longtime Italian fine dining destination A Voce has ended its tenure. After 13 years, the restaurant’s 41 Madison Avenue location across from the park closes for good Friday night. Parent company MARC, a London-based group from prolific restaurateur Marlon Abela, released a statement saying that it’s part of “a reorganizat...
Do you know about our Free Italian Language Programs?
Scuola Italiana di Portland offers two free ongoing programs every term for Italian Language lovers of all ages to improve their Italian language skills – Mommy and Me Playgroup and the Monthly Italian Language Bookclub. Mommy and Me PlaygroupIo e la Mamma is a free playgroup for ages one to four held on most Friday mornings from 10:00 to 12:00 am...
The 10-year-old US soccer sensation and social media star snapped up by Roma
In the south of Kansas City on a corner of 43rd Avenue there is an Italian restaurant called Cupini’s. Eddie Cupini and his father, Franco, have dedicated nearly 15 years to serving the best pasta in town – “Just like my mom used to make,” says Franco – and earning a few awards along the way. But soon they will be leaving behind the restaurant and...
One Third Of Italians Buy Fresh Produce From Traditional Channels, Study Finds
Around 35% of fresh-produce purchases in Italy are still made from specialist stores and stallholders – a figure that rises to 51% in the south of the country, according to research from Bain & Company. Supermarket chains have not yet been able to capture this €16 billion-valued business, as butchers, grocers, fishmongers, bakeries and street marke...
N.I.C.E. New Italian Cinema Events
When: DA Tuesday, November 14, 2017 a Friday, November 17, 2017 - Where: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU - 24 West 12th St - Entrance : Free N.I.C.E serves as a crucial venue for the showcase and the circulation of the best up-and-coming made in Italy film projects to the international cinema‘s markets. Every year, the international selection comm...
Experience a sense of family at Pulehu, an Italian Grill
It's always a pleasure to return to a restaurant that you remember fondly; I recently had the opportunity to do that at Pulehu, an Italian Grill. This restaurant is somewhat of a hidden gem tucked away in a lush corner of The Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas. The management would like all residents to know that they offer complimentary valet pa...
Le Basse Marche come destinazione ideale per i matrimoni: presentato a New York il progetto "Wedding in Sibillini"
In occasione di una settimana ricca di eventi dedicati all'italianità, le Marche sono state raccontate per le loro eccellenze e come territorio meno battuto dalle mete turistiche più tradizionali, affermandosi oltreoceano come esempio di una terra che non ha permesso che le cicatrici del recente sisma ne compromettessero la vitalità. Durante l'even...
The Strange Tale of the Italian Bride - The Haunting Story of Julia Buccola Petta
In Hillside, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, is Mount Carmel Cemetery. In addition to being the final resting place of Al Capone, Dion O'Banion and other notorious Chicago mobsters, the cemetery is also the burial place of a woman named Julia Buccola Petta. While her name may not spring to mind as a part of Chicago history, for those intrigued b...
Eagle Rock’s Posto Giusto is just the place for a casual evening out
Posto Giusto is an Instagrammer’s dream. Rustic Italian pastas, salads and braises look gorgeous on handmade ceramic dishes. Deep reds and yellows of bruschetta slices contrast handsomely against wooden planks. And beautiful young people surrounded by aged brick walls and large vintage windows could be photographed for Bon Apetit magazine. Such is...
CIAO – Coalition of Italian American Organizations
On September 20th, 2017, history was made in San Francisco’s North Beach District when the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC) hosted the Northern California Italian American Symposium. The SFIAC, a treasured, 100-year-old institution, invited representatives from 39 Italian organizations to attend what proved to be a ground-breaking event....
Remembering Stefano Brunetto
This week, the Brunetto Family of Mona Lisa laid to rest its patriarch, Stefano Brunetto (known to me and most of the community as Zu Stefanu, meaning uncle in Sicilian.) He touched the lives of many of us and was a fixture in our community. When I would see him, he would remind me of my importance: “Tu si numero uno,” he would say to me. (“You are...
Popular Western New York restaurant rises from the ashes
It’s a true story about a restaurant rising from ashes. Popular Clarence restaurant reopens, but this time on Transit in East Amherst restaurant. The Italian restaurant was closed for more than two years, after it caught on fire, while owner, Kelly Jacobbi was at the Taste of Buffalo. Part of the roof caved in during the fire, which was sparked b...