Five-Star Italian Restaurants Near Pittsburgh
Visitors in search of an elegant Italian dining experience in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have many choices throughout the area. Fine dining Italian restaurants are located in Pittsburgh's surrounding neighborhoods and nearby cities, and offer patrons handmade meals and complementary wine choices, served in an elegant ambiance, all just a sh...
Judge Marino seeking eighth term in probate court
A local judge who handles decedents' estates and cases involving children, elderly and the mentally disabled is running for re-election. The Honorable Joseph D. Marino, Judge of Probate for the District of Middletown, announced his intention to seek re-election for an eighth term. The Middletown Probate District serves the towns of Cromwel...
Have Easter pizza with Waldwick Italian American Social Club
Italian American Social Club of Waldwick members will be making, giving, serving and eating pizza chiena this Easter to beak the Lenten fast. The community is invited to come for a taste at the club's pre-Easter meeting on April 15. New members and families are welcome to attend meetings, which are held at 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of ea...
The Missoni Clan Is Coming to San Francisco to Become Doctors
Angela Missoni and Margherita Maccapani Missoni are receiving honorary doctorate degrees from the Academy of Art's School of Fashion. The graduation and awards ceremony is on Thursday, May 8, but the designers (plus family matriarch Rosita Missoni) are en route to SF today, straight from last night's Met Ball festivities, to attend tomorro...
Building The Ferrari LaFerrari
The Ferrari LaFerrari hybrid supercar is being hand-built in an assembly hall on the Ferrari campus in Maranello, Italy, that is usually used to construct Formula 1 prototype racing cars. Given the amount of F1-derived technologies and materials used in LaFerrari, this seems entirely appropriate. By the time we visited the LaFerrari hall, on April...
At the Archaeological Museum until October 30
Archaeological finds old and new are on show at Paestum's Museo Nazionale Archeologico, during the exhibition of Immaginando Città, running till October 30th and highlighting the foundations, form and functions of Campania's cities. The initiative also includes a separate display section in the Museum of Ancient Capua in Santa Maria Capua...
Massachusetts Education and Law Awards
The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, part of the national Order Sons of Italy in America, recently honored several leaders in the Italian-American community, as well as graduating high school seniors at the Massachusetts Education and Law Awards. Held on Sunday, May 4, 2014, the award ceremony is a continuation of a 30-year tradition of the Grand Lod...
Threshold: a photographic exhibition by Graziano Paiella
60 photos by RAI TV director Graziano Paiella, with the theme of the 'frame' as threshold: the photographer's choice of what to photograph and what to leave out, the way objects in the environment create frames, and how the concept of the frame invites new modes of perception. The photographs are the result of Paiella's extensive travels t...
Spoleto festeggia Lidia Bastianich, ambasciatrice dell’olio italiano
Grande cena a Spoleto, nei giorni del Festival dei 2 Mondi, in onore della superchef Lidia Bastianich. A volerla, Maria Flora e Zefferino Monini, terza generazione della dinastia imprenditoriale che ha scritto la storia del mercato dell'extra vergine. L'occasione? Festeggiare con un nuovo gemellaggio Italia-Usa la collaborazione tra la che...
Laura Pausini Returns to Chicago
International pop superstar and winner of over 81 major awards including Grammys, World Music awards and Billboard Chart Toppers, Laura Pausini will return to Chicago October 23rd. This very rare Chicago appearance comes at the hands of local entertainment pro Ron Onesti, who produces over two hundred shows annuall...
Visiting Italians welcomed to sister city of Monongahela
By Chris Buckley Chess Park in Monongahela has been the site of countless weddings over the decades. On Friday, more than 200 Italians and Italian Americans celebrated the marriage of two sister cities – Monongahela and Ono San Pietro – at the picturesque park. The event was 30 years in the making - the result of a true romance, fitt...
Rita’s West LA’s Grand Opening Will Offer Complimentary Italian Ice for a Year to First 50 Customers
Rita's Italian Ice of West LA is offering Angelenos an incredible giveaway that will generate chills at its official grand opening Friday, September 12, 2014. Presenting a unique blend of Italian Ice and old-fashioned frozen custard, first recognized and loved by East Coasters, every guest who visits the West LA location during the grand o...