Ferragosto Picnic with The Abruzzo and Molise Heritage Society: August 16, 2015
Sunday, August 16, 2015; 12:30pm to 5:00pmVilla Rosa Home, 3800 Lottsford Vista Road, Mitchellville, MD The Abruzzo and Molise Heritage Society's (AMHS) invites the Italian-American community to its annual Ferragosto (a two-thousand-year old tradition) picnic on the grounds of the Villa Rosa Nursing Home in Mitchellville, MD. A few highli...
In Italy, Hiking and Haute Cuisine in the Dolomites
by Robert Draper The most sensible approach to the Alpine geological wonderland known as the Dolomites is also the most evocative one. Here's how it's done: After the three-hour drive from Venice Marco Polo Airport toward Austria, pull off the autostrada into the inviting city of Bolzano. In the pedestrian zone on Piazza della Mos...
Italian art: Giuseppe Arcimboldo
WTI Magazine #67 2015 September, 4Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a unique case in the history of Italian art: one of the most innovative, original and whimsical painters ever known in world artistic history. Born in Milan, very attached to his city and to its origins, he came from an artistic family:...
West End Museum Hosts Italian Heritage Month Events
by Matt Conti The West End Museum will host events celebrating Italian Heritage Month in October for the sixth consecutive year. Prior to the demolition of Boston's Old West End during the "urban renewal" of the 1950s, many Italian-American families called the neighborhood home. The Museum's month-long celebration honors this former little...
Philip Cecchettini: Backstage at the Italian Film Festival
by Bianca Friundi Fall is around the corner in the Bay Area, and with it comes Lido Cantarutti's Italian Film Festival of acclaimed comedy and drama directly from Italy. The Festival is an abiding favorite, eagerly awaited by Marin County residents as well as San Francisco natives. Now in its 39th year, the Festival showcases the...
Joe Segreto, New Orleans restaurateur, dies at 75, newspaper reports
By Todd A. Price Joe Segreto, who ran the beloved Italian restaurant Eleven 79, died Monday (Oct. 5), reports the Advocate. He was 75. Mr. Segreto was born into the restaurant world. In the 1940s, his father Joseph John Segreto had a French Quarter Italian restaurant called Segreto's. Early in his career, Mr. Segreto worked f...
114 Year Old Tradition Returns To Little Italy Church
The Craco Society announces the feast of San Vincenzo, Martire di Craco will be held at the Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood after a 113 year hiatus. The Craco Society, a non-profit organization seeking to preserve the culture, traditions, and history of Craco, a southern Italian hill town located in the Province of Matera and the re...
Guido Gozzano: Memory and Innovation
The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate the poetry of Guido Gozzano (1883-1916) with an international conference to be held in Philadelphia October 29-30, 2015. Center for Italian Studies - 549 Williams Hall, 255 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Is Gozzano the last poet of the Nineteenth Centur...
Frank Capra: Conflicted Italian American Patriot – illustrated lecture
Thursday, November 12 at 6:30pm. Museo Italo Americano - Fort Mason Center - 2 Marina Blvd., Building C - San Francisco, CA 94123 The celebrated film director Frank Capra, a native of Sicily, was always insecure about how much he belonged in America. During that less enlightened time of the early 1900s when he grew up in Los An...
AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY Chronicles Early American Immigrants' Story
Doris Gallippi examines and writes their family history and at the same time imparts social history of first generation Americans who courageously forged a path from Italy to America from 1895 to 1922. This book chronicles "An Extraordinary Journey" (published by Xlibris) of emigrants and their treasured families. This is the story of two...
Casual Dining: Antonio’s serves pizza and Italian favorites in Greensboro
By Jennifer Bringle Located in the former CiCi's Pizza space on Market Street in Greensboro, Antonio's Italian Pizza Kitchen carries on the location's former spirit serving pizza and other Italian favorites. The eatery has sort of a two-in-one concept, with a separate pizza takeout area with its own entrance and a large dining room fo...
Pope Francis opens St.Peter’s doors to pilgrims urging to “put mercy before judgement”
by Carlo Marroni It was 11:10 am when Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. A moment before he embraced his predecessor Benedetto XVI. At that precise moment, a ray of sunlight broke through a blanket of black clouds, an image captured by television cameras and that was perhaps the most symbolic possible way to start o...