Review: Loaves of love
If you must live by bread alone, best make it Genova's. A few years shy of its centennial year, the once-predominantly Italian neighborhood around the Stockton bakery, market and deli has changed dramatically over the past 100 years. What haven't changed are the loaves and loaves of bread hot from the oven — French, sourdough, Dutch c...
WOR Names Wayne Randazzo As New Mets Pre- And Post-Game Host
710 WOR-AM, The New York Mets flagship radio station, today announced that Wayne Randazzo will join the radio broadcast team for Mets games broadcasts. Randazzo is a seasoned sports broadcaster from Chicago, with more than 10 years of experience and will join play-by-play announcer Howie Rose and Josh Lewin. He will host a 30-minute pre-ga...
Montedoro, from southern Italy to the American South
The Atlanta Film Festival will host the world premiere of Montedoro, Italian director Antonello Faretta's first feature film competing in the Narrative Features section at the 39th edition of the prestigious American festival. After a long period of preparation and field work - almost seven years of writing, filming and post-product...
The New Marco Polo? He’s Right Here
Some say Dionisio Cimarelli is Italy’s finest living sculptor. Some people say he’s the greatest Italian sculptor in China. Trouble is, he’s in neither country. He’s right here in California, visiting and working in studios from Monterey to Los Angeles. Born in the Italian region of Le Marche, he started studying art when he was 14. But he...
Md. winemaker Mike Fiore recognized for industry achievements, impact
My congratulations to Mike Fiore, the Maryland winemaker who received the lifetime achievement award at the Eastern Wineries Exposition in Syracuse, N.Y., on Tuesday. Fiore and his wife, Rose, have turned their namesake winery in Pylesville into one of the region's best. If you want to taste excellent red wine made in an Old World style, make Fiore...
After volatility of Nebraska, Pelini finds comfort at home
by Ralph D. Russo The heroes of northeast Ohio cover the walls at the most popular Italian restaurant in Bo Pelini's hometown. Bernie Kosar's No. 19 Cleveland Browns jersey next to the door that leads to the kitchen. The photograph behind the bar of Ron Jaworski, the former Youngstown State quarterback who took the Philadelphia Eagles...
LED technology will help see The Last Supper under a new light
Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper changes its lighting thanks to a new LED installation, guaranteeing energy savings and much lower heat emissions. This solution pollutes less and helps to better preserve Da Vinci's very delicate masterpiece, which can now only be visited in small groups. The new lighting system was prepared by Marche-based comp...
Healdsburg’s Lou Colombano, owner of Rainbow Club, dies at 100
Now and again throughout his industrious and agreeable 100 years of life, Lou Colombano would be asked where he attended college. He remarked in an interview earlier this year at his home in Healdsburg, "I always say I went to the College of Geyserville." His education in the verdant valley town of northern Sonoma County encompassed t...
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics, 1909-1944
May 13 2015 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics, 1909-1944 explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909, Futurism sought to propel Italy into the modern world...
Sante Fe Line heading to Italian Festival
by James Beaty The Santa Fe Line is set to pull into the Italian Festival this week for a performance that will double as a homecoming concert for two of the band's members. While the group has been creating quite a buzz in Texas, the band always looks forward to returning to McAlester. That's because two of its members, Chuck Justice and...
Bianchi's Italian to open second restaurant in June
by Andi Berlin Fans of the popular west-side pizza and wings joint Bianchi's Italian will be pleased to know, the restaurant is now shooting for a June 1 opening date for their second location. The Tucson staple is opening the former home of Marana's sprawling The Steak Out restaurant. Owner Vincent Bianchi says the new spot...
Labor and electoral reforms persuade OECD to upgrade Italy’s outlook
by Marco Moussanet The OECD gives a pass to the government and upgrades Italy's economic outlook , writing that "the combination of factors that foster Italian growth is the most promising in years." The combined effect of a weak euro and falling oil prices, exports that are expected to increase by 3.4% this year and by 5.1% in 2016 (+5.5...