Trump Impeachment Trial Turns Spotlight On White House Lawyer Cipollone
President Trump has often surrounded himself with lawyers whom he sees as being good on television. But Pat Cipollone, the attorney who will play a leading role in Trump's Senate impeachment trial defense, is better known for working behind the scenes. Even as an architect of the White House's fight against impeachment, Cipollone has performed his...
How Italian Brand Kartell Stays Creative With Biodegradable Plastic Furniture And Moschino Lamps
Public backlash against plastics has been gaining momentum, even though it is only one of many other urgent environmental concerns. The reason the reputation of this synthetic material has taken a beating stems largely from the consequences of plastic pollution. But the truth is more complex than that; there is a significant difference between sing...
Arthur Avenue’s Little Italy Packed As Customers Seek Out Last-Minute Ingredients For Christmas Feasts
There’s was last-minute shopping rush on in the Bronx on Monday. But not for gifts. It was for food. As the days count down to Christmas, CBS2’s Andrea Grymes visited Arthur Avenue in the Belmont section of the borough. Monday is the busiest day of the year in the Bronx’s Little Italy. “I now live in Montclair, N.J., so I had to come all the way ba...
Presepe o presepio? Di certo, è italiano quello più antico al mondo
Si trova in Sicilia, a Siracusa, la prima rappresentazione figurativa della Natività. “Si dispone la greppia, si porta il fieno, sono menati il bue e l'asino. Si onora ivi la semplicità, si esalta la povertà, si loda l'umiltà e Greccio si trasforma quasi in una nuova Betlemme.” (Tommaso da Celano, primo biografo di San Francesco) La rievocazione d...
Sunday Supper Is a Trip to Italy at This Philadelphia Restaurant
The couple came via New York City, where they met at chef Tom Colicchio’s Craft. Crochet was the chef de cuisine there, while MacNeil was most recently running the 15-person pastry team at Del Posto in Chelsea. They relocated to Philadelphia for Crochet’s new job at Starr restaurants, and to be closer to family in New Jersey and central Pennsylvani...
Brooklyn’s Oldest Butchers
At any of Brooklyn’s old-school butcher shops, you’ll find loyal customers whose continued patronage comes from a pride bordering on smugness: no need to defend something so eminently, obviously wonderful as insisting on the best meat. For the Italian American community, that means great soppressata, fresh sausage, and prime antipasto. For the Poli...
She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music
Like many celebrated musicians, Barbara Strozzi has a Facebook page with thousands of followers. Though in this, her 400th birthday year, she’s hardly a household name like Beethoven or Mozart, the page is active with announcements of concerts, album releases and articles. Named “la virtuosissima cantatrice” — the most dazzling singer — by a contem...
The Only Cannoli moving to Muskegon’s Midtown from Lakeside district
The Only Cannoli, an Italian bakery that opened its first store in Lakeside last spring, will relocate to Midtown Muskegon’s Third Street corridor early next year. Brittany Meloche and Bethany Bauer co-founded the bakery, selling their goods at the Muskegon Farmers Market before officially launching a storefront at 1925 Lakeshore Dr. in April, 2019...
Sebastian Maniscalco adds fifth Palace show to April run
Four months before the stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco will do a string of shows at the Palace Theatre in April, the comedian has added a fifth performance, making him one of only two artists in recent decades to have played the Palace for more than three consecutive shows. Larry the Cable Guy did five souldout performances at the downtown t...
If You Love Chocolate, Visit Turin On Your Next Trip To Italy
If you want to consume some of the best edibles—pastas, cheeses, breads—and wines in the world, of course, you head to Italy. If you want some of the world’s best chocolates, you should go there, too, specifically to the quietly elegant city of Turin, a bucket-list stop for anyone remotely interested in fine-quality versions of the sweet. It’s easy...
Roma Italian Restaurant is coming to the airport
Judging from public comments on social media, the community has been in need of a good Italian restaurant. One is now on the way as Roma Italian Restaurant gets ready to open at Western Nebraska Regional Airport. Cousins Alex Gabrica and Noti Berisha are from Dallas, Texas, where family members are in the restaurant business. They learned the cooki...
Samuele F. S. Pardini, In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans and Modernity
"If there is one thing that we learned from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, it is that the way others see or do not see us (the latter being a way of seeing too) is just as, if not more important than the way we define ourselves. We are never what and who we think we are." In this simple yet powerful statement, Samuele Pardini sets out his aim to ex...