Cafe Al Dente review: Popular restaurant returns to Oyster Bay with homey, Italian-American fare
Cafe Al Dente is back in downtown Oyster Bay with some of its old bite and plenty of red sauce. The homey eatery has returned at a new location five years after it closed at 2 Spring St. over purported code violations. Lawsuits and townwide agita followed. The Town of Oyster Bay eventually settled with owner Phil Morizio, who’d sued citing denial o...
Alberto’s slam makes the difference in Trenton
The New Hampshire Fisher Cats leave New Jersey with a win, thanks to their 4-1 win over the Trenton Thunder on Wednesday morning. All four New Hampshire runs came off the bat of Albero Mineo, an 0-1 pitch that the Italian-born catcher took deep to right for the Fisher Cats’ second grand slam of the year. That would be all the offense New Hampshire...
Quentin Fiore, Who Made the Medium His Message, Dies at 99
Quentin Fiore, a graphic designer whose work helped magnify and popularize Marshall McLuhan’s maxim that “the medium is the message,” died on April 13 at a care facility in North Canaan, Conn. He was 99. Bianca Fiore La Porta, his daughter, said the cause was complications of bronchitis. Mr. Fiore spent much of his career doing conventional design...
Chef shows the creative process in Italian cuisine
Sarah Grueneberg visited Madison College to show students her creative process behind her Italian cuisine. Interviewed by Lindsay Christians, who writes for “The Capital Times,” Christians shares her own love of food and dining with Sarah Grueneberg and Madison College throughout the interview. Continuing the Chef Series on April 10, Grueneberg was...
Celebrate Leonardo da Vinci's 500th anniversary with a tour of Italy
Homemade pasta, beautiful churches, delicious gelato, glamorous haute couture and a cultural history like nowhere else. There's already a legion of reasons to visit Italy, but 2019 brings another as the country its celebrates one of its original artistic exports: Leonardo da Vinci. May 2 marks 500 years since the death of the original Renaissance m...
Dominic DiFrisco funeral: Chicago mourns Italian-American titan
There was a final goodbye Wednesday for the man known as the "voice of Chicago's Italian-American Community," Dominic DiFrisco. Family and friends, and those who admired him, packed the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in the city's Little Italy neighborhood. With Frank Sinatra music playing, hundreds of Chicago's movers and shakers gathered for the c...
San Francisco says goodbye to Lucca Ravioli
As soon as Lucca Ravioli Co. opened its doors Tuesday morning, the place was packed with people and sorrow. It was the last day for the 94-year-old Mission District business, and regulars dropped by to pay respects. They took selfies in front of the windows, covered with hand-painted signs. They reminisced about their earliest Lucca experiences. An...
From Northern Italy to Florence By Bike, A New Cycling Path is in the Works
From the Brennero Pass at the border between Italy and Austria to Lake Garda, and on to Mantua, Bologna, Pistoia and Florence, by bike on a dedicated track. That’s the idea behind the Ciclovia del Sole (literally Cycle Path of the Sun), a 670-km proposed cycling path, part of one of the most important European cycling routes, the Euro Velo 7, which...
Italian American students receive lodge scholarships
The Order Italian Sons and Daughters of America was organized in 1930 by a small community of Italian immigrants in Pittsburgh. Members became active in the politics and society of their adopted city and country, but still worked to preserve a cultural link with their Italian heritage. Nowadays, the organization also encourages young Italian Americ...
TUTTOFOOD – The Hub Of International Agrifood In The Italian Lifestyle Capital
TUTTOFOOD, the Milano World Food Exhibition, which takes place at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre from 6 to 9 May, is a lot more than a business-matching platform. It is also a knowledge exchange opportunity, thanks to its rich event calendar. In the spotlight this year will be two specialist arenas focusing on new digital technologies and innov...
To ensure student success, we need more Marconi
"I seemed to have a special... aptitude for mechanics, physics, and chemistry," wrote the brilliant early 20th-century engineer, inventor, and founder of global communications Guglielmo Marconi, "which were not taught at the school I regularly attended." April marks the 145th celebration of Marconi's birth in Bologna, Italy, and this year is the 11...
The Legacy of Louise DeSalvo
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 6pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036. In 1996, Louise DeSalvo, acclaimed modernist scholar and Virginia Woolf biographer, published the memoir Vertigo, "the unlikely narrative of how a working-class Italian American girl became a critic and writer." Almost ten...