Toscano & Sons Relocates to Virginia Highland This Fall
Beloved Italian market Toscano & Sons will reopen this Fall in the heart of Virginia Highland. The market and sandwich shop closed in June due to the lack of retail traffic and residential density around its West Midtown location; it hopes to open doors by the end of November at 1050 N. Highland Avenue, in the space recently vacated by Stanton...
Tra le miniere del West Virginia dove gli immigrati italiani lavoravano (e a volte morivano) per ripagare i padroni
"I owe my soul to the company store", recita una vecchia canzone popolare americana. Gli italiani che vivevano nella zona di Fairmont e Monongah, West Virginia – oggi il 60% della popolazione locale ha origini italiane – conoscevano bene questa verità. Arrivati a fine Ottocento da tutto il Sud e in particolare dalla Calabria – tantissimi d...
Assunzione di un impiegato a contratto - Consolato Generale di Philadelphia
Si comunica che in data odierna è stato affisso all'Albo di questo Consolato Generale l'avviso di assunzione di un (1) impiegato a contratto da adibire ai servizi di assistente amministrativo nel settore consolare. Il testo completo dell'avviso è disponibile sul nostro sito web all'indirizzo http://www.consfiladelfia.esteri.it/, nell'apposito menu...
Carmelo Cicala nuovo coordinatore InterComites USA
Carmelo Cicala, presidente del Comites di Washington DC, è il nuovo coordinatore dell'InterComites USA. Il presidente Cicala, che precedentemente ha coordinato l'Intercomites per due mandati, coprirà questa carica fino al rinnovo dei Comites con le annunziate elezioni per il prossimo aprile. Rivolgendo ai colleghi presidenti l'augurio di...
Michael Chiaccio, 92, and Elizabeth D'Alessandro Chiaccio, 89
They grew up near each other on Webster Street in Riverside. After they began dating, they walked together from home to Riverside High School. And when he went off to combat in France in World War II, their letters filled the silence. When he returned, they were together again. For decade after decade. On Monday, March 9, Michael Chi...
Italian film festival opens in Carnegie
By Barbara Vancheri "The Mafia Kills Only in Summer" is like an Italian delicacy with intense sweet and bitter flavors. It will open the Pittsburgh edition of an 11-city Italian film festival. The event, a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh's Italian Program and the St. Louis nonprofit Italian Film Festival US...
Italian restaurant opens in Westfield Montgomery mall
Naples Ristorante e Pizzeria e Bar opened last week in the Westfield Montgomery mall on Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda. The 164-seat, 6,300-square-foot restaurant features Neapolitan pizza and cuisine, using American spring water matching the mineral composition and pH of the water in Naples, according to a news release. Read mor...
Anthony’s Debuts in Beach Haven With New York-Style Italian Fare
by Kelley Anne Essinger Although some regular customers at Anthony's Trattoria want the new Italian restaurant's fare to remain a secret, the word has already begun to spread throughout the area. "It was so good last night, we had to come back for more," Mike Smith, who was visiting family, told co-owner Vito Santo as the two engaged...
Carnevale! street fair to raffle off a trip to Italy March 8
There will be a special raffle at the Carnevale! event at Touch of Italy in Rehoboth Tuesday, March 8. The winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip for two to Tuscany! This once-in-a-lifetime experience includes airfare and a private limo from the airport. The holder of the winning ticket will see Michelangelo's David, and will tour Ponte Ve...
Joseph Tiberino, artistic patriarch
Memorial services will be Tuesday, March 8, for Joseph Tiberino, 77, an artist and the patriarch of a family known as "the West Philly Wyeths." Mr. Tiberino died Friday, Feb. 19, of heart failure in the Hamilton Street compound that served as his family home, his art studio, and a museum dedicated to the memory of his wife, the artist Elle...
Pizzeria, Italian Restaurant Show Will Launch 2017 in Atlantic City
International Pizza Expo, a pizzeria business-to-business trade show owned by Emerald Expositions, will launch a new two-day trade show at the Atlantic City Convention Center that will focus on pizzerias and Italian restaurants. "This is in no way a replacement to Pizza Expo for East Coast pizzeria operators and their staffs, but more of a...
9 X 10 Novanta, a documentary film
When: Doors open at 6:30pm and close at 6:55pmWhere: Embassy of Italy - Auditorium, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 In 2014 the Istituto Luce turned 90, its decades-long history intertwined with that of Italy itself, through cinema and the unique treasure of images stored in the Luce Archives. To celebrate its anniversary,...