Italian restaurant coming to Old Town Warrenton
A new restaurant will open in downtown Warrenton next month. Denim and Pearls, featuring Italian and American food, whiskey and wine, will replace The New Bridge at 29 Main St. “The food will still be upscale, but the atmosphere will be more relaxed,” co-owner Thomas “T.C.” Robinson said in an interview Thursday. Mr. Robinson and Rick Marrero, bot...
The Colossus of Watts Sam Rodia – Designer and Builder of the Watts Towers
“Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.” – Lyof N. Tolstoy: What is Art?, 1898 When I was a teenager my father would take us every summer down south to p...
Aqua Pazza Opens in the North End Next Week
Even more Italian food arrives in Boston’s North End next week, courtesy of a redesigned and reconcepted member of a neighborhood restaurant group. Aqua Pazza opens at 135 Richmond St. on Thursday, May 4 in the former Sfizi space, bringing traditional Italian seafood dishes to the area and joining the family of DePasquale Ventures restaurants. Exec...
Immigrant Joseph Rollo devotes his career to helping others on their journey
Love brought Joseph Rollo to America. He was a teenager from Sicily when he first visited the United States and met Anna Maria, the woman he would later marry. The couple sent letters back and forth across the Atlantic for about a year, and though he had never planned to live in America, she convinced him to attend college in the Philadelphia area....
L'italiano alla Disney, cinque cartoon in cinque anni e tre Oscar
A dispetto del nome, di origine russa, e del cognome, di origine ungherese, Mitja Rabar è l'unico animatore italiano ai Walt Disney Animation Studios. "Nell'intera azienda ci sono un po' di italiani, nel settore dell'illuminazione c'è un altro ragazzo ma come animatore è vero sono l'unico" ci racconta da Los Angeles. Negli ultimi anni ha lavorato a...
Students Connect Italian, Marketing, and International Business
Connecting language study to the “real world” is one of the objectives of Dr. Enza Antenos' Business Italian course (ITAL321). There is a significant presence of Italian companies in New Jersey, and it only made sense to bring experts to class to speak to Italian and international business students about Made in Italy and its importance and impact...
Primo Italia in Torrance serves up authentic Italian cuisine
Simplicity is the key to a great Italian dish, according to Primo Italia owner Lou Giovannetti. “Utilize the simple basic ingredients of what is the heritage of Italian cooking and then simply marrying that with historical idea of what Italian food is,” Giovannetti said. Giovannetti owned Lou's on the Hill in Torrance before that eatery shut its do...
Society of Italian American Businessmen Donates $25,000 to SARC
On Friday, April 21, 2017, the Society of Italian American Businessmen (SIAB), a local non-profit civic group, presented the Sexual Assault/Spouse Abuse Resource Center in Bel Air (SARC) with a check donation of $25,000. The check presentation took place at the Richlin Catering & Events Center during SIAB’s sold out 4th Annual Spring Gala, one of i...
St. Rita Church to be replaced with six-story senior housing development, new worship space
An east side Milwaukee church would be demolished and replaced with a new building that would provide senior housing, as well as worship space, under terms of a new proposal. St. Rita Catholic Church, 1601 N. Cass St., would be purchased by developer James Tarantino, according to a $20 million proposal announced Monday. Tarantino, who operates Tara...
This Iowa college town pizza joint named 'best in state'
A & A Pagliai's Pizza in Iowa City was named as having the best pizza in the state of Iowa by USA TODAY College. The article, written by Lauren Kruchten of North Carolina State University, first appeared in Spoon University, an online food publication that curates its content from student food journalists. An Iowa City tradition, A & A Pagliai's pi...
Little Italy provides fun in every season
Especially for those of us who stayed on campus during spring break, this time of year tends to feel a little monotonous; You can only look out the windows of Brody for so long before you go a little stir crazy. As the weather warms up in Charles Village, I, for one, am beginning to experience some serious wanderlust. Unfortunately, the mid-April w...
Performed in Italian, exceptional performances still transcend during "Don Giovanni" opening night
The Italian opera "Don Giovanni," with music written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, had a crowded opening night in Crafton-Preyer Theatre Friday, April 21. The opera was the final show of this season for University Theatre. The opera tells the tale of the despicable womanizer Don Giovanni, who was played by actor Carey Eugene Wilson. Giovanni is a cha...