West Seattle food: Pellegrini Italian Market now open in The Junction
By Randall Hauk For months, people have been asking what's going on at the former La Romanza Bistro site at 4521 California SW in The Junction – especially once mosaic tile started to cover the facade. Finally a sign went up. And then, Pellegrini Italian Market opened for business quietly during the recent West Seattle Summer Fest...
Joe DiMaggio and America
by Robert A. Slayton In this baseball season it is appropriate to celebrate Joe DiMaggio, who would have been one-hundred-and-one this year. One of the greatest baseball figures of his era, he played with grace yet power, creating records still unmatched by newer, better trained performers. But Joe DiMaggio gave this country something more...
Labor Day social and barbecue dinner in Naples
The Naples Italian American Foundation invites members and guests to a Labor Day social and barbecue dinner on Monday afternoon, Sept. 7, at club headquarters, 7035 Airport-Pulling Road. Bocce (weather permitting), bridge, mah jongg and poker will be played, and pulled pork and all the trimmings will be served. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. Cos...
Italian cinema: Venice Film Festival's history
WTI Magazine #67 2015 September, 4Author : Edoardo Peretti Translation by: In these very days the 72th edition of the Venice Film Festival is taking place, one of the key events on the agenda of film fans and professionals from every corner of the globe; if only for the fact that it was the first international festival in history (an...
Italian culture and history: The Sanctuary of Padre Pio
WTI Magazine #68 2015 September, 18Author : italia.it Translation by: The "Road of Pilgrims" that runs to the Arcangelo Michele Grotto in San Giovanni Rotondo (Apulia) was created in the late 1800s. San Giovanni Rotondo is now famous all over the world as the native city of St. Pio (meaning Pius, and known in Italian as Padre Pio) of...
Joseph Luzzi book talk at Italian Center launches Italian Heritage Month in Poughkeepsie
Noi Italiani D'Oggi (NIDO), the not-for-profit Italian-American cultural group headquartered in Poughkeepsie, has proclaimed October to be Italian Heritage Month, and it will kick off the festa with a special lecture at its monthly meeting at the Italian Center: Professor Joseph Luzzi, PhD will talk about his latest book, In a Dark Wood: What Dante...
'Feel like family' at Centro
From focaccia and risotto to basil linguine and mushroom ravioli, Italian specialties take center stage at downtown Allentown's newest dining destination, Centro. The 85-seat restaurant, which opened Friday at 530 Hamilton St., serves an array of predominantly northern Italian dishes, all under $20 and designed to be shared. "Everythi...
NCC 27th Annual Italian Heritage Day Program
October 21 (Wednesday) 9:00 am - 12:15 pm. NCC 27th Annual Italian Heritage Day Program. Theme: "The Italian Contributions to the United States from Food to Science". Focus on Italian contributions in the realm of food, especially Slow Food movement and science and technology - the latter originating during World War II and currently...
FORMITALY Arrives In North America At FABTECH 2015
FORMITALY, an Italy-based company that provides equipment for sheet metal working, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the 2015 FABTECH EXPO (Booth # S4778), formally advertising its entry into the US marketplace. Their new North American sales office, based in Los Angeles, CA, will enable FORMITALY to operate more effectively in the mark...
AUR supports LoveItaly! The international organization dedicated to sustaining Italy’s unique cultural heritage
Dr. Richard Hodges, President of The American University of Rome, has taken on the Presidency of LoveItaly!, a non-profit, crowdfunding initiative that takes a revolutionary approach to the conservation and promotion of masterful Italian works of art – allowing the participation of all in the preservation and curatorship of the wonders of Italian h...
Umberto Davi installed as ISBA president
Umberto Davi of Willowbrook, a principal in the Western Springs Law Firm of Umberto S. Davi P.C., was installed as president of the Illinois State Bar Association at the organization's 139th Annual Meeting on June 19 at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva, Wis. "Umberto is not only a lawyer's lawyer, he is a gentleman's gentleman," Il...
Northwest Dallas gets a New York slice at new Bay 34th Pizzeria
By Teresa Gubbins The pizza scene near Flower Mound gets a new slice with Bay 34th Pizzeria, a newly opened restaurant serving New York-style pizza from a former Big Apple resident. Tim Ajro has been in the pizza business for decades and worked at Italian restaurants in New York while he was growing up. He and his wife Gina also had...