UND drops Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day
About a week after Grand Forks City Council members agreed to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, UND has followed suit. With little fanfare, the school’s academic calendars were updated last week to name Monday, Oct. 14, Indigenous Peoples Day. The holiday named after the Italian sailor and forefather of widely violent North American...
"Con gli Usa rapporti strettissimi, parlano 75 anni di storia". Intervista all'ambasciatore Armando Varricchio
Storicamente, quello che ricopre è uno degli incarichi più prestigiosi e impegnativi nel sistema diplomatico italiano: Ambasciatore negli Usa. Di questi tempi, soprattutto con l’avvento alla Casa Bianca di Donald Trump, il ruolo ricoperto da Armando Varricchio, dal 2016 Ambasciatore d’Italia a Washington, è, se possibile, ancor più delicato e nevra...
Hundreds of heroes: Lioni’s to open a new location in Sunset Park
An iconic Bensonhurst sandwich shop is getting a second-coming this week. Residents of Sunset Park are set to become part of the Lioni Italian Heroes family as the Italian-American shop officially expects to open there on Thursday or Friday, the Brooklyn Eagle has learned. “We had been looking at Industry City and the area for about a year. The are...
Italian Volcanoes
If you want to be a volcanologist, then Italy is the place to be. Numerous areas in Italy have volcanic origins where volcanic activity occurred thousands and thousands of years ago. From the Castelli Romani area, just outside Rome, with its gorgeous volcanic lakes, Albano and Nemi – providing an excellent alternative to the not so clean seaside ne...
'Rigoletto' In Vegas And The Pleasures Of The Metropolitan Opera
Maybe you have opera jokes. We did. When the Pop Culture Happy Hour team planned a trip to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, we grudgingly served up to each other our dusty old gags about Bugs Bunny and helmets with horns and Pretty Woman and ... have we left anything out? We chose to see Rigoletto, precisely because it's a classic. It's real, ha...
New The Old Spaghetti Factory location now open in Wichita
If you've got Italian on the mind, you're in luck. A new The Old Spaghetti Factory outpost has opened up shop at 1421 Waterfront. The Old Spaghetti Factory serves three-course meals with entrees including meaty mac and cheese, fettuccine alfredo and spinach and cheese ravioli. The new spot has gotten off to an uneven start thus far, with a three-st...
2019 Pebble Beach Auction to Feature Rare Ferrari
Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, will soon host the Pebble Beach Auctions. This auction is among the most attended and anticipated collector car events of all Pebble Beach Automotive Week. This year’s Gooding & Company Pebble Beach auctions will see a stunning 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Ser...
Weekend Wanderlust: Pozzuolo, the Italian hill town you've never heard of
Think of Tuscany and Umbria – beautiful scenery, beguiling hilltop towns; Siena, Cortona, Assisi… Pozzuolo? OK, few people may have heard of Pozzuolo, but it’s actually more typical of the region than its famous cousins. Maybe nothing much to look at, but well placed and much more relaxed than the tourist hotspots, all of which are within one hour...
Oil, vinegar store brings new flavors to Glendale
In New York, near Skaneateles Lake, Marcia Cosentino found herself in an olive oil and vinegar shop for the first time. “It was like walking into a wine barrel,” Cosentino said of the small store. After tasting the olive oils and balsamic vinegars, Cosentino realized her love for them. “Now every city I go to, I visit the olive oil store,” she sa...
Whatever Happened To: Antonelli Iron Works
In 1947, Larry Antonelli, an Italian immigrant who had worked in the steel business for a quarter century, decided to set up shop for himself. He bought some land on Willard Street and started L. Antonelli Iron Works with four employees. At its peak, the company was one of the largest steel fabricators in New England, turning out 1,000 tons of stee...
From the Romans to Murano: the colorful world of murina glass as you have never seen it
The purity and beauty of Venetian glass is known worldwide: a precious and ancient tradition that speaks of quality, beauty, elegance and creativity. At the heart of Venice’s artistic glass production is the tiny island of Murano and it’s there our journey through the history and making of murine (or murrina) is about to start. We’ll travel in time...
Shake summer doldrums with Trento’s ‘mountain’ bubblies
Is your summer half empty or half full? Recently, I overheard several people lament that, following the Fourth of July, the summer season “is all but over.” Blasphemy! If things need perking up, do what I do: Turn to Trentino (generally called Trento), a high-altitude autonomous province in northeast Italy where some of the best sparkling wines re...