Italian Movie Screening & Discussion of "Focaccia Blues"
Monday April 8 from 19:00 to 21:00 EDT. Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd, Elmhurst, New York 11373. Tickets here. Free Admission. Donations are accepted and tax-deductible, as Italian Charities of America is a registered section 501c3 nonprofit organization. Movie Showing of the docufiction film "Focaccia Blues" by Italian filmmaker...
LI's Joe Gatto talks 'Impractical Jokers,' rescuing dogs, more
For a guy named Gatto — Italian for “cat” — Joe Gatto sure loves dogs. “We have four now,” says the Lynbrook resident, one of the stars of truTV’s hidden-camera prank show “Impractical Jokers,” which begins its eighth season Thursday at 10 p.m. He and his wife, Bessy, “were up to five,” he says, “but we’d also adopted a senior” who has since died....
Opera in the Park
Sunday, April 07, 2019 at 1:00 pm. The Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert. 2150 E. Tahquitz Canyon, Suite 6, Palm Springs, CA 92262-6818. 21st edition of the annual concert that celebrates opera and classical music in an informal, non-traditional setting with a 25-piece professional orchestra, a professional opera conductor, and 5(+) young oper...
L’On. Nissoli (FI) incontra, a New York, la neonata Associazione Italia Oggi Consultantants e, in New Jersey, l’ Associazione Italiana Ieri, Oggi, Domani
Continuano gli impegni dell’On. Nissoli tra le associazioni italiane in USA, in raccordo con il suo lavoro parlamentare, dopo aver presentato un Disegno di Legge per l’Associazionismo italiano nel mondo. Infatti, questo fine settimana l’On. Nissoli è stata a Long Island, nel cuore dello Stato di New York, per l’inaugurazione dell’Associazione Itali...
Presentation of an Official Proclamation of Apology by the Mayor of New Orleans to the Italian American Community
Friday, April 12, 2019 @ 11:00 AMERICAN ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTER 537 South Peters Street, New Orleans, LA. The Order Sons & Daughters of Italy in America (OSDIA) is proud to announce an historical event concerning a long social wound stemming from America's worst lynching event that occurred in New Orleans in 1891. Eleven Italian immigrants were kil...
Pianosa, the Alcatraz of the Tyrrhenian
While John Milton wrote about Paradise Lost, if he’d been to the island of Pianosa he’d likely have been talking about paradise found. Pianosa is not just a beautiful island but a unique one–singular in its history and location. Visitors to Pianosa have the opportunity to discover the many wonderful aspects of this special place as well as a chance...
True Italian Taste: il Piemonte incontra il Nord America
Più di 550 incontri d’affari in agenda a Torino il 25 e 26 marzo per “TO Taste 2019”, l’evento organizzato da Assocamerestero in collaborazione con la Camera di Commercio di Torino. L’iniziativa fa parte del progetto “True Italian Taste”, promosso e finanziato dal Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico e realizzato da Assocamerestero con le Camere di C...
Forget Positano: 12 undiscovered, romantic small towns in italy locals love
Frances Mayes has spent years traveling through Italy and writing about it in her best-selling books like Under the Tuscan Sun. Her latest book, See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover is a travelogue about all the undiscovered and overlooked gems in Italy, which she reveals to us here. Writing See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in...
The Santa Barbara Symphony Presents Verdi's Requiem With A Community Of Choruses
The Santa Barbara Symphony continues its 65th Anniversary season with two nights of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Messa da Requiem on Saturday, April 13 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, April 14 at 3:00 pm at The Granada Theatre. Both performances feature Maestro Nir Kabaretti conducting, alongside soloists Colleen Daly, Natascha Petrinsky, Harold Meers, Luca...
Culinary Tour of Italy: Il Corso in Palm Springs offers sophisticated dining with no pretense
Upscale Italian in the heart of downtown Palm Springs. Il Corso takes you on a tour of Italy with dishes from Sicily to Venice. Full menu in the dining room; smaller portions in the bar, the restaurant features a pizza bar outside of the open kitchen. In the dining room, imported Italian, natural stone walls; reclaimed farmhouse wood on the floors...
Mario Tricoci shares how Schaumburg helped launch salon empire
He's one of the most successful entrepreneurs to ever emerge from the suburbs, but Mario Tricoci says his passion for his business was born not of a desire for money but to make people happy. The Italian-born hairdresser told members of the Schaumburg Business Association Tuesday morning how a life-changing visit to relatives in Chicago in 1958 led...
Army survival instructor Ron Centanni
As a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape instructor, Ron Centanni trained everyone from foot soldiers headed for Vietnam to astronauts headed for space. The oldest of two sons, Ron Centanni was born in Chicago to Paul and Ida (DeMuro). The family lived on the 3400 block of Flournoy Street in a two-flat owned by Centanni’s paternal grandparents...