Saturday and Sunday Brunch at GDL Italian by Giada
GDL Italian by Giada in Baltimore’s Horseshoe Casino has expanded their hours to include brunch Saturdays and Sundays from 10:30 am to 2 pm, tempting patrons and casino goers to indulge in their Italian fare. Giada de Laurentiis (GDL) , Food Network star and cookbook author, combines her California take on her family’s Italian cuisine (Kale Caesar...
Forget Bologna and Florence - here's the Italian resort favoured by Italians
Entering the Old Town of Rimini through its enormous Roman arch, I am swiftly transported into a traditional Italian lifestyle that I have longed to prove true. Leisurely cyclists weave the streets as their canine companions sit upfront in baskets. Locals sit under canopies outside coffee shops. Boutique windows are lavishly decorated with the luxu...
Hell In A Handbag's Hosts Annual Benefit THE SOPHIA PETRILLO ITALIAN DINNER & TALENT SHOW
Join Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia for Hell in a Handbag Productions' annual benefit, THE SOPHIA PETRILLO ITALIAN DINNER & TALENT SHOW on Sunday, December 2, 2018 from 5 - 10 pm at Our Lady of Eternal Guilt aka Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1650 W. Foster Ave. in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood. Tickets ($75 in advance) are currently available...
Alessandro Lanzoni - Jazz Piano Solo
When: Thursday, November 29, 2018 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St NW, Washington, DC 20008 Alessandro Lanzoni is one of the great personalities of Italian jazz. At age 21 he was awarded “Top Jazz 2013” as the best new talent of the year. In his piano solo performances, Lanzoni’s wide-ranging program alternates...
Screening of 'The Village: Life in New Haven’s Little Italy’
From his apartment overlooking New Haven’s Wooster Square and St. Michael Church, freelance writer and film maker Steve Hamm began noticing how many funeral processions went past in August 2017. St. Michael’s is where the old Italian-American families worship, and Hamm realized that with each funeral a lifetime of memories and stories about the old...
Away from the Crowds in Venice: Yes, You Can – Head to Cannaregio
Next time you arrive in Venice by train, try something different. Rather than following the masses through the usual itinerary leading to St. Mark’s Square via Ponte degli Scalzi, remain on the side of the Santa Lucia train station and head to Cannaregio, Venice’s second largest sestiere, which extends north of the Grand Canal. It’s an opportunity...
Digital baseball cards innovator Chris Vaccaro
If we’re lucky, we live out childhood dreams in adult careers, the preeminent example being the Little Leaguer who makes the starting lineup of a major league baseball team. While Chris Vaccaro never swung a bat at Yankee Stadium, he hit a grand slam when he became editor-in-chief and digital director at the Topps Company. Having collected sports c...
10 Places to Get Your Italian Fix Near Campus
Fusilli, penne, tagliatelle, rigatoni, pappardelle — we love all shapes and sizes, and we know you do too. Lucky for us, a lifetime supply of different pasta dishes to try awaits us not too far from campus. San Marzano, 117 Second Ave. They get straight to the point at San Marzano. First, choose your pasta, with options ranging from spaghetti to gl...
Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedies of a Ridiculous Man
From Wednesday, December 05, 2018 to Sunday, December 30, 2018. Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan, NY. In collaboration with Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Entrance with fee. In collaboration with Luce Cinecittà, Rome, MoMa celebrates Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi with a retrospective that spans his four-decade long caree...
Mina sings Battisti, album out 30/11
Italian music legend Mina sings songs by legendary singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti in her new album, Paradiso (Lucio Battisti Songbook), out November 30, the record company Warner Music said Tuesday. The album, available in double CD, triple LP and digitally, gathers songs by Battisti and his lyricist Mogol already sung by Mina, plus two tracks ne...
Distilleria Le Crode, distilling Grappa according to tradition
Distilleria Le Crode – located along river Piave, between Valdobbiadene and Feltre – is one of the few remaining plants in Italy to uphold Veneto’s long-standing traditional grappa-making methods – indeed, it even uses steam-powered copper stills from the early 1900s. The distillery clearly honors its own long history, during which artisanal knowle...
Eric Dregni - You're Sending Me Where?
Saturday December 1 2018 from 18:00 to 19:30 EST. I Am Books, 189 North St, Boston, MA 02113. Tickets here. Eric Dregni is the author of 18 books including Never Trust a Thin Cook, Vikings in the Attic, In Cod We Trust, Midwest Marvels, Follies of Science, and Weird Minnesota. He is a professor of English, journalism and Italian at Concordia Univer...