OUT AND ABOUT IN DELCO: Sipping, shopping at Rose Hip’s Italian Night
Sipping limoncello and sangria in a country-like setting, listening to live performances on an open mic, nibbling on cheese and olives — I was whiling away a summer evening at Sunday’s Italian Night at the Rose Hip Barn in Thornton. Hosted by “Ciao Bella Living Italian Style,” the event was a perfect way to cap a weekend! When I received an invitat...
Taste of Old Country
All pizza isn’t created equal. A well-known fact, which drives national conglomerates to promote price in lieu of recipes or technique. But, when you’re from a little town in Italy and pizza sauce courses through your veins, the infinitesimal details easy for others to miss are baked into your DNA. Such is the case for Salvatore Viscomi, known to h...
Remembering ‘Big Nancy’ Sinatra
She was, a friend of hers once noted, “a great wife, a great ex-wife, and a great widow,” and when Nancy Barbato Sinatra died at 101 on Friday, she took with her perhaps the last living link to a world that knew Frank Sinatra not as a legend but as an impossibly skinny fireman’s son from Hoboken, who would sing for a pack or two of cigarettes and a...
Stumbling Stones of Rome
These “Stolpersteine,” German for “stumbling stones,” are a very different kind of Holocaust memorial. They personalize the tragedy, marking the specific place where the victim lived or worked before being forced from their home and sent to extermination camps. There are more than 200 of the mini memorials in Rome, called pietri d’inciampo here, It...
Achille Bocus | History, Technology and Technique of the Mandolin
It is common to think of musical instruments as immutable. In reality, musical instruments are constantly evolving and improving. The mandolin in particular has undergone a surprising evolution, which, from its baroque beginnings to its modern form, has seen changes in aspects such as its shape, wood type, ropes, and plectrums. From the flat top an...
Unified Cup a Chicago: L'Italia pareggia 0-0 con il Giappone all'esordio
Nella prima giornata del Torneo Internazionale di Calcio a 11 Unificato “Special Olympics Unified Cup” in programma fino al 20 luglio a Chicago, l'Italia debutta con il Giappone pareggiando 0-0 dopo una partita, equilibrata, piena di emozioni. Nello stesso girone dell'Italia la Nigeria supera di misura la Giamaica per 1-0.Vittorie anche per l'Urugu...
Si avvicina il momento dei clinic IABF: fra gli ospiti John Franco e Mark Cardillo
Domani, 19 luglio, cominciano i clinic gratuiti fra Nettuno e Roma, organizzati dalla Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball e dalla Italian American Baseball Foundation. Si comincia al centro olimpico dell'Acquacetosa di Roma con il primo di quattro eventi, che coinvolgeranno anche la Nazionale Under 15 il 20 luglio a Nettuno. Il 24 luglio si terr...
Italian Tenor Michéal Castaldo Concert Raised $4500 for St. Barnabas Church, Bayville
The Michéal Castaldo concert held at St. Barnabas Church in Bayville last month raised $4500 for the church, and the parishioners were thrilled to meet and take photos with him after the show. Castaldo’s Sacred Sounds and Italian Spiritual Songs—A Traditional Italian Spiritual Concert featured classic Italian songs of faith from his chart-topping b...
Eat it, Conway: Verona Italian Restaurant
She Said: I was battling hunger pangs and losing, so I felt like a carb-fest was in order. We’d heard there was a new restaurant in the building across from the movie-theater complex and had it on our radar. Once I gave up on my deli-turkey-meat and veggies dinner plans at my desk, I told He Said what our dinner plans were to be! Never mind my post...
Molfetta incontra i vertici della Festa ad Hoboken della Madonna dei Martiri
In occasione della presenza, a Molfetta, dei vertici della Società Madonna dei Martiri di Hoboken, cui fa riferimento la comunità molfettese nel New Jersey, mercoledì 18 luglio, alle 19, nella sala conferenze del Museo Diocesano di Molfetta, si terrà l’incontro “L’importanza delle radici per i molfettesi d’America”. Interverranno il presidente dell...
‘World’s most beautiful cycle path’ opens on Lake Garda
“We commenced work and are proud of the result: now we are waiting for the other town councils to follow suit”. The mayor of Limone sul Garda, Franceschino Risatti, is talking about a stretch of cycle path on Lake Garda that some (perhaps rightly) have called the most beautiful in the world. He puts down its successfully completion to the fact that...
Owner of Montrose Italian eatery, wine bar cooks up expansion to Oak Forest/Garden Oaks area
A 20-year-old Italian eatery is expanding beyond its Montrose location to a new development project in the Oak Forest/Garden Oaks area. Camerata in the Oaks will be a sister concept to Camerata at Paulie’s, according to a press release. Paul Petronella, who also owns Paulie’s and is a partial owner of Okra Charity Saloon, is partnering with Chris...