A Surprise Italian Restaurant Hides In a Two-Story Koreatown Strip Mall
Here’s an interesting one for always-churning Koreatown: Second Floor Restaurant Bar & Grillhas arrived, offering keenly-priced Italian pastas and wine from, yep, the second story of a strip mall off Vermont Avenue. If the name sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because this is the former 2nd Floor Gastropub and Sports Bar space, a more casual Korean-...
La storia dimenticata di “Camp Monticello”
Questa è una storia nella Storia, una storia minore, di guerra. Non parla di eroi, di attacchi, combattimenti, di avanzate di carri armati. E’ una storia di prigionieri di guerra; i “P.W.”, Prisoner of War. Ma per chi l’ha vissuta, questa storia minore, non è stata meno importante, meno pesante di tante altre tragedie. Per fortuna, almeno questa, è...
Music Inside Out: Ricky Riccardi And Louis Armstrong
Perhaps one of the most awe-inspiring facts about Ricky Riccardi, who directs research collections at the Louis Armstrong House Museum Collection in Queens, is that he never argued with his parents. Not once. “Why would I fight with these people?” his wife, Margaret, remembers him saying on their first date. “They supported me. They give me everyth...
We Can't Figure Out Why This Divine Italian Espresso Drink Hasn't Taken Off Here
We're not going to rehash the dated bit about Starbucks drink sizes ("what's up with 'grande' meaning medium??"), but we would like to draw attention to the undeniable influence of Italian espresso culture on the way we drink coffee now. We have the Italians to thank for cappuccino, macchiato, and caffé latte, which have revitalized us on more afte...
Little Italy gets architectural with OH! San Diego
Our region continues to exemplify the best in arts and culture programs, and this spring, a multitude of social and cultural opportunities with an added Italian flair abound for our community and visitors to embrace and to help in promoting San Diego’s arts and culture scene. Amici House in Little Italy was privileged this past weekend to be a part...
Full Time Teacher Needed For Italian Program At Sue Cleveland High School, New Mexico, 2018-19 S.Y.
Sue Cleveland High School, at Rio Rancho, New Mexico, needs to fill a full-time teaching position in Italian for the 2018-19 school year. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university; - Current New Mexico Department of Education license appropriate to the teaching assignment with applicable endorsem...
VINO e PIZZA, a Presentation and Tasting of Italian Wines
Cari Amici – Dear Friends, it is with the greatest pleasure that we announce this special event. With the title of Vino e Pizza, a Presentation and Tasting of Italian Wines, we are proposing the unusual joining of two traditional Italian culinary icons: The multi-flavored pizza much- loved by everyone all over the world and three excellent iconic...
You Can Thank Guglielmo Marconi for Your Favorite Wireless Devices
In an era when long-distance communication was achieved by sending signals over telegraph wires, Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi was one of a handful of researchers who suspected invisible radio waves might offer a better solution. Despite failing his college entrance exams, Marconi (1874–1937) went on to conduct some of the most impo...
Italiano in America: l’esperienza bilinguista della Scuola Marco Polo a Philadelphia
L’italiano piace. E non stiamo parlando del maschio italico, ma della lingua italiana all’estero che, nonostante non sia molto spendibile dal punto di vista professionale, continua ad essere tra le lingue più apprezzate e studiate fuori dal nostro Stivale. Soprattutto negli Stati Uniti. Non solo pizza e spaghetti, nel paese delle stelle e delle str...
Longtime Chesapeake pizzeria is moving to Virginia Beach
When Vinicio Fabbrizi arrived in Virginia from his native Italy, he could fix pipes, but whether he could fix a pizza was unknown.More than three decades later, Fabbrizi’s Andrea’s Pizzeria is one of Chesapeake’s most enduring mom and pop businesses. However, the link with Chesapeake is about to be severed as Fabbrizi, 71, and his son, Vinicio “Vin...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Columnist remembers an Italian master artist
Taking the morning train from Florence, we disembarked at the station in Orvieto and boarded the funicular transporting visitors from the floor of the Tiber Valley to the heart of the city perched atop an extinct volcanic plateau. The end of the line was the Piazza del Duomo or Cathedral Square. The distinctive façade of the travertine and granite...
Hidden pop examples of Italian design: the work in the US of Lella and Massimo Vignelli
Italian design was only recently celebrated in LA with the Italian Design Day and it is once again time to talk about Italy’s most creative minds and their ties with the US. What’s really striking, in the case we’re about to see together in a few lines, is how these artists are the minds behind some of the most iconic pop culture symbols of the US...