Meet Philly's first family of pole-climbing
Frankie Longo Jr. is climbing in his father's footsteps. The 18-year-old senior at Neumann Goretti High School — and son of grease pole climbing legend Frank Sr. — will take his first crack at scaling the pig lard-slathered pole at the Italian Market Festival this weekend. Pole climbing is practically an Olympic sport for Philadelphians who celebra...
Frittella Italian Café announces plans to reopen this summer
Frittella Italian Café has announced that it’s reopening this summer. The Italian restaurant has been serving the city of Bryan since 2003, but it closed its doors last year. Frittella was previously owned by Adriano and Vancene Farinola. The family said Adriano and his brother Pino Farinola previously owned the oldest Italian restaurant in Houston...
Sicily, Land of Myth
Before anything else, Sicily is an island and, like all islands, mysteries hide beneath its surface, half land and half water. It seems that the gods–and their adventures, desires, and whims–never left the sunny theaters of Syracuse or Taormina. Along the coast of Palermo and Trapani, the heroic cries of Odysseus and half-divine Heracles still echo...
Brandywine Museum of Art to present ‘Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature’
This summer, the Brandywine Museum of Art will present the first major museum exhibition dedicated to the exquisite, nature-based works of pioneering American modernist painter Joseph Stella (1877-1946). On view June 17 through September 24, 2023, Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature will feature more than 80 paintings and works on paper revealing the b...
Food In Bologna, Italy: What & Where To Eat In This Delicious City
Are you wanting to try the best food in Bologna, Italy? Then you’re in right place! Bologna is the capital of Emilia Romagna and is a prime destination for foodies looking to experience some of the best cuisine Italy has to offer. With a wide range of traditional dishes, classic restaurants, and buzzing food markets, there is something for everyone...
See It: New Italian Bottega 'Da Adriano' Opens In Lenox Hill
The new 500-square-foot Italian spot at First Avenue and East 65th Street called "da Adriano" describes itself with three words: Caffé, focacceria and bottega. Caffé is obvious. The 19-seat eatery serves coffee and espresso brewed with the help of the finest and most legendary espresso machines every manufactured: the Faema E61.
Jennifer Esposito's Ethnicity Is Italian-American & Once Shared Challenges She Faced Getting Onscreen Roles
Jennifer Esposito is a New York-born actress who began her career in 1996 in the TV movie "The Sunshine Boys." Despite her successes, she has faced challenges and once took to social media to express her opinion. Once she spoke up about her experience of not being white enough for Caucasian roles, other Italian-American actors backed her. Besides t...
Italy’s Answer to St. Tropez: Where to Stay in Forte Dei Marmi on the Tuscan Coast
It was thirty years ago when Mitchell Hochberg stumbled on Forte dei Marmi. The developer, who’s just opened the Moxy-AC hotels complex in downtown L.A., was driving through Italy on vacation with his wife Susan. “We were basically lost. It was a Saturday afternoon, and we drove into town, and it felt like we were in a make-believe world, a movie s...
Veteran restaurateur opens fine dining Italian restaurant in Sparkill
Vittorio Lanni has been in the restaurant business for more than 35 years, with a bulk of that time cooking (and owning places) in Florida, especially Palm Beach. Now, the Naples-born Upper Grandview resident has his first venture in Rockland with the May 9th opening of Lanni's Cucina Verace Italiana, a fine dining, dinner-only (for now) Sparkill s...
Connecting the Med: Sparkle links BlueMed to Sicily’s key data hub
BlueMed makes landfall in Sicily. Sparkle (Tim Group’s global operator) is laying a high-speed internet submarine cable across the Mediterranean Sea. On Tuesday, it successfully connected it to the “Sicily Hub” neutral data centre in Palermo, which is connected to eighteen other international cables. BlueMed now stretches from Genoa to Golfo Aranci...
Italy Run LA 5K Marathon in San Pedro
Celebrate this year’s Festa della Repubblica by connecting back to your Italian roots and showing your Italian pride through the Italy Run LA. Italians and Italian-Americans are an integral part of what makes Los Angeles the hub of Italian culture and heritage. Join the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association (LILAA) in filling the streets of San P...
Venice beyond La Biennale: the ultimate 21st century international village
Venice is an urban oxymoron, a 21st-century international village, caught in-between its dual identity as a mecca for the global cultural crowd (hello, Venice Architecture Biennale 2023) and home to a permanent population of locals. Venice sits at the centre of the contemporary cultural stage thanks to a legacy of institutions in the field – histor...