NEWS FROM : GREAT LAKES  

by Morgan Olsen   Heads up: Your grandma is coming to town this weekend. She'll arrive in an Uber-pulled tiny home on Sunday with that pasta and sausage dish you're always craving. OK, I lied. It's not your grandma who's coming to town, but rather a sweet (and authentic) Italian Nonna.   All the other stuff? Totally true. Jo...

By Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas The day before she died, Anne Romagnoli called the office manager at the Italo-American Accordion Co., the store she owned for 66 years. She had a few questions but mostly a long list of instructions. "That was just her way," said her daughter Roseanne Romagnoli, who acknowledged her mother could be demanding.  ...

The Fall Festival will be held on October 5th from 1 to 10 p.m. and on October 6 from 12 to 6 p.m. at the Casa Italia Festival Center. The event will feature wine making presentations, Sunday Outdoor Mass, cultural events, ricotta making presentation, children's activities, museum tours, sports demonstrations, carnival rides, haunted attraction, fa...

By Mitch Hotts   It was a celebrazione -- Italian for celebration -- of the culture, history and heritage of Italy during the Columbus Day Parade on Main Street in downtown Mount Clemens on Saturday. The 46-unit procession included a variety of social clubs, businesses, pageant queens, and the Harper Woods High School Marching Band payi...

Renowned art collector Ron Pizzuti is behind a new luxury-boutique art hotel opening in Columbus, Ohio. The hotel features art from Pizzuti's private collection along with local and world-class contemporary art from emerging artists.   Partnering with upscale, design-focused international hotel brand Le Méridien, The Joseph features artwork...

According to the last U.S. census, 18,000 Italians live in Cook County. That number includes Italian immigrants and Italians born in the United States. The group makes up the second largest European population in Cook County, just after the Polish.   Giuseppe Quercia, from Naples, Campania, moved to the United States in 1968 with his family....

By Lorraine Swanson   Italy's Teatro dei Piedi -- "Theatre of Feet" -- is bringing its family-friendly entertainment to the Beverly Arts Center this weekend, Jan. 20 through Jan. 22.   Part mime and part contortion, Teatro dei Piedi stages characters whose stories are by turn romantic, ironic, poetic and ridiculous with their feet. Th...

Il Console d'Italia a Detroit Marco Nobili insieme al professore Iaderosa, direttore dell'Ente Gestore "NOI – Nuovi Orizzonti Italiani" ieri 30 novembre 2012 hanno incontrato a Grand Rapids, in Michigan, la professoressa Gisella Licari ed i suoi collaboratori della Grand Valley State Gli studenti di italiano dei corsi 101 e 201 dell'ateneo hanno pr...

Il Comitato della Società Dante Alighieri del Michigan, sotto gli auspici del Consolato d'Italia a Detroit, ha ospitato la presentazione di Luca Guardabascio, regista e sceneggiatore italiano; le sue opere comprendono documentari, lungometraggi, serie TV e spettacoli.   Il suo nuovo libro-progetto e film si intitola "Padula-New York-Pittsbur...

Brembo celebrated the grand opening of its expanded North American manufacturing operations in Homer, Michigan today. Brembo is a world leader and innovator of brake systems. The celebration renewed Brembo's commitment to North America.   The investment, which will total more than $115 million dollars (€83 million euros) through the end of 2...

by Bill Castanier   Like a fine stock, Mena Castriciano's cookbook has been simmering on the back burner for a long time. But this week her lifetime of dishing recipes becomes reality with "Cooking with Mena," a collection of her favorite Italian recipes. "It was my dream," she said while holding court in the dining area of Roma Bakery Deli...

by Brenda Cain   As signs of spring burst around the Chagrin Valley, so does the flavors of new eatery M Italian in Chagrin Falls. The restaurant, which sits at the entry of the west side of the village, was created to celebrate the Italian heritage of Burntwood Tavern owner Bret Adams' wife, Michelle, and boasts an Italian farmhouse at...