Iacocca proved you can come from the streets of Allentown and change the world. Who will do it next?
With the recent passing of Allentown icon Lee Iacocca, I was struck by the impact an entrepreneur can make on a city, a country, a world. You see, Lido, as my dad liked to call him, spent his childhood in typical early 20th century humble beginnings, the same neighborhood my dad grew up in. Around Seventh and Allen streets in downtown Allentown,...
Paul Michael’s Brick Oven Pizza & Restaurant
Paul Michael’s Brick Oven Pizza & Restaurant is a treasure waiting for you, tucked away in an unassuming shopping center in Kew Gardens with PARKING. Paul Michael’s has fabulous pizza on one side of this eatery, with customers and take out orders constantly moving in and out the door, seven days a week. The adjoining dining room offers casual dinin...
Colorado Rapids supporters start GoFundMe to get Italian fan to home match
Most diehard MLS fans are able to hop in their car or take public transportation to a game, tailgating beforehand or even sitting in the supporters’ section. But a member of the Colorado Rapids faithful doesn’t have that luxury, as Italy resident Lino De Rosa is an ocean away. He has been getting up in the wee hours of Italian mornings to watch his...
Italy's answer to the problem with plastic
Damning reports have suggested the amount of plastic in the world’s oceans will outweigh fish by 2050. Not only is plastic leaking into seas at a startling rate – a truckload per minute, according to World Economic Forum – but once it’s in there, fish mistake it for food. The situation has left companies across Europe scrambling to produce alternat...
Italian Festival & Wine Tasting at Monmouth Park on August 3
Pizza, Pasta & Wine – it’s the most delicious time of year at our Italian Festival & Wine Tasting! Bring your family and friends to savor delicious Italian food, listen to live music, visit our Italian crafters, and enjoy a day of racing! Stop by one of our bocce courts and have a family-friendly game. For only $10 enjoy 5 two-ounce samples of Ital...
What is amaro?
It's rare in the booze world for a category to be defined by purpose rather than production, as amaro is, but it's this fact that really speaks to the magic of it. Devilishly difficult to pin down, an amaro is, broadly speaking, a bittersweet herbal liqueur. The word amaro is Italian for "bitter" and the best known examples of the category hail fro...
A luncheon at Wethersfield to celebrate the ceiling frescoes by Pietro Annigoni
Wethersfield, the estate in Amenia, NY, of the late Chauncey Devereux Stillman(1907-1989), was the setting for a small luncheon on June 22nd celebrating the ceiling frescoes painted there by the celebrated Italian artist Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988). These are the only Annigoni frescoes in the United States. Perhaps best known for his 1955 portrait...
IAWA at New York City Poetry Festival
Saturday, July 27th. 11:00 am. The White Horse - 567 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014 IAWA: Italian American Writers Association. Julie Forgione is working on two collections: one of short stories and another of poetry. Mike Fiorito’s book Call Me Guido was just published by Ovunque Siamo Press in 2019. Maria Lisella’s Thieves in the Family was publis...
Path to PAVE led through Italy
Nadia Lucchin's path to heading the anti-domestic violence organization in town started some 4,000 miles away, on the other side of the Atlantic. It was 2004. Lucchin was teaching English in Rome when she became curious about the young, foreign-looking women she saw walking the streets in secluded parts of the city at night. She learned that the wo...
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia sits in the courtyard of Ravenna’s magnificent 6th-century Basilica of San Vitale, but its connection to the basilica is unclear. Its construction dates to sometime in the 5th century, during the last years of the Western Roman Empire. The signature motif of its breathtaking mosaics, described by UNESCO as “among the...
The Galbani Italian Heritage Festival moves to Niagara Square
The Galbani Italian Heritage Festival is relocating to Niagara Square for the first time in decades. The event organizers decided to make the switch to Niagara Square in order to reconnect Italian Americans to their roots. "What's really cool is it's like a natural piazza here just like in Italy where people would come and gather," organizer Chris...
Allunaggio, Filippo Pagano il siciliano che insegnò a volare ad Armstrong
Sulla Luna c’è una targa con tutti i nomi dei protagonisti dell’Apollo 11. Non solo gli astronauti, ma proprio tutti quelli che, in un modo o nell’altro, per quella impresa hanno dato un contributo. C’è anche il nome di un italiano e non uno qualsiasi, anche se dalle nostre parti in pochi lo conoscevano. Eppure l’ingegnere Filippo Pagano, emigrato...