Radio Maria to host fifth annual banquet
The Endowment for Radio Maria and the Poor will raise funds for both causes at its fifth annual banquet at 3 p.m. on Sept. 24 at Pescatore Palace in Franklin Park. The event will feature entertainment by Loris Giannoni, better known as “DJ Italian Gold.” A Catholic radio program broadcast around the world in several languages, Radio Maria is spearh...
Craving Italian sandwiches? A shop in Brookland imports the Naples deli experience, with a twist
Positioned on the sidewalk in front of Salumeria 2703, the A-frame sign basically serves the same function that Luther, the anger translator, did for President Barack Obama: It bluntly explains the inner workings of something opaque to many Americans. The sign clarifies — curtly, if not vociferously — that the salumeria is an “Italian deli.” Most m...
A New Short Film Offers a Private Look Into the Life of an Italian Architect and Design Enigma
Though he was one of Italy’s most influential mid-20th-century architects and interior designers, very little is known about the inner world of Turinese legend Carlo Mollino. Born in 1905 in the northern Italian city of Turin, Mollino became a figure of fascination for design enthusiasts worldwide, many of whom were transfixed by his hidden private...
Piacere! An Interview with Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco
Sebastian Maniscalco is a stand-up comedian who was born in Chicago and grew up in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He has appeared on Comedy Central and late night shows such as “Conan,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” and Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Said by The New York Times to have h...
Italy's best beaches and islands
In a perfect world, we wouldn't need to explain why beaches and islands up and down Italy are worth visiting. We wouldn't need to describe the fluorescent waters and talcum-powder sand, or highlight the delicious seafood or lively nightlife. Fortunately, this isn't a perfect world, so we get to show off these 12 beautiful spots and you get to read...
Local Italian restaurant, Salute, has a storied past
To this day, Ida Alia still remembers the moment she saw the Statue of Liberty from the New York Harbor while coming to America from Italy in 1960. Alia and her family of nine spent a total of 10 days on a boat coming to America. They came looking for better opportunities. “When I saw the Statue of Liberty from that boat I became so excited beca...
Italian American Club of Hunterdon presents scholarship awards
The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County proudly presented 2017 Scholarship Awards on June 13th at the Grand Colonial in Hampton. The Recipients from left to right are Alton Grossman, Charlotte Vitale, Francesca Puglia, Jordan Beneducci, Juliet LoMonte, Michael Anderson, Michael Stazzone, Rachel Lombardi, and Michael DeSapio, Presiden...
Fig leaves : The great Italian cover-up
Ancient Romans and Greeks adored the human form, sculpting and painting it in all its nude glory. Renaissance artists who followed centuries later were captivated by the purity of the ideal ancient forms and revived classical values to fill contemporary palazzi with frescoes and statuary of nudes to great acclaim. Why then are so many now covered w...
Hemingway’s Ode To Italy Published After 70 Years
“It would be difficult to find a lovelier church nor one where the mosaics expressed more doubt...” “Doubt” would have been the operative word for Ernest Hemingway. It was 1948 and although he was the most famous writer in the world, he was also in the midst of a creative drought, going on nine years since his previous novel, For Whom the Bell Toll...
Italy's Piedmont region serves up elegant wines
One of my very favourite things about having a career revolving around wine is that I never stop learning. Every tasting I attend, every meeting I have with a winemaker, and every trip in which I participate offers an opportunity to discover something new. During the past couple of weeks, I’ve travelled through the Piedmont region in northern Ital...
ARSA to honor Sicilian Band at Sapori di Sicilia
Associazione Regionale Siciliana in America will stage Sapori di Sicilia at 6 p.m. on Sept. 23 at Altavilla Banquets in Addison. The event will feature an extensive array of Sicilian appetizers followed by a sumptuous dinner, music and dancing. This year, ARSA will honor the Sicilian Band of Chicago for its decades-long commitment to celebrating It...
‘Don Giovanni’ at Lincoln Center, New York
The much-renowned opera entitled “Don Giovanni” with music by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be staged at the Rose Theater of Lincoln Center, New York. “Don Giovanni” is a two act opera that runs on an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Premiered in 1787 by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater, the opera revolves around the fo...