88th Annual St. Joseph Feast Begins Friday
by Becca Manning The 88th annual Saint Joseph Feast is coming up this weekend in the North End, with parades, music, entertainment and, of course, lots of delicious Italian food. The festival, organized by The Saint Joseph Society of Boston, celebrates the patron saint of the town of Riesi in Sicily and has been going on in the North End...
Marana gets new Italian restaurant
Dominick's Real Italian restaurant opened last Friday in a storefront space that once housed Lococo's Pizzeria. Dominick's, 8330 N. Thornydale Road, was expected to open in June. The 36-seat restaurant, owned by longtime Tucson restaurant manager Lindsey Fisher, is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Read more Source: ...
Eataly Hosts Italian And American Chefs For Cooking Demos, Six-Course Dinners
American chefs and their Italian counterparts are teaming up once again for the fourth annual Identita New York, a three day series of cooking demonstrations and fancy dinners taking place in early October at Eataly. Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud and Sara Jenkins are a few of the chefs representing the States with Massimo Bottura, Mauro Ulia...
Dall'Italia agli Stati Uniti: il governo lo finanzia con 10 milioni di dollari
Stefano Curtarolo, 38 anni, è un altro dei cervelli italiani in fuga, dopo la storia del medico veneziano precario diventato il re del bisturi in Inghilterra.Lui è andato negli Stati Uniti per poter svolgere le proprie ricerche nello specialissimo settore settore della scienza dei materiali. Ha fatto carriera e il suo impegno ha ricevuto prestigios...
Saks selects winning men's fabrics
The competition was stiffer this time around and Dormeuil and Fratelli Tallia di Delfino came out on top, as reported by wwd. The mills were chosen by a panel of experts at Saks Fifth Avenue and The Woolmark Co. in the store's second annual Fabric No. 1 Awards. The contest is designed to choose the season's finest made-to-measure fabrics for suits...
Bill de Blasio Goes Into All-Out Italian Mode for Columbus Day Parade
by Colin Campbell "Buongiorno!" Bill de Blasio exclaimed as he began a speech today. "Viva Italia!". The front-running mayoral candidate's Italian heritage was on full display this afternoon when he made an appearance at the end of the annual Columbus Day Parade in Bensonhurst, a neighborhood that was once the heart of Brooklyn's Ital...
Angiolillo, una rielezione doverosa
Sembra che tutti quelli che conoscono Daniel Angiolillo, giudice del nono distretto della Corte Suprema di New York siano d'accordo non solo sulla sua personalità, umile e decorosa, sul suo ruolo di marito premuroso e padre affettuoso, ma anche sulla sua carriera professionale, quella di un giurista e giudice che negli ultimi vent'anni ha servito e...
Masterpiece to get a makeover at Villanova
by Kathy Boccella For decades, a giant 17th-century Italian masterpiece has been slowly losing its luster on an obscure library wall on the Villanova University campus. Also fading - from memory - has been the artwork's fascinating backstory. It begins with an American-born Italian princess and a papal palace, twists through World...
Good times ahead for Italian wine merchants
The Italian Enologists' Association has described the harvest as a record in terms of quantity and quality.Italy is now likely to be able to produce around 47 to 48 million hectolitres of wine, more than its French neighbour and its main competitor. Italy had been going through a hard time with its grape harvest because of bad weather.After two ye...
Gallup Sacred Heart cathedral, a piece of Italy in western NM
By Davide Arminio Sixty years ago in Gallup, New Mexico, a new construction site sprang up. It wasn't a store, nor a house or a facility. It was the Catholic Sacred Heart Cathedral, designed to become a city landmark, conceived and made possible by a large contribution of the local Italian community. Gallup is a city born of both...
Futurism show opening at the Boca Museum of Art
Futurism: Concepts and Imaginings is opening January 10, 2014 at the Boca Museum of Art, Florida. The exhibition features seven Italian artists from the first (1908-1919) and second (1920s-1930s) waves of Futurism, a dynamic movement that glorified the energy and speed of modern life. These artists genuinely believed in modern marvels like loc...
Pane Amaro: storie di emigrazione a Foggia
A partire da domani, 23 gennaio, si terranno a Foggia, presso il Palazzetto dell'Arte, una serie di incontri ed eventi dedicati alla storia dell'emigrazione pugliese. La rassegna, intitolata "Pane Amaro - Storie di emigrazione" è stata organizzata dal Centro Studi Diomede e dall'Archivio "Fathers' Land" e vede il patrocinio dell'Assessorato al Wel...