Italian Festival Seeking Vendors
The Italian American Heritage Festival of Iowa is now accepting vendor applications for our 2013 festival to be held July 26-27, 2013 at the Western Gateway Park in Downtown Des Moines. Vendor applications will be accepted through April 15, 2013. To be a part of this year's festival, please fill out the 2013 Vendor Application For...
Italian speaker embraces her ethnic background
Dr. Vincenza Scarpaci continued the mission of the Gockel Symposium in her presentation of "The Road Less Traveled: Italian Immigrants in America." She showcased the international issues associated with the immigration of nearly four million Italian people to America. While many immigrants settled in the New York area, a few chose to journey farthe...
Italian favorites with urban flair in downtown Colorado Springs
The image of a red tomato splotch that practically screams "Splat!" is the perfect logo for a restaurant named Red Gravy. While the ruby-colored stuff may be its namesake, it isn't the glue that holds all the dishes together. Two offerings that showered me with Italian amore were not covered in the signature red sauce. I am enamored w...
Reviving an old-school deli in northeast Minneapolis -- with Kickstarter help
by Mecca Bos We wrote about Jessi Rivera last year when we noticed that she was diligently doing work on the old Delmonico's Italian Deli space in Northeast. By some act of kismet, she walked into the local institution one day and told third-generation owners Bob and Terry Delmonico: "I've been dreaming my whole life of opening a place ju...
CC's Gambucci headed to Colorado Sports Hall of Fame
The accolades for a remarkable sporting life continue for Colorado College great Andy Gambucci. The Colorado Springs resident is one of six inductees entering the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame on April 17, 2014. To be included in such a class was humbling to Gambucci, 84, a three-sport star for the Tigers in the early 1950s. A standout center fiel...
La Traviata"-Opera for the Intermediate Speaker
Studying famous opera pieces, will effectively help you build new vocabulary, as the memorization of the music facilitates the memorization of the words. Please join ICC native Italian instructor, Mirella Heimpel, to discover Italian opera, and learn more about Italian cultural heritage. Mirella will be the guide as students discover Verdi, and le...
Join Festa Italiana MN as we kick off the new year with our Winter Fundraiser!
Share in the fun, including Wonderful Italian Self-Serve Dinner Plate- Chose from Mostaccioli or Chicken AlfredoSilent Auction- All kinds of wonderful prizesGames- Our famous 'Wall of Wine' and a new game called 'Barrel of Booze' Slide Presentation- Due to popular request, a slide show will be displayed of Italian service men and wome...
Meet Kansas’ Nick Bartolotta, the best 5-foot-6 kicker in the country
By Rustin Dodd The the most vertically-challenged kicker in college football spent last year taking coursework at a community college in St. Louis. He was not a member of any football team then — college or otherwise — and if you saw Nick Bartolotta strolling into a class at St. Louis Community College, you probably wouldn't have guessed it, eithe...
Il Pastaio is food for the soul
We're taught in early language arts classes to write what we know. But in writing about food, the adage creates a paradox: When a reviewer dines out, he or she does so to experience something new or change perception about something common. Thus, the food writer is often forced to write about that which he or she doesn't know. Food writers...
Profughi a Cinecittà
On Friday, April 24, the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, and the Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St. Paul, will bring to Minneapolis, Professor Noa Steimatsky, of the University of Chicago, for a screening and discussion of her film, "Refugees in Cinecitta". Professor Steimatsky completed the film in collabor...
Flavor of Italy to be featured at new restaurant
By Angie Haflich A taste of Italy — authentic Italy — is coming to downtown Garden City in the form of a new Italian restaurant, one unique to western Kansas that promises a variety of offerings. The anticipated opening of Giardino, which fittingly enough means "garden" in Italian, is two to three weeks away. Located in the f...
Providence reunites Cherrie Brown with long-lost Italian relatives
By Karen Ortner In 1981, Antonio Trombetta led an American man wandering through the tiny village of Pettorano Sul Gizio, Italy, to the distant cousin he was searching for, Agostino Orsini. Thirty-five years later in May, Trombetta found himself yet again on Orsini's doorstep, this time with another American cousin — Cherrie Brown. ...