Sons of Italy objects to ‘racist’ emails
by Peter Roper Pueblo County Transportation Director Greg Severance's fondness for using gangster terms for labeling city trash companies "mafia haulers" in his emails to City Council members didn't amuse the local Order of the Sons of Italy. In an Aug. 6 letter to Severance's employers, the Pueblo County commissioners, the Italia...
Dining: Firm grasp of Italian fare at Boulder's Via Perla
The location of the newest addition to Boulder's lineup of Italian eateries, Via Perla, which opened in March, shouldn't come as surprise to anyone with a rudimentary command of Italian. It does, however, raise the question of whether there's an American restaurant in Italy called Pearl Street situated on an actual Via Perla. Gnocci A...
Italian-American Heritage Festival Starts Friday
by Josh Nguyen Italian-American Heritage will celebrate its sixth annual festival even bigger this year. "Come on down, everyone is Italian this weekend," said Darren Marasco, chairman of the Italian -American Heritage Festival. The festival will once again will be held at Western Gateway park this year and they have expanded. &...
T. Arcobasso’s Italian Ristorante
I fondly remember frequently dining at the original Arcobasso's Italian Ristorante located in North County years ago. Founded, owned and operated by the Tom Arcobasso. It was THE place to dine with my college musician friends. It was quite the cultural experience. Not only was the authentic Italian food unbelievable, Mr. Arcobasso himself...
Return of speed-ball? Mike D’Antoni may be getting new job
There’s a definite chance of speed-ball coming to the Rocky Mountains next season. The Knicks visit the Nuggets Monday to begin a five-game Western swing and will face a squad fronted by new interim coach Melvin Hunt, who last week replaced fired Brian Shaw. Though the Nuggets may not begin looking for a long-term candidate until after the...
Exhibit features Italian heritage
by Mary Palcich Keyes More than 50 members and some guests attended the annual membership meeting of the Hibbing Historical Society on Saturday, Oct. 24. Attendees first took time to enjoy and learn from the newest exhibit in the Society's museum, located on the lower level of the Hibbing Memorial Building. Erica Larson, the...
Coperta, a Highly Anticipated Italian Restaurant, Opens in Uptown
Brother-sister business partners, Paul and Aileen Reilly, the duo behind Beast + Bottle, are opening are opening the doors of their new Uptown eatery, Coperta, today at 5 p.m. A casual, large format concept, Coperta took shape after the siblings traveled through Southern Italy last summer, exploring regional specialties and quaint village hospitali...
MSSU Italy Semester Exhibition runs from August 22 through September 6
The Italy Semester photo exhibition "Un.It Unescoitalia: The World Heritage Sites in the Work of 14 Photographers" will be delayed by several days due to a delay in shipping the exhibition from the Miami Dade Public Library in Florida to Missouri Southern State University. The exhibition will open on Thursday, Aug. 22 (instead of Monday, A...
Maserati completely redesigns 2014 Quattroporte luxury sport sedan
A Maserati vehicle is not something most see on the daily commute to work. Born in Italy and arguably some of the finest crafted automobiles in the world, Maserati vehicles can be elusive to American shoppers - except those that live in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. Recently, the Italian automaker reminded the world that it is...
Lyric Opera of Kansas City scores a big win with Rossini's, 'The Italian Girl in Algiers'
The Thursday evening final dress of Gioachino Rossini's romp of an opera, The Italian Girl in Algiers, convinced a lot of area students that opera is not just a fuddy-duddy bunch of screaming. Great voices, fantastic production values, constant business going on all over the stage makes audience members fearful of looking away, even to blink. &nbs...
Sons of Italy awards 18 students
There was plenty of heart and just as much “soul” Saturday as the Sons of Italy Lodge 2738’s 16th Scholarship Awards and Citizen of the Year Gala drew more than 400 patrons to the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center. The night’s theme was “We Honor Our Italian Ancestors from New Orleans,” a nod to the fact that many Sicilian immigr...
Taste the Regions/Cities: Roma
Join us as we continue to showcase Italy's regional richness and diversity in our popular series "Taste the Regions". For the first appointment of our Fall term, we will discover Roma, the capitol of Italy and a perennial favorite of tourists the world over. Thursday, October 15th, 6:30 to 8:30 PM, ICC instructor and Rome native Mirella He...