Winter legends for an Italian 2020
Winter is such a fantastic time of the year. It’s my favorite season and I just love it. The snow, the chilly air, the color of the sky. Everything is just perfect. Winter is also a season that lends itself fantastically to storytelling, with all that “gathering around the fireplace with hot cocoa” type of atmosphere permeating the air and, indeed,...
A Dark Passage for Italian Americans
Sunday, January 26, 2020, 2:00 p.m. Oak Park Public Library, Veterans’ Room, 834 Lake St., 60301 Tickets/Admission: Free (RSVP to [email protected] is appreciated.) Join us for the dramatic reading of PASSAGGIO OSCURO (Dark Passage), by Rosemary FrisinoToohey, when the Italian American Theatre of Chicago kicks off its 2020 se...
Restaurant Olivia Opens with a New Look and Lots of Pasta
“New year, new you” is certainly the theme for partners Ty Leon, Heather Morrison, and Austin Carson, who spent the first weeks of 2020 transforming Café Marmotte, the Wash Park West bistro they purchased last summer, into an Italian trattoria inspired by Morrison’s nine-year-old daughter, called Restaurant Olivia. The trio opened the (literal) new...
Senior Brooklyn Dems elect Carlo Scissura to ceremonial leadership role
As Brooklyn Democratic party boss Frank Seddio prepares to step down, political honchos elected veteran businessman and former political staffer Carlo Scissura to the largely ceremonial chairmanship of the Kings County Democratic Committee vacated last fall. “I’m excited,” Scissura said. “I love Brooklyn and I love to organize.” The party’s 42 dis...
Italy has highest cancer-survival rates in EU - report
Italy has the highest cancer-survival rates five years after diagnosis in the European Union, according to an EU report. The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is 90%, compared to an EU average of 87%, while the rate for breast cancer is 86%, compared to a European average of 83%, according to the Italy profile of State of Health in the EU...
Italian Wine Tasting at il Molo
Thursday January 23, 2020 at 6:30 PM. Il Molo, 326 Commercial Street, Boston, MA, 02109 On Thursday, January 23, il Molo will welcome special guest Roberto Giarratani, Ruby Wines Italian Specialist, for an evening of incredible Tuscan wines. Giarratani has extensively traveled the Tuscany region of Italy, gaining knowledge and building relationship...
Guido Calabresi, Yale e l’arte d’insegnare ereditata dalla madre Maria Finzi Contini
Siamo nel cuore di New Haven al 31.mo piano del Financial Building nell’ufficio del giudice federale Guido Calabresi, ex Professore di giurisprudenza e Dean della prestigiosa Law School della Yale University. Vogliamo augurare al giudice buon compleanno, ed abbiamo colto l’occasione per intervistarlo e parlare un po’ della sua vita e della sua bril...
Italy: Le Marche among world's Top 10 regions to visit in 2020
The Italian region of Le Marche has been listed among the world's top 10 regions to visit in 2020 by the influential travel guide Lonely Planet. Noting that Le Marche is usually overshadowed by its "superstar neighbour, Tuscany", Lonely Planet says that the central Italian region "can do higgledy-piggledy hilltop towns, gloriously gluttonous food f...
All eyes on Neapolitan Pizza
Today, on the occasion of the Neapolitan Pizza International Day, according to a report by Cna Agroalimentare (Italy’s National Confederation of Crafts and SME) the pizza market has reached an annual turnover of 15 billion euros in Italy (and about 30 billion globally). One hundred and thirty thousand companies in the sector are involved, and full-...
Bronx community board puts the brakes on annual church festival
A Bronx community board is putting the brakes on the St. Theresa Italian American Family Feast after incidents of violence have plagued the celebration over recent years. For decades, St. Theresa Italian American Family Feast has been a staple in the Bronx community, bringing families and food together. But residents say the event has been anything...
Rome’s Mysterious Underground Basilica Reopens
One of Rome’s most mysterious places, the underground Basilica of Porta Maggiore is being restored and partially reopened to the public. A place of worship deliberately built underground in the 1st century AD, the Basilica was, according to some, the seat of magical rituals; for others, it was the burial place of the wealthy family of the Statili,...
Free Talk on Multiculturalism by Angela Zagarella from Portland State University
Saturday January 25, 2020, Scuola Italiana di Portland. Free Talk on Multiculturalism by Angela Zagarella from Portland State University on January 25, 2020 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm at Scuola Italiana di Portland at 1542 NW 14th Ave, Portland, OR 97209. Who are the Italians? What does it mean to be Italian? What happens when a country changes from bein...