3 new places to savor Italian fare in Los Angeles
Looking for your next great Italian meal in Los Angeles? These new spots will satisfy all your cravings. Here are the newest places to check out the next time you're in the mood for Italian food. Pizza Pasta Dilla is an Italian spot, offering pizza and more. This new business specializes in pizza and pasta dishes, with menu items ranging from four...
Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York
October 18, 2019 to April 26, 2020. Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, New York. This exhibition will explore the intersection between the ideas that inspired two monumental statues of Liberty: Liberty of Poetry, by Pio Fedi in the church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, and the 1883 Frédéric Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty, which was inaugurated...
Columbus Day endangered in Chicago and elsewhere
More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, the long-celebrated Chicago holiday in his honor could be headed to dry dock. Efforts to eliminate Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day are in the works. Those favoring this change cite historians who have uncovered egregious acts of violence again...
Annapolis, meet Constantino Brumidi, ‘the Michelangelo of the United States’
Constantino Brumidi is Annapolis’ newest resident. A bronze statue of the Greek-Italian-American historical painter was erected at the Brown-Leanos Park at Westgate Circle as a donation to the city from the Foundation of Hellenism of America. The 500-pound statue arrived by air and was placed in Annapolis in late August. Brumidi (1805-1880) w...
Mangia, mangia! San Jose’s Little Italy hosts fourth annual street festival
Culture and cuisine always reign in San Jose’s Little Italy, but this Sunday the food and fun will spill out onto the streets and into the plazas. The party on Almaden Boulevard — the Little Italy Street Festival — is the fourth annual for this historic district. Admission is free, with hours from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Among the highlights: Local phila...
RAI Italia: da lunedì torna "L’Italia con Voi"
Torna su Rai Italia L’Italia con Voi, l’unico programma RAI interamente dedicato agli italiani all’estero, veri protagonisti della trasmissione in onda tutti i pomeriggi, dal lunedì al venerdì, a partire dal prossimo 7 ottobre. Nella prima puntata della nuova stagione, Monica Marangoni, accompagnata al pianoforte dal maestro Stefano Palatresi, ospi...
Crooner Sal "The Voice" Valentinetti brings talent to Utica
Enjoy an intimate night with Sal "The Voice" Valentinetti from “America's Got Talent” with special guest Austin Giorgio from NBC's “The Voice” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Stanley Center for the Arts, 259 Genesee St. Valentinetti is an Italian-American crooner known best for his flawless vocals, larger than life personality, and his heart of...
Diocese Announces Procession, Mass to Support Mother Cabrini Statue
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Italian Apostolate will hold a procession and Mass on Oct. 6 in support of a public statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. The procession will start at 3 p.m. in Mother Cabrini Park in Carroll Gardens, the site of the church where Mother Cabrini first ministered to poor Italian immigrants when s...
Dante, NYC’s famous Greenwich Village bar, has been named the world’s best bar
Dante, one of Greenwich Village’s most beloved stomping grounds, has undergone a transformation 104 years in the making. Its latest incarnation: the world’s best bar. Last night, the 50 World’s Best Bars—which is part of a group that also releases the popular (if at times controversial) 50 World’s Best Restaurants list—revealed its winners in Londo...
Reno OKs Indigenous Peoples Day; no more Columbus Day
The city of Reno has become the newest municipality to make the move from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. During its regular meeting Oct. 2, Reno City Council unanimously approved the establishment of Indigenous Peoples Day. It will be recognized the second Monday in October every year, in place of Columbus Day. According to a news release...
‘Subway Soprano’ Emily Zamourka will sing at San Pedro’s ‘Little Italy’ festa
A homeless woman made famous after a video of her singing an Italian aria in a Los Angeles subway station has agreed to open Saturday’s festivities for the new Little Italy district in San Pedro. Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino and his director of communications, Branimir Kvartuc, have spent the past week also assisting the woman, Emily Za...
A First Look Inside Chris Cosentino’s New Old School Italian Restaurant
When kids venture into their grandparents’ basements, they usually find relics of centuries past: boxes of VHS tapes, broken humidifiers. But when chef Chris Cosentino was growing up, he found something completely different in his great-grandmother’s cellar: jar after jar of tomatoes. The entire basement of her three-story tenement in Rhode Island...