St. Monica's Catholic Church hosts dinners to honor St. Joseph
A massive feast is underway in Mishawaka to honor St. Joseph. St. Monica's Catholic Church is hosting two dinners to feed the community. The church expected hundreds of people to come grab a plate. So many people they needed two different dinners to fit everyone. With that many people, it took a lot of cooking. People joke that Italians cook enough...
Debutta MoBot: il carrello robotico italiano che porta la spesa a casa
Troppo utile e rivoluzionario per farne a meno. Per circa sei mesi, gli abitanti del borgo toscano di Peccioli hanno potuto sperimentare i vantaggi di MoBot, il carrello robotico in grado di trasportare la spesa, ma non solo, autonomamente fino all’uscio di casa. Adesso, l’invenzione di un’azienda spinoff della Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, s...
61th Annual Swallow's Day Parade Saturday, March 23
Join us as we march with Italian pride in the largest non-motorized parade in the country. Our Italian entry has won many awards and continues to be an exciting addition to the parade. If you join our parade entry wear Italian colors, dress in traditional clothes or Carnivale costumes. Be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes. We are meeting at...
St. Joseph Table feeds the San Jose community
On Tuesday, March 19, the Italian American Heritage Foundation hosted its annual event in honor of St. Joseph, the city of San Jose’s patron saint. The focus is the St. Joseph Table, a feast for the community, with all attendees welcome. The tradition has its roots in Sicily, where peasants appealed to St. Joseph to ease a famine. Their prayers an...
Florida Panthers To Host Galbani Italian Festival at BB&T Center
The Florida Panthers announced today they will host The Galbani Italian Festival at BB&T Center on the JetBlue Tarmac on Saturday, March 23 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Florida Panthers host the Boston Bruins at 7 p.m. that evening. Fans will get the opportunity to participate in Galbani cooking demos, Voga wine seminars and more. Kids activities in...
Sicilian Baker brings foot-long cannoli to Phoenix. Here's how to get a free mini one
The Maggiore Group is bringing a little bit of la dolce vita to Phoenix with a new Italian bakery called The Sicilian Baker, opening at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 20. To celebrate on opening day, The Scilian Baker will offer a free classic-size cannoli to the first 100 customers who say "holy cannoli" at the counter. The business also will give out f...
Italian Types: una mostra sull'influenza del graphic design italiano su quello americano
Era il 1927 quando Fortunato Depero mise in valigia il suo Libro imbullonato, praticamente fresco di stampa, e insieme alla moglie Rosetta partì per Nuova York in cerca di fortuna (alcune fonti citano il 1928 come anno della partenza, ma poco cambia). Arrivato nella Grande Mela, Depero lavorò come pubblicitario, ebbe tra i clienti testate come il N...
Sopranos Prequel Film Gets a Release Date and a New Title
The feature-length prequel to the hit HBO series The Sopranos was given both a release date and a name change. Originally titled The Many Saints of Newark, the newer and shorter title of simply Newark will make its theatrical debut on Sept. 25, 2020. Currently, the plot of the film is unknown, but it the film is said to take place in New Jersey dur...
Sons of Italy roll out red carpet for students
Dean, Sammy and Frank or, more accurately, uncanny facsimiles of the famed Rat Pack, helped the Sons of Italy celebrate 20 years of advancing the educational aspirations of deserving students. Saturday at a Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center ballroom appropriately decked out to the nines in a Las Vegas motif, the Order of Sons of Italy Lod...
11-Year-Old Food Critic ‘Luca Two Times’ Tells Us Where To Eat In Brooklyn
When most people think of food critics, they think of people like Ruth Reichl and Pete Wells, who have authority granted them by years spent covering restaurants around the world. What they don’t conjure is the image of an 11-year-old boy from Brooklyn who delivers his opinion via Instagram videos recorded on his mom’s phone. Well, maybe they shoul...
Pietro Cesare Alberti, il primo italoamericano approdato a New York
Il giorno in cui Pietro Cesare Alberti mise piede sulle coste americane, mica lo sapeva che sarebbe diventato il primo italoamericano approdato a New York. D'altronde, non poteva saperlo: era il 2 giugno 1635 e lui era ancora suddito della Repubblica di Venezia. Per altri versi nemmeno New York era ancora New York: si chiamava Nieuw Amsterdam ed er...
About Anna Magnani, iconic women of italian cinema
Anna Magnani, born in Rome in 1908, was one of the main characters of the Italian film industry. During her whole career, she played a wide range of unforgettable, powerful strong women. Also, she was critically acclaimed and won many important prizes, including the Oscar for her role in “The Rose Tattoo” (1955). Furthermore, she was a trendsetter ...