Five Reasons You Need To Visit Milan This Christmas
Known for its luxe reputation and famed for its fashion escapades Milan has lived with this hard-metropolitan industrial façade for way too long. With its modern high-rise and historical architecture with culture behind every corner done in true Italian style, it’s time to see Milan for all it has to offer, and Christmas is the perfect time to star...
Ferrara's Old Main Post Office HQ move brings 400 jobs downtown
Ferrara Candy is moving its corporate headquarters and 400 jobs from Oakbrook Terrace to the Old Main Post Office next year, becoming the second major corporate tenant to commit to the mammoth refurbished building straddling Congress Parkway. The candymaker, known for its Lemonheads and Atomic Fireballs, today announced the relocation plans, confir...
Chew Diligence: Lidia Bastianich
2018 marks 20 years in Kansas City for Lidia Bastianich’s restaurant in the Crossroads, Lidia’s Kansas City . This time on Chew Diligence, she tells co-hosts Lindsay Shively and Jill Silva about how she decided on the location, her Italian roots and passion for genuinely good food. Lidia said her journey to Kansas City began when her son saw a need...
Italian Basketball Looks Westward: College Basketball's Azzurri
The future of Italian basketball looks westward. Inside United States limits, to be exact, where Nico Mannion looks like he might have a sensational career. Arizona's redhead, a five-star recruit already committed to the Wildcats, has chosen to represent the nation of his mother, Gaia Bianchi, an Italian former volleyball player. He made his first...
Vittore Bocchetta in his 101st Year: A Brave Life of Continuous Resistance, a lecture by Professor Giuliana Adamo
When. Tuesday, January 22, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, 500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450. Free and open to the public. RSVP at https://vittorebochetta.eventbrite.com Vittore Bocchetta, born in Sardinia in 1918, is an Italian sculptor, painter, and academic. Bocchetta was a member of the anti-fascist I...
A Culinary History of Panettone, the Italian and South American Christmas Treat
Afew years back, pastry executive Alberto Bauli spoke with a heightened sense of panic during a press conference for an Italian consortium of bakers and confectioners. “Seven out of 10 Americans buying an ‘Italian-style’ panettone are getting a fake,” he proclaimed. Panettone—the world-famous, yeast-leavened cake, whose sales reach their peak durin...
Oklahoma City Museum of Art celebrating holidays with classic film series 'Christmas Italian Style'
This holiday season, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, is presenting "Christmas Italian Style," a curated, 14-film series spanning nearly seven decades of Italian film history. The series launches Thursday and continues through Dec. 30, according to a news release. “'Christmas Italian Style' is our largest holiday series to date,” s...
Experience Italy through her Art, History, and Food
What better way to spend a grey winter’s afternoon that a virtual tour of Italy? Starting in January our art scholar Rosa Di Grottole will present classes featuring new Italian cities to discover. Each day a different city and a different aspect of Italian culture. The presentations will be on the art, food and culture of Milano, Bologna, Napoli, M...
Services planned for former Ridgefield resident Stephen D. (T-bone) Carboni , 70
Stephen D. “T-bone” Carboni, 70, of Danbury, formerly of Ridgefield, husband of Alice (McAleer) Carboni, died on Sunday, December 16, 2018 with his wife who was his best friend and family by his side. Mr. Carboni was born in Danbury, November 26, 1948, a son of the late Octavius “Tabby” and Katherine (Creagh) Carboni. He attended Ridgefield schools...
7 Small Towns to Visit for Life-changing Food in Northern Italy
The first time I went to Italy, for a 10-day backpacking adventure the summer after I graduated high school, I relied on Eurail and confined myself to Venice, Milan, Florence, and Rome. I had no idea what I was doing, but I had a very nice trip. Years later, I returned with someone who actually knew the country and spoke Italian... total gamechange...
This New Rochelle Joint Is Giving Traditional Italian Some Modern Flair
Looking at the menu of Maria, one of the latest Italian spots to open in Southern Westchester, I paused. The usual suspects didn’t make up most of the New Rochelle restaurant’s menu. My eyes were drawn to the cauliflower-kale fritters, acorn squash risotto served in a honey-glazed squash bowl, and salmon with jasmine rice. I’d never even heard of c...
Craving pizza? Here are the top 4 options in Yonkers
Looking to sample the best pizza around town? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top pizzerias in Yonkers, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to find your next perfect pie. 1. La Lanterna Restaurant & Caffe Topping the list is La Lanterna Restaurant & Caffe. Located at 23 Gray Oaks Ave. in Nepera...