Friends of the North End Spring Bocce Season Begins
The Friends Of The North End (FONE), began their 12th annual Spring Bocce season on Sunday, April 22. The season will continue every Sunday until May 27, followed by an award ceremony banquet where trophies will be given to the winning team. The Friends are carrying on a long time tradition of playing bocce at the North End Park, the same location...
Call for sponsors for Festa della Repubblica, Italy’s National Day 2018
The Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC is planning a series of events in celebration of the Festa della Repubblica, Italy’s National Day, on June 4, 2018. This is a call for Sponsors that wish to be engaged in the organization of the abovementioned event, on the set date and also on the days immediately preceding and following June 4, 2018. Aim of...
Italy's famed butcher Dario Cecchini comes to town; a local apprentice carves a new niche
A young traveler returns eager to share experiences and determined to work some lessons from abroad into daily life at home. It’s a common enough tale. It happened to Richard Brennan III too, though he’s found a unique way to follow through. Brennan, the son of restaurateur Dickie Brennan, recently finished an internship in Italy with Dario Cecchin...
Montegrappa Passport Series Lands in US
The Montegrappa Passport Series is embarking on its maiden voyage and welcomes you to join them. The tour will kick off in New York City and then move to Washington DC and Houston Texas. Each city will provide a different experience, but in the end, its all about sharing the art and love for writing and the amazing Montegrappa fan base and communit...
Italian nonna becomes the world's second oldest person
As of this weekend, 115-year-old Giuseppina Projetto of Italy is the second oldest person alive in the world today. Projetto, born to Sicilian parents in Sardinia in 1902, is already the oldest living European after the death of a 116-year-old Spaniard five months ago. After Japanese "supercentarian" Nabi Tajima passed away on Saturday at the age o...
Glen Lakes' Trattoria Funistrada
Holly and Tom Reay, owners of Funistrada since the spring of 2000, were Glen Lake “summer kids” growing up. She is a native of Chicago, and he hails from St. Louis. (More on that later.) “Our families had been coming up here for generations, and this is where we met,” Holly explained. Later, as adults, they each decided that they wanted to live the...
Venice ready to turn back tourists if too many come
Venice has installed temporary gates at the ends of two bridges to turn back tourists if their numbers become overwhelming. The Italian lagoon city put the measure in place for a four-day holiday weekend that ends on Labor Day, May 1. By early Saturday afternoon, municipal police officers monitoring the flow of arrivals judged the crowds manageable...
Spring Open House at Mana Contemporary
Sunday, April 29, 2018. 1–7PM. Verdiana Patacchini & Franco Losvizzero. Spring Open House 2018 features new exhibitions, programming, performances, and open studios all day. Mana Contemporary - 888 Newark Avenue - Jersey City, NJ. Shuttle service will depart every half hour from Milk Studios (450 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011) starting at 12...
Spaghetti western classic 'The Great Silence' makes its proper U.S. debut after 50 years
For a brief moment of time, largely during the 1960s, Italian spaghetti westerns shot across the international cinematic sky, making luminaries of directors like Sergio Leone and jump-starting Clint Eastwood's feature career. One of the most celebrated of these films was Sergio Corbucci's 1968 "The Great Silence," an epic with an eclectic cast —...
The Italian Fashion Show 2018
Sunday, May 20, at 4pm. San Francisco Italian Athletic Club - 1630 Stockton st., San Francisco. Following the great success of last year’s show, the Leonardo Da Vinci Society presents the second edition of The Italian Fashion Show, in collaboration with the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, Madonna del Lume and with the support of Le Donne d’Ita...
Rose Italian Kitchen to open in Solon
Chef Art Pour will open Rose Italian Kitchen in Solon, adding to its stable of restaurants in Northeast Ohio. The company is viewing Rose as a "potential growth concept," so the restaurant could expand to other locations much like the company has done with Burntwood Tavern. The restaurant is scheduled to open Monday, April 30, at 6140 Som Center Ro...
Canonici tells stories of the Delta Italians
Room 234 in McCool Hall was full of attendants last week, both students and spectators, as Paul Canonici told the stories of Italian immigrant families who moved to the southern United States for a better life many years ago. Canonici is the son of Italian immigrants who moved to Mississippi in the early 1900s to work on cotton plantations. A Missi...