Italian Cars Parade Through West Hartford for Annual Concorso Ferrari & Friends
Sunday’s warm and sunny weather was perfect for showing off an incredible collection of autos and supporting Connecticut Children’s Medical Center at the 17th Annual Concorso Ferrari & Friends in West Hartford Center. Visitors flocked to West Hartford Center on Sunday, June 25, 2017, in order to get an up-close-and-personal look at more than 200 hi...
Cicero’s has served its last meals
A long standing landmark restaurant and music venue in the Delmar Loop closed its doors for good this weekend. The owner of Cicero's says it’s with an extremely heavy heart that it was their last day in business. The chairs are now up, and the doors are officially closed at Cicero's. The restaurant’s owner said it's been a great run and she would...
Now Accepting Applications For Fulbright-Falcone-NIAF Program
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is now accepting applications for its Fulbright-Fondazione Falcone-NIAF Scholarship in Criminology for 2018-2019. In its third year, this collaborative scholarship program, formed in cooperation with the Fondazione Giovanni e Francesca Falcone and the Fulbright Program in Italy, provides funding for o...
Tony Bennett, eterno ragazzo di 91 anni: «Ritirarmi? Amo ciò che faccio»
L'ultimo dei grande crooner americano. Una leggenda vivente. Diciannove Grammy in bacheca. Milioni di dischi venduti, centinaia di migliaia di persone che lo hanno applaudito dal vivo. E continuano a farlo. Per Tony Bennett, 91 anni ad agosto, gli aggettivi sembrano non essere mai all'altezza dell'artista, che di recente ha fatto un passaggio al Ru...
Livoti’s Old World Market to open soon in Middletown
Livoti’s Old World Market will soon provide locals a taste of Italy as owner John Livoti, prepares to open his third and largest location at The Marketplace at Middletown on Route 35. This week, his team of workers was putting the finishing touches on the approximately 15,000-square-foot store. Livoti said he hopes to hold the grand opening on July...
La Bella Lingua – Dianne Hales on the beautiful Italian language
In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we talk with Dianne Hales. Hales is the author of La Bella Lingua and a widely published, award-winning freelance journalist. In this episode, Dianne tells the story of her love for the Italian language and how learning to speak Italian has enriched her life in so many ways. In our Stories Segment,...
Festival spotlights Italian heritage and more
It was a great time to be Italian. Cascade Park hosted the annual Italian Festival over the weekend, featuring a variety of food from the old country, as well as such other favorites as music, a baby doll dance and bocce and morra tournaments. “The music is great, but we’ve driven up every year for the last seven years for the food,” said Tony Izon...
Taste of Italy 2018: SAVE THE DATE January 28-29 (and Jan. 25-26 in LA)
IT’S OFFICIAL: The fourth annual Taste of Italy Houston wine and food fair will be held on Sunday (trade) and Monday (trade, media, and consumers), January 28-29, 2018. And many of the exhibitors will also be presenting their products and meeting with trade members at the Savor Italy event to be held in Los Angeles on January 25-26 (click here for...
A new home for post-war Italian art
Let me make this clear,’ says Giorgio Spanu, ‘our first mission is teaching, teaching and more teaching.’ Spanu’s wife, Nancy Olnick, continues, ‘We’re more interested in giving than owning.’ Spanu bats the conversation back, ‘As we learn about art we educate ourselves, then it’s a pleasure to share, to educate others.’ Olnick again: ‘Magazzino wi...
The Fake Rolex of Canned Foods
The hype around San Marzanos, the sweet Italian plum tomatoes from Campania, has always been a bit of a mystery to me. Sweet, pulpy, low in acidity, and containing few seeds, they are said to be extraordinarily good for making sauces—and basically the only recognized name in the canned-tomato game. The long, meaty tomatoes are actually structurally...
American Airlines pronta a lanciare la tariffa low cost per gli States
Viaggiare low cost per gli Stati Uniti sarà sempre più semplice. Oltre alle compagnie no frills - come Norwegian Air Shuttle e Level (gruppo IAG) – anche i vettori di linea sono pronti ad introdurre le tariffe solo bagaglio a mano e senza basti a bordo. A fare la prima mossa èAmerican Airlines che dal prossimo anno potrebbe adottare anche in Europa...
Italian Deli Delights
Dan Madaffari, owner of MadaVera’s, an Italian bakery and New York style deli, has been involved in the food industry in Florida for decades. With 25 years experience in restaurant management — overseeing everything from advertising and marketing to hiring — he managed corporate food chains, as well as launching new restaurants for private individu...