Conference: May First, Italian Labor Day
Monday, April 30, 2018. From 4:30 pm To 8:00 pm. Organized by Fondazione Bruno Buozzi, in collaboration with Consulate General of Italy & ICI. Entrance: Free. Book Now! Location: Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065. Around the world, May 1 is celebrated as Labor Day. In North America, instead, Labor Day occ...
Meet “Beatrice,” fencing champion and quadruple amputee
There’s both magic and the gritty real in director Lorena Alvarado’s film, “Beatrice,” which brings us into the fascinating world of Beatrice Vio, a 19-year-old Italian fencer who had her four limbs amputated because of complications from meningitis. Alvarado talked to Salon about what it’s like to be in the room with Vio and how she found inspirat...
Forno Bello is home of the 'beautiful oven'
Forno Bello means “beautiful oven” in Italian. For four years now in historic Downtown DeLand, the restaurant by that name has been delivering piping-hot pizzas out of their wood-fired brick oven. When I say hot, I mean temperatures reach up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit! “Every day before our restaurant opens, we get oak firewood and start a fire in o...
Monument to fascist Balbo likely to remain, but aldermen could still rename street
In the summer of 1940, six-year-old Beno Weiss's family was awakened by pounding on the door of their home in Abbazia, then in northeast Italy. It was a year and a half after Benito Mussolini had bowed to the influence of Nazi Germany and passed the Italian Racial Laws, which stripped civil rights from Italian Jews. "Pandemonium broke out," accordi...
New Film That Celebrates Sicily Sells Out in Kansas City
Independent filmmaker Mark Spano, along with celebrated Kansas City Chef Jasper Mirabile Jr., are pleased to report that the U.S. premiere of Spano’s new documentary “Sicily: Land of Love & Strife” sold out the Screenland Armour Theater in North Kansas City, MO., last week. Although Spano lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he chose Kansas City -...
An Italian-American Sandwich Haven From a Miami Ace
In 1918, Philippe's fortuitously invented the French Dip in Los Angeles. Or in a totally different year, it happened totally differently at Cole's. What is considerably less in dispute is the origin of the Italian dip. That goes to Pirolo's Panino, a new Italian sandwich shop from James Beard semifinalist Michael Pirolo of Miami's Macchialina. It o...
GIOCO DELLE ARTI - Comunita' degli Italiani a St Louis
Scene dal teatro italiano classico nell'originale lingua italiana! Studenti della Washington University sotto la direzione della professoressa Rebecca Messbarger interpreteranno selezioni di Machiavelli, Goldoni, Pirandello e Fo, martedì 24 aprile dalle 10:15 alle 11:30 a.m. al McMillan Cafè della Washington University. Ovviamente l’ingresso è grat...
Columbus Day could become 'Indigenous Peoples Day' in Mankato
The second Monday in October, a federal holiday honoring Christopher Columbus, would be Indigenous Peoples Day in Mankato under a resolution the City Council will consider in coming weeks. Dave Brave Heart — backed by about 30 community members — brought the request to a council work session Monday night. Brave Heart first offered praise for the ci...
Portillo's Announces New Avon Location Opening Fall 2018
Portillo's, the fast casual concept restaurant known for its highly-praised menu of Chicago-style favorites has announced a new location in Avon at 10444 E. U.S. Hwy. 36, set to open this fall. Portillo's says the Avon location follows spots in Merrillville, Fishers, and Mishawaka, with an Indianapolis restaurant set to open later this summer. "Tho...
Philadelphia Architecture: Brotherly Love for Italy?
Dear Friend of PI-Philly, Join us for an architectural excursion of Old City and Society Hill districts with architect designer Pablo Meninato. This event is organized in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy. Saturday, May 12th, 10am (Rain date: Saturday, June 9th). Partecipants will meet at St. Peter's Episcopal Church - 3rd and Pine...
Ten Italian lifestyle habits to adopt immediately
Most small towns in Italy have a market at least once or twice a week, while in the larger cities you can find a market on almost any day of the week. But why make a trip to the market part of your weekly routine? Apart from the fact that most markets offer everything you could wish for, they also get you outdoors and plunge you into natural light....
Borough Italians honored at annual Mill Basin gala
They passed the pasta — and the prizes! Some of the borough’s most civically minded Italians partied at the Federation of Italian-American Organizations’ 41st-annual gala at El Caribe Country Club in Mill Basin on April 8. The organization’s executive director said the event went off without a hitch because they were able to honor some of the boro...