Bocce Ball: The world's oldest game is still a winner
All it takes is nine balls, a flat surface, and two or more people to play. It’s second only to soccer in popularity in Italy…and around the world. Anyone of any age can play it. We’re talking about bocce, that lawn bowling game that’s as Italian as pasta and tomato sauce, a seemingly simple game played in every small village, medium-sized town, a...
Columbus Statue Replacement Up For Review
A new sculpture honoring New Haven’s Italian American community is one step closer to coming to Wooster Square now that the Elicker Administration has formally submitted plans to the Board of Alders for a public artwork to replace the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue. That Wooster Square sculpture proposal was listed as a so-called “communicat...
ITA Airways Celebrates One-year Anniversary
Italian flag-carrier Italia Trasporto Aereo, or ITA Airways, on Saturday celebrated its one-year anniversary. ITA Airways’ maiden flight, number AZ1637 on the Milan Linate – Bari route, took off on 15 October 2021, at 6:20 am, five minutes ahead of schedule. Since its maiden flight, the airline has carried 9 million passengers and has recorded exce...
Vanessa Racci: Songs From The Prohibition Era - Saturday, October 29
If you missed Vanessa Racci on the Red Carpet at the Columbus Day Parade, you can still celebrate Italian Heritage Month with her performance at the Columbus Citizens Foundation (8 East 69th Street, New York, NY) on October 29 at 7 pm. Cocktails: 6:15pm. Performance: 7:00-8:00pm. Cost: $45/person Vanessa and her band return to the Townhouse for Son...
The Italian connection with Salt Lake City
Back in the days when Readers sent their “Italian Connections” to me via “snail mail,” Signora Madeline C. of Utah wrote it was Fortunato Anselmo, a gentleman with “roots” in Calabria (province of Cosenza) that was responsible for establishing Columbus Day as a National Holiday after WWII. I remember Fortunato as a warm, congenial friend who was ve...
Via Arte Italian Street Painting Festival returns to Bakersfield for 24th year
The Via Arte Italian Street Painting Festival is set to return on the weekend of October 22nd and October 23rd. The event has been celebrated since 1998. The Via Arte Italian Street Painting Festival is an annual event that brings people together to appreciate the visual arts. Each year artists get to unleash their creativity through paint and side...
Venture capital in Italy, in nine months funding exceeds total 2021 total at 1.5 billion euros
Total investments at 527 million euros in Q3 2022 and over 1.5 billion in the first nine months of the year, a sum that already far exceeds investments for the whole of 2021. The number of rounds in Q3 2022 (58) is in line with the previous quarter (62) and brings the total recorded in the first 9 months of the year to 197. Fintech is the sector wi...
The Abruzzo Wine Consortium Returns To The US With A Series of Masterclasses to Discover Its Signature White and Red Wines
The Consorzio di Tutela Vini d'Abruzzo is pleased to announce its return to the US with multiple occasions to taste its signature wines and learn about them from some of the best wine educators of the country. Two of the masterclasses in the program are part of Simply Italian Great Wines US Tour which will have among its protagonists a selection of...
Farewell to Fr. Anthony Chiaramonte
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of our member and supporter, Fr. Anthony Chiaramonte. Father was our regular celebrant for almost every Saint Patrick/Saint Joseph and Saint Anthony masses. Father especially enjoyed celebrating his feast day mass celebration with us and reminiscing with people about growing up in the old neighborhood i...
Roots-In, the first international origins tourism exchange in Matera
The Basilicata Territorial Promotion Agency, in collaboration with Enit and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is organizing for the end of November "Roots - In," the first international tourism exchange of origins. There is another Italy in the world. Even bigger. It is an Italy made up of some 80 million people, Italians or desc...
Il Canale’s Joe Farruggio Releases Memoir in Honor of National Italian American Heritage Month and National Pizza Month
The pizza industry in America is paved with Italian dreams. I often wonder if in1905 when Gennaro Lombardi crafted pizza in the United States using his bakers trade he learned from Naples, he had any idea of the legacy that he would leave for future generations of Italians. Lombardi is credited with developing New York Style pizza and making Lombar...
The Uncle Louie Variety Show & Comedian Frank Spadone
Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 5:00 PM. The Cabot, 286 Cabot St, Beverly, MA. Get your tickets now! "The Uncle Louie Variety Show" has been making audiences laugh for years with its hilarious and unique take on growing up as an Italian-American. The show is composed of two dynamic comedians, Lou Greco and Carlo Russo, who have gained international pop...