Classroom Close-up NJ films Italian Heritage Curriculum
On Tuesday April 12th, The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District was filmed by NJTV integrating a lesson on immigration from The Universality of Italian Heritage Curriculum. The Curriculum was developed for educators by the New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission, in consultation with the New Jersey Department of Education and is a free r...
Italian Conductor Speranza Scappucci Debuts in Los Angeles
The dynamic and talented Speranza Scappucci was in Los Angeles preparing for her West Coast debut as a conductor for the LA Opera production of La bohème recently. She brings to that production her diverse international experience, derived from an impressive lineup of engagements as a pianist, repetiteur, and conductor. She is a graduate o...
When Will We Stand Up and Defend Our Heritage!
Will we ever have enough Italian Americans that will stand up and defend our heritage and culture from continued negative portrayals? Will we ever have enough Italian Americans that can make a difference in putting an end to the endless degradation, ridicule and defamation perpetuated by the media, the entertainment and advertising industr...
After 27 years of Memphis Italian Festival, the gravy still stands alone
Come Thursday, East Memphis will host its own version of Smoke on the River. Call it Pasta in the Park, Gravy in the Grove or, officially, Memphis Italian Festival. As they've done since 1989, folks will gather to show off their heritage through their food, and some fun will be had along the way. They'll compete in homemade wine. They...
Tavola hosts Italian chef
There are two chefs working side-by-side at Belmont restaurant Tavola this week. One of them is Vivetta Cintelli, who is here on a chef exchange from Charlottesville's Italian sister city, Poggio a Caiano. Through translator Caterina Martane, Cintelli said she's excited to be in America. "It's a new experience in a totally different k...
Versace 19.69 will open first Midwest store at Mall of America
by Jim Hammerand A Versace brand plans to open its third U.S. location and the first in the Midwest at Mall of America late this fall. Versace 19.69 Abbigliamento Sportivo Srl will be on the first floor of the Bloomington megamall's west side. Founded by Alessandro Versace in 2001, the Italian-made brand sells women's ready-to-we...
Vito Acconci Invites You to Watch Him as He Watches Us
Vito Acconci, who bushwhacked the path to video art in New York in the 1960s and early 1970s, makes many of today's young artists look tame. The nearly 60 short videos in "Vito Acconci: Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976," the excellent early-career survey at MoMA PS1, manage to be unnervingly funny, pathetically gross and politically razo...
Book Review – My Father’s Daughter: From Rome to Sicily
By Gilda Morina Syverson At age 50, Gilda Morina Syverson knows it is time to transform her relationship with her father by casting off her role as argumentative child and by healing the rifts that divide them. "My Father's Daughter" tells the story of that inner transformation that slowly unfolds with discoveries about ancestry, family, c...
Persona Wood Fire Pizza opens fast-serve, gourmet pizza location in North Houston/Humble
Whether the industry is pizza or piano repair, the combination of fast service and high quality is one of the most difficult balances to strike. Persona Wood Fire Pizza, a fast-serve gourmet pizza franchise, seems to be walking the line just fine as it opens its first Texas location this week on the Beltway 8 divide between Humble and North Ho...
Learn from Lombardi's life
by Patrick Burke America's biggest sports business, the National Football League, has convened training camps in preparation for the upcoming season. We are fortunate to have the Bills training camp at St. John Fisher. Each team's objective will be to win the Super Bowl in February 2017 and receive the coveted "Vince Lombardi Trophy." &nb...
Melissa Marinaro (Curator of the Italian American Program in Pittsburgh)
Looking for Italian traces all over the 50 States, this time we get back to Pennsylvania, the Keystone State: more precisely to Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania. One of the main concerns that several Italian American friends have told us is that young Italian Americans could feel their bound with their heritage in a different, slighter way. Well,...
Chef Vinny Dotolo: from Tampa Bay to Han Solo’s Kitchen and beyond
By Valerio Viale Chef Vinny Dotolo (born in Clearwater, Florida) was not the typical kid messing about the kitchen's stoves and dreaming to head one day the organized bedlam of his own kitchen. However, he was brought up on his Italian-American grandma's recipes, such as baked manicotti shells, chicken piccata, and meat ragù, a mix of por...