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Unless you were looking for it, you might breeze past Nonna Urban Eatery, a matchbox-size lunch and dinner spot in Old Town Scottsdale. The restaurant is set back off Main Street, almost hidden in a courtyard on the east end of the street. If you look while walking past, you’ll spot the bright, sunshine-colored chairs on the patio. Opened by a husb...

Artworks that have never been seen outside Italy — or even beyond the walls of a remote church near Venice — will arrive in New York starting this fall for two exhibitions at the Frick Collection, the museum announced on Friday. The first, “Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored,” is slated to be on view from Oct. 24 thr...

Six-hundred gallons of sauce, 23,000 meatballs, 200,000 ravioli, a little love, some laughter, and over one hundred years of tradition were the recipe for one of the areas Palm Sunday dinning experiences. About 2,000 served up their plates at the Sacred Heart Church Original Italian Dinner. The meal has been a spring ritual since 1911. For Mike Car...

Little Italy, alas, no longer has a resident movie house (the New Mayfield repertory was the nearest thing), but the Strosacker Auditorium of Case Western-Reserve University has graciously filled in as the local villa for the touring Italian Film Festival USA. It’s a selection of the best of contemporary Italian movies, sometimes even accompanied b...

Spirito's Restaurant in Elizabeth and the Reservoir Tavern in Parsippany are among the top 50 Italian restaurants in the country, according to The Daily Meal. Old-school wonder Spirito's was ranked 18th, while the Reservoir Tavern came in at no. 50. New York City had 14 restaurants on the list, including number one, Del Posto, a collaboration with...

The presence of Italian businesses in New Jersey is impressive. Most recently at Montclair State University, the Italian program and the Inserra Chair are introducing a series of initiatives to discover them. These new synergies align with the objectives of my business Italian course and to better understand what it means to do business in this geo...

Cari Amici – Dear Friends, On March 17, 2017 our Santa Barbara community lost a remarkable human being: Silvio Di Loreto.  He was a man of many talents.  After being a B-25 navigator in WWII, he moved to Santa Barbara and started his professional life as a photographer.  Then he became active in real estate in which he excelled and from which he of...

New JCCIA President Enza Raineri will be among a dozen community leaders honored at the 16th annual Leonardo da Vinci Award of Excellence Gala on May 7 at White Eagle Banquets in Niles. The event is hosted by the Order Sons of Italy in America’s Grand Lodge of Illinois and Wisconsin. Raineri will receive a Community Leadership Award along with Berw...

Leave the knife and fork, take the cannoli. Mayor Bill de Blasio chowed down on some cannoli with his paisans on Staten Island to kick off his weeklong work stint in the borough. The pastries, from Royal Crown Bakery in Grasmere, were gifted to the mayor from Borough President James Oddo to welcome de Blasio to Borough Hall the only way Italians kn...

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) mourns the passing of Pino Cicala, one of the founders of NIAF and a tireless promoter of the Italian culture in the greater Washington, D.C. area for more than half a century. “The entire NIAF family is deeply saddened by the loss of one of our organization’s founders and a man who for 60 plus years...

Tuesday, April 25, 2017 @ 7:00 PM - The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, T. 718-273-7660, 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301. The Making of St. Peter's Basilica: History, Controversy & Genius at Work. A Presentation by Francesco Bonavita, PhD The Basilica of St. Peter in Rome is one of the most celebrated churches in the world....

Italian Icons Special: Sophia Loren + Marcello Mastroianni. Join us for this two-evening film special at the ICCC with two of the most iconic Italian actors of all time, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Loren and Mastroianni are the protagonists of the Italian Maestro Vittorio De Sica’s cinematic creations that we will screen as part of this...