Vino Italian Tapas & Wine Bar to reopen in Restaurant Row in Honolulu
by Darin Moriki It has been a little less than two weeks since the last meals were served up at Hiroshi Eurasion Tapas and Vino Italian Tapas & Wine Bar before the doors closed at the two DK Restaurant locations in Honolulu's Waterfront Plaza. But it may not be too long before at least one of the two restaurants reopen. R...
Play the Italian Way – Bocce! Part II – Bocce Now
by Catherine Accardi This is the second of a two part article featuring the timeless game of bocce ball. Part one of the article was published in the May 28, 2015 edition of L'Italo- Americano. In it we explored the history of this simple and entertaining activity. Subsequently, a reader submitted the following information by way of clari...
Papalucci’s Italian restaurant in Long Beach a trip down memory lane
By Merrill Shindler Despite the many gastropubs along Second Street in Belmont Shore that keep the street lively and then some, there's a parallel universe of old-school restaurants, dominated by a fair number of red sauce Italian joints that serve the sort of (mostly) Southern Italian cooking so many of us long for, after many a meal of f...
Justinians elect officers
The Justinian Society of Lawyers swore in its 2015-2016 officers in May. Pictured from left are Cook County Circuit Judge Regina Ann Scannicchio, secretary; Natalie M. Petric, treasurer; Vincent R. Vidmer, third vice president; Michael F. Bonamarte IV, second vice president; Frank A. Sommario, first vice president; and Jessica T. DePinto, president...
Philip R. Piccigallo (Executive Director - OSIA)
The first Italians who came to the US during the mass migration age spent their first years basically without any right. Some of them because they considered themselves "birds of passage": they came to the US with the full intent of making money and then come back to Italy. Some of them because they weren't interested in losing their Italian citize...
ICC seeks Executive Assistant
The Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St Paul is a non-profit organization founded in 2006. The ICC promotes the best of Italian culture in Minnesota to people of all ages, and creates stimulating opportunities for enrichment on personal and community levels. We provide Italian language classes which are taught by native instructors. In additi...
Pastificio: Highwood’s Macaroni Factory
by A.J. Goldsmith Every working day Patricia Galli leaves her Buffalo Grove home and heads for Pastificio, where she is the second generation family member to head up the take-home gourmet store specializing in Northern Italian cuisine and pasta. Despite using the Highwood Post Office several times, I had no inkling that Pastificio ex...
Italian man will make pizza in your driveway
by Shari Puterman Chaz Eicke, 42, loves a good slice of pizza. Coming from an Italian background, it's no surprise that he takes this signature New Jersey food pretty seriously. "That's where I got the cooking bug," he says of his ethnic upbringing. Eicke, a physical therapist at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawk...
Ciao Philadelphia: a letter from Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia Andrea Canepari
by Andrea Canepari Greater Philadelphia boasts one of the largest, and most accomplished, Italian-American communities in the United States. The birthplace of the United States of America, Philadelphia is a city deeply connected to Italian values and the Italian way of life, exemplified by the rich universities, museums, art centers and ne...
Join the Third Annual Italian Heritage Month Movie Night on Oct. 12
Il Circolo Italiano is proud to host the third annual Italian Heritage Month Movie Night. Come celebrate with them on Columbus Day by watching Emanuele Crialese's critically acclaimed film Nuovomondo! This film tells the story of a poor family from southern Italy and their dreams of emigrating to the New World in the early 20th century. Th...
Honoring Italian & Hispanic Heritage Month
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015, 08:15pm Jorge Luis Prats, pianoNino Lepore, Guest Conductor An eclectic musical evening – Italy, Cuba, Spain, and more! The film music of legendary Nino Rota (movies of Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, and Academy Award winner) for his score of The Godfather, will be a featured live premiere, at the Symphony...
Esposito to pay tribute to Caruso at the Arcada – 24 October
PBS superstar Pasquale Esposito will grace The Arcada Theatre in St. Charles with a tribute to Enrico Caruso on Oct. 24. The concert will showcase songs featured on "Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Enrico Caruso," a 2-CD drawn from the PBS special of the same name that was first aired this spring. "Pasquale was born to do a tribute to the gr...