Conversation with comedian Frank Ferrante and his stage persona, Groucho
by Valerio Viale The New York Times has proclaimed Italian-American comedian/ director/producer Frank Ferrante (Los Angeles, April 26, 1963) as "the greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx's material." So, don't be surprised if his current show, An Evening with Groucho, is a regular sold-out. If you want to see the comedi...
Couple behind Paolo’s plot Italian supper club
by Hanna Raskin By Elizabeth Hall's reckoning, there are 136 Italian restaurants in Charleston. Hall admits she's counting every restaurant with even a tenuous connection to tomato sauce, but her tally speaks to the local enthusiasm for Italian-style cooking. "We don't have a Little Italy, but what we do have that I get really jaz...
Journalism professor speaks on Italian-Irish relations
Paul Moses, professor of journalism at Brooklyn College, will discuss his book "An Unlikely Union, the Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians" when he speaks at a meeting of the Bay Ridge Historical Society on March 16. Moses, a former city editor at Newsday, will be the guest speaker at the meeting, set to take place at the Shore Hi...
Piazza, Park and Pomodoro - Updates from North Beach
Little Italy is no longer little, nor has it been for a while. As a matter of fact, what once was the Italian District on the West Coast has morphed/transformed into one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the Bay Area. With that vibrancy comes change and below are updates on three major community projects previously reported by L'Italo-Americano....
Italian Spaghetti Western Zombie, “Garrett,” Getting Adapted to Television
Italian production company Wildside is venturing into unexplored genre TV territory with an adaptation of the Spaghetti Western Zombie, "Garrett," based on the eponymous Italian comic book which has a cult following in Europe, Variety reports. "The comic book takes its cue from Sam Peckinpah's classic western movie "Pat Garrett and Billy t...
Do not forget your roots. Simonetta Lein The Wishmaker Meets Chef Lidia Bastianich
On countless occasions life equals the courage you put into it. A few months ago a journalist was interviewing me as the Wishmaker and she happened to mention that she interviews many chefs and celebrity chefs. It came naturally to me to ask: Do you know Lidia Bastianich? "I interviewed her a couple of times and I know her assistant."&nbs...
Etruscan stone could help unravel enigma of one of Italy's first civilizations
A rare inscription found on a stone unearthed near Florence is exciting archaeologists who say it may help reveal the secrets of the Etruscans, one of Italy's earliest and most enigmatic civilizations. The Etruscans flourished in central Italy 2,500 years ago but their culture and language were assimilated into the Roman empire. They left...
Italian little Italies: Vipiteno Time Suspended on the Torre delle Dodici
WTI Magazine #79 2016 May 13Author : I borghi più belli d'Italia Translation by: The town sprung up along the Brennero road, the most important communication link between Italy and Germany. In spite of the construction of new residential areas, the layout of the town has remained more or less unaltered since the end of the 13th centu...
Robin Trento: Italian Paintings in Los Angeles Museums
Presented by the Cedars-Sinai Alumni Association and Medical Staff, Robin Trento will offer a virutal tour through local museums exhibiting exemplary Italian paintings from the 1300s through 1700s. The illustrated discussion will focus on these 500 years of artistic mastery, tracing the innovations and developments that brought Italy to the forefro...
Missione del funzionario itinerante ad Hartford, Connecticut
Si informa la comunità italiana residente nello Stato del Connecticut che il giorno 6 luglio 2016, sarà effettuata una missione itinerante per la rilevazione dei dati biometrici ai fini del rilascio del passaporto italiano. La missione avrà luogo presso i locali della "ACAI" 506 Franklin Avenue, Hartford, CT a partire dalle ore 08:00. Si p...
Italian white wine's journey to prominence in the U.S.
Vini bianchi (Italian white wine) has had a journey of several centuries in the U.S. since the mid-1900s. Once, Italy's most important exports to the States were Chianti and Enrico Caruso. Then came the "War to End All Wars," then World War II. By 1945, the spigot of Italian wine imports had slowed to a trickle. In 1946, a canny Ital...
Nora: The joy of cooking in Cleveland's Little Italy
Ribbons of hand-rolled pasta nestled in a luxurious sauce of good cheese, cream and coddled egg, spiked with salty nuggets of pancetta then tossed with fried potato matchsticks for a charming unexpected crunch and slices of cured egg yolk for even more umami richness. Those with a Proustian food memory or preternatural love for the extra-opulent wi...