Coda di Volpe is a splash of southern-Italian spice on the Southport corridor
By Mike Sula As a food writer, I'm beginning to view the appearance of every new Italian restaurant with existential dread. In terms of word slinging, the battle between steak houses and Italian spots for Chicago restaurant hegemony throughout the last few years has me running low on ammo. While there are fresh things to write and be exci...
ANDREA VITERBI - Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur
When: Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pmWhere: Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021Organized by : IIC - Entrance : Free. Andrew Viterbi in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto. Presentation of Andrew Viterbi's memoir Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrep...
Chef Mario Batali Says Boston Is One Of His Favorite Food Cities
Well-known TV chef and author Mario Batali is showing some love for Boston's restaurant scene. Batali tells USA Today that Boston is one of his favorite food cities in America. According to the newspaper, he likes zipping up to Boston from New York via train for a bite. "Home to the freshest clams on this coast and the most delicious...
Jazz singer-pianist Buddy Greco dead at 90
by Mike Weatherford Buddy Greco, the jazz pianist turned Las Vegas showman who had a presence from the 1950s through the 2000s, died Tuesday. He was 90. Like many performers of his era, Greco's live career sustained him well beyond his best-known hit, a finger-snapping 1960 rendition of "The Lady Is a Tramp," which established his Las...
Festa dell'Amicizia Italo-Americana, a Maniago sabato 22 settembre
Sabato 22 settembre, Maniago ospiterà per la seconda volta la festa dell'amicizia italo-americana, nata nel 2001 per celebrare le vittime dell'11 settembre ma anche per rinsaldare i legami tra le due comunità e promuovere il territorio.L'evento – organizzato da Associazione dei Comandanti Onorari Usaf e Comune di Maniago, in collaborazione con alcu...
Ricette siciliane e tradizioni napoletane tra gli eventi dell'Italian American Museum
"Soulful Sicilian Cooking": è il tema dell'appuntamento che si terrà il 20 dicembre alle 18.00 all'Italian American Museum, New York. Protagonista di una serata tutta all'insegna della cucina siciliana sarà Antoinette Silicato, che presenterà il suo nuovo libro. Nel volume, Antoinette Silicato presenta sessanta ricette autentiche della tradizione...
The Italian roots of Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio officially announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City on Sunday by recalling the person who influenced his life the most, an old Italian man with an accent that was nearly incomprehensible. "He only had 70 years to get comfortable with English," de Blasio jokingly defended his grandfather. Commonly referred to as an Italian...
U.S. representatives of the Italian American Congressional Delegation of the 113th Congresss welcomed by National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and Italy’s Ambassador
Representatives Bill Pascrell and Pat Tiberi, co-chairs of the Italian American Congressional Delegation (IACD) of the 113th U.S. Congress, welcomed their colleagues to the reception at the United States Capitol Visitors Center hosted by NIAF with IACD on February 27, 2013. Pascrell opened the reception explaining how this delegation works in a bi...
CSO's Riccardo Muti receives award from Italian American Chamber of Commerce
Chicago's Italian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) presented Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti with a Lifetime Achievement award during a gala event at the Art Institute of Chicago's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room on Wednesday night. The IACC was founded in 1907 to support the Italian business community and American bu...
Il Tabarro (The Cloak) and Gianni Schicchi
Saturday, Jul 13 8:00pMore dates & times (1) Colony TheaterMiami Beach, FL Two One Act Operas with music by Giacomo Puccini. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is a drama evolved from a love triangle that ends tragically.Gianni Schicchi is a classic comedy based on a character mentioned in Dante's Inferno from "La Divina Commedia" that is characterized...
Memorial Day, 2013
by Umberto Mucci A few words and some photos to express the sympathy for the US army while we celebrate the Memorial Day. Today, as Founder and President of We the Italians, I've paid my respect to the 7861 American soldiers buried in the Sicily Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno, and to the 3.000 missing in action th...
Little Italy – Manhattan
In 1892 Ellis Island, located at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was established as the chief immigration center. Between 1892 and its closing in 1956, over 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island. For centuries since the collapse of the Roman Empire, Italy had not existed as a single unified entity. Instead, it...