Marco Bicego personal appearance at Bloomingdale's San Francisco
May 9, 2015, Saturday 2:00 PM - 5:00 PMWilliams-Sonoma - 340 Post Street - San Francisco, California 94108 Please join Bloomingdale's San Francisco in welcoming Marco Bicego, Italian jewelry designer as he presents his latest collections. Since the launch of his eponymous jewelry line in 2000, Marco Bicego has redefined the...
A Tavola con le Tradizioni del… Veneto
Italian Cultural & Community CenterThursday, May 21, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (CDT)Houston, TX Join us for an amazing evening with Executive Chef Alberto Baffoni of Ristorante Mascalzone,as he leads us through a culinary tour of the Region of Veneto. The recipes will be demonstrated live for you to view, followed by an excl...
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
There will be a historical dedication ceremony at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, honoring the Italian immigrants who built the church from the Colonial Dames XVII Century, Kansas City Chapter May 24, 2015Dedication - 10:45 am outsideMass - 11:00Reception following MassThis is also the Feast of Our Lady of the Audience Source: K...
Medium-sized companies start growing again, study says
by Paolo Bricco Nothing to complain about for 2014. And this year looks good too for Italy's medium-sized companies. In fact, in 2014, for the first time since 2008, the number of companies with rising revenue outnumbered the ones whose sales fell: 45.2% versus 27%, according to an annual report on mid-sized Italian companies issued b...
Jon Bon Jovi: Italian of the Week
John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. was born on March 2, 1962, in Perth Amboy, NJ. His father, John Francis Bongiovi, Sr., was a barber who migrated from Sciacca, Sicily. John grew up in New Jersey and spent his summers with his grandparents in Erie, PA. When thinking about his youth, John has said, "Any Sunday afternoon you hear any Italian guy si...
Annual St. Ann's Italian Festa celebrates Its 110th year
The St. Ann's 110th Italian Festa, a favorite parish, family and neighborhood tradition, will begin Wednesday, June 24, in Raritan Borough. The festival features fun rides and games, Italian food favorites and nightly entertainment to raise funds for the Parish and children who attend St. Ann's School, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary...
Eating Italian in the Old Mill
By John Gottberg Anderson Diners who love Italian food have two restaurant choices in Bend's Old Mill District. Pastini Pastaria and Flatbread Community Oven stand side-by-side next to the Deschutes River on the north side of the shopping-and-entertainment district. But I'm not a big fan of either one. Others may applaud the...
A Honeymoon Through Italy
by Porter Fox The trip began years before we met, when Sara wrote a short story about the perfect marriage. It started like this: "____ and I are moving to Europe to paint and make love, right after he finishes his diamond floor. We will live in a gigantic home filled with magic and passion. One of our favorite things to do in the...
Lou Ferrigno: Italian of the Week
Matty, an Italian American police lieutenant, and Victoria Ferrigno welcomed their son Louis on November 9, 1951. The family lived in Brooklyn, New York. As a toddler Lou suffered from a series of ear infections and lost an estimated 75% of his hearing. Though some might have seen this loss as a disadvantage, Lou didn't. Even when he was t...
Festeggiare! 2015 Bay Area Italian Festivals
by Catherine Accardi It's summer in the city and although two of San Francisco's Italian themed festivals have come and gone, there's still more serious festeggiare (celebrations) to come. On June 13th and 14th we enjoyed the 61st annual North Beach Festival in San Francisco's Little Italy. It's the oldest street fair in the nation wi...
Enzo's to expand to Schererville, is hiring
by Joseph S. Pete An Italian beef and Italian sausage restaurant beloved in the South Suburbs for more than four decades is finally opening a Northwest Indiana location. Enzo's Restaurant, which is known for charbroiling freshly house-made sausage over lump coal, is taking over the former Schererville Gyros, which closed earlier t...
The Sicilian of the Sicilians
By Niccolò Graffio The travesty that produced the modern country of Italy worked to suppress in no small way the native cultures of Southern Italy, but it could not destroy them. As the advocates of Risorgimento moved to center the political life of the nascent state around Rome (and the economic life in the north) they likewise tried to s...