Italy festival returns
by Shelly Conlon Managing Since 1986, Italy resident Frances Whitener has had the sweet spot downtown as the owner of the Magic Mirror Beauty Salon and a resident of the southern Ellis County town. She's seen shops come and go. She's seen state championship football parades. But if there's one thing that united "Biggest Little Town in T...
April is Italian Opera month in Albuquerque!
On April 3, 6, 8 and 10 we'll be treated to Opera Southwest's production of Rossini's delightfully zany Il Turco in Italia at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. And then . . . The students of the UNM Opera Theatre present "L'Elisir d'Amore" by Donizetti. Enjoy an evening of beautiful "bel canto" and poignant comedic moments. Sung in Italian wi...
Italy’s Alessandro Gentile wants to play for Rockets in 2016-2017
ByJoseph Nocco According to a Tuesday report from Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports' The Vertical, Italian swingman Alessandro Gentile appears poised to ink a NBA deal this summer. The Houston Rockets currently own the draft rights to the Italian superstar after he was originally selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second-round of the...
Italian beauties dazzle at Highland Village — $2.4 million dream car included
It's nearly impossible to gauge the number of car junkies who dashed to Highland Village for another pageant of very expensive local Italian beauties Sunday. The turnout was definitely up from previous years, evident by sponsoring neighborhood restaurants racing to stay ahead of demand from guests that meandered about 75 exquisite samples of Europe...
The NM Italian film & culture Festival announces its most dynamic program ever - 2014 film line-up - opening gala - program features
The NM Italian Film & Culture Festival, produced by the nonprofit Italian Festivals of New Mexico for the primary benefit of the UNM Children's Hospital today announced its film selections for the 2014 eight day run of the popular festival. Io Sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet) a 2011 winner at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, is the...
Chef Carmelo Mauro to host Beni Batasiolo Wine Dinners Nov. 20-21
Fiorenzo Dogliani, owner of Beni di Batasiolo, will join Carmelo Mauro for an exclusive wine dinner at Carmelo's Ristorante Italiano on Thursday, November 20, 6:30 p.m. at Carmelo's Ristorante Italiano, 14795 Memorial Drive in west Houston's Energy Corridor, and Friday, November 21, 6:30 p.m. at the Austin restaurant located at 504 East 5th Street....
La Sagra del Cioccolato - February 7th, 2015 at 6:30 pm
The Italian Cultural and Community Center is proud to announce the launch of a new series of events aimed to celebrate one of the most popular Italian food tradition: Le Sagre! Executive Chef Maurizio Ferrarese of Quattro Restaurant, Four Seasons Hotel, will guide the audience to discover some of the Italian high-quality products. Read mo...
The 2015 Italian festival ball “putting on the glitz & burlap” february 28
by Virgil Howell The Annual Italian Festival Ball is right around the corner. It will be this Saturday, February 28, 2015. Please come join us with our Italian Festival Queen Samantha Lin Lamonte as we honor and present our 2015 royalty. You won't want to miss this great event and you also get to listen to the hottest band on the Northshor...
Undicesimo International Risotto Festival
La Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas è orgogliosa di sponsorizzare l'undicesimo International Risotto Festival che si terrà l'8 novembre presso l'Houston Design Center, 7026 Old Katy Road, tra il Loop 610 e il Memorial Park. Vi invitiamo a una meravigliosa competizione culinaria che vi permetterà di assaggiare deliziose pietanze a...
What an expert on Italian art thought of the 'Sistine Chapel' at Fair Park
Michelangelo's complex, revolutionary frescoes in the vault of the Sistine Chapel remain the standard by which artistic difficulty and accomplishment are measured. Featuring 380 individual figures covering 2,400 square feet of painted surface, the ceiling itself emblematizes its very subject: the power of creation. For those who cannot make the tr...
Grezza feeds West End revival by serving what neighborhood needs: homemade Italian
The emerging renaissance of Dallas' West End continues with more good dining news: A new casual Italian restaurant called Grezzawill open in the location at 1718 Market St. currently occupied by Ellen's Southern Kitchen. The emerging renaissance of Dallas' West End continues with more good dining news: A new casual Italian restaurant calle...
The Story of Dal Santo
by Nicholas Hunt Out West on Arkansas 300 from Little Rock, past the eastern shore of Lake Maumelle and under the stands of tall Southern pines, up the steep switchbacks and down a rough-hewn country lane in Pulaski County's Little Italy, sits the home John Dal Santo built with his own two hands. It's white and quaint with a...