Chef Honors Great-Grandmother's Italian Cooking at New Houston Restaurant
Chef Chris Cosentino of Wine Spectator Award of Excellence winner Jackrabbit in Portland, Ore., will open Rosalie Italian Soul in early October in Downtown Houston's C. Baldwin Hotel. It's the first Houston venture for the chef, who owns two other restaurants in California, Acacia House and Cockscomb. Cosentino named Rosalie after his great-grandmo...
Being Leonardo Da Vinci, an impossible interview
Monday October 14, 2019 | 7:00 PM | The Hiland Theater, 4800 Central Ave SE | Advance tickets $10 at www.holdmyticket.com $12 at the door. Albuquerque is the first stop on director/screenwriter/actor Massimiliano Finazzer Flory’s tour of the Southwest, organized by the Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles to commemorate the 500th year since Leon...
Louis Prima: His legacy through the eyes and words of daughter Lena
During this past summer, I attended my friend’s bachelor party in New Orleans. Prior to visiting the Crescent City, I had made preliminary arrangements to mix some business with pleasure and schedule an interview with Lena Prima, daughter of Louis Prima, the irrepressible, jazz trumpeter, singer and just a gigolo New Orleanian showman from the1930s...
‘Ezio Gribaudo: Life and Art’ Exhibition Opens to Commemorate the Artist’s 90th Birthday
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Italian artist Ezio Gribaudo, the Italian Program at Texas Tech University Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (CMLL) will host an exhibition next month featuring select paintings from 1957 to 2015. The exhibition, “Ezio Gribaudo: Life and Art”, will open with a reception at 5 p.m. Oct. 2 in t...
400 Gradi Opens in Arts District Today with Another Italian Option for Dallas
From Australia to the States, Dallas’ newest upscale Italian concept has had a long journey to America. 400 Gradi, located in the Arts District, offers visitors Italian cuisine just steps away from the Dallas Museum of Art and the Winspear Opera House. Since opening the first location in Melbourne, Australia, chef and founder Johnny Di Francesco ha...
Trash Town: Excavating Garbage at Ancient Pompeii
When: Thu, October 10, 2019 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM CDT - Where: American Italian Cultural Center, 537 S. Peters St., New Orleans, LA 70130 The excavations of Roman Pompeii, a bustling seaside town utterly destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD, have revealed no shortage of treasures. Golden jewelry, evocative wall paintings, delicate...
Old Mama Rosa's meets new-school design: A peek at big changes for a New Orleans landmark
Many fondly remember Mama Rosa’s Slice of Italy on North Rampart Street. Its heyday began in 1982 when People magazine reported it had some of the best pizza in the country. The building was an anomaly in the French Quarter, with a midcentury modern façade. Now it's even more of a contrast. With a new contemporary façade and interior, the main buil...
Maestro Barrese Does It Again!
On a Sunday afternoon in October, New Mexico opera lovers will be treated to the modern American premiere of a work that was virtually lost for more than a century. In the first of three performances at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, Maestro Anthony Barrese will conduct Giovanni Bottesini’s Ali` Baba`, whose score he reconstr...
Pizza Domenica opens Mid-City location, offers new drink selection and weekend brunch
Pizza Domenica opened its second location (3200 Banks Street; 504-459-2072; www.pizzadomenica.com) Sept. 13, taking over the former Echo’s Pizza site at the corner of Banks and South Lopez streets in Mid-City. The new location shares the same food menu as the original Magazine Street restaurant, including garlic knots, wood-roasted cauliflower and...
Cane Rosso veterans open new Italian restaurant in downtown Dallas
The pizza is landing in downtown Dallas: Partenope Ristorante, the Southern Italian restaurant going into the historic Titche-Goettinger Building at 1900 Main St. at the northeast corner of St. Paul Street, has arrived. According to a release, it will open September 23. Partenope comes from Dino Santonicola, the master pizzaioli born and raised in...
Italian Heritage Month 2019 in Texas
Thanks to Texas Governor Abbott Proclamation! Keep the Traditions, support the Columbus Day and promote the Italian Culture! E' per me motivo di grande soddisfazione ricevere e poter condividere questo significativo riconoscimento, non solo per la sensibilita' espressa dal Governatore dello Stato del Texas, nei confronti della comunita' Italo-Texan...
Texas Central Signs Design-Build Contract with Salini Impregilo to Build Texas High-Speed Train
Today, Texas Central, developer of the high-speed train, announced a design- build contract has been signed with the joint venture of Salini Impregilo, one of the largest civil engineering contractors in the world, and its U.S. subsidiary, Lane Construction Corporation. Salini-Lane is to supply the civil and infrastructure scope for the new high-sp...