Italians in America - Our Immigrant Stories: Nonna’s journey: Five years in an orphanage lead to resilience, freedom & love
Starting at the age of 4, I’d walk with my grandmother daily, helping to pull her little cart to the corner store owned by a “paesan” from the “old country.” The shelves bursting with olives, sardines and brioschi towered over me as she encouraged me to help her pick out ingredients. It was an adventure I adored, sorting through all those breads an...
Rocca Calascio, a spectacular castle in the heart of Abruzzo
Italy is a country full of wonderful beauties, places so fascinating and stunning that seem almost unreal. Places like the Castle of Rocca Calascio, an uninhabited hamlet of the namesake tiny municipality in the province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, located more than 1400 meters above sea level on the top of a ridge at the foot of Gran Sasso. Rocca Cala...
Moroso Italian Ristorante owner says he is opening first authentic Italian café in Waco, TX
The owners of Waco’s Moroso Italian Ristorante have announced the planned opening of Azzurro, “Waco’s first authentic café,” on Oct. 16. The café is located next to the Moroso Italian Ristorante at 4700 Bosque Blvd. in the Market Square shopping center and will be open from 7 a.m. - 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Customers can choose to either din...
What's driving a hotel investment renaissance in Italy
Italy’s hospitality industry is changing as lending conditions shift and hotel owner-operators evolve their business strategies. Guido Castellini, senior advisor at Coldwell Banker Commercial, said Italy's trophy assets are not changing hands, but Italian hotels and resorts that are trading are doing so in a sellers’ market buoyed by very good tour...
Italian traditions hold strong at Denver's Potenza Lodge
In an old brick building in what used to be Denver’s Little Italy, Italian traditions are still very much alive at the Potenza Lodge. “The 3 F’s of Italian culture are family, faith and food,” said Geraldine Pergola, the lodge’s historian. “I was born into the Potenza Lodge. My parents were both lifelong members,” she said. “The Potenza Lodge, out...
Export, Italian wine growth recovers speed: +4.1% in value in the first 7 months 2024
Italian wine exports in the first 7 months of 2024 touch 4.6 billion euros, up 4.1% on the same period 2023, and improving on the performance of the first half of the year, when exports grew 3.1%, while keeping in line with the first half of the year, at +2.6% for 1.26 billion hectoliters. It is a small turnaround, after the 2024 turnaround, that b...
Blue Island, Castrolibero solidify their sister-city bonds
Blue Island Mayor Fred Bilotto joined local and state officials in August to welcome Orlandino Greco, mayor of Castrolibero, Calabria, to Casa Italia in Stone Park. The get-together was organized by Tony Turano and the Calabresi in America Organization. Blue Island is sister cities with Castrolibero as well as Ripacandida, Basilicata, and Estancia...
"He was a supernatural" - Italian sports official on how Kobe Bryant's "Italian qualities" made him a special individual
Kobe Bryant's impact on the basketball court was not just felt in the city of Los Angeles, and the U.S. Basketball fanatics across Italy celebrated all those championship trophies and individual accolades KB collected throughout his illustrious 20-year career. Bryant lived in Italy between the ages of six and 13 while his father, Joe Bryant, played...
Journey to paradise: Celebrated Italian violinist to perform Dante-themed composition
Rock and pop violinist Andrea Di Cesare has played on 20 platinum and gold records in his native Italy and is also a solo artist known for his innovative style, akin to a one-man band. He will be back to Binghamton University and the surrounding community to play his latest composition: a three-part piece based on Dante’s Divine Comedy and inspired...
Sardella’s to be inducted into Taste of Newport Hall of Fame
Sardella’s Italian Restaurant will be honored at the 41st Annual Taste of Newport (Rhode Island) on October 27th for their support of Child & Family by being inducted as the first member of the Taste of Newport Hall of Fame, commemorating their participation as a tasting station for all 41 years the event has been running. Sardella’s Italian Resta...
"Qui non è Nuova York" by Maria Teresa Cometto and Glauco Maggi
The alarm about an imminent new civil war in America has been ringing for a few years now, to the point of hypothesizing an imminent end of democracy in this country. But Maria Teresa Cometto and Glauco Maggi say in their new book “Qui non è Nuova York” (This is not New York) - published by Neri Pozza and in bookstores since October 22 - that what...
Addabbo Partners With American-Italian Cancer Foundation for Successful Mobile Mammogram Event in Middle Village
Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. partnered with the American-Italian Cancer Foundation to host a free mobile mammogram event outside his Middle Village Office on October 13, 2024, in commemoration of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Some 21 women received a mammogram during the 6 1/2-hour event. Mammograms can detect breast cancer at an earl...