Virgola - Oysters & Italian Wine Bar location in the works for Patchogue Village
What started in a small space in lower New York City just four years ago has quickly grown into a multi-restaurant franchise operation with locations across the U.S. Three more Virgola Oysters & Italian Wine Bar spots are in the works. And on that list is Patchogue Village. “I’m proud of how the concept travels so well,” said Virgola founder Joseph...
Why this 17th-century Italian Jewish ‘outlier’ composer is joining Handel in S.F.
Courtney Beck, executive director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, was so intrigued by the story of 17th-century Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi that she created an entire series examining the work of Jewish musicians from Rossi’s era to today. Over the past three years, Philharmonia’s Jews & Music Initiative has grown into a regular f...
An Unsung Italian Pastry Sings in Scottsdale
When you think of great pastries, what comes to mind? Maybe you envision some laborious, beloved union of flour and sugar, something like a cannoli or almond-filled croissant. When you think of great Italian desserts, I bet your mind zips to sweet staples like gelato or tiramisu, or maybe something more obscure like semifreddo or zabaglione. Today,...
Bobby Cannavale, Tough Guy, ‘Can Handle a Pink Couch’
Bobby Cannavale answered his own door. There was no assistant hovering. We had to be quiet, Mr. Cannavale said, because on the first floor of their new house, the first proper house in which he has lived, his fiancée, the actress Rose Byrne, was tending to their baby, Rafa, two weeks old. Softly up the stairs (stairs! Mr. Cannavale had always been...
Maserati returns to Formula 1
Maserati will return to Formula 1 next year, taking over naming rights for the Haas team as early as next week. Sources insist Sergio Marchionne, who is CEO of both Ferrari and Maserati’s parent company, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, will send the Modena brand back to the Formula 1 fray for the first time in nearly 60 years. Maserati has been contact...
North Italia Makes its Way to Vegas
Not that the gondolas aren't authentic and everything, but Vegas could use a little more...Italian, Italian. Homemade sauce, prosciutto heaped atop pizza. The word "taverna." Something like North Italia, legit Italian fare from the people behind gastropub Culinary Dropout. It opens on the 13th. Sure, it's in a strip mall, but, just completely ignor...
Italian student experiences life in US through exchange program
For 18-year-old Angelica Dore, 2017-18 is turning out to be a year of first-time experiences: Studying anatomy at the high-school level and playing on a basketball team. Sampling new foods, such as peanut butter paired with jelly. Watching with wonder as grown-ups, not just children, wear costumes for Halloween. “I do recommend it,” the young woman...
Altro che statuine: a Jesolo il presepe si fa con la sabbia
Giuseppe abbraccia Maria e il piccolo Gesù su un giaciglio di paglia, scaldati dal respiro del bue e dell’asinello. Niente di strano, se non fosse che questa natività è stata realizzata a grandezza naturale esclusivamente con la sabbia, e fa parte di un presepe monumentale che ogni Natale, dal 2002, prende forma a Jesolo, a pochi passi dal litorale...
Join Us to Celebrate Italian Hand-made Jewelry
The Gallery at Reinstein|Ross in the West Village (30 Gansevoort Street - New York, NY 10014) will be hosting a reception for the artist Chiara Scarpitti this coming Friday, December 8th from 3-7pm. Her exhibition, Poetic Adornments, is currently on view through January 15th, 2015. Chiara is a well respected artist and educator from Italy. She is b...
West Baraboo eatery transforms into Italian restaurant
Italy has invaded West Baraboo. A year after opening the American cuisine eatery Chomp, its owners have transformed the establishment into an Italian restaurant. Fratelli’s Neighborhood Italian Restaurant opens at 3 p.m. Friday. Hailey Borota, who owns the restaurant with a silent partner, said she sees a niche in the local restaurant market for...
An Italian Christmas Concert at Sacred Heart Church on December 16th
On December 16, the The Saint Leonard Choral Society accompanied by The North End Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Dan Drzymalski will perform its Annual Christmas Concert. This year’s concert is entitled “An Italian-American Christmas Concert”. Continuing with tradition, the concert will be held in the lovely setting of Historic Sac...
Natalino "Nalie" Palombo / Aliquippa baseball player, coach and community leader
With 15 WPIAL football championships and 11 boys basketball titles, Aliquippa High School is known as a two-sport school. But Natalino Palombo represented a different era. As a senior in 1946, he helped lead the Quips to their second — and last — WPIAL championship as an infielder. It preceded a long and fruitful career as both a baseball player an...