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by Jackie DeGiorgio   Another year, another Michelin guide. Every chef who takes himself and his food seriously dreams of Michelin recognition, and once obtained, an omission or demotion is not taken lightly.   The prestigious dining tome has just bestowed its 2016 honors on il bel paese, which now holds 388 stars divided among 334 re...

di Gianni Pezzano   Quando parliamo degli emigrati italiani in giro per il mondo e dei loro discendenti pensiamo subito alle partenze e agli sforzi fatti per trovare una vita nuova. C'è però un aspetto che pochi conoscono.   Chi è emigrato con successo ha voluto chiamare nel nuovo Paese di residenza parenti e compaesani. Di conseguenz...

The Italian Teachers Association of New Jersey (ITANJ) is excited to offer again a Saturday morning webinar series due to the popularity of last year's webinars. Our webinar series provides professional development from your kitchen, with no worries about winter weather! This year we offer two Saturday morning webinars on: Saturday,...

by Katya Kazakina   A sumptuous painting by the 17th century Italian artist Orazio Gentileschi, showing a young nude woman about to be showered with gold, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum for $30.5 million at Sotheby's in New York.   The price for "Danae," which was commissioned in 1621 and recently hung at the Metropolitan Museu...

Gravitational waves, a phenomenon foreseen by Einstein, have been discovered, according to a joint US and Italian announcement Thursday. The waves, caused by two black holes, were found by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), and the data also analysed by the part-Italian, part-French VIRGO project at Cascina near Pisa. V...

di Gabrielle Shubert   I have never been a particularly enthusiastic housekeeper. I remember being in my 20's, when an annual salary of $25,000 was extravagantly liberating and a friend of mine declared that at 25K she could now afford a housekeeper and hired one on the spot.   I followed suit and can't remember when I last touched a...

The Italian American Historical Society of CT's Distinguished Service Award Dinner will be on May 1, 2016 at Anthony's Oceanview Restaurant, 450 Lighthouse Road, New Haven. Cocktail hour begins at 1:00 p.m. and dinner at 2:00 p.m. This year's honorees are the well-known singers Nina Pane Sanseverino, (daughter of legendary Neapolitan singer Giusepp...

Il presidente del Consiglio Matteo Renzi sarà in visita negli Stati Uniti dal 29 marzo al 1° aprile. .   Martedì 29 marzo il presidente Renzi sarà in Nevada all'impianto Enel di Stillwater, mercoledì 30 a Chicago, giovedì 31 a Boston e in serata a Washington, dove rimarrà fino a venerdì 1° aprile per prendere parte al Vertice sulla sicurezza...

by Maria Berry   It's Monday morning. Steve Paternoster, owner and self-proclaimed "Head Italian" of Scalo Northern Italian Grill, mainlines caffe americano as he holds back-to-back meetings with one group after another at his celebrated restaurant, a cornerstone of Albuquerque's Nob Hill since 1986. Some are there seeking his legendary phil...

The town of Riace lies near the toe of Italy's boot. Small shops line its winding, cobblestone streets. It's perched on a hilltop, a typical medieval village with a church at its center.   But there is nothing typical about Riace's people. Out of a population of 1,800, 450 are former refugees. Their children outnumber native Italians at the...

Boston celebrated the 2,000th anniversary of Publio Ovidio Nasone's birth in style. On March 17, a group of students from the Abruzzese town of Sulmona (Ovidio's birthplace) held a special presentation at Filippo Ristorante in the North End, where over 100 representatives of the community gathered to hear more about the Certamen Ovidianum Sulmonens...

Festival season is almost here for Catholic parishes throughout Greater Cincinnati and St. Catharine of Siena is kicking things off with its annual CincItalia festival.   The Westwood parish presents its seventh annual CincItalia, the Cincinnati Italian Festival, Friday, May 13, through Sunday, May 15, at Harvest Home Park, 3961 North Bend R...