Sacred Heart Church in Camp Washington will host its annual Italian Dinner Sunday. Sunday's event will mark the 103rd Italian Dinner. Organizers said the dinner is more than a meal. It is a tradition and a fellowship based in love and friendship.   Read more   Source: http://www.wlwt.com    

by Polly Campbell   Cristian Pietoso, owner of Via Vite restaurant, Downtown, will be busy over the next few months, opening two new restaurants. First to open will be in the space of M Woodfired Grill in Hyde Park. The not-yet-named restaurant will be a traditional Italian osteria.   "Via Vite is traditional, but with a more mod...

by Larry Davis   Since it first opened its doors in 2011, crowds have packed the Holy Grail. It was the first establishment in at the Banks and it has a key location right across the street from Great American Ball Park. Co-owner Paul Goebel says The Banks has been good for the "Grail."   "We were, actually about half the streets were...

The AP® Italian Reading will take place June 12-18, 2014 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third year after the AP® Italian has been reinstated as a course and, after the excellent results of the two previous years, we are once more all looking forward to this year's Reading with great anticipation.   The Chief Reader, the Q...

by Joel M Beall   Frequent visitors of Eden Park have undoubtedly come across the statue of a she-wolf feeding twin infants. Some might be privy to the fact that it's a replica of the famous Capitoline Wolf located in Rome, and was bestowed to Cincinnati as a gift. What might be foreign, and somewhat of a head-scratcher to observers, is...

by Polly Campbell   Are you looking for a cheap feed or a fine-dining experience? Do you want to try something new, or do you think a restaurant should have been in place a few decades before it can be judged "best"? Any of those ways, you're in luck. There are Italian restaurants in Cincinnati that have been around since the Depression...

Saturday morning, they rolled more than 24,000 meatballs 115,000 raviolis and by hand in preparation for Sunday's feast.It takes volunteers weeks to prepare for the feast in Camp Washington, which benefits Sacred Heart Church. This is church's 104th year and the 30th for the dinner. "We have fun. We've been doing this controlled chaos for a long t...

American art deco, streamline, Machine Age, mid-century modern and op/pop furnishings, fashion, architecture and art will share the spotlight with Italian Futurism and Memphis designs next weekend in Sharonville.   The 20th annual 20th Century Cincinnati, the biggest and best show of its kind in the region, will feature 75 national dealers s...

Cincinnati is getting typecast: The Queen City will stand in for New York City in yet another major motion picture this year.   John Travolta, of "Pulp Fiction" and "Saturday Night Fever" fame, will star as the title character in "The Life and Death of John Gotti," a biopic on the life of New York mob boss. The Golden Globe-winning actor's r...

Death is inevitable, but what death shows us about the social behaviors of the living is not. And recent University of Cincinnati research examining the ancient bereavement practices from the the Central Apulian region in pre-Roman Italy helps shed light on economic and social mobility, military service and even drinking customs in a culture...