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  WTI Magazine #79    2016 May 13Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 79th issue of our online magazine. The second tour of presentations of We the Italians – the book has been a big success! Once again I've been lucky to meet a lot of committed successful Italian Americans and Italians recently moved to t...

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Lo scrittore e fotografo italo-americano Anthony V. Riccio, dedica il suo ultimo libro alle donne.   Da sempre impegnato nel recupero di quella memoria storica di donne e di uomini, soprattutto del nostro Sud, strappati ai loro territori da povertà e fame e delle loro nuove vite in America, Anthony Riccio, si concentra in questo ultimo lavor...

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The nationally-acclaimed Three Sicilian Tenors will appear in Middletown Oct. 18 as the first concert of the Greater Middletown Concert Association's upcoming season. Four other performances will follow during its 2014-2015 Series, which all will be held at Middletown's 700-seat MHS Performing Arts Center, 200 LaRosa Lane. Tenors Aaron Caruso, Elio...

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by Jennifer Antonik While visions of sugar plums dance in the heads of children next door at the Tatiana Akinfieva Dance Academy, Mike Canevari makes real sugar dance around the new Panificio di Canevari Italian Bakery located on SW Front Street.   The bakery began as a hobby for Mr. Canevari, but he said he needed to cook up a business as...

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Chris Vecchitto, 90, is widely remembered for his friendly smile and his famously tasty Italian ices. Vecchitto died Feb. 27 at Middlesex Hospital Hospice Unit after his health quickly declined in the wake of a January fall at home, his wife said.   A Middletown native, Vecchito was one of 11 children born to Italian immigrants Gaetano and G...

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An 1868 article in the New Britain Record matter of factly reported "a few Italian musicians parading the city's streets." The newspaper's comments signaled the presence of a new immigrant culture, even though only 117 Italians lived in the state then and a mere 879 a decade later. Few could have anticipated the dramatic increases in Italian immigr...

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by Elizabeth Keyser   Connecticut is the pizza state, and these days even restaurants that don't specialize in pizza are serving it. The mozzarella bar has been raised. The talk today is of 1,000 degree ovens and 60-second bakes.   That's the talk at Brick + Wood, the newest addition to Fairfield County's burgeoning pizza scene. The f...

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Gli italiani che vivono negli Stati Uniti hanno votato, come noi che viviamo in Italia, per le elezioni dello scorso febbraio. Tanti candidati, tutti mossi dal grande amore per l'Italia, divisi in formazioni politiche a volte identiche a quelle che si fronteggiavano in Italia, a volte diverse: in una circoscrizione elettorale gigantesca che compren...

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Geno Auriemma isn't exactly known for being the friendliest or easiest guy to get along with in sports, especially in the realm of women's college basketball. Yet the UConn Huskies coach, who has won over 900 career games in NCAA women's basketball as a head coach and has around an .875 winning percentage, says that men's college basketball is...

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By Mary O'Leary   Sal Milardo broke down several times as he described the last four years following his mother's deportation to Italy after she had lived in the United States for almost 50 years.    "My mother has served as a caretaker and guardian angel for all of us," Milardo said. "She has always been there when we neede...

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