Chris Distefano is widely known in the entertainment world as a funny guy with a great stand-up persona. So he’s not looking to change careers anytime soon. But he can always fall back on his “other” career — as a licensed physical therapist with a doctorate degree from New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury. As he often says, “I got a bache...

Not in time for Wilton’s annual spring restaurant week, Zio Italian Kitchen Pizzeria & Bar is preparing to open at 1 Danbury Road in space that was previously a John’s Best Pizza restaurant and lounge that closed in February. The new restaurant takes its name for the Italian word for “uncle” in reference to Frank Sandolo, who has ran the John’s Bes...

Whether you are looking for classic red-sauce Italian, a sleek environment for cocktails or a brunch destination with mimosas and fried chicken and waffles, Manchester’s Trattoria Toscana offers it all. In June, Michael Beers and his aunt and uncle, Joseph and Laurie Citino, opened their restaurant in the Hartford Road space most recently occupied...

Calabro Cheese once - back in the 1980s - had a small retail cheese store as part of its overall operation. Well, the family has decided to bring the store back and it will be celebrating with a grand opening on March 19th. Calabro Cheese Corporation has been producing premium cheese since 1953. When the East Haven manufacturing plant opened in 198...

Un piccolo museo universitario del Connecticut ha fatto un colpo grosso; è riuscito a portare in America una statua di Gianlorenzo Bernini che nei suoi quasi cinque secoli di vita non si era mai mossa da Roma, e a organizzarci intorno una rispettabile mostra sul Barocco romano. Philippe de Montebello, celebre ex direttore del Metropolitan Museum di...

When Napa & Co. decided to close its doors in Stamford in early 2017, it left a hole in the city’s dining scene. Many would argue (I certainly would) it was one of, if not the best, restaurant in Stamford during its decade-long run. Almost a year after Napa vacated, an Italian restaurant by the name of Bar Zepoli took over the space. While it’s unf...

The Trumbull Arts Commission presents Primavera on Sunday, March 11, at 1 p.m., at the Center at 23 Priscilla Place, Trumbull. Primavera is an Italian-American band from New York and New Jersey and features John Micalizzi on keyboard and vocals. The band mixes both traditional and modern Italian-American music. Cabaret seating, bring your own refre...

She shimmers and shines — her simple brown robe and cream cape transformed into lustrous waves of gold. She holds a quill pen in her right hand and cradles a book of her spiritual writings in her left. On this morning, Linda Wolk-Simon is standing before her. “Think about what this would have looked like on an altar, in the shadowy light of the chu...

You don’t have to be Italian to truly appreciate an authentic Italian meal. Conchi and Vicente Contreras, natives of Ecuador and owners of Rustica Ristorante, are proof positive you don’t have to be Italian to prepare one, either. The wife-and-husband, do-it-all duo behind the successful restaurant in Chester opened a second Rustica location last O...

Eric Lanzieri of Connecticut has published the true story of finding his relatives in Italy nearly fifty years after his grandmother’s last contact with them. Eric, an attorney and a teacher of college courses in law, explains how a confluence of circumstances allowed him to travel to his grandmother’s home town of Scafati in 1994, where he told th...