The Italian American Club of Jacksonville presents its inaugural Italian Spring Festa on Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26, at its clubhouse at 2838 Westberry Road in Mandarin. The club, established in 1951, has hosted its fall Festa Italiana every October for 25 years. Now it is hosting this 2-day spring celebration of all things Italian from...

Starting in April, Sounds of Italy Festival will be roaring back with a two-month-long concert series that will showcase some of the best Italian talent currently living and performing in the Boston area, as well as important guest artists from Italy. Co-organized and hosted by I AM Books, the country's first Italian-American bookstore, the concer...

What makes Bar Sugo special among the Italian places in Norwalk is its chef's creativity, its two dozen small plates (plus half a dozen pizzas), and a focus on farm-to-table fare.   The menu from the chef and owner, Pasquale Pascarella, changes daily, depending on the market's availability. In a phone conversation after my visits, he told me...

After its immense success in recent years, the Milano Food&Wine Festival returns to Lombardy's Capital February 8-10, bringing with it Italy's best wine producers and chefs. With more than 100 different wine growers participating – personally selected by Founder and President of the Merano WineFestival, Helmuth Köcher – the event is a landmark...

George Anastasia, who launched his career at this newspaper in 1969 when it was the Woodbury Daily Times and became an award-winning journalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of eight books about organized crime, has been selected as 2014 Italian-American Citizen of the Year by the Gloucester County Italian Heritage Commission.   Th...

Raoul Bova e il tenore Vittorio Grigolo sono le "Italian icons 2015" premiate al Teatro Cinese di Hollywood nella decima edizione di «Los Angeles, Italia - Film, Fashion and Art Fest» (15-21 febbraio), festival promosso dall'Istituto Capri nel Mondo che accende i riflettori sul cinema italiano nella settimana che precede la notte degli Oscar. &nbs...

Films are an important part of Italian culture for Pietro Sarcina. That's the Troy resident became involved with the Italian Film Festival USA Metro Detroit. Running from Wednesday, April 1 to April 26, the festival offers 14 contemporary films in various genres created between 2013 and 2014.   A national event taking place simultaneously in...

Milwaukee's venerable Festa Italiana will hold forth from July 17 to 19 at Henry W. Maier Festival Park on the city's lakefront. The Flag Throwers of the Florentine will travel from Italy to perform at this year's festa. Headline acts include Dove c'è Musica's Tribute to Eros Ramazzotti and Henry Prego's award-winning tribute to Frank Sinatra....

The Società San Francesco di Paola together with the Calabresi In America Organization are again honoring the patron saint of Calabria, San Francesco di Paola, by inviting the entire Italian American Community to our 34th "Festa Della Famiglia" at Casa Italia on August 6th through the 9th, 2015. The weekend long festivities begin with a Triduo in...

by Jean Falbo-Sosnovich   Holy Rosary Church parishioners have been busy preparing for their 48th annual Italian festival, Festa! 2015, which begins Thursday. The wildly popular festival, which draws thousands each year, will run from 5 to 10 p.m. through Saturday, on the church grounds, 10 Father Salemi Drive. Admission is free. T...