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Nationalism isn't out of place in Little Italy – the numerous Italian flags demonstrate the area's pride – but residents and visitors have one more way to celebrate Italian culture starting this week.   The 2014 World Cup begins Thursday and anticipation is in the air. Local business Topsi Turvi has a full display of Italian soccer apparel i...

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by Bliss Davis   The Italian American Summer Festival is returning to the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.   The 14th annual celebration will be held Friday, June 27, from 5 p.m. to midnight, 2 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, June 28, and 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, June 29. Admission is $6 for adults, $2 for kids ages 6 to 12 and free f...

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by Serena Scaiola   Dear friends, the On. Consulate of Italy in Cleveland now has an official Facebook Fanpage: fb.com/consolatocleveland. Please view it, click on I like It, and make sure to share it with others to help me spread this important information.   The Facebook Fanpage page was designed and is intended to be a tool t...

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by Dave Deluca   Our Lady of Peace Parish hosted its 118th annual festival honoring Our Lady of Mount Carmel over the weekend. The three-day event featured rides and games, food and fun and a fireworks display at night at Mount Carmel Church on Columbus Avenue. Sunday marked the last day of the festival with a religious procession that...

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by Ben Lariccia   On June 4, 1933, the fog continued to frustrate the impatient crowd massed at the Lansdowne Airport, Youngstown's first municipal airfield. There was little trace of the single engine plane that carried the daring pilot who had decided against packing a parachute or a radio, for fear of depleting the fuel supply.   F...

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By Sean Barron   If you have spent the last few days in the right part of town, you probably have had a difficult time missing the variety of smells permeating the air. Contributing to the collective and alluring aromas is a large vehicle that leaves little to the imagination with its large, prominently displayed logo: "Meatballs gone w...

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After Friday's rain, the Columbus Italian Festival was in a party mood yesterday with food, as always, one of the star attractions.   The smells of pizza, pasta, sausage sandwiches, soup, gelato and pizzelles wafted in the air around St. John Italian Catholic Church, 720 Hamlet St., the center of the festival and Columbus' Italian community....

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By Bob Fenner PARMA, Ohio - A former Parma fire station will soon become a social destination thanks to Southwest Italian-American Club (SIAC) and Parma Community Improvement Corporation (PCIC). The old fire station #1 building, located at 7504 Ridge Rd. and vacant for six years, will become an Italian social club.   SIAC signed a leas...

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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...

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The Sons of Italy chapter in Ashtabula finds itself in the middle of a triangle — a bocce triangle, that is. A sport that originated in Italy, bocce has a solid following in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania among other places, with the Cleveland, Youngstown and Erie areas all producing competitive leagues and tournaments. When those...

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