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By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth   For a minute there, it looked like the traditional dominance of the local restaurant market by red-sauce Italian joints might be fading.   Old stalwarts were closing, and in their place, a new generation of Asian and upscale American restaurants have begun offering chicken banh mi in place of chic...

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Giuseppe Piras, 40, was killed after an Amtrak train travelling from Washington to New York derailed in Philadelphia on May 12th. The Italian was killed along with seven others, and was one of the last victims to be pulled from the wreckage. Over 200 people were injured, 11 of them critically.   Piras, who is from the town of Ittiri on...

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By Clio Alexandra Mallin   When the Italian musicians from Khaossia step onto the stage at World Café Live on October 22 to perform the folk songs and dances of Southern Italy and Salento, you will feel both the history and mystery of a place and a people.   Philadelphia is a city with deep roots in the southern regions of Italy—inclu...

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By Tim Higgins Right now there's a great story being told at the Sigal Museum in Easton — the story of an artist whose career spanned almost the entire 20th century. It's the story of Antonio Salemme, the Italian-born American artist who was the toast of New York's art world from the 1920s to the 1950s and internationally known as one of the fore...

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By Ptah Gabrie   Fishtown is a fluid neighborhood whose residents cover many different American classes. One thing that bonds all of us together in this ever-changing landscape is food. So how do you establish a restaurant in a neighborhood with shifting demographics? It's simple. Start with the freshest ingredients available to you.  ...

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by Rebecca Hanlon   Walking into Slice of Italy feels like you've just arrived at a friend's home. Seat yourself at one of the green tables and get ready to fill your belly with whatever homemade Italian treats you desire. With more than 25 years of experience in York and Lancaster county restaurants, Peter Ferrante jumped at the chance...

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Who's louder than a bunch of drunken Eagles fans after a team win? Who's more crass in the kitchen than Gordon Ramsay with a team of Hell's Kitchen rejects? Who's insane enough to have a singing, dancing Italian food show broadcast out of cable access in Bay Ridge?   Who bursts out singing "Mambo Italiano" - or is that "Mangia Italiano"? acr...

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Il Console Generale Italiano Andrea Canepari ha visitato lo scorso 2 aprile il Comando NATO per la Trasformazione di Norfolk, Virginia. A dargli il benvenuto il Gen. Mirco Zuliani, Vice Comandante di ACT, il quale ha poi brevemente illustrato organizzazione, missione e compiti del Comando.   Mentre lo scopo primario della visita era conoscer...

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The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate the poetry of Guido Gozzano (1883-1916) with an international conference to be held in Philadelphia October 29-30, 2015. Is Gozzano the last poet of the Nineteenth Century or the fist one of the Twentieth Century? The conference deals with this ambivalence. Gozzano unb...

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By Melissa McCart  Where else can you get a meatball bigger than a softball? At Alla Famiglia, it arrives in a red sea of marinara, stuffed with mozzarella then covered with a blanket of provolone and garnished with a dash of chopped parsley. It's pillowy soft but still comes with a giant steak knife.   When you see a plate like this,...

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