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The Italian-American Club of Hilton Head (IACHH) Invites You to Enjoy a Weekend of Opera Arias & Broadway Show Tunes, Performed by Renowned Singers, at the Hilton Head Arts Center, October 25 & 26, 2014 In response to popular demand, the first annual, Hilton Head aria weekend, features eight renowned opera singers performing recognizable s...

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The King Street Marketing Group and the Italy America Chamber of Commerce introduce the Charleston Italian Festival. The event will be a celebration of Italian culture, arts, food, wine and automobiles. It will be held on Daniel Island from noon to 7:00 p.m., September 19, the Feast of San Gennaro.   The Charleston Italian Festival will...

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For the 21st year in a row, the Italian Festival kicked off Saturday at Market Common. The festival runs until eight p.m. Saturday and features a heritage booth, kids entertainment, crafts vendors and, of course, lots of food.   Some of the items on the menu include pizza, sausage, meatball sandwiches and pasta. Organizers explained th...

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The 40th season of the Spoleto Festival USA opened Friday amid tributes to the men who established the internationally known art festival and remembrances of the nine people fatally shot in a city church last year during a Bible study. Hundreds gathered under a bright sun in front of City Hall as Mayor John Tecklenburg lauded former Mayor Joe Rile...

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by Johanna D. Wilson   Debra Guglielmi, a 5-foot, 51-year-old Italian dynamo, is flitting about Bagel Café and Bakery like a cat chasing a beam of light. It is a Wednesday, but it doesn't matter – she is often a blur of busy-ness. It is clear, however, that she is dedicated to fixing folks fresh food only the most finicky cooks serve....

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by Hanna Raskin   Almost a year after relocating to Charleston from New York City, celebrated chef Michael Toscano has announced plans to open a restaurant in the space currently occupied by Leaf. Le Farfalle will feature "regional Italian food," with an emphasis on housemade pasta, vegetables and seafood, according to publicist Nicole...

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Note: Slate is proud to publish two of this year's winners of the Scholastic Writing Awards, honoring the best teen writers in the country. This piece, which was part of a gold-medal-winning portfolio, is by Anthony DeSantis, a senior at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.   AnthonyFrom the Latin Antonius. I nev...

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by Deidre Schipani   The culinary latitude and longitude has shifted on the corner that chef Ken Vedrinski originally established as a restaurant. Red-and-white checkered tablecloths have replaced the racing silks of Siena; the cuisine of Tuscany is pre-empted by that of Apulia, Campania and Sicily. Ristorante LIDI, the current resident, pro...

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by Christina Riley   In early February, more than two dozen area youngsters auditioned for a children's chorus. They arrived with nursery rhymes, patriotic songs and familiar numbers from "Shrek" and Disney movies. Less than four months later, 13 of them are performing a little-known Giordano opera score. In Italian. At the Spoleto Fest...

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Filmmaker Roberto Ando is one of Italy's most distinguished artists. A Sicilian by birth, his work, in both cinema and literature, is influenced by his associations with the great novelist Leonardo Sciascia and the movie director Francesco Rosi, among others.   His latest movie, the comedy "Viva La Liberta" ("Long Live Liberty"), which is ba...

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