The term “Little Italy” can evoke images of busy streets lined with gimmicky, tourist-filled restaurants, complete with menu-pushing waiters outside the front door and Italian flags waving wherever possible. Throw in a paper placemat that doubles as a map of the boot-shaped country (featuring multiple comical misspellings) and you know the types of...

It is snowing outside and the temperature has plunged well below freezing. Nearly one hundred people have come to the St Louis County library – the latest stop on the promotional tour for my book on the Italians.   St Louis has a substantial Italian American community, traditionally concentrated in a part of the city known as The Hill. &nbs...

Which should be exciting news for those unaware we even had an annual Italian Film Festival here in St. Louis. We do, and it's been going on for ten years now. It's not well-promoted in general but it must be in the local Italian community because I've attended on the past and they always draw huge crowds (the free admission probably doesn't hurt)....

Ciao St Louis announces an important collaboration with America's oldest Italian-American newspaper. The L'Italo-Americano is a biweekly publication serving the Italian-American community throughout the United States.   Established in 1908, L'Italo-Americano is the oldest Italian-American newspaper in the US with a mission to promote an...

For more than 40 years, Manzo's, an Italian market located at the corner of Devonshire and Macklind avenues in south St. Louis, stood as an iconic home-grown business founded by Sicilian immigrants and kept alive by their children. Manzo's thrived for decades as a St. Louis institution, selling Italian sausage, cheese, wine and other delicacies to...

Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, MO has add outdoor bocce courts for their member's enjoyment. These outdoor grass court have been set on the croquet course. Plans are to make the courts more permanent by removing the grass and adding a more level and faster courts with sides for a more profession game. On January 2, 2017 the Italia America Bo...

Novità in vista per "Italiano per Piacere": l'associazione, infatti, si prepara a cambiare sede. Secondo quanto riportato da "It@lico", periodico dell'associazione diretto da Franco Giannotti, il trasloco era annunciato, essendo oggi, 31 agosto, ultimo giorno di apertura del ristorante "da Baldo", sede di IPP e di altri club italiani a St. Louis....

By Susan Smith-Harmon Some neighborhoods are quietly idyllic, others buzz with energy. The Loop hums with excitement. The stretch of Delmar Blvd from between The University City lions at Trinity and the MetroLink Station at Des Peres is teaming with interesting shops and restaurants. That's why it was named "One of the Ten Great Streets in America...

Esce in questi giorni l'ultimo numero dell'anno di "It@lico", mensile dell'associazione "Italiano per piacere" diretto a St. Louis da Franco Giannotti.   Si tratta, spiega Giannotti, di un numero "in qualche modo dedicato alla montagna con il resoconto scritto da Anna Di Palma Amelung sulla "Storia dell'alpinismo italiano", le varie foto dis...

Starting Tuesday, a hot salami truck will be making its way around St. Louis each weekday. Gioia's Deli Food Truck will serve up its hot salami, roast beef, salami and beef, Italian trio, poor boy, turkey, the veggie and porknado downtown, in company parking lots and industrial parks. The truck will also be present at festivals and events such as...