Italia e Stati Uniti d’America: una storia migrante nel segno di Joseph Tusiani
“Gente italiana nel mondo. Storie e scritture”. E' questo il titolo del convegno promosso dal centro studi “Joseph Tusiani”, ospitato il 14 marzo nella biblioteca comunale di San Marco In Lamis, con la partecipazione dei maggiori specialisti del settore e di alcuni scrittori: Cosma Siani, Rodolfo Di Biasio, Francesco Durante, Alberto Sorbini e Mart...
Sculptor Dionisio Cimarelli Honored by the Art Students League of New York
Dionisio Cimarelli, Sculptor/Professor, was honored by the Art Students League of New York this past week, when it placed a large image of one of his sculptures at its main entrance, joining a display of other renowned Artist/Faculty members. The Art Students League is a legendary 140 year old art institution on West 57 Street, that is famous for a...
Made by Memphians: Franco's Italian Kitchen
Franco Contaldo knows there’s an easy way to ruin a good Italian dish. “People use too much garlic,” he said. “You want to taste it, but you don’t want it to overpower everything else.” When he makes pesto, he doesn’t even put garlic in it. Before you think him a madman, give his Pesto Delicato recipe at the end of this article a try, and have a lo...
Auburn group to hold annual St. Joseph's Day feast
The Cultural Italian American Organization of Auburn will host its annual St. Joseph's Day Feast Celebration at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 31, at the Springside Inn, 6141 W. Lake Road, Fleming. Brought to the U.S. by immigrants from southern Italy, the celebration includes a traditional table dinner with Italian antipasto, romaine/oranges salad, garlic...
Word of the Day: Forza
Forza! Italy’s own way to show support and invite to hold on when things get difficult, is one little powerful word. And powerful is, indeed, the right term, as “forza” means strength in English. From an etymological point of view, the word comes the Late Latin fortia (which is turn derives from the Classical Latin adjective fortis) and came into u...
Café Arnone: Northeast Ohio’s best weekend brunches, breakfasts
Billed as an Italian coffee bar, the family-run place started as a food truck and opened its brick-and-mortar location last year in a former bank building along the busy stretch of W. Market Street. There's a lot of pride here, as the great-grandparents of the founders came to Akron from Favara (Sicily), Italy, in 1913. Family photos hang throughou...
The temple of Saint Emidio at the Grottoes and the bishop’s miracle
The Temple of Saint Emidio at the Grottoes, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, is a baroque structure from the early 18th century, named after the city’s patron saint – who was its bishop and was martyred during Diocletian’s anti-Christian persecutions. Emidio was born in Treviri in 273 and lived until the early 4th century; today, the people of Asc...
The Bonanno Family: After Claiming Ethnic Profiling, 2 Accused of Being Mobsters Are Acquitted
It was a novel defense for two men federal prosecutors had accused of being in control of one of New York’s oldest crime families: they claimed the Mafia had long ago been dismantled and they were being unfairly profiled as gangsters because of their Italian ethnicity. But the strategy seemed to work. On Wednesday, a jury in federal court in Manhat...
America’s Favorite Cuisine Is - Well, It’s Not American
What’s your favorite cuisine? For me, it’s Filipino food and Mexican food, but that likely has something to do with the fact I a) am Filipino and b) grew up in Yuma, Arizona — affectionately called the “armpit of Arizona.” But in that scorcher of an agricultural town, located a smidge north of the Mexico border and a smidge east of the southern Cal...
NEWPOLI: presentation on Southern Italian folk music at the ICC and concert at The Cedar. ES19
Thursday, March 28, 2019. 7:30 PM 10:30 PM. The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Avenue South Minneapolis, MN, 55454. Winner of the 2016 Independent Music Award in the category of Best World Traditional Album, NEWPOLI will be in Minneapolis on Thursday, March 28, for an exclusive presentation at The Italian Cultural Center (1:00-2:00 PM) and concer...
Firefighters, loved ones gather to say goodbye to Chief Gary Sacco
For the second time in as many weeks, Maine's firefighting community is saying goodbye to one of their own. It was less than one week ago when firefighters from all over the state came out to the funeral services of Capt. Joel Barnes. It was during those services when Oxford Fire Chief, Gary Sacco, fell ill. The 63-year-old was rushed to a nearby h...
Milano | Ecco il tiramisù più lungo al mondo a CityLife: anche la coda per una fetta gratis è da record
Il gran giorno è arrivato. All'interno del centro commerciale CityLife di Milano un folto gruppo di pasticceri ha preparato il tiramisù più lungo del mondo: ben 273,5 metri. Da record anche la folla di curiosi messi in coda per fotografare i pasticceri all'opera e per avere una delle 15mila fette gratis. Il Tiramisù di Galbani Santa Lucia si è aggi...