Battello on Jersey City Waterfront Reopens After Pier Repairs
Battello, the nautically themed waterfront restaurant in downtown Jersey City abruptly closed last year after it was determined the pier on which it sits was structurally unsound and in need of immediate repairs. With those repairs done and the pier stabilized, the restaurant officially re-opened, welcoming guests last night with dinner service sta...
Red Wine - Italian bluegrass 40 years on
For Italian bluegrass music ensemble Red Wine, the analogy with culinary excellence is too good to ignore, and to learn how the ensemble determined their name shows that it isn’t fanciful. Mandolin player Martino Coppo, who started by playing the guitar at the age of 13, shares this account, revealing the derivation of the band name … “One night t...
True Italian Taste campaign and IACC Texas host seminar for Italian food and wine producers featuring U.S. food and wine experts
We are pleased to announce that on Sunday, February 24, the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Texas will be hosting a seminar for a group of visiting Italian winemakers, food producers, and Italian-focused food and wine trade distributors and importers at the Hilton Post Oak hotel in Houston’s Galleria district. For this year’s seminar, the chamber...
Primo Levi and the Holocaust, A Date to Remember
Sunday January 27 2019. 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST. Museo Italo Americano, Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd. Building C, San Francisco, CA 94123. Primo Levi and the Holocaust, A Date to Remember. Lecture followed by Wine reception with the Professors. Co-presented with the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies and the Jewish Community Library o...
Alife. “Italiani in America”, in scena all’Auditorium dell’IPIA
Italiani in America, è una commedia musicale sull’emigrazione dei nostri connazionali provenienti soprattutto dal sud dell’Italia nei primi del ‘900. Fu un esodo colossale che vide oltre 14 milioni di italiani emigrare verso le Americhe. Questo è il tema portante dello spettacolo che andrà in scena domenica 27 gennaio 2019 alle ore 20.00 presso l’A...
Taste of Italy Festival opens in Port St. Lucie
The Taste of Little Italy brings Italian culture to Port St. Lucie the last weekend in January. “Since the day it started I was down here,” said Bigtime Tommie. He’s a true Italian from New York, who never misses an Italian festival in Florida. “I put this up against New York any day,” said Bigtime Tommie. He added, “I feel like I’m back home.” The...
A Bomb Won't Stop Me: About Gino Sorbillo And His Pizzeria
It is called “pizzo” in mafia jargon, the amount of money forcibly and regularly extorted from traders by organized crime. Basically, almost all those who have a shop or any kind of commercial activity are forced to pay a “tax” to local mobsters. Otherwise, intimidation, physical violence or serious damage to facilities are the unavoidable conseque...
Stephanie Longo plans book signing at Barnes & Noble
The Wilkes-Barre Barnes & Noble, 421 Arena Hub Plaza, will host a local author book signing at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2. Local author Stephanie Longo will be available to sign copies of her history books, “Italians of Lackawanna County” Boasting one of the nation’s largest and most diverse Italian American populations, Lackawanna County joins old an...
Zanardi Inspires Racing’s Biggest Stars
There was once a brief meeting in a hospital with a fan who talked Formula One and Ferrari with him over a cup of coffee. When he saw the man later that day, sobbing and holding a small child, Zanardi offered him comfort. The man was crying tears of joy. His daughter, born without legs, had been fitted for her first pair of prosthetics that day. Wh...
Angelina’s opening third Staten Island restaurant
After the success of Angelina’s Kitchen in New Springville, the mother-son team of Angelina and Vincent Malerba will continue to expand their brand, with plans to open a 5,500-square-foot eatery in The Boulevard, a new shopping center being built in New Dorp. “Angelina’s Kitchen has been incredibly successful since we opened two years ago. People l...
The Real Naples: The Neapolitan Response to Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend
People in Naples have a spectacularly blasé attitude towards Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend series. Known as the Neapolitan Chronicles to the rest of the world, the four books recount the decades long friendship of two young Neapolitan women as their town recovers from war, grapples with the camorra, suffers municipal neglect, political strif...
2018 Italian Startup Review - A Talk with Damian Scavo and Paolo Privitera
Thursday, February 7, 2019. 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP. 1000 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025. The Silicon Valley remains a magnet for global innovation and, as a result, Italian startups have entered this market in search for opportunities. Despite the challenges associated with raising capital and scaling up in a v...