Michelangelo’s secret room: a hidden wonder in Florence
Michelangelo has left us amazing masterpieces, adored in the entire world: the Pietà, the iconic David, Moses, Laocoön, the unparalleled frescoes for the Sistine Chapel, and dozens of other works. Yet it is impossible for us to really know his private life, what he felt and lived as an artist and man of his time. Perhaps an interesting and little-k...
2019 Contemporary Italian Film Series
First screening: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 7:00 pm - Fortunata (Lucky) $10 ICCC Members | $15 Non-members. Italian Cultural & Community Center - 1101 Milford St. - Houston, TX 77006. Join us in 2019 for the return of our Contemporary Italian Film Series, recent releases from Italy screened in Italian with English subtitles, all premiering in T...
A Quest to Cook Like My Grandma Led Me to an Italy Most Travelers Miss
This was supposed to be a food story. It was supposed to be a story about eating baby anchovies in a stew of Calabrian chilies and spooning spicy, fatty ’nduja sausage onto crunchy bread. I pictured myself sampling this fiery, peculiar food while sitting beside the Tyrrhenian Sea, watching a horizon specked with Old World swordfishing boats. I saw...
Fredonia festivals under ‘one umbrella’
There will now be one group overseeing all of Fredonia’s festival events. Festivals Fredonia Chairman Larry Fiorella announced Wednesday the committees that run the Italian Festival and the Farm Festival voted to merge into his organization recently. The announcement came at Festivals Fredonia’s year-end meeting Wednesday at Barker Library. “I’ve...
Archaeologists Uncover Mysterious ‘Vampire Grave’ In Italy
Archaeologists have made a strange discovery on an Italian excavation site. In a children's cemetery dating from the fifth century AD, scientists have in fact uncovered the bones of a child of about ten years of age, and... in whose mouth a heavy stone had been placed. This ‘vampire grave’ has raised many questions. Halloween might be long gone but...
Verducci's owner brings relaxed pizza, Italian option to South Pasadena
Vincent "Vinny" Fortunato has a knack for opening restaurants. Fortunato moved to the U.S. from Italy in 1974 at age 17. Two years later, after saving up $10,000, he launched his first Italian eatery near Aberdeen Proving Ground, an Army post outside of Baltimore. In four decades, he's opened (and sold) a total of 63 restaurants in both Maryland an...
Theater RED Invites Milwaukee To 'Be Italian' With NINE The Musical
Che bello! Theater RED proudly announces a new addition to the company! Eric Welch joins Theater RED as Artistic Associate following his collaboration with the company in June of 2018 for the Wisconsin premiere of I'LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS. Eric Welch directed this one-woman comedic romp as a co-production with his theater company,...
Faith, wars and books: the eventful story of the Monte Cassino Abbey
One of the great things about modern libraries that is sometimes taken for granted is the access to books of many cultures and ages they make available. Such was not always the case. With the fall of the Roman Empire in the west and the unsettled conditions of the ensuing centuries, an unspeakable amount of books were lost either through deliberat...
Italian-inspired restaurant Carlucci’s coming to Monte Vista district in San Antonio
Monte Vista is getting a new Italian-inspired restaurant in the new year when Carlucci’s opens in the short-lived home of Luz Mia Restaurante off McCullough Avenue. With a projected opening in mid-January, Carlucci’s will serve lunch and dinner, with a mix of handmade pastas, soups, salads and sandwiches, said Clay Bergman, who co-owns the restaura...
Bellissimo! Here’s how to plan the ultimate Italian road trip
As a travel writer, I often get asked, ‘What’s the best place you’ve been to?’ Always a difficult question to answer, I used to say something like, ‘Oh everywhere is different and each has its highlights.’ But more recently, the answer has been Italy. I just can’t get enough of this country. Maybe it’s because I’m dating an Italian, or maybe it’s t...
The Two Amelia Rosselli - Exile and Creativity Series
Thursday, January 17, 2019. From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm. Entrance: Free. Location: Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065. Book now! The two Amelia Rosselli whose lives and work will be discussed and celebrated were, respectively, the mother and the daughter of the anti-Fascist leader Carlo Rosselli, founder of one...
Alimentari Da Pesavento's Opening in Progress
A couple with a knack for historical renovations is on the brink of re-opening the beloved Simrell's bar, with a fresh name and a back to basics feel. Ken Ramsay and Joe Everhart are calling their latest landmark restoration a reboot of the original Simrell's Italian restaurant from 60 years ago. With their new restaurant and bar, Alimentari Da Pes...