Little Italy gets architectural with OH! San Diego
Our region continues to exemplify the best in arts and culture programs, and this spring, a multitude of social and cultural opportunities with an added Italian flair abound for our community and visitors to embrace and to help in promoting San Diego’s arts and culture scene. Amici House in Little Italy was privileged this past weekend to be a part...
Full Time Teacher Needed For Italian Program At Sue Cleveland High School, New Mexico, 2018-19 S.Y.
Sue Cleveland High School, at Rio Rancho, New Mexico, needs to fill a full-time teaching position in Italian for the 2018-19 school year. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university; - Current New Mexico Department of Education license appropriate to the teaching assignment with applicable endorsem...
VINO e PIZZA, a Presentation and Tasting of Italian Wines
Cari Amici – Dear Friends, it is with the greatest pleasure that we announce this special event. With the title of Vino e Pizza, a Presentation and Tasting of Italian Wines, we are proposing the unusual joining of two traditional Italian culinary icons: The multi-flavored pizza much- loved by everyone all over the world and three excellent iconic...
You Can Thank Guglielmo Marconi for Your Favorite Wireless Devices
In an era when long-distance communication was achieved by sending signals over telegraph wires, Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi was one of a handful of researchers who suspected invisible radio waves might offer a better solution. Despite failing his college entrance exams, Marconi (1874–1937) went on to conduct some of the most impo...
Italiano in America: l’esperienza bilinguista della Scuola Marco Polo a Philadelphia
L’italiano piace. E non stiamo parlando del maschio italico, ma della lingua italiana all’estero che, nonostante non sia molto spendibile dal punto di vista professionale, continua ad essere tra le lingue più apprezzate e studiate fuori dal nostro Stivale. Soprattutto negli Stati Uniti. Non solo pizza e spaghetti, nel paese delle stelle e delle str...
Longtime Chesapeake pizzeria is moving to Virginia Beach
When Vinicio Fabbrizi arrived in Virginia from his native Italy, he could fix pipes, but whether he could fix a pizza was unknown.More than three decades later, Fabbrizi’s Andrea’s Pizzeria is one of Chesapeake’s most enduring mom and pop businesses. However, the link with Chesapeake is about to be severed as Fabbrizi, 71, and his son, Vinicio “Vin...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Columnist remembers an Italian master artist
Taking the morning train from Florence, we disembarked at the station in Orvieto and boarded the funicular transporting visitors from the floor of the Tiber Valley to the heart of the city perched atop an extinct volcanic plateau. The end of the line was the Piazza del Duomo or Cathedral Square. The distinctive façade of the travertine and granite...
Hidden pop examples of Italian design: the work in the US of Lella and Massimo Vignelli
Italian design was only recently celebrated in LA with the Italian Design Day and it is once again time to talk about Italy’s most creative minds and their ties with the US. What’s really striking, in the case we’re about to see together in a few lines, is how these artists are the minds behind some of the most iconic pop culture symbols of the US...
Meet Lidia Bastianich, the woman who cooked for two popes
If you were asked to cook for the Pope, what would you choose to make? This was a real question for chef Lidia Bastianich in both 2008 and 2015 – the years in which Benedict XVI and Pope Francis visited the United States. “I remember vividly,” Bastianich told CNA. “It was an extraordinary experience. ”“When I got asked to cook for Pope Benedict, I...
Dolce & Gabbana Take Over Rockefeller Center’s Rainbow Room for a Dazzling Alta Sartoria Show
“We’re looking at New York with Italian eyes,” said Dolce & Gabbana’s Domenico Dolce at a preview of the company’s Spring 2018 Alta Sartoria collection early Saturday morning. What would follow about 12 hours later at Rockefeller Center (where, just a few floors away, Cardi B was getting ready to perform on Saturday Night Live—and finally confirm h...
Rocky Hill Obituary: Carlino Dondero, 84
Carlino Dondero, 84, husband of Maria (Discenza) Dondero of Newington, passed away peacefully on April 5, 2018 in The Atrium of Rocky Hill. He was born in Italy on October 26, 1933, son of the late Antonio and Chiara Dondero. Prior to his retirement, Carlino was a Machinist for the Stanadyne Corporation. He was a member of the Baranello Club of New...
Lineage Italian Bistro continues evolution (review, video, photos)
Located in a small restaurant space on Springfield Street in Feeding Hills, Lineage Italian Bistro opened in October of last year, making it one of the region's newer dining options. Perhaps it's more accurate to describe Lineage's arrival on the scene as an "evolution" rather than an opening, since the establishment's two principals, Jennifer and...