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A surprise can be good or bad, right? The Happy Italian Pizzeria, a modest-looking restaurant on Jefferson Highway in Harahan, was a good surprise for me. On the advice of the Where NOLA Eats Facebook group members, we walked in to see the cooks at work in the open kitchen, sliding pizzas into a giant oven. We planned to order a pizza, maybe a sala...

March 10 (Saturday) 11:00 am and 2:00 pm; March 11 (Sunday) 11:00 am. New York City Opera presents: Opera for Kids! La Cenerentola. York Theatre Company at St. Peter's Church - 619 Lexington Avenue (enter on 54th Street), Manhattan New York City Opera presents a family-friendly production of Rossini's La Cenerentola. Rossini's uniquely Italian rete...

A popular restaurant in downtown Brighton (MI) is reinventing itself with a new menu, name and look. Owners of the restaurant at 510 W. Main Street, which had been called Buon Gusto Italian, closed it for remodeling Feb. 18. When it reopens 11 a.m. Thursday it will have a slightly different name, Buon Gusto Bistro, and the decor throughout the rest...

The Italian Student Loan Fund è stato costituito nel 1979 come ente senza scopo di lucro, apolitico, con l’obiettivo principale di fornire assistenza finanziaria ai laureati italiani che desiderassero compiere studi di perfezionamento negli Stati Uniti. La costituzione del Fondo fu resa possibile dall’impegno di importanti esponenti del settore ind...

Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium - 100 Larkin St. San Francisco, 94102. Co-presented by Type@Cooper West. Tuesday, March 6, 2018. 6:00pm–7:30pm. An unbalanced view of two millennia of lettering traditions on the Italian Peninsula and around the Roman Empire featuring calligraphy, signs, a tattoo or two, and inscriptions, inscriptions,...

Starbucks has opened its flagship Reserve store on the ground floor of its Sodo headquarters (2401 Utah Ave S). It’s the first of 1,000 Reserve stores the coffee chain is planning worldwide. With high-end design touches similar to those of the Starbucks Reserve Roastery that opened on Capitol Hill in 2014, the Reserve store intends for customers to...

From Friday, March 02, 2018 to Thursday, May 31, 2018. IIC Los Angeles - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024. Entrance: Free. Delineo: Italia Bellissima meets Valerio Berruti. Featuring works by regional ceramic and textile artisans selected by architect Andrea Capellino and site specific art created by Berruti. The show brings to Los Angel...

Nicola, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? There is an immigrant story behind I AM Books. I moved from Rome, Italy, to the United States in 2008. After two years in Chicago, where I started working for an Italian American magazine named Fra Noi, I moved to Boston. Soon after, I launched bostoniano.info, a websi...

Naples has seen its heaviest snow in half a century as a blast of Siberian weather continued to send temperatures plunging across Europe. The snowfall led to the closure of the city's airport and transport in the city was severely disrupted while schools were forced to close. The city's record snowfall came as at least 12 people died during the bli...

Visitors to the monumental Baths of Caracalla in Rome can now see them as they appeared when they were inaugurated in the third century AD, at the time the largest baths of the Roman empire, thanks to new virtual reality goggles. The special 3D visors recreate the atriums and chambers, swimming pools and gymnasiums, with their original opulent deco...

Teatro Nuovo, the new organization led by Will Crutchfield, is proud to announce its inaugural Bel Canto Festival at Purchase College, The Dawn of Romantic Opera, July 28-August 5 2018, in collaboration with The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. The Festival will present semi-staged productions of Rossini's Tancredi, Mayr's Medea in Corin...

On the morning of Feb. 17, 1914, five members of the Italian bark Castagna met a tragic end on the sandbars just south of the Marconi Wireless Station in Wellfleet. Eight crew members would eventually be rescued by the Coast Guard, while four bodies were recovered within hours or days of the wreck. However, it was much longer before the body of the...