Italian Culture Society to Host Program on Multi-layered Rome
The Italian Cultural Society of Long Beach Island will take people on a virtual tour of ancient and modern Rome on Monday, May 9 at 6 p.m. when it presents "Rome: City of God(s), City of Man" at the Long Beach Island Branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City. Guest lecturer Christopher Bellitto, associate professor of history at Kean...
Celebrate the Blessings of Italy at Quinault Beach Resort and Casino’s Italy on the Beach
We can thank the great minds of Italy for giving us banking, newspapers, pianos, and typewriters as well as many of America's favorite foods. Celebrate all things Italy at Quinault Beach Resort and Casino's inaugural Italy on the Beach. Taking place Friday through Sunday, May 20 to 22, this event is the brainchild of local radio host, phil...
Explorers plan June mission to Andrea Doria shipwreck
Nearly six decades after 46 people died when the Andrea Doria sank to the sea floor following a violent collision with another ocean liner south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, explorers are preparing to do what 16 people have lost their lives attempting: get a good look at the wreckage. A Washington state-based ocean exploration company is p...
AIHM Featured Exhibit by Vince Forte, Jr.
The American Italian Heritage Museum. June- July 2016 Featured Exhibit "Fine Art Oil " by Vince Forte, Jr. - 1227 Central Ave. Albany, NY 12205 - 518.435.1979. Vince Forte, Jr. is a fine art oil painter painting for over 3 decades mainly in a realistic style depicting subjects such as landscape, seascape, still life, interi...
NACC to host Italian Night on Monday
A special evening celebrating Italian culture will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, to mark the opening of an Italian consulate in the building. The Niagara Falls art center will be transformed into an Italian palazzo for this special evening, which will feature a strolling violinist playing traditional favo...
WDTV Italian Night at the West Virginia Black Bears
Monday was a perfect night at Mon County Ballpark for WDTV Italian Night at the Black Bears. The evening brought some of the Italian Festival flair to a great American pasttime. The West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival dancers wowed the crowd with some authentic Italian dancing. The game started with the first pitch by the West Virgini...
Italian beef has landed: Portillo's to open in Brookfield on July 19
The Italian beef has landed. There are officially less than two weeks before Chicagoland's fast-food staple opens its first location. The state's first Portillo's will open at 17685 W Bluemound Rd. on Tuesday, July 19. The restaurant that specializes in Chicago-style fast casual fare, including Italian beef and loaded hotdogs, also se...
Campari: Italy's Classic Apéritif Liqueur
What began as a pop-up from bartenders Elad Zvi and Gabriel Orta graduated to a permanent home when the Freehand debuted back in 2012. Since then, the Shaker has been spreading liquid courage via a smart list of fruit-forward tipples, often served in vintage glassware with paper straws. But don't get it twisted because this isn't quite a t...
Robert De Niro and the World's Top Chef to Open a Restaurant in the Most Unlikely Place
Massimo Bottura, whose Italian restaurant was dubbed the best in the world earlier this year, is teaming up with actor Robert De Niro to open a new eatery in an unexpected locale: The Bronx. At least, that's what a report by Eater would have you believe—and a post on the chef's Instagram feed (above) seems to confirm it: "Planning the new...
Italy’s Roberta Vinci advances to quarterfinals at Connecticut Open
by David Borges While Roberta Vinci made quick work of her opponent in a round-of-16 match on Wednesday afternoon, her mind was, in part, on her native Italy. A powerful earthquake ravaged a mountainous region in the central part of the country earlier in the day, killing at least 120. "Not an easy day for Italy, for the Italians...
Providence reunites Cherrie Brown with long-lost Italian relatives
By Karen Ortner In 1981, Antonio Trombetta led an American man wandering through the tiny village of Pettorano Sul Gizio, Italy, to the distant cousin he was searching for, Agostino Orsini. Thirty-five years later in May, Trombetta found himself yet again on Orsini's doorstep, this time with another American cousin — Cherrie Brown. ...
Let me tell you about Accademia di Santa Cecilia’s “Italian character”
by Antonio Pappano I live in London, but I travel throughout the world and spend long periods of time in Rome. Yet it's only when I'm face-to-face with the rough panorama of the yellow-and-brown, sun-baked countryside of my parents' homeland, that I really and truly feel at home. I was born in Epping, in the county of Essex, England, which is whe...