Famous Tenor, Joseph Spinella, Performs Holiday Shows as a Magical Tribute to Pavarotti
La Bella Napoli continues its music series with a combined spectacle of music and magic starring acclaimed tenor, Joe Spinella. As a Tribute to Pavarotti, favorite arias and standards from the great maestro's repertoire are performed with a dash of real magic. Patrons get a bit of that concert experience while Spinella crafts his illusions, produci...
The Dante Alighieri Society invites you to “Festa Italiana per Bambini”
When: December 2, 2017 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm - Where: Christ the King Church and School, 405 N. 117th, Seattle WA 98133, Brannan House (event location), 11544 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle WA The Celebration: La Befana is a beloved character in Italian Christmas folklore, similar to Santa Claus. An old woman all dressed in black, she is always sweep...
100 years ago in Spokane: Hunt on for Italian ‘anarchist society’
Federal agents were rounding up members of a radical “Italian anarchistic society” with ties to Spokane. Agents were looking for six Italians, living in or near Spokane, who were members of the Coreola Studi Sociali. “We have their names and have picked up clues to their whereabouts,” said an agent. “We expect to have them in custody soon.” Agents...
Taste of the Town – Baci Italian Bistro
For Frank Greco, owner of Baci Italian Bistro, running an Italian restaurant has always been a family business. “Right after the construction fall — when the interest rate went up — my dad and I decided to go into the restaurant business,” he said about opening his first eatery in 1986 in Illinois. “It was my dad and I, my mom and my sisters.” He w...
Piero's serves up 1,200 free Thanksgiving meals to local families
More than 1,200 low-income children and their families were served a special Thanksgiving meal courtesy of Piero’s Italian Cuisine. The Thanksgiving feast included preparing 400 pounds of turkey, 1,000 pounds of potatoes, and 300 pies. It was all to make people like Tiffany Hill and her family happy this holiday. They’re Vegas transplants and had n...
Marc Vetri to open Italian restaurant at The Palms in Las Vegas
The owner of several popular Italian eateries in Center City is looking to take his family name to Sin City. Marc Vetri, who sold much of the Vetri restaurant family to Urban Outfitters in 2015 but remains the restaurant group's, plans to open an Italian restaurant at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas in 2018. The resort's holding company, Red R...
UO Today: Professor discusses 17th-century tapestry exhibition
In a recent interview on “UO Today,” James Harper, an associate professor in the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture and a specialist in 16th- and 17th-century Italian art, talked about a major exhibit of The Barberini Tapestries now on view at the UO. Harper curated "The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome," an e...
UH Cancer Center postdoctoral fellow receives Italian Scientists Award
Angela Bononi, a University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center thoracic oncology postdoctoral fellow, was one of five recipients of the prestigious 2017 Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Awards presented at the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C. “There are no words, neither in English nor in Italian, to express how much wi...
Renata is Now Portland’s Best All-Around Italian Restaurant
Like the new Comiskey Park and Michael Jackson's Bad, Renata was a throwback before it even opened its doors. When this contemporary Italian spot set up shop in the spring of 2015, the city was moving away from large, full-service restaurants and toward intimate pop-ups and cheffy pop-ins. Renata is perhaps the biggest stand-alone dining buil...
Antoinette DeLeo Bassett 100 years of age
Antoinette DeLeo Bassett celebrated her 100th Birthday on Sunday, November 5, 2017. Antoinette was born on the DeLeo Homestead farm in Coalfield, Washington, on November 5, 1917. She was the middle child of 13 siblings (3 sons and 10 daughters) of John Joseph DeLeo and Louise Marie DeLeo. Antoinette and her siblings worked like a crew of dairy farm...
Las Vegas parla italiano grazie a un gruppo di volontari
“Guardali, che belli che sono”, mi dice la mia amica mentre osserva i suoi figli giocare con altri bambini. Un gruppo chiassoso, c’è anche qualche adolescente. “Sono nati a Las Vegas, New York, in Messico, parlano inglese, spagnolo ma soprattutto italiano”. La conversazione avviene in un parco di Las Vegas, se fuori ci sono ancora 30 gradi ed è qua...
Alfa Romeos and Ferraris to Face Off at the 2018 RM Sotheby’s Arizona Sale
Italian cars have always had a certain—to borrow from the French — je ne sais quoi, an intangible yet undeniable appeal that transcends practicality in favor of eliciting a purely emotional response. Any auto enthusiast who wants to go from zero to the status of celebrated collector can do so in 11 cars flat, as long as they bid furiously at the RM...