From the official publication of the Italian American Community in Las Vegas
by Edward Bevilacqua This week, at our monthly members dinner, which was attended by over 100 of our members (about 20%) we honored six of the students who were awarded scholarships. As the Club's influence grows within the Las Vegas Community, it is important that the Club helps the community. As such, this is first time in the C...
Pizza is taking over Las Vegas
Las Vegas is going through an Italian Renaissance —at least when it comes to pizza. The owner of downtown's Pizza Rock has opened a second store by the same name in Green Valley Ranch Resort, and is opening an Italian restaurant called Little Tony's in Palace Station. "We wanted to prove to Vegas that if we can do it in downtown, we can do it...
Dante Alighieri Society of Pueblo: Scholarship awards celebration
Who: Dante Alighieri Society of Pueblo What: Scholarship awards celebration When: May 4 Where: Pueblo Country Club Highlights/honorees: Adelyn Crank and Sadie Tishma received the Persons of the Year Award. Four high school seniors received $1,000 scholarships: Hannah Zabukovic and Jared Horvat, South High School; Allaya Pacheco, East; a...
Vendemmia Plans to Open Next Month
Brian Clevenger is on his game. In a rare and impressive stroke, the chef/owner of Madrona's much anticipated Vendemmia (1126 34th Avenue, near Red Cow) Italian eatery has announced progress is actually ahead of schedule, and he foresees a soft opening in the first half of May (June was the original estimate). A sample menu is already post...
Italian restaurant Bratalian reopens in Las Vegas after crash destroys eatery
Business at chef Carla Pellegrino's Henderson restaurant, Bratalian, ended with a big bang on the afternoon of Aug. 15 when a man driving a pickup crossed six lanes of traffic and crashed into the front of the restaurant. The man, who may have suffered a medical episode, had minor injuries, and no one was in the restaurant at the time, but...
Chef Mario Carbone Opens Carbone at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas
By Elaine and Scott Harris Along with Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick, Mario Carbone is a co-owner of Major Food Group. Famed New York restaurant Carbone is an Italian-American restaurant created by Major Food Group's Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick, and a second location has opened in the Aria Resort and Casino in...
At new Calafuria in Midtown, truly authentic Italian
Home is the chef, home from the coast — and he's brought it with him. Seventeen years ago, Tim Magee left Reno for a cooking job a friend had snagged for him in Pisa, Italy. Along the way, he worked in various Italian kitchens (plus a quick stint back stateside), even, at one point, co-owning a restaurant recommended by the Michelin Guide and...
Literary Las Vegas: Tony Toscano
Born into a tight-knit first-generation Italian-American family, Lou Torso was a bright young boy. At 10, he was recruited into a major Boston Mafia family. By 48, he succeeded his mentor and became the new Don. Tony Toscano, who grew up in the North End of Boston, shares Lou's fictionalized story in the book "90 Prince Street." After a ca...
Cooking with the Calamari Sisters to hit the Phoenix stage
Mangia Italiano! Hilarity, delicious dishes and two over-the-top plus-size Italian sisters from Brooklyn, stars of their very own fictional cable television show, take audiences on a tour-de-force of Italian songs and cuisine as they sing ("Volare," "Botcha – Me" and much more), dance, joke and laugh through a very special cooking lesson in "Cookin...
Il paradiso degli ‘indie’ di celluloide
Il Sundance Film Festival, in corso in Utah in questi giorni, è il paradiso degli indie di celluloide. In America la segmentazione del mercato del cinema tra mainstream e underground, tra cinema di Hollywood ed indipendenti, è sensibile e feconda. La libertà creativa si respira in ogni film. Nessuna sceneggiatura è scontata: il pubblico chiede un i...
Italian National Lacrosse team reaches out to public to reach goal
by Michele Pluss The first written record of Lacrosse dates back to the 1636 when a French Jesuit priest by the name of Jean de Brebeuf observed a group of Huron Indians playing a sport called stickball in the St. Lawrence Valley. It was originally played by the Algonquian tribe and quickly gained popularity amongst other Native A...
Giant Italian women invade the Palazzo
by Ashley Oñoz-Wright Ciao Bella (insert exaggerated hand gesture here). Carnival is annually marked by an over-the-top celebration with elaborate costumes and masquerades, glittering decorations and a whole lot of inebriated revelry through the streets. Wait a minute – that sounds a lot like Vegas. And because we're always looking for a...