The Zoppe Family Circus returns to Valley at Bell Bank Park in Mesa
The world famous Zoppe Family Circus is returning to the Valley on Friday at Bell Bank Park to honor an old-world Italian circus tradition in Mesa, AZ. The event begins at 6 p.m. on Friday and continues through the holiday season until Jan. 1. Liberta Zoppe will put guests into a 500-seat tent for a show that will star Nino the Clown and a circus w...
Sebastian Maniscalco Extends Residency At Encore Theater; March 2023
Announced on the heels of his highly-anticipated new Netflix special Sebastian Maniscalco: Is It Me?, which debuted on Dec. 6, 2023, world-renowned comedian and Wynn Las Vegas headliner Sebastian Maniscalco will add four additional performances to his 2023 Sebastian Maniscalco, Live from Las Vegas run at Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas, March 3-4,...
Vetri Cucina returns to Vegas with stellar menu
Vetri Cucina was one of my favorite new restaurants of 2018, and it wasn’t particularly close. Everything about the restaurant—décor, spectacular views from the 56th floor of the Palms, next-level Italian cuisine and an attentive waitstaff—was beyond my expectations. As sad as I was to see it close during the pandemic shutdown of 2020, I’m thrilled...
Opened In 1961, Buddy’s Italian Restaurant Is A Longtime Icon In Pocatello, Idaho
Some of our favorite places to eat are not the new, fancy restaurants but rather, the hole-in-the-wall restaurants that have been around forever. That’s the case with Buddy’s Italian Restaurant in Pocatello, a restaurant that has been serving some of the best Italian food in the Gem State since 1961. When in southern Idaho, this is one restaurant t...
Shop The New Wynn Las Vegas Fendi Boutique
Wynn Las Vegas and Fendi offer luxury shopping with 1,645 square feet of ready-to-wear men's and women's collections, handbags and additional accessories. A stainless-steel wall showcases a futuristic interpretation of the Astuccio fur. The characteristic dualism and codes of the maison persist through the interior design with stainless steel cabin...
Food Review: Spaghetti By the Bucket Italian Restaurant in Sugar House
Like most of the generation that grew up in the 1980s, the family meal bucket, box, pail or vessel was a big part of my dining out experience. Buckets of drumsticks from Kentucky Fried Chicken, the double pizza on a cardboard pallet from Little Caesar's or the giant box of family-style nachos from the now-defunct Mexican restaurant known as Naugle'...
Primo’s replacement serves tasty Italian dishes
Passaggio has some pretty big shoes to fill. The new flagship restaurant of JW Marriott Tucson Star Pass Resort and Spa replaced the award-winning Primo in early October. Primo, which opened in 2005, was a concept by executive chef Melissa Kelly, a two-time James Beard award winner. David Fransua, executive chef and food and beverage director, has...
Piero's Italian Cuisine brings snow crab season to Las Vegas visitors
People wait all year long for this! No, it’s not the holiday season; it’s stone crab season, which kicked off in November at Piero’s Italian Cuisine, and runs through May. At the revered, family-owned and -run restaurant, you can take advantage of the ocean’s bounty with two sizes of the specialty appetizer—large and jumbo. Florida stone crab claws...
La Dispensa Is Capitol Hill’s New Champion of Aperitivo Culture and ‘Walking Lasagna’
The dish that most excites chef Sabrina Tinsley at her new Capitol Hill business, La Dispensa, is a “walking lasagna.” It’s not labeled as such on the menu, just Lasagne Verdi or Lasagne Vegetariane under the hot entrees section. “I don’t know why I’m calling it this in my mind,” says Tinsley, a little proud and a little chagrined; “I don’t usually...
Fireworks by Grucci has long history of lighting up skies, including holidays in Las Vegas
The company set to light the sky over the Strip on New Year’s Eve has been creating pyrotechnic spectacles since the 1850s. Fireworks by Grucci, a Long Island-based leader in the industry, has a history of producing themed fireworks extravaganzas in Las Vegas, but it also has created bang and brilliance at 8 U.S. presidential inaugurations, the Oly...
Coe Cellars brings Italy to life in Portland, via Walla Walla
Ten years ago, I learned something valuable while eavesdropping on a conversation between Aaron Coe and Tuscan winemaker Paolo de Marchi of Isole e Elena fame. Coe was working for local Italian wine importer Casa Bruno at the time, and it was clear that his love for Italy and the sangiovese grape ran deep. The kind of deep that makes you drop every...
Medford students can apply to study in Italian sister city again
Two years after the pandemic and then war in Ukraine put a decades-old program on ice, Rogue Valley students are invited to study abroad in the county seat’s Italian sister city. The Medford Alba Sister City Association issued a press release Monday announcing the reinstatement of the exchange program for the first time since 2019. “We’re very exci...