150 Years Of Immigration In America, Visualized
Amid a flurry of anti-immigration rhetoric coming from certain GOP presidential candidates, a new interactive map reminds us just how much of our country's foundation was built on the backs of foreign-born citizens. Foreign-Born Population: A Nation of Overlapping Diasporas visualizes America's history of immigration from the 1850s to 2010. &...
Nora’s Italian Cuisine Passed Down to the Next Generation
By Al Mancini When Marcello Mauro and his parents broke ground on his new restaurant on January 26, it signified a passing of the torch. When Marcello was still in high school, his parents, Nora and Gino, handled the day-to-day operations of the original 12-seat Nora's Italian Cuisinewhich opened in 1991. Today, Nora and Gino are...
A Little Italy — in Gates?
In a community where one in every five people boasts Italian ancestry, where red sauce rules and bocce games draw crowds, there is no Little Italy. Unlike many other American cities with large Italian populations — think New York, Boston, Providence, Cleveland, even Syracuse — Rochester no longer has a compact, identifiable neighborhood ce...
Talayna’s Italian Restaurant Celebrates 51st Year
Talayna's Italian Restaurant, located at 68 Four Seasons Shopping Center, Chesterfield, MO will be celebrating their 51st anniversary. In recent months Talayna's has remodeled their restaurant and revised the menu to include new cuisines and lots of local craft beers. Talayna's has been in business for 51 years, but owned and managed by Me...
Frank Jr. really did it HIS way
By Ron Onesti Well, we lost another one. Frank Sinatra Jr. died suddenly of a massive heart attack on March 16, just before he was to go on stage for a performance in Florida. He was 72, 11 years younger than his father, Frank Sr., was when he passed away in 1998. I was fortunate to have worked with Frank Jr. on many occasions over the ye...
The Florentine in NYC for NOIAW 35th luncheon
The NOIAW's 35th anniversary luncheon will be held on April 16 at St. Regis New York. 250 copies of the April issue of Florence's English-language news magazine will be available at the NOIAW's 35th anniversary luncheon on April 16 at St. Regis New York, where CNN anchor and co-host of morning show New Day Alisyn Camerota and founding principal of...
Italian Night Event
The Nottingham High School Italian Program will be sponsoring its 4th Annual Italian Night, La Festa delle Luci on Friday, April 29, 2016. Italian Night was established to raise scholarships for students studying Italian. For the first time since its inception in 2013, Italian Night will be held at the Nottingham Ballroom, 200 Mercer Stree...
Call for Applications: Film and Digital Media Review Editor
The Italian American Review is looking for a review editor for film and digital media. The film and digital media review editor researches potential documentary (not feature) films and websites for assessment, engages potential reviewers, arranges the reviews, and does initial edits, while serving as the main point of contact between reviewers...
Rome, Open City Film Screening
Join the American Italian Cultural Center for its first screening of Rome, Open City: a film that immerses its viewers in the lives of resistance fighters during the Nazi occupation of Rome. The film follows engineer Giorgio, who in his attempts to escape the Germans, seeks help from Pina, a fellow resistance fighter, and Don Pietro, the priest set...
Saint Leo to open this month
Emily Blount — (not to be confused with actress Emily Blunt) — was also once a working actress in New York City. Today, she's Oxford's newest restaurant owner with plans to introduce Saint Leo this month at 1101 Jackson Ave. East. Blount grew up in northern California outside of San Francisco. She attended Emerson College in Boston and pur...
Mazzolin inducted into Casa Executive Hall of Fame
The Mentesana Weber Room at Casa Italia was filled to capacity for the induction of Amy Mazzolin into the Casa's Commerce and Industry Hall of Fame. Current and former associates joined family members and friends to honor a special woman on a special day. Among them were Amy's children, Gil, Ron and Amy; daughter-in-law Kim; and grandchildren Gil D...
L'On. Nissoli organizza la Festa della Repubblica in Connecticut ed il "benvenuto al Console Generale, Genuardi"
Avrà luogo domani, in Connecticut, USA, la celebrazione della Festa della Repubblica, unita alla cerimonia di benvenuto al Console Generale d'Italia nella Tri-State Area, Ministro Francesco Genuardi, organizzato dall'On. Fucsia Nissoli Fitzgerald, deputata eletta nella Circoscrizione estera - Ripartizione Nord e Centro America. "Sarà l'occasio...