St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
The United States wasn't her first choice, but by the end, Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini would leave a lasting legacy in the heart of southern Louisiana. The patron saint of immigrants hailed from Italy and, by her early 30's, founded the Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She had dreams that this mission would take her beyond the real...
N.O. drummer, Hall of Famer Paul Ferrara dies at 76
by Dominic Massa Paul Ferrara, a drummer who played with Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra, Pete Fountain, Al Hirt and other greats during a 65-year career, died Wednesday at his home in Kenner. He was 76. Ferrara had been battling cancer for the past year, according to his family. Despite his illness, Ferrara continued to perform, even maki...
Southeast Kansas Italian Celebration
Dozens of southeast Kansans celebrate Italian culture with food this afternoon. "Too often what we see is our parents and our grandparents had certain traditions that maybe our younger people don't carry on. And so, by hosting these kinds of events we're able to make sure that that heritage lives on," says Linda Grilz, co-host of the Italian Exhib...
The Italian roots of Pittsburgh Steelers QB Bruce Gradkowski
When Bruce Gradkowski made his first start for the Oakland Raiders back in November 2009, the tweets and the e-mails started coming. Jewish fans came up to him constantly and assumed he was Jewish. It turned out Bruce Gradkowski is not Jewish. Bruce has a Polish mother & an Italian father. The 31-year-old is yet another Pittsburgh...
Osteria Via Stato was Italian in River North before everything was
Chef David DiGregorio has been in Chicago for 35 years, but he still has the broad East Coast accent of his native Rhode Island—an accent that bespeaks big family tables full of hearty Italian food. After working for several restaurants here, he's spent the last ten years as chef-partner of Lettuce Entertain You's Osteria Via Stato, which...
Matera: no longer the "shame of Italy"
In what is the instep of Italy's boot, the first forays into Italy from North Africa came to settle in Matera 10,000 years ago. Living quarters were fashioned in both the limestone caves and built outward from the rock. Much like America's Appalachia, the people there developed their own style of thriving in harsher living conditions, and...
Italo-americani in California: una storia da non dimenticare
D'improvviso, la California riscopre le sue radici italiane. A febbraio le televisioni pubbliche della California, da San Francisco a San Diego, trasmetteranno due serie di documentari: una sull'epopea degli italiani in America, l'altra sulle vicende dell'emigrazione italiana nel "Golden State". È un segnale di vitalitá culturale che fa be...
Italian Luxury Brands Need to Penetrate the U.S. Market
The world's luxury goods market was a bit down in 2014, however 2015 expectations look to be brighter – reports Fondazione Altagamma and Bain & Company. Figures show that Italy is still a hotspot for luxury goods purchases, and Milan, the only Italian city in the world's top ten list for shopping destinations, still plays an important role...
New Italian restaurant to open in Honolulu's Ward Centre
Hawaii Kai Thai restaurant owner Maile Sengoura is opening her second restaurant, this time one serving Italian cuisine, in Honolulu's Ward Centre in April. Bellini Bistro and Bar will offer indoor and outdoor seating for 47, including a private dining room that seats 12. Multiple flavors of bellinis will be on the menu at the Auahi Street establi...
Cosenza – Riconoscimento al senatore Renato Turano dalla Commissione Cultura
La sua storia è di quelle che si vedono solo nei film, ma, a volte, si sa, anche i film diventano realtà. E il sogno americano di Renato Turano, imprenditore cosentino di successo negli Stati Uniti e senatore della Repubblica Italiana, eletto nella Circoscrizione Esteri, si è potuto realizzare, grazie alla sua caparbietà e tenacia tipiche dei calab...
FEDERICO FELLINI "Making a film" - book presentation and panel
Date: Thursday, April 09, 2015. Hours: 6:30PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065 Panelists: Antonio Monda (NYU), Wendy Keys (Film Society Lincoln Center), Christopher Burton-White (translator) Followed by the screening of the film Toby Dammitt (1968) Federico Fellini's Fare un...
On the Trail of a Mystery Caravaggio
A biblical David leans over, grabbing the bloody, severed head of Goliath. The powerful image in the painting is reminiscent of an almost identical work in Madrid's Prado Museum by the Italian master Caravaggio. Is this painting also by Caravaggio, and thus worth a huge sum, or is it a 17th-century copy with little value? That questio...