116-Year-Old Catholic Festival Returning To Niles For Second Year
by Tom Robb A unique Catholic religious festival with centuries of history returns to Niles early next month for the second year. The Maria SS Lauretana of Altavilla Milicia festival comes to Golf Mill Park and Church Street, near Golf Mill Shopping Center, from Friday, Sept. 2 through Monday, Sept. 5. Last year, Niles police estimated t...
Italian American Veterans Post 1 sets date for Festa Italiana
Italian American Veterans Post 1 at 4567 Oberlin Ave. in Lorain, will be hosting its eighth Festa Italiana on Oct. 1. Entertainment will include Maria DiDonato and Hip to That, Joe Marotta, the Avanti Italian Band and Al Battistelli. Throughout the day there will be Italian food for sale, Italian bake goods, live music and raffles. A...
Dr. Victoria Ursitti elected to ISDS board of trustees
Dr. Victoria Ursitti of Arlington Heights was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Dental Society, a professional association of over 7,000 members. She was installed into office at the Society's Annual Session at the Westin Chicago North Shore in Wheeling. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Ursitti received her Bac...
Empire for Our Time: Cinematic Appropriations of Ancient Rome
The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Andrea Raos is pleased to invite you to "An Empire for Our Time: Cinematic Appropriations of Ancient Rome", a lecture by Professor Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois University. Thursday, June 12th at 6:00 pm at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. A reception will follow. Read more...
Flag-Throwers of the Florentine Returning to Festa Italiana 2015!
Festa Italiana is excited to announce The Flag-throwers of the Florentine (Sbanderatori dei Borghi e Sestieri Fiorentini) are returning direct from Italy to perform at this year's festival, taking place July 17-19, 2015 at Henry W. Maier Festival Park. This dynamic group of 16 will entertain audiences daily with a colorful show of choral exercises,...
Dalla Sicilia a New York: la musica degli emigranti italiani rivive in digitale
di Emanuela Zuccalà Sbarcavano a Ellis Island, sotto la Statua della Libertà, con le valigie colme solo di sogni. Li abbiamo visti in tanti film, i quattro milioni di italiani emigrati negli Stati Uniti fra Ottocento e Novecento, ma non sapevamo che tra loro si nascondessero dei musicisti sopraffini. Mandolinisti, cantanti, pianis...
Greater Youngstown Italian Fest continues tradition
by Guy D'Astolfo The Greater Youngstown Italian Fest continues to extend a welcoming hand to the downtown crowd. The annual street festival is this weekend and – continuing a tradition – the food vendors will get an early start by opening for lunch Friday. This year, the lunch rush will morph into an early happy hour with the band Pun...
And They Came to Chicago: The Italian Legacy — a film by Gia Amella is available on You Tube
The complete 80 minute version of ATCTC is available on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeikaWQCyo And They Came to Chicago traces the 150-year history of Italians settlement in Chicago, from early arrivals who laid the foundation for burgeoning Italian enclaves to the Italian American contribution to politics and labor, the ar...
Local author filming movie in Detroit and Italy
When Pierette Simpson was nine years old, hergrandparents sold everything in their native Italy to bring her to America. But along the way, The Andrea Doria luxury liner collided with another ship, The Stockholm, and sank. A lifeboat saved Simpson and her family. But 51 people died, and the captain was unjustly blamed f...
Italian paintings by Place exhibiting at Base Camp Coffee
Artist Sandra Place opens a new exhibit of her work, "Italy: Journeys and Inspirations," June 15 at Base Camp Coffee Bar in Sister Bay. A reception is scheduled for 4 to 6 p.m. June 17 at Base Camp. Place, a summer resident of Egg Harbor who makes her permanent home in Santa Fe, N.M., has traveled several times in northern Italy in recent...
90 years later, names corrected on Highland Park World War I monument
By Karen Berkowitz Laurence Pasquesi wasn't looking for mistakes when he first visited the World War I monument that was erected in 1926 to honor the 363 Highland Park residents who served during the global conflict. When he discovered two misspelled names of Italian-American servicemen on future visits, however, he couldn't let the...
L'antica Sicilia in mostra in Ohio? A schifìu finìu
di Giovanna Cirino Aperta al pubblico fino al prossimo 19 agosto, la mostra Sicilia: arte e invenzione tra Grecia e Roma, allestita dal Paul Getty Museum nella sua sede di Malibu, è un'occasione a "stelle e striscie" per scoprire l'arte classica di Sicilia. In esposizione 150 opere del periodo tra il V ed il III secolo a.C. Un'epoca di gra...