Ciancia next meeting: Go eat give goes to Varuni
WEDNESDAY JULY 29, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.GO EAT GIVE c/o Varuni Napoli1540 Monroe Drive, NE - Atlanta, GA 30324 Since Go Eat Give's next destination is Italy, with a meeting to be held at Varuni-Napoli - an award-winning, pizza venue in town - we decided to skip our regular meeting in favor of Go Eat Give. Go Eat Give is a non-profit organiza...
Italian-American grape-winemaking festival returns to downtown Auburn
by Greg Mason For Adam Lentini, Sunday was a family affair in downtown Auburn. The Auburn man was joined by his 9-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, at the second annual Grape-Winemaking Festival at the State Street mall. Together, the two stomped and waded in a barrel of grapes, laughing as their feet mashed the fruit into juice. ...
Italian Immigrants of Alabama
The Italian American Heritage Society chapter of Birmingham, Al. takes pride in announcing the Vulcan Park & Museum has chosen to feature the Italian Immigrants of Alabama as their up and coming exhibition. Our Italian ancestors chose this beautiful city to call home in their new country America. What a fitting tribute to our ancestors and to t...
Italian Heritage Festival might bring you to tears with their zeppoles
The last time the Italian Heritage Festival ran out of zeppoles, children cried. "People were angry," said Danielle McWhorter, one of the two women charged with making the Italian dessert for the crowd. But when the sugar-topped bites of fried dough are gone, they're gone. "We tell people not to wait to get other food and come back....
High exhibits Renaissance masterwork from Florence
Three marble panels from a famed organ loft created for the Florence Cathedral in Italy are on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through Jan. 11. The exhibit is titled "Make a Joyful Noise": Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral. Italian sculptor Luca della Robbia (1400-1482) created 10 exquisitely detailed panels that...
American Italian Federation of the Southeast Biennial Convention
During the April 11-12, 2015 convention at the Italian Hall in Gretna, Louisiana the delegates and members were able to meet and talk with other pleasant individuals that are associated with and supporting their energetic member organizations and the American Italian Federation of the Southeast. Representatives of the Italian American Heri...
Su Rai 3 il documentario “Vacanze a Miami”
Un mosaico di dodici storie vere cucite su una struttura che prova ad intrecciare la commedia all'italiana classica con il ritratto, la testimonianza, l'inchiesta. Si tratta di "Vacanze a Miami", il documentario di Rai 3 in onda questa sera, martedì 6 gennaio, alle 21.05. Quelle di Vacanze a Miami sono storie di italiani che hanno trovato l'Americ...
Artifacts needed for Italian exhibit in Belton
In conjunction with the Anderson International Festival "Ciao, Italia!," the Belton Area Museum Association will be putting together a new exhibit titled, "Museo de Italia," a display covering all things Italian from Roman times to the present day. "We would love to have special items to display belonging to families in the community. ...
Charleston a focus of 40th season of Spoleto Festival USA
Historic Charleston is a large focus of next spring's 40th edition of the Spoleto Festival USA, from glimpses of the city in the iconic opera "Porgy and Bess" to the tragedy of the Emanuel AME Church shootings. The lineup for the internationally known arts festival that runs from May 27 through June 12 was unveiled on Sunday. It featu...
Monica Bellucci on ‘Ville-Marie,’ Kusturica’s Latest and Defying Ageism
The timing may be coincidental, but it feels apt that I interviewed Monica Bellucci on International Women's Day, March 8. One of the most restlessly globe-trotting stars in world cinema, the Italian model-turned-actor refuses to let her filmography be dictated either by national borders or imagined age brackets: Now in her 50s and defying...
Order Sons of Italy chapters quarrel over St. Pete charter property, copyright
After attempting to break away from the national and state chapters, a local Sons of Italy charter has failed to turn over property that belongs to the fraternity. Grand Lodge of Florida, Order Sons of Italy in America is now suing Sons of Italy of St. Petersburg on six counts. In the suit, Grand Lodge requests the court deem them rig...
Sister Lucia Ceccotti, Marian Center founder, dies at 93
by Elinor J. Brecher In October 1963, Sister Lucia Ceccotti and 10 Sisters of St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo, the order she entered at 18, came from Italy to found the Marian Center School for people with intellectual disabilities. The nuns came at the behest of Miami's first bishop, Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll, who knew about the o...