2018 Ballo di Natale debutantes become part of The Elenian Club's 85-year history
Debutantes for The Elenian Club’s 2018 Ballo di Natale received an ornament bearing the organization’s crest and became part of its interesting, 85-year history. According to the group, in 1934, Augusto P. Miceli was president of L'Unione Italiane and suggested formation of an American-Italian ladies club, “Circolo Femminile.” The group’s manifesto...
Ezio Gribaudo: A Lifetime in Art
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 | 7:00 pm. Italian Cultural & Community Center, 1101 Milford St. Houston, TX 77006. $10 ICCC Members | $15 Non-members. Get tickets here. Join us at the ICCC for a special presentation on the contemporary Italian artist Ezio Gribaudo, a painter, sculptor, and graphic artist, whose award winning production has been recognize...
Silvia Chiave is Italy’s new Consul General in Los Angeles
“Even before choosing to travel, I was a nomad and I got to know first-hand the nature of the various Italian communities abroad, I was able to appreciate their versatility, their high cultural level, their widespread talent and their excellent integration skills.” Silvia Chiave, Italy’s new Consul General in Los Angeles, knows very well what it me...
Oklahoma City Museum of Art celebrating holidays with classic film series 'Christmas Italian Style'
This holiday season, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, is presenting "Christmas Italian Style," a curated, 14-film series spanning nearly seven decades of Italian film history. The series launches Thursday and continues through Dec. 30, according to a news release. “'Christmas Italian Style' is our largest holiday series to date,” s...
When barbarians ruled the Big Easy
It was nearly midnight on Oct. 15, 1890, as David Hennessy, the young New Orleans police chief, walked home in a drizzle after a late meeting of the police board. Hennessy was without his usual armed escort as he approached the Basin St. house he shared with his widowed mother. The chief had use for bodyguards. In New Orleans, he was the face of...
An Italian Poet In Texas. Exclusive Interview With Victoria Surliuga
Victoria Surliuga is Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Italian Program Coordinator and World Cinema Coordinator in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University. She has studied Comparative Literature at Mount Holyoke College and holds an M.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers Universit...
Special homecoming for Albuquerque family
For Albuquerque resident Racheli Bauer, today, 77 years after the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, is an especially poignant anniversary. Her uncle, Navy radioman Petty Officer 3rd Class Dante Sylvester Tini, was one of 2,403 service members and civilians killed during the attack that led to the country’s entry into World War II. But Tini’...
Little Italy loses bid for status as a town
The Pulaski County community of Little Italy on Wednesday lost its appeal of a lower-court judge's dismissal of a case in which area residents sought the creation of an incorporated town. The community of about 350 people, near Roland, has sought for years to become incorporated. In early 2016, County Judge Barry Hyde rejected the residents' petiti...
New Mexico lawmakers seek to rename Columbus Day
New Mexico would trade in its Columbus Day holiday for a tribute to Native Americans instead under a bill being drafted in anticipation of next year's legislative session. The proposed legislation to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day from Democratic state Rep. Derrick Lente, a tribal member of Sandia Pueblo, has cleared its first hu...
Nissoli (FI) in Texas con il Vice Presidente della Lombardia Fabrizio Sala
Deputata di Forza Italia eletta in Centro e Nord America, Fucsia Nissoli in visita in Texas (USA) con la delegazione guidata dal Vice Governatore della Lombardia, Fabrizio Sala, per parlare con le Istituzioni locali americane di internazionalizzazione, cooperazione universitaria e start up, nell’ottica di rafforzare i rapporti commerciali, economic...
Fellini's Eternal Rome (Lecture)
When: Thu, January 31, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Where: Italian Cultural & Community Center, 1101 Milford St, Houston, TX 77006 Join us for a special presentation on "Fellini's Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini", a recently released book authored by Professor Alessandra Carrera from the University of Hous...
She was the original New Orleans saint
Frances Xavier Cabrini, known universally as Mother Cabrini, founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She established 67 missionary institutions, including one in New Orleans, to which she came in 1892. Exhibiting the energy for which she would become legendary, Mother Cabrini devoted herself to caring for the poor, especially I...