Hill Legends Statue Prototype Lost for Years
This prototype of the Soccer Legends from the 1950 World Soccer Cup was lost for many years. A project for 2003 that unfortunately failed to meet its financial goal. The sculptor is Mike Pisoni, a former Hill resident of over 55 years. Mr. Pisoni studied under renowned sculptor Rudi Torrini and received his Masters of Fine Arts from Fontbonne C...
Austin's Giulia Millanta traded medicine for music
All manner of paths have led to Austin’s music scene over the years. Take Giulia Millanta’s Austin-based band: drummer Dony Wynn is a Memphis native who grew up in Louisiana; producer and guitarist Gabriel Rhodes is from Sunset, Texas; and bassist Glenn Fukunaga moved to the capital in the ’70s from Hawaii. Still, Millanta’s own path is the most st...
Brando Ballerini: Texas, land of oilmen, patrons and Made in Italy lovers View Larger Image
Brando Ballerini has been since 2010 the President of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas (IACC) based in Houston. He is currently the President of BPB Energy. He has over 40 years of experience in the oil and drilling industry, previously holding the position of Drillmec President for 15 years. The interview InvestorVisa.it: President,...
The Pantheon and Other Secrets of Rome's Campus Martius
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 7:00 pm. Italian Cultural & Community Center - 1101 Milford St - Houston, TX 77006. Doors open at 6:45 pm. $10 ICCC Members | $15 Non-members. Get tickets and information here. Presented by Louis F. Aulbach and Linda C. Gorski of the Houston Archaeological Society. Join us as we reveal the ruins of the structures of the...
Pavilions buyer passionate about regional Italian deli
Italy’s passion for food finds a common ground in America, where consumers are looking for new authentic products, buyer Debbie Jones said in this interview with Italianfood.net at IDDBA 2018 trade show. Jones, who represents Pavilions, the premium specialty grocery banner of US food retail group Albertsons, explains in an interview what she is loo...
Proud Italian, Roger DiCamillo
New Mexico’s Italian community has lost a proud member and a good friend. The world has lost a prolific, creative spirit. Born in Gallup NM, Roger DiCamillo was an architect by trade and an artist by nature, with a gifted hand in nearly every medium from oil, watercolor and pastels to sculpture, pottery, lithography, glass and more. Roger held nume...
Fabio Luisi to become music director of the Dallas Symphony
Fabio Luisi has been hired as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra starting with the 2020-21 season. The 59-year-old Italian will conduct a concert next spring and become music director designate for the 2019-20 season, the orchestra said Monday. He agreed to a contract through the 2023-24 season. Luisi will become just the fourth music...
"Father Frank" honored for 50 years of service to community
To know Rev. Francis Carabello, is to love him! And the proof was in the pudding when hundreds of people attended his Mass and reception that celebrated his 50th priestly ordination. Father Frank, as he's called by locals, was the pastor of St. Joseph's from 1980 until his retirement in 2009. After almost 30 years as pastor, it wasn't surprising th...
Louisiana forbids naming public buildings for living persons; here's the latest exception
Louisiana proscribes the naming of public buildings for living persons. But the Legislature regularly makes exceptions, one of the latest being a law letting Kenner name its $12 million police headquarters for former Chief Nick Congemi, 75. The House of Representatives approved the exemption in an 83-0 vote on April 6. The Senate followed with a 32...
The Sicily-New Orleans Connection: Jazz is the Art of Encounter par Excellence
We Play for Tips, the outstanding new album by the Sicilian saxophonist Francesco Cafiso, is a homage to New Orleans jazz. The title comes from a saying that Crescent City street musicians have emblazoned on their caps, an image that Cafiso says stuck with him after a trip to New Orleans when he was a teenager. But the latest recording by the 28-ye...
Giuliano Testa
As a teenager, I was told that I would never be able to carry my own child. I had been diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, or MRKH, meaning I was born without a uterus. Then in 2016, I met Dr. Giuliano Testa, an expert in kidney and liver transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He had gathered a team of ex...
Sammy and Domenica Lovera named Re and Regina
Sammy and Domenica Lovera are the Re and Regina for this year’s Italian Festival. “Hopefully, we can reign over a year of peace and tranquility,” Sammy Lovera said. They are set to be officially crowned during the festival’s opening ceremony, which they were told will be around 10:30 a.m. Saturday. This year’s 48th annual Italian Festival is set fo...