Italian American marching club prepares for St. Joseph’s day
The Italian American Marching Club is one of the largest ethnic organizations in the Southeastern United States. It was founded by Joseph Cardenia and friends in 1970 and has climbed to heights of 1500 members in recent years. The objective is to keep Italian heritage prevalent in New Orleans, the destination of so many of their forefathers in the...
New Orleans area ovens are teeming with St. Joseph Day altar cookies
Baking cookies is a labor of love for many of those devoted to St. Joseph. This time of year, volunteers spend hundreds of hours making Italian cookies for area St. Joseph altars built to honor the saint. It takes time and organization to produce the many cookies that visitors expect to taste and see when they visit an altar. The bakers gladly acce...
Metairie's Aubrie St. Germain is queen of the Italian American parade
Mount Carmel Academy honor student Aubrie St. Germain will reign as queen of the 47th annual Italian American Marching Club's St. Joseph Parade on Saturday, March 18. The parade rolls at 6 p.m. and winds its way from the Convention Center through the French Quarter. The 17-year-old Metairie resident has been training for this regal role practically...
Sicilian Festival is here
Debbie Pigno delivering Italian cookies to Giovanna Clausen for the Independence Italian Cultural Museum cookie sale in conjunction with the Independence Sicilian Heritage Festival. The festival began Friday and runs throughout the weekend with food and live entertainment in downtown Independence. Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. t...
List of local St. Joseph altars for 2017
The following parishes, schools and entities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans will host St. Joseph Altars. The tradition, which is Sicilian and Roman Catholic in origin but is carried on locally by Italian-Americans and people of all nationalities and faiths, includes baking cookies and cakes and preparing foods for the altar. The offerings accomp...
Northeast Arkansas' 'Grandfather of Aviation' Dies at 88
Nicola Vaccari may have been born and raised in Italy, trained with NATO in Canada and spent time parking celebrities' cars in Beverly Hills, but for more than 50 years the man known as Northeast Arkansas' "Grandfather of Aviation" made his home in Walnut Ridge. Vaccari, who passed away Feb. 10 at the age of 88, began his aviation career as a memb...
Palm Beach Opera Announces Lead Performers in Giuseppe Verdi's RIGOLETTO
Palm Beach Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto for one weekend only, March 10-12, at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. One of the most popular operas in the repertoire, Rigoletto, "The Power of a Curse," is "a must-see masterpiece" of passion and vengeance, filled with some of opera's most famous arias, such as "La...
Shoemaking: Italian Excellence
Lecture by Francesca Lombardo (Founder and Owner of Brio & Co. LLC). Tuesday, February 28, 2017 – 7:00pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Reception to follow lecture. Italian Cultural & Community Center. 1101 Milford St, Houston, Texas 77006. Ticket Prices: $10 for ICCC Members – $15 for Non-Members. Reserve your seat today – Eventbrite or call 713-524-422...
Joe Moglia Gets Lombardi Honor from Rotary Club of Houston
Coastal Carolina head football coach Joe Moglia was named the newest member of the Vince Lombardi Hall of Fame as part of the 47th Annual Rotary Lombardi Award Saturday night at the Hobby Center. First, Moglia was inducted by Texas A&M head football coach Kevin Sumlin. Later, during the national ESPN3 telecast, Moglia announced Alabama defensive en...
A recognition for Little Italy in Arkansas
Little Italy's history received recognition today from the Pulaski County Historical Society. An article highlighting Little Italy's role in Prohibition was awarded the 2017 F. Hampton Roy Award for best research article. It will be published in the Spring edition of the Pulaski County Historical Society's journal.
Vincenzo Arcobelli alla riunione annuale dell'OSIA
Si è appena concluso il convegno nazionale dell'Organizzazione italoamericana dell'Ordine dei Figli d'Italia, che quest'anno ha scelto Dallas in Texas per il suo incontro annuale.Erano presenti il presidente Dan Longo e tutto il comitato esecutivo ed rappresentanti di ogni stato degli USA e delle varie commissioni. Tra i punti fondamentali dell inc...
Pompeo Coppini – Sculptor: Italian Born, Texan Reborn (Part II)
But what he had not anticipated nor planned for was the addition of an assistant. And a girl at that. Miss Waldine Tauch of Brady, from Texas, was a remarkably talented young girl of 18 years, beautiful and ambitious, yet devoted to her troubled family. Like Coppini, she had endured a childhood rife with stress from a bitterly jealous and unstable...