Park Slope Gelateria 'L'Albero dei Gelati' Plans New Crown Heights Location
By Rachel Holliday Smith A specialty gelato and dessert shop from Italy by way of Park Slope is planning its second Brooklyn location in Crown Heights inside a former doughnut shop on Bergen Street, owners told DNAinfo New York. L'Albero dei Gelati, currently in business on Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street across from the J.J. Byrne P...
Grimaldi's Ristorante in East Syracuse: An Italian Feast
By Jane Marmaduke The Syracuse area has more than its share of Italian restaurants, some of which have had a loyal following for many years. Grimaldi's, in East Syracuse, is one of those. Located near the hotels around Carrier Circle, the restaurant also attracts plenty of guests from out of town. Even on a weeknight, the restaura...
Capital pauses to praise Scalia at funeral
By Peter Baker and Gardiner Harris With pageantry, spirituality and a touch of his own trademark humor, Justice Antonin Scalia was honored on Saturday as a capital riven by his death briefly set down its political weapons to mourn what his son called "the country's good servant." The nation's leaders, including justices, judges, lawmakers...
Symposium shows Italy in the White House
A symposium in the US capital on Tuesday highlighted the many influences Italy has had on the White House through the centuries, from Cicero's ideal of the gentleman politician to the concept of equality espoused by Filippo Mazzei, which influenced Thomas Jefferson in guiding the nation's founding principles. The symposium "Italy in the White Hous...
Levante - The 'Maserati Of Suvs' To Make U.S. Debut At 2016 New York Auto Show
With Maserati's highly anticipated new Levante, a new wind is blowing through the premium SUV segment. The name "Levante" is inspired by a warm wind that can change from gentle to gale force in an instant that can emerge any season or time of the year, day or night, mirroring the powerful and soulful character of Maserati's first SUV. Foll...
Venice’s Jewish ghetto is turning 500. Is it finally time to celebrate?
Campo del Ghetto Nuovo is the heart of Venice's Jewish ghetto, a quiet square just a few minutes' walk from the train station. It hosts the Jewish Museum, three ancient synagogues and the Jewish community's nursing home for the elderly. Not far from the square is a kosher hotel and a kosher restaurant. In the past two decades, Venice's ghe...
Fredericksburg to formalize sister city relationship with Este, Italy
Fredericksburg will confirm its sister-city relationship with Este, Italy, with a signing ceremony on Wednesday. It will be held at 11 a.m., in the City Council Chambers in City Hall, 715 Princess Anne St. The proclamation signing is free and open to the public. It completes the confirmation of the relationship, which began with a similar cer...
Tenuta, Ruffolo honored at Celebrazione Italiana
Two community leaders were honored Friday night at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside's Celebrazione Italiana dinner. Carmelo Tenuta, owner of Sports Physical Therapists and senior partner at OccuPro Industrial Solutions, was given the lifetime achievement award. Carmel Ruffolo, associate vice president for research and innovation a...
Rugby goes pro in Sacramento
By Andy Furillo The roads to professional rugby run through the basketball courts of Middle America, a bloody gunshot attack in Santa Rosa, the Cal football program and a town about 25 miles inland from the Adriatic coast of Italy. They will meet Sunday at an intersection known as Bonney Field, in an American pro version of the ruffian's...
Linguistic activist Vincent Cerda
It's not as common as it once was for American kids to learn Italian as their first language — and even when they do, it often fades as they grow. That's exactly what happened with Berwyn native Vincent Cerda, who grew up speaking Italian fluently but didn't rediscover his love for the language until he entered high school at Nazareth Academy. "Af...
Café Altro Paradiso Is Chef Ignacio Mattos’s Next NYC Hit
Since chef Ignacio Mattos and restaurateur Thomas Carter's Nolita restaurant, Estela, became a perennial favorite of savvy New York diners and earned them a James Beard nomination, the city's culinary crowd has been eagerly awaiting the opening of their sophomore establishment. Well, their second act is here: Café Altro Paradiso. Set on a quiet co...
Detroit Showcased at the Venice Biennale on Architecture
by Sandra Tornberg Antoinette DelVillano is an architect working in New York City. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Ohio State University. Antoinette entered this photo of her father Antonio DelVillano, uncle Rolando DelVillano, aunts Sandra DelVillano Marchi and Lisa Wagner, and grandfather Gaetano DelVillano in the My...