Richmond gives toppled Christopher Columbus statue to Italian-American organization
Two years after it was toppled by protesters, Richmond City Council has given away a statue of Christopher Columbus to a local Italian-American organization. The statue of Columbus, which stood over Byrd Park, was torn down and thrown into a nearby lake in the Summer of 2020, during a spontaneous demonstration in the wake of the death of George Flo...
Feast On Handmade Pasta And Bread At Pugs Homemade Italian In West Virginia
If you know you know: Italian food is a West Virginia specialty. We’ve got some of the best Italian cooks and best Italian restaurants in the nation tucked away in our little corner of Appalachia, and one of them is definitely Pugs Homemade Italian Restaurant in Morgantown. Located at 1137 Van Voorhis Road in Morgantown, West Virginia, Pugs Homemad...
Impact Of A Scholarship: Ludovica Farina
Golf wasn’t readily available for Ludovica Farina growing up in the southern part of Italy, with most of the major courses and top players clustered in the northern section. But that didn’t stop her from making the Italian National Team at 12-years-old and ultimately putting together a highly successful four-year career in College Park. Growing up...
The Italian Restaurant Chugging Away at Montclair’s Train Station
Earlier this year, chef Giuseppe De Falco and his wife, Sandra, opened their first restaurant together in what was once the waiting room of Montclair’s Walnut Street train station. At Antica Stazione, De Falco’s recipes are inspired by his time in Avellino, Italy, where he went to culinary school and worked until coming to America six years ago. He...
Crews remove box around Christopher Columbus statue in South Philadelphia
Crews removed the box surrounding the Christopher Columbus statue in South Philadelphia's Marconi Plaza on Sunday night. Only Action News was there as crews began the removal process around 8 p.m. The box has surrounded the statue for two years. On Friday, a judge ruled it needed to be removed. Attorney George Bochetto, who represents the statue's...
Italian Americans Save Philadelphia’s Columbus Statue After Mayor Loses Appeal
It’s official: South Philadelphia’s 146-year-old Columbus statue is staying put in Marconi Plaza, and the plywood box — concealing the monument from public view — must be removed, a panel of Commonwealth Court judges ruled on Friday. The appeals loss is a bitter one for Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, who was openly criticized by Common Pleas Court...
N.Y. bakery opens 1st N.J. location with gelato shop
Bruno’s Italian Bake Shop is popular among Staten Islanders for its Italian and French baked goods. Garden State residents can enjoy Bruno’s, as well, with the opening of Bruno Italian Bake Shop and Gelateria in Freehold. The new bakery and soon-to-be gelato shop opened at 356 W. Main St. on Nov. 15. The gelato shop, which will be attached to the b...
Italian Restaurant to Open on King Street in Old Town Alexandria
Husband and wife team Gabe and Katherine Thompson have set their sights on an early January opening for the second location of their Falls Church-based eponymous eatery Thompson Italian. The celebrated family-friendly restaurant will occupy the former Hank’s Oyster Bar space at 1024 King St. in Old Town. “We love living and working in Northern Virg...
Local Author Takes Guests on an “el Dolce Vita” Tour of Italy
It was an “el Dolce Vita” homecoming for local author and playwright Midge Guerrera who returned recently from Italy for a public reading and discussion of her new book, “Cars, Castles, Cows and Chaos” at Verve Bistro and Restaurant in Somerville. The Hillsborough native spends part of the year in New Jersey and the remainder in the mountain villa...
After more than 50 years, Tuzzio's in Long Branch is closing
When Joe Tuzzio was 15 years old, a chef at his family's restaurant walked off the job. The teenager, who was 10 when his parents bought the former Silver Dollar Bar from his great-aunt and uncle in 1965, was sent into the kitchen. “I've been back there ever since,” said Tuzzio, now 67. “My mother was always in the kitchen, my father was always out...
Running in the Fast Lane
In the sport of cross-country running (XC), very few Italian Americans have made a mark. Indeed, looking down the list of this year's NCAA XC Men's Championship race, held in late November at Oklahoma University, very few Italian-American names appear. (This finding is based on identifiable surnames or other, personal sources.) The championship rac...
UNICO Rehoboth hears from Sinatra scholar
The UNICO Rehoboth Area Chapter season opener on Oct. 20 featured author-member Richard Muti, who shared his research and lifelong interest in Frank Sinatra, with his publication “Cent’anni: The Sinatra Legend at 100.” Muti, a member who along with his wife Lorraine, transferred from a New Jersey UNICO Chapter and lives in Millsboro, has an impress...