Vito Acconci Invites You to Watch Him as He Watches Us
Vito Acconci, who bushwhacked the path to video art in New York in the 1960s and early 1970s, makes many of today's young artists look tame. The nearly 60 short videos in "Vito Acconci: Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976," the excellent early-career survey at MoMA PS1, manage to be unnervingly funny, pathetically gross and politically razo...
Book Review – My Father’s Daughter: From Rome to Sicily
By Gilda Morina Syverson At age 50, Gilda Morina Syverson knows it is time to transform her relationship with her father by casting off her role as argumentative child and by healing the rifts that divide them. "My Father's Daughter" tells the story of that inner transformation that slowly unfolds with discoveries about ancestry, family, c...
Persona Wood Fire Pizza opens fast-serve, gourmet pizza location in North Houston/Humble
Whether the industry is pizza or piano repair, the combination of fast service and high quality is one of the most difficult balances to strike. Persona Wood Fire Pizza, a fast-serve gourmet pizza franchise, seems to be walking the line just fine as it opens its first Texas location this week on the Beltway 8 divide between Humble and North Ho...
Learn from Lombardi's life
by Patrick Burke America's biggest sports business, the National Football League, has convened training camps in preparation for the upcoming season. We are fortunate to have the Bills training camp at St. John Fisher. Each team's objective will be to win the Super Bowl in February 2017 and receive the coveted "Vince Lombardi Trophy." &nb...
Melissa Marinaro (Curator of the Italian American Program in Pittsburgh)
Looking for Italian traces all over the 50 States, this time we get back to Pennsylvania, the Keystone State: more precisely to Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania. One of the main concerns that several Italian American friends have told us is that young Italian Americans could feel their bound with their heritage in a different, slighter way. Well,...
Chef Vinny Dotolo: from Tampa Bay to Han Solo’s Kitchen and beyond
By Valerio Viale Chef Vinny Dotolo (born in Clearwater, Florida) was not the typical kid messing about the kitchen's stoves and dreaming to head one day the organized bedlam of his own kitchen. However, he was brought up on his Italian-American grandma's recipes, such as baked manicotti shells, chicken piccata, and meat ragù, a mix of por...
Italian American Club to mark 50 years with new Sister City
Ever heard the names Deena Caruso, Joe Albi, Father Joseph Cataldo, Pat Cozza, Victor Felice, Peter Jacoby, Victor Forni and Mike Lamanna? They are among a long list of Italian Americans who have lived in and loved the Spokane area. The names may ring a bell because they all helped create the city of Spokane we know today. And all wer...
Officers of UNICO plan Rehoboth events
At a planning session held recently at Touch of Italy on Del. 1, newly elected officers of UNICO National-Rehoboth Area Chapter- gathered to set a calendar of meetings and events for the 2016-2017 season. Chapter meetings will be held on the third Thursday of each month from September to June, except for December. These meetings will be he...
Chris D'Elia: Born to be funny
Chris D'Elia may be known for his roles on NBC shows "Whitney" and "Undateable," but his first love is comedy. D'Elia often cackles at his own jokes, as if he's a comedian and an audience member at the same time. He will be bringing his comedy to Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races at 9 p.m. Oct. 21. Splitting his childhood between New...
The odyssey of Mike D’Antoni
By Sam Amico Mike D'Antoni is to Italy what Michael Jordan is to America. But in America, D'Antoni is known as the coach of the Steve Nash-led Phoenix Suns that promised to shoot the ball in seven seconds or less. D'Antoni is also sometimes referred to as the man who couldn't save Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks, or the...
Lady Gaga’s Father to Release Italian “Joanne Trattoria Cookbook”: Singer Shares Lifestyle Tips to Be a Great Woman
By Farah Shaikh Pop-star and singer, Lady Gaga, recently shared an inspiring message on womanhood. The message seems to come straight from her heart and is a great lifestyle tip for women. The celebrity singer took to Instagram and posted this pic captioning it, "Health, happiness, love—these are the things that are at the heart of a grea...
Fiddleheads to host an evening of Italian opera
The "Evening of Italian Opera" dinner and performance at Fiddleheads Restaurant here is back for an eighth year, with two holiday-themed shows. Lyric soprano Annamaria Stefanelli will again be joined by her husband, tenor Rory Angelicola, to bring this special winter treat to the fans of operatic music and Fiddleheads' fare and atmosphere. An...