The 19 best Italian restaurants in Northeast Ohio: 2014 A-List dining guide
by Joe Crea, Northeast Ohio Media Group Back when, dinner at an Italian restaurant meant a platter of spaghetti big enough to feed an army, large green salads and a basket of crusty bread. You can still find plenty of reliable places that offer hearty Italian-American fare -- but today you're just as likely to find authentic and a...
Toledo gets taste of Italian businesses
A summit to showcase the business and development opportunities that Toledo and Ohio can offer Italian companies began Monday night with community and business leaders promoting the area's strengths. Speaking through a translator, Carol Contrada, president of the Lucas County Commissioners, welcomed the Italian visitors to the Glass City d...
Mosaic impresario Matteo Randi
This we know: Italians and their ancestors claim crucial contributions in just about every classic art form. But the place of mosaics in Italian history is far lesser known to many art lovers. That’s why the Chicago Mosaic School in the city’s North Center neighborhood plays two vital roles: not just as a place to learn the craft, but also to pas...
Italian festival spreads culture through cinema
Films are an important part of Italian culture for Pietro Sarcina. That's the Troy resident became involved with the Italian Film Festival USA Metro Detroit. Running from Wednesday, April 1 to April 26, the festival offers 14 contemporary films in various genres created between 2013 and 2014. A national event taking place simultaneously in...
Festa Italiana Milwaukee
Milwaukee's venerable Festa Italiana will hold forth from July 17 to 19 at Henry W. Maier Festival Park on the city's lakefront. The Flag Throwers of the Florentine will travel from Italy to perform at this year's festa. Headline acts include Dove c'è Musica's Tribute to Eros Ramazzotti and Henry Prego's award-winning tribute to Frank Sinatra....
Calabresi invite all to Festa della Famiglia
The Società San Francesco di Paola together with the Calabresi In America Organization are again honoring the patron saint of Calabria, San Francesco di Paola, by inviting the entire Italian American Community to our 34th "Festa Della Famiglia" at Casa Italia on August 6th through the 9th, 2015. The weekend long festivities begin with a Triduo in...
Historic Alta House in Little Italy springs to full life as a Montessori school
By Steven Litt A $1.6 million renovation has brought the historic but underused Alta House in Little Italy back to luminous vitality as the new home ofCleveland Montessori School, previously housed at nearby Holy Rosary Church. On a gray Wednesday morning, the school's second day in its new home, parents pulled up at the East 125t...
La Rondinella is light on the wallet, big on unique Italian flavors
One of the most important parts of my job is to find the good values hidden among the hype of the Detroit dining scene and then faithfully report them to you. "Would I come back on my own time and dime?" That's one of the core questions I ask when reviewing any restaurant. When it comes to La Rondinella, my answer is a resounding "Ye...
Retired Police Chief Peter Puleo shares his story
Let me introduce the readers to, as they say, "a guy from the neighborhood," Peter J. Puleo. Peter served as a public servant, a police officer in a suburban community for the best part of his career. He also was a college professor. And now, in addition to these distinguished accomplishments, he became an author — a really talented author. His gr...
Combonis to honor Serpico
The Comboni Mission Center will honor Jo Ann Serpico on Nov. 26 at Porretta's Banquets in Chicago. (708-354-1999). Jo Ann's prominence in the Chicago-area Italian-American community is a testament to her late father, Joseph R. Salerno. One of the founders of the Rosario D. Salerno Sons Funeral Homes, he was an early organizer of the Chicago-area It...
Chrysler Group’s Sergio Marchionne Addresses Industry Leaders at 2013 SAE World Congress Annual Banquet
Chrysler Group LLC's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne addressed more than 1,000 automotive leaders at the 2013 SAE World Congress Annual Banquet today, at COBO Center in Detroit about the need to evolve the industry's business models as well as defining a path that would produce the innovation needed to grow the auto industry...
The “Little Italies” of Michigan
In doing reseach for this post, I was sure that Italian immigrants found their way to Detroit, because it was a major industrial center that offered job opportunities the immigrants were seeking in coming to America. What totally surprised me was the number of immigrants who settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A land totally different from...