Buongiorno Chicago - The Italians are coming!
May 2, 2015 - May 4, 2015 Saturday 10:00 AM - Monday 2:00 PMWrigleyville - Lakeview, Clark & Eddy - Chicago, Illinois Buongiorno Chicago - The Italians are coming! Just in time for the James Beard Awards, Lavazza, Italy's favorite coffee, will be perking up Chicago by touring the streets with the Lavazza mobile café, the company...
A trove of naturalization information
by Dan Niemiec I have written this column every month for the past 11 years and, in the process of researching for what to write, I learn how much I didn't know! I have been on a multi-month odyssey looking for petitions for naturalization, and I have found out yet more new information that should make life easier. Last month, I concluded...
Buona Celebrates 35 Years Serving Up Italian Beef
Buona, The Original Italian Beef, celebrates 35 years of serving up its famous beef to all of Chicagoland on January 21. Joe Buonavolanto, Sr. opened the first Buona restaurant in 1981 in Berwyn, Illinois, bringing Italian beef to the suburbs. Buonavolanto was among a group of Italian immigrants who made the now-famous sandwich a stap...
Pastina Marries Farm-to-Table Cuisine with Italian-American Standbys
Coming from a restaurant like Two Urban Licks in Atlanta, Michael Serdula had plenty of ideas on how to run a commercial kitchen. That boisterous and beloved big city restaurant is praised for its progressive farm-to-table approach, and Serdula had every intention of establishing a similar program at his new gig up north as opening chef of Pastina....
Italian-American club awards scholarships
The Italian American Professional and Businessmen's Club of Akron and Summit County (IAPBC) announced its recent scholarship award winners, who were honored at a luncheon at Todaro's Party Center. Shown below, from left, are students who received $5,000 scholarships: Vincent Di Giacomo, of Green High School; Joe Rizzo, of Walsh Jesuit High School;...
2013 Fall Festival at Casa Italia
The Fall Festival will be held on October 5th from 1 to 10 p.m. and on October 6 from 12 to 6 p.m. at the Casa Italia Festival Center. The event will feature wine making presentations, Sunday Outdoor Mass, cultural events, ricotta making presentation, children's activities, museum tours, sports demonstrations, carnival rides, haunted attraction, fa...
Italy's Artemis Danza Makes American Debut with TRAVIATA
Parma-based Artemis Danza, one of the most beloved dance companies in Italy, makes it United States debut with its highly acclaimed production of "Traviata" at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 East 60th Street, for one performance Thursday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. Under the leadership of Monica Casadei, the company's acclaimed a...
Screening of "The White Sheik" by Federico Fellini - February 3, 2015 at 6:00 PM
The White Sheik (lo sceicco bianco) (1952, 83 min) in Italian with English subtitles by Federico Fellini with Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, and Brunella Bovo. In Fellini's charming solo debut, a newlywed bride sneaks off her honeymoon plans in Rome to find the offices of a romance magazine: she wants to meet "Th...
Frank Lollino - Exceptionally talented coach and renowned high school teacher.
Frank Lollino has always been somebody that was considered as being an overachiever. Chicago native is a very proud Italian-American who was raised in the Galewood community a popular area in northwest Chicago. He and his sister were always raised to be very focused on completing goals in life. His parents Frank and Anna Marie always gav...
Westlake shoe repairman celebrated as best cobbler in North America: My Ohio
by Leon Bibb In a little shop in Westlake, Ohio, the hands of Glenn DiMauro seem to never stop. He is surrounded by mountains of shoes of all types. One by one, his hands pick up items which have been on many hundreds of sets of feet. DiMauro is a cobbler of extraordinary ability. So much so, he has been recognized by the Sho...
Sculpture memorializes 1901 train crash
by David Patch They remain unknowns, but the scores of Italian immigrants believed to have died in a fiery train collision near Adrian 115 years ago now have a monument to mark their grave site in a local cemetery. Kyle Griffith, who inspired a search for records of the unidentified victims' burial site, said during a memorial ceremon...
Fencing joins faith, fun and food among activities at Columbus Italian Festival
by Eric Lagatta The raising of Old Glory alongside il Tricolore is a sign that the Columbus Italian Festival has begun. The sight of the American and Italian flags resonates with the festival's organizers, Landa Masdea Brunetto included, as a potent symbol of the intertwined cultures of the festival-goers. "You just feel — it giv...