On the road: A celebration of Italy in Milwaukee
When in Milwaukee, do as the Italians do and celebrate La Famiglia at the annual Festa Italiana. Test your bocce ball skills, try crooning on the Italian Idol stage, watch the Pinocchio parade and let the kids enjoy their own activities and entertainment. Entertainment ranges from opera and jazz to accordionists and doo wop singers. Foodies should...
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel hosts 17th annual festival in Youngstown
By Brooke Meenachan The 17th Annual Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival runs through Sunday in Youngstown. The food and music are what keep people coming back year after year. The festival will include a variety of different bands and singers. Some local performers include, Rex Taneri, John Gabriele, Jim Frank Band and Dominic Tocc...
The Voice of a Legend: Enrico Caruso
Fri, Nov 6, 2015 - Hanna Theatre - 2067 East 14th Street - Cleveland, OH 44115. Italian tenor, Pasquale Esposito, makes his debut in Cleveland at the Hanna Theater with his touring production based on his 1st PBS Special: "Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Enrico Caruso." Born in Naples, Italy, Pasquale Esposito immigrated to the United States...
A spotlight on Piedmont at Osteria Langhe in Logan Square
Most Italian restaurants in Chicago try to recreate dishes from a particular region, but usually it's a generic "southern" or "northern" style. The team behind a Logan Square Italian restaurant is much more focused than that, pouring all of their energy into a restaurant devoted to just one region: Piedmont. Chef Cameron Grant spends quite...
Italian Festival has food, music and fireworks
The 38th annual Roma Lodge Italian Festival returns to Festival Park, 5 Fifth St., Friday through Sunday, July 29-31. This year's festival is again all about traditional Italian foods, entertainment and family fun. To show its gratitude for 38 years of support by the community, Roma Lodge will again present fireworks from Bartolotta Fireworks...
Brier Hill Fest
The Brier Hill Italian Fest will return this week with four straight days of music, food, dancing, bocce and morra tournaments, a wine contest and a hot pepper contest. The event, which begins Thursday, sprawls over a few blocks at the intersection of Calvin and Victoria streets in the Brier Hill neighborhood of the North Side. The hillsi...
ABC7 Chicago to feature live broadcast of Columbus Day Parade
ABC7 Chicago to feature live broadcast of Columbus Day Parade from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. On Channels 7 and 7.2 Monday, October 10, 2016. ABC7's Alan Krashesky and Janet Davies to host parade along with Windy City Live's Ryan Chiaverini. ABC 7 CHICAGO, the official station of the 64th annual Columbus Day Parade, will present the parade live, Mon...
Opening Reception for “Wings of Italy” Exhibition
Chicago Sister Cities InternationalFriday, June 21, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (CDT)Chicago, IL Join the Milan Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International for the opening reception of the exhibition Wings of Italy: Italian Aeropainting from 1910–1935.One of the earliest and most effective means of mass communication, the poster was the perf...
Sabatino's Survives on Old School Italian-American Charm
Located on a bustling stretch of Irving Park Road, Sabatino's is as mired in the past, with a clientele that keeps aging alongside it, as everyone says it is. When I stopped in at 6 p.m. for a Wednesday evening dinner, the first wave of early birders were already on their way out the door. Though the sun was still shining, it felt very, ve...
Viva La Panza raises money for scholarships
A gala celebration of the 75th anniversary of Viva La Panza drew 650 men to Todaro's Party Center in Akron Wednesday evening. Presented by the Italian-American Professional and Businessmen's Club and the House of LaRose, the event is the premier fundraising and networking event of the Italian community. Ralph Trecaso, who chaired the event along w...
St. Rocco's, Youngstown
Youngstown, Ohio, never developed a centralized little Italy. Instead, the city's mostly southern Italian settlers chose to live near the foundries, rail yards, and steel mills where Germans, Spaniards, Welsh, Slavs, Irish, African American, and others also called home. Of these the two most iconic neighborhoods that boasted large Italian...
Izzo shares HOF moment with Cleaves
by Brian Calloway With an assist from one of his all-time great players, Tom Izzo was formally named to another Hall of Fame on Tuesday. The Michigan State coach was one of the headliners of an eight-member Michigan Sports Hall of Fame class unveiled by former MSU point guard Mateen Cleaves at the Izzo Family Media Center at Spartan S...