The Aesthetics of Water: How Venice Conquered the World
Thursday, April 19 at 6:30 pm. Co-presented with the Italian Cultural Center Minneapolis/St Paul. MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART - 2400 Third Avenue South - Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404. Presenter: Patricia Fortini Brown Thoughts of Venice conjure up a city surrounded by water, as depicted in Jacopo de Barbari’s woodcut map of 1500, one of Mia’s trea...
Senate candidate Monetti to visit West Plains
US Senate candidate Tony Monetti will be visiting West Plains on April 2.The Republican Senate candidate will be at the West Plains Civic Center from 6-8 pm that day. The conservative Republican will be discussing his platform and goals if elected to the US Senate. The eldest son of Italian immigrants, Monetti graduated the Air Force Academy and fl...
Restored Intermeccanica Italia Pops Up For Sale in St. Louis
A thoroughly restored 1969 Intermeccanica Italia Spyder is for sale on eBay with a buy-it-now price of $199,900. The gorgeous two-seater is offered by the Daniel Schmitt & Company classic car gallery in St. Louis, Missouri. Intermeccanica was founded in Turin, Italy in 1959 by Canadian Frank Reisner. He hoped to blend reliable American powertrains...
St. Joseph’s Table Celebrates Our Lord’s Foster Father
The parish hall of St. Ann’s Church was comfortably full of people on March 17. Parishioners and members of several nearby non-Catholic Christian churches gathered to celebrate, no, not St. Patrick’s Day, although the “wearin’ of the green” was seen on many there. St. Ann’s was celebrating St. Joseph’s Day a bit early. The centerpiece of the celebr...
Symphony turns Missouri Theater into Italy
There are certain signs of spring in St. Joseph — warmer weather, longer times for daylight and the Saint Joseph Symphony performing cheery, bright music. Continuing its globetrotting adventure, the symphony will let its audience settle in with some Italian heat as it performs its spring concert, titled “Springtime in Italy.” Teaming up with acc...
Italian Film Festival sponsored by La Comunità degli Italiani - St Louis
The Italian Film Festival in St Louis this year will bring you on a cinematic and culinary tour of Italy. The festival begins April 6th and lasts for four weekends ending on April 28th. This is the fourteenth edition of the festival, and this year, being the "The Year of Italian Food", as announced by the Italian Ministries of Culture and Agricultu...
Balistreri Vineyards Livens Up Industrial Northeast Denver
As your GPS directs you into industrial northeast Denver, you’re going to wonder if there’s really a winery out here. Don’t turn back. Balistreri Vineyards, at 1946 East 66th Avenue, is an exceptional, delightful, delicious place to spend the afternoon. And there’s a reason that the winery is nestled among warehouses, greenhouses and wastewater and...
D'Italia is one of the top online Italian specialty food retailers in the country
From the outside, it's a typical warehouse. But on the inside, you'll find some of the best ingredients from Italy to ever hit your tongue. "Kinda a hidden gem. A lot of people don't realize this premier Italian food specialty business is here in the heart of The Grove in St. Louis," said Vince Di Piazza. D'Italia Fine Italian Imports owner has tes...
Appetites: Italian-American cuisine is back, here's where to find it
It's one of the hottest emerging new cuisines in Minnesota, but many already consider a classic. Italian-American food. That's according to Appetites regular, James Norton, the editor of The Heavy Table — the online journal of food and drink. Italian cuisine developed a somewhat deserved bad reputation over the past few decades, Norton said. "On th...
Review: Tavernetta a Fine Addition to the Frasca Family
If Colorado has culinary royalty, Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, the guys behind Frasca Food and Wine, are surely wearing crowns. Pick a big award and they’ve either won it or are in the running for it. But previous honors don’t make the act of opening another restaurant any easier, and Tavernetta, which they launched last fall at U...
Franco Battiato: tra musica e poesia
Cari Amici della Comunita' degli Italiani - St Louis, finalmente ci riuniamo a Pan d’Olive per la prima volta quest’anno avendo rimpiazzato la nostra riunione di Febbraio con il riuscitissimo Carnevale Veneziano della, e per la, Comunità degli Italiani - St. Louis, al ristorante Cielo con Chef Gian Nicola Colucci.Questo 4 aprile siamo felici di pre...
A promised park fails to materialize in downtown St. Paul. What happened?
On a July day in 1908, 17-year-old Carmine Thomas Simplegio Pitera set sail for America, joining his brothers and a wave of Italian immigrants. His arrival in a new country called for a new name, at least in the eyes of immigration officials at Ellis Island: Carl Pedro. Pedro started a small shoe-repair shop that grew with time, evolving into a dow...