Don Bosco Community Center may return
by John Pepitone An effort is underway to bring back a community center that served the Columbus Park neighborhood. The original Don Bosco building may soon serve nearby families again. The building had been a center where immigrants came to learn English as a second language. A few years ago Don Bosco moved the program...
Denver Nuggets: Why Danilo Gallinari is the X-factor
by Cody Smith The Denver Nuggets didn't make many moves this off season, but there will still be faces seen on the court that weren't there last year. Either from a trade, or return from injury, the Nuggets will look a little more familiar. JaVale McGee, Nate Robinson, and Danilo Gallinari are coming back from a season where they barely sa...
Gear Up to distribute Italian-made rack system
GearUp, Inc. signed an agreement to distribute a new bike rack system called Figo in the U.S. Peruzzo s.r.l. of Rossano Veneto, Italy, manufactures the rack. The Figo is named for the Italian slang term for "cool." The patented bike storage and display rack offers an infinite number of ways to store a bike and comes in different colors. Wi...
An Immigrant’s Contribution to Mount Rushmore Is Recogn
Set in stone is supposed to mean immutable, but Luigi Del Bianco's determined descendants just now appear to be winning the official affirmation that the Italian-American from Westchester County deserved long ago for shaping one of the nation's most famous monuments. "If being the chief carver at Mount Rushmore is not the American dream fo...
Chow Morso brings Italian street food to Avanti
Chow Morso is the newest tenant at Avanti Food & Beverage, replacing chef Marco Gonzales' Bixo. Chef Darrel Truett and Ryan Fletter of Barolo Grill will open the new concept next week, bringing Italian street food to the collective eatery. While Barolo has served the Cherry Creek North neighborhood with Italian fine dining since 1992,...
Ciao St. Louis announces Italian radio hour
We will be hosting the Italian Music hour beginning Sunday, January 8th 2017. Our usual time will be from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm for the months of January and February. We will play some popular Italian Music and interview some local personalities. This broadcast can also be found at 770 on your AM Radio, online at wewradio.com, mimtv.info and...
ICC seeks Executive Assistant
The Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St Paul is a non-profit organization founded in 2006. The ICC promotes the best of Italian culture in Minnesota to people of all ages, and creates stimulating opportunities for enrichment on personal and community levels. We provide Italian language classes which are taught by native instructors. In additi...
The Hill Nativity Walk
The Hill Nativity Walk will begin on Saturday, December 3 and will run through January 6. Displays of more than twenty Italian style nativity scenes are displayed in the windows of Hill merchants during the holiday season. Maps of the display locations where more information about the sets and the history of the traditiona can be found at Girasole...
Pezzettino Italian Deli & Market carrying on a family tradition
Annie Barbieri Spohn's maternal grandfather owned and operated neighborhood Italian deli and grocery stores, Sola's, in the North End and Midtown. Now a vintage Sola's menu hangs on the wall of Spohn's new Pezzettino Italian Deli & Market — a 2014 version of her grandfather's shop that is scheduled to open Wednesday at 2101 Broadway....
Il Lazzarone is already cool. It's time for it to be great, too
by Charles Ferruzza I've experienced and tasted a number of things at Erik Borger's Il Lazzarone pizzeria since it opened in the River Market. I've eaten some remarkable wood-fired pizza (and been served one that was all but inedible). I've been waited on by a couple of excellent servers (as well as by two who were memorably disappointing)...
Festa Italiana in Kansas City
Friday, May 29th, 5:00 PM - Sunday, May 31st, 6:00 PM Town Square and the streets of Zona Rosa. One of Kansas City's favorite festivals, Festa Italiana, the unique celebration of Italian traditions and Italian-American culture, will once again kick off the summer season at Zona Rosa! This longtime local ethnic festival draws visitors from acro...
Leonardo Da Vinci Symposium: The Scientist, The Inventor, The Artist!
You are cordially invited to join us for an intimate look at Leonardo Da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man, on Wedensday, July 7, beginning at 5 p.m.. This wonderful, FREE symposium will be held at the Center for Early Modern History, 1210 Heller Hall, University of Minnesota. In the 15th century, Leonardo formulated and experimented sci...