Center Street to welcome Italian restaurant
Come ski season, foodies in Jackson Hole are going to have a new place to drink wine and eat Italian food. Orsetto Italian Bar and Eatery is slated to open after Thanksgiving, pending the construction renovation of the old Great Harvest Bread Company space at 155 Center St. It's concocted by the people who brought you Cafe Genevieve, Fred Pei...
Order Sons of Italy: Hall will likely be 'gutted' following fire
by Camila Orti Omaha Fire Department officials estimate a fire caused around $250,000 in damage to an iconic neighborhood landmark. Crews responded to a two-alarm building fire Friday afternoon at the Sons of Italy Hall near 11th and William streets. Officials said the structure caught fire around 2:25 p.m. A second-alarm was cal...
Guinness officials say 115-year-old Iowa woman inherits title of 'world's oldest' person Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/05/guinness-officials-say-115-year-old-iowa-woman-inherits-title-world-oldest/#ixzz2ENl2kUIX
A 115-year-old woman in Iowa has become the world's oldest living person.Guinness World Records posted on its website Wednesday that Dina Manfredini of Johnston has inherited the title after Bessie Cooper of Georgia died Tuesday. Cooper was 116.Guinness officials provided few details about the latest record holder. Manfredini was born on April 4, 1...
Five fresh productions in Minnesota Opera 2014-15 season
What's new at Minnesota Opera? Well, everything next season. The 2014-15 season announced Thursday features five fresh productions, all of them bringing new approaches, sets and costumes to works that are (mostly) at least a century old. Among them are a Giacomo Puccini opera the company has never presented, as well as a world premiere by...
St. Louis entrepreneur offering food tours of The Hill
For more than 40 years, Manzo's, an Italian market located at the corner of Devonshire and Macklind avenues in south St. Louis, stood as an iconic home-grown business founded by Sicilian immigrants and kept alive by their children. Manzo's thrived for decades as a St. Louis institution, selling Italian sausage, cheese, wine and other delicacies to...
An Evening of Solidarity for Central Italy Earthquake Relief
When: Saturday October 22, 2016 at 6:00 PM Where: LIUNA EVENT CTR, 4532 S. LINDBERGH Cost $45.0 Per person which includes Dinner - Music by the Rendition Vocal by Peter Russo The Hon. Joseph Colagiovanni V. Consul of Italy in Saint Louis with members and former members of the COMITES ( circoscrizione Consolare di...
This Thursday: An Insider’s View of Venetian life
Enjoy wine, light refreshments and a special presentation this Thursday, January 19, at 7 p.m. Cynthia Curran PhD, will present "Donna Leon and Venice: The Tale of Two Cities". In her series of crime novels set in Venice, Donna Leon's primary focus is on a major crime (usually murder) and its solution by her police detective Commissario Gu...
Datebook Diner review: Marino's Italian Restaurant
by C. Acevedo Marino's is a mom-and-pop spaghetti joint with a solid command of old-fashioned Italian fare. In that respect, it earns three stars. But Marino's deserves five huge stars for its virtuoso dessert: the gorgeously luscious, worth-a-trip tiramisu. Owners John and Ellen Marino moved the longtime restaurant earlier this year...
Minneapolis Changes "Columbus Day" To "Indigenous People's Day"
It's been debated for years, but now the city of Minneapolis has decided to change from celebrating Columbus Day to observing Indigenous People's Day instead. Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1937, though not all states observe it, including Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, and South Dakota. The day has long been a hot button issu...
Young Pannese makes donation to veterans
By Pete Fontaine Last month, Peter A. Goneconte, president of the Young Pannese Social Club, an Italian-American organization founded in 1912, joined Administrator Gerry Coulliard and Johnston residents Elly and Vinny Palumbo to present Donna Russillo, Chief of Voluntary Services at the Veterans Administration Medal Center in Providence and an alu...
Translators make foreign literature accessible to readers
By Tu-Uyen Tran "Gentile signorina," the purse-snatcher wrote to his victim at the beginning of a short story that University of North Dakota professor Elizabeth Harris has translated. He had been examining the contents of the purse, imagining what his victim is like and coming to realize he had fallen in love, she said. "Gen...
Italian heritage: il giorno dei morti - the day of the dead
Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis - 528 Hennepin Avenue, Suite 502, Minneapolis, MN 55403. Join us for a new initiative entitled "Italian Heritage". Italian Heritage workshops will involve easy readings in Italian & discussion on topics that include Italian cultural traditions, historical events and individuals who sparked change.&nbs...