The Conversation: How Jerry Viviano’s Benefit Variety Show got its groove
Jerry Viviano of Overland Park is host of the Viviano Benefit Variety Show, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Viviano also works full-time in sales for Sysco. This year's show, which benefits Don Bosco Center, is at 6 p.m. Nov. 22 in Rose Theatre at Rockhurst High School. Tickets are $25 and include an Italian dinner; call H...
"Rigoletto" Opera for the Intermediate Speaker - 19 Feb 2015 at 5:30 PM
Studying famous opera pieces, will effectively help you build new vocabulary, as the memorization of the music facilitates the memorization of the words. Please join ICC native Italian instructor, Mirella Heimpel, to discover Italian opera, and learn more about Italian cultural heritage. Mirella will be the guide as students discover Verdi, and le...
Joe Rolle is Reunited with Jack Riebel at Forthcoming Il Foro
Rolle has earned his stripes in town as a go-to guy for a successful restaurant opening. He was on the line with Riebel when Butcher and the Boar burst onto the Minneapolis restaurant scene. He was the one sweating over the burger perfection at Parlour and turning out the gorgeous plates at Borough. Rolle is an Iron Range from an Italian family. So...
Bread & Butter Concepts drops plans for Italian restaurant in Westwood
Locally owned Bread & Butter Concepts had planned to open G. Berto Cucina in Westwood's Woodside Village in late 2015. But delays pushed back the opening, and now the company says it is moving on. In a statement, founder Alan Gaylin said: "I am passionate about bringing a modern Italian restaurant to the community. However, the timing...
Italian Heritage Month Events
Columbus Day DinnerOctober is Italian Heritage Month in Iowa and to celebrate the Italian American Cultural Center of Iowa will hold the 38th annual Columbus Day Dinner Party on Sunday, October 13, 2013. Event details will be announced when final arrangements are completed. Columbus Day Memorial ObservanceAt 11:00 AM on Monday, October 14...
Opening date set for new BRAVO Italian restaurant
By Mark Fisher The BRAVO! Cucina Italiana Restaurant under construction at the Mall at Fairfield Commons has set a tentative opening date of Jan. 28, a spokeswoman for the restaurant chain said today, Dec. 17. Bravo, which also operates a restaurant on Ohio 725 near the Dayton Mall, will occupy a 7,310-square-foot space that includes a 1,500-...
Gaetano’s Restaurant in North Denver sold
Gaetano's Restaurant, a venerable Italian-American spot in North Denver, has been sold, The Denver Post learned this morning. Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC, which acquired the restaurant seven years ago, has sold it to Ron Robinson, a former member of the B-W group who left a year ago to fulfill his longtime dream of being a restaurant owner. T...
Angelo's Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Bring Back Restaurant to Wichita
Angelo's has served quality Italian food for many years, but the last Wichita location closed due to the owner's disability. Now, Jack Fasciano has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring Angelo's back to Wichita. In 1958, the founder of Angelo's began a pizza delivery business from his home, with wife , Anna , and his son, 11-year-old Ja...
A look at the 2015 Feast of Our Lady of the Audience, Kansas City, Missouri
Thank you Robert for sharing with us your wonderful pictures of this year's Feast of Our Lady of the Audience (May 24th). Each year devotees gather at Holy Rosary Church in Kansas City, Missouri to celebrate the Feast of the Madonna dell'Udienza, patroness of Sambuca, Sicily. Festivities included live music, refreshments and the highly ant...
New Italian restaurant brings two dining options to one table
by Coreen Savitski Randolfi's is bringing Southern Italian inspired cuisine to the Delmar Loop. "We wanted to go with kind of classical Italian with some modern touches," explained Michael Randolph, Randolfis' Chef/Owner. Chef Randolph keeps the menu 80% approachable and 20% inventive. "If you wanted to come in and get a...
St. Ambrose School Dinner Auction
By Loretta Vitale St. Ambrose School held is biennial dinner auction to benefit the school on Saturday, November 5th at Rose of the Hill banquet hall. The auction is a biennial fundraiser for specific projects needed at the school. "This year we are hopeful to reach our goal of raising $150,000 to renovate the school cafeteria kitchen," s...
WWII veteran, native Italian Paul Scalise cherished American dream
Paul Scalise immigrated to Omaha in 1940 on the last civilian ocean liner to leave Italy before World War II broke out. He was only 17. His father — a U.S. citizen who had returned to Italy — sent Paul here so he wouldn't be forced to join Mussolini's army. Instead, Scalise was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Forces, which fueled a lifelong de...