Hidden Gems: Pom Italian Eatery - An Authentic Italian Restaurant
I will admit – I am a foodie. There is something to be said about a beautiful plate of food. Meals are often the centerpieces of gatherings, or an evening alone when solitude is paired with a glass of wine and a hot dinner. Chef Robert Carrington at Pom Italian Eatery understands the comfort and importance of nourishing food. Carrington grew up wit...
Suraci’s Italian Cafe brings fresh specialty items to Wyoming Avenue in Forty Fort
In just two months of business, Suraci’s Italian Cafe already has achieved an important milestone. If they don’t have the daily specials posted on Facebook by about 10:30 a.m. each day, owner Dan Matechak and his staff will start to get calls from customers. “It’s great to see that kind of customer loyalty,” Matechak said during an interview Saturd...
Sons of Italy Hall to reopen on Thursday
A piece of Omaha's history will rise from the ashes on Thursday. That's when spaghetti dinners will return at the Sons of Italy Hall. It comes more than two years after a two-alarm fire destroyed the building near 10th and Pacific. Before the fire, the Sons of Italy held spaghetti dinners as a fundraiser for its community activities.
DU’s Anna Zanusso Preparing For Augusta National Women’s Amateur
University of Denver freshman Anna Zanusso is about to live out one of her dreams. Video of Zanusso getting invited to the Augusta National Women’s Amateur has been seen by 86,000 people. “That week we were checking our phones, checking the mail,” said DU golf coach Lindsay Kuhle. “When we found out on Thursday, it was the phone call of a lifetime...
Carnevale Veneziano 2020 - St. Louis
You are cordially invited to ST LOUIS' 3RD ANNUAL CARNEVALE VENEZIANO - the Premier Venetian Masquerade Gala in St Louis . Last year, we brought this timeless Italian tradition to Soulard's eclectic Mad Art Gallery. We're thrilled to do the same on Saturday, February 22, 2020.This year we're proud to feature the art of Evelyn Astegno, and her serie...
'A Bronx Tale,' adapted for Broadway from a movie, is coming to Omaha
The writer of “A Bronx Tale,” a touring Broadway musical coming next week to the Orpheum Theater, says the show endures because everybody can relate to it. Chazz Palminteri originally wrote the piece as a semiautobiographical one-man play about his childhood in the Bronx. When he was a young boy, he witnessed a shooting after two men were fighting...
Columbus Day replacement bill clears first House committee
A bill striking Columbus Day as a state legal holiday and replacing it with something else cleared the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee Tuesday on a 6-3 party-line vote. But will it win enough support to even move out of the House? House Bill 1031 is sponsored by Rep. Adrienne Benavidez, D-Denver/Adams County, and it's Benavidez...
Sons of Italy to celebrate reopening kitchen after 2017 fire
It's been a long process and it’s almost there. Recovering from the fire that tore through Sons of Italy. Soon, the kitchen will reopen at the hall after a long wait. Italy is in Todd Procopio's blood and so is Sons of Italy. His dad and his family were members here. Which made January 2017 even more painful. “There were inches of water. TV’s on th...
Italian restaurants opens in Scottsbluff airport
A new Italian restaurant opens its doors in the Western Nebraska Regional Airport. Roma Italian Restaurant sells homemade lasagna, meatballs, spaghetti, chicken parmesan, chicken alfredo, bread and more. Owners Alex and Noti Gabrica traveled from Texas to open the restaurant. They also recently applied for a liquor license so they can sell wine and...
Now available! Tickets for the 11th Italian Film Festival of Minneapolis / St. Paul
Tickets for the 11th Italian Film Festival are now available! The Italian Cultural Center, in partnership with MSP Film Society, is proud to present nine films never before seen in Minnesota, including a celebration of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, Federico Fellini, with a showing of his little-know gem Lo sceicco bianco...
Husker Clara Colombo makes history as first Italian-born NCAA women’s gymnast
Clara Colombo grew up around gymnastics. Her father was a coach, and her sister was a gymnast. Colombo first began participating in the sport around age 5. She continued to hone her craft over the years and performed well enough to become an NCAA gymnast for the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team. On the surface, nothing truly stands out about the fr...
Make & Take Dolci: Frappe Treats for Carnevale
Sunday February 2 2020. 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Mid-City Kitchen, 693 Raymond Avenue, St. Paul 55114. Frappe are rectangles of sweet pastry dough fried and coated with powdered sugar are typical tasty Carnevale treats made throughout Italy and called by various names: chiacchiere, sfrappole, crostoli, bugie, cenci and many more depending on the region....