OC Fashion Designer Nadia Bozzetti: Calm, Cool and Custom Fit for Success
by Gaya Lynn These days, most people answer the phone in a few ways. Either with disdain or with intense caution as if ready to say the word "No," before you even say hello. But when calling fashion designer Nadia Bozzetti, she did neither. Instead, her voice was like pure sunshine, bubbly, speaking both in English and Italian with a grace...
Celebrate Italian Heritage at Fest
It's about a month until the 33rd annual Upper Ohio Valley Italian Festival gets underway, with this year's event set for July 24-26 at Wheeling's Heritage Port. The Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival began in 1983 as the brain child of Anthony Zambito, Vincent Colaianni, Anthony Iannarelli and Benny Battistelli who visited the Cl...
A “Magical mistery tour” at the Four Seasons Houston
by Phaedra Cook Think you know everything about Houston's venerable, high-class hotel Four Seasons? The hotel is full of nooks, crannies, kitchens, wine rooms, special suites and ballrooms. Every Friday in July starting at 7 p.m., executive chef Maurizio Ferrarese and his staff of the hotel's restaurant, Quattro, are taking culinary advent...
Saving San Vincenzo - It is up to you!
by The Craco Society With the closing of St. Joseph's Church the Society's plan to preserve the 114 year old statue of San Vincenzo and the relic from 1769 is moving forward. We are working with the Archdiocese of NY to complete a "Memo Of Understanding" that will include details about how we will wo...
St. Ann Club Feast chairman says annual festival hits record attendance numbers
by Leslie Lake Pat Cutrone, St. Ann Club Feast chairman for the past 10 years, credited beautiful weekend weather, top-notch musical entertainment, and the efforts of more than 100 Club volunteers, for record-breaking attendance numbers on Thursday and Friday at the popular annual waterfront event. "I'm not sure of the exact attendance, b...
5-year-old girl who's losing sight will get to visit Rome
by Mitch Stacy The parents who created a "visual bucket list" for their 5-old-old daughter who's slowly going blind started by showing her wondrous sights close to their Ohio home. They never dreamed she'd get to see Rome someday. Elizabeth "Lizzy" Myers and her family will travel to Italy sometime next spring thanks to Turkish Airlin...
A little bit of Italy comes to Tega Cay
by Stephanie Marks Martell La Fornarina is an unassuming restaurant nestled in Stonecrest Village shopping center where Italian street chef Santi Arria is working magic with flour. Arria, owner of the La Fornarina restaurant in Messina, Italy, since 1986, is pursuing the American dream at the La Fornarina in Tega Cay, which opened in...
Chazz Palminteri’s Vision to Bring ‘A Bronx Tale’ Musical to Broadway
by Michael Calia In everything he does, Chazz Palminteri wants to tell you a story. Whether he's pitching vodka or telling you about his new restaurant, or even describing the acting talents of Tom Hardy, the 63-year-old actor, writer and director frames it as a narrative. But if there's one story he will always be known for, it's "A Bronx...
The Rocca di Vignola returns in full color
by Marco Carminati The earthquake that struck Emilia Romagna in 2012 also hit the beautiful Rocca di Vignola in the Modenese Apennines. The charming red brick castle (today owned by the Foundation of Vignola chaired by Valerio Massimo Manfredi) stands with three towers over the area of Vignola near the river Panaro, in a ring of rolling hi...
Aperitivo Italiano - Italian American Museum of LA and Rao's
The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles and Rao's cordially invite you to an Apertitivo Italiano: a preview of the seventh annual Taste of Italy. Wednesday, September 30, 2015. 7-9 pm. Rao's 1006 Seward St. • Los Angeles, 90038. RSVP: Media@italianhall.org Featuring highlights from Rao's Second Anniversary Menu, pair...
October 17 – Italian Rootstock Festival – 1:00-8:00 pm
Santa Rosa Vintners Square. 1301 & 1305 Cleveland Avenue - Santa Rosa, CA 95401. Free for adults & children. A full day of family fun filled with local Italian artisan ambiance with Italian food, Italian folk music & dancing, silent auction, arts & crafts, face-painting, games for kids, grape stomp, wine tasting,...
Tony Bennett Says Another Lady Gaga Collaboration Album is Coming
By Erin Strecker Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga will go cheek to cheek once again. In a new interview, Bennett shared that he and Lady Gaga, who is currently hard at work on her upcoming solo album, plan to release another album together, this time of Cole Porter classics. "It's going to be all Cole Porter songs," Bennett told Vu...