The Meatball Spot opens at Mall of America
by Clare Kennedy A fast-casual Italian restaurant with a celebrity following has opened a satellite shop at the Mall of America. The Meatball Spot opened on the Bloomington mall's third level last Monday. The counter service-only concept offers four different meatballs, a salad menu and flatbreads. It's the first location out...
Family and hard work: the foundations of San Antonio Winery’s 100-year old history
Hidden in the heart of Los Angeles, which decades ago was home to Little Italy, an authentic Italian family business has been thriving, growing in both size and reputation, since its foundation in 1917. San Antonio Winery was established by Mr. Santo Cambianica, a native of Berzo San Fermo in Lombardy region, Italy, and at that time it would fit in...
As vocations dwindle, monasteries and abbeys make room for pleasure-seeking travellers
by Chiara Beghelli For a great number of travellers the ideal vacation is not made up of extreme adventures or exhausting city-tours. Quite the contrary: for them, relaxation and distance from the chaos and the stress of the daily routine seems to be the preferred solution. These travellers seek a secluded lifestyle similar to tha...
Celebrare i 750 anni di Dante anche per rilanciare la lingua italiana nel mondo
di Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino Il 750° anniversario della nascita di Dante è un'importante celebrazione per la nostra lingua e la nostra cultura. La nostra speranza è che questi anni di celebrazioni siano anche occasioni per promuovere l'apprendimento e l'insegnamento dell'italiano in Italia e nel mondo. Infatti, ci saranno eventi...
Italy’s Mouth of Truth
Long before the modern lie detector and its harmlessly jittering graphs and wires were invented, the untruthful faced a much more severe fate between the jaws of the Bocca della Verità, or Mouth of Truth (or Mouth of Fate), an ancient carving that is said to bite the hands off of liars. While no one is exactly sure when or why the frieze w...
2015: The Taste of Little Italy returns to Cleveland’s Historic Little Italy September 20
Join your friends and family at the 18th annual Taste of Little Italy featuring the finest Italian food and wine as it returns to historic Little Italy in Cleveland on Sunday, September 20, 2015, 1:00 – 5:00 PM in the Holy Rosary Churchyard, 12009 Mayfield Road, Cleveland OH. The event offers Italian food and wine, live entertainment, and...
The Frist's dazzling new exhibit shows how the 'graceful nonchalance' of Italian fashion designers conquered the world
by Abby White Five years ago, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts hosted the only U.S. presentation of the Victoria and Albert Museum's superb The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957, which chronicled a celebrated era of fashion marked by the debut of Christian Dior's groundbreaking "new look" and a subsequent burst of cre...
Cartoline dall'altra Italia: Un viaggio nella nuova Emigrazione, alla scoperta dei giovani che hanno deciso di provare un’esperienza all’estero
Un viaggio nella nuova Emigrazione, alla scoperta dei giovani connazionali che, per voglia o per necessità, hanno deciso di provare un'esperienza all'estero. L'identikit dei nuovi emigrati e le loro esperienze di vita. La web serie "Cartoline dall'altra Italia", realizzata dall'agenzia giornalistica 9colonne con il sostegno del Ministero degli Aff...
Carini was unofficial curator of Milwaukee's Italian community
By Bill Glauber Mario Carini was the unofficial historian of Milwaukee's Italian-American community. He was a retired schoolteacher who spent months poring through records in reference libraries. He was the man families entrusted with their precious, vintage black-and-white photos of people and places long gone yet lovingly remembered...
Harlem Brick-Oven Pizza Shop Thumbs Its Nose at Papa John's
By Gustavo Solis The neighborhood newest brick-oven pizza place is giving Papa John's the kiss-off. Babbalucci, which opened July 1 in a storefront formerly occupied by the franchise, gave their pizza predecessor a unique shout out. "As an ode to Papa John's we named a pizza after them," said owner Andrew LoPresto. "We call i...
Frankie Valli: Italian of the Week
Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, better known as Frankie Valli, was born on May 3, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the youngest of three children born to barber and model train designer Anthony Castelluccio and homemaker Mary Rinaldi. When he was seven his mother took him into New York City to see up-and-coming artist Frank Sinatra. The show cha...
Sacco-Vanzetti execution anniversary remembered in Springfield
by Matt Caron It's been 88 years since two Italian immigrants were executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Many people believe that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were wrongly executed based on flimsy evidence and their political beliefs. To commemorate the date and to build opposition to the death penalty ever being...