Fifteenth Annual Benefit For North Beach Citizens
by Mauro Aprile Zanetti It was spring 2000 when film director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola (currently a successful wine producer in the Napa Valley as well), came out with an idea that promptly involved poet, activist and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers co-founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jeannette Hether...
Stage Actor Leads Union
Carlo Fiorletta is an actor and producer but his position as President of the Guild for Italian American Actors is what separates him from many in the entertainment industry. The Guild for Italian American Actors, known as GIAA, was first called the Italian Actors Union, founded in 1937 by Antonio Maiori. The professional organization is t...
'Pasta For CASA' Coming Next Week
It's the 25th year for a popular -- and tasty -- fundraiser that helps an organization that helps children. Pasta for CASA is next week. Cortney Shatraw is CASA's program director and Tracie Briggs is the CASA court coordinator. They talked about the event on 7 News THis Morning. Watch the video for their interview. CASA stands for C...
Tuscan Sister City Sends Chef to Charlottesville
Tavola restaurant is excited to partner with the Charlottesville Sister City commission on an exchange of culinary talent between two Italian restaurants: Ristorante il Falcone in the sister city of Poggio a Caiano and tavola restaurant in Charlottesville. Each restaurant will send its chef to the other for one week. From June 6-...
Rita’s Italian Ice Expands with Area Developer Agreements
Rita's Italian Ice signs its thirtieth area development agreement for Colorado and Wyoming. Rita's strategic growth plan constitutes area developers to pioneer Rita's icy treats while bringing innovative growth to their expansion plan. Area developers are Rita's enthusiasts and work closely with the franchisor to acquire new franchisees in their te...
Tuscan chef spends the week cooking at Tavola, and other restaurant news
by Laura Ingles They say in America that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Turns out that's pretty universal. "Her love for food started with a love for her husband, because the restaurant owner was her husband," says Caterina Martini, translating for seventh-generation Italian chef Roberta Vivetta Cintelli. "She starte...
Lissa Druss Christman, winner of Mazzei Award
River Forest resident Lissa Druss Christman, 48, recently was awarded the Mazzei Award from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans. The award, named for Tuscan physician and American Revolution supporter Filippo Mazzei, recognizes an individual with extraordinary public affairs skills. Christman answered a few questions for the Forest Leave...
Meet my Italian restaurant crush of the summer
It seems like this spring and summer, I've been crushing on the new +39 Restaurant, Market & Cantina, the Italian restaurant that opened across from the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park in April. Maybe it's the Italian accent that makes my heart beat a little faster. My crush started innocently enough with a night of gelato...
Italian language: No Need to Kiss the Ring, Just Use “Lei”
WTI Magazine #81 2016 July 15Author : Giulia Casati for the Italian School NJ Translation by: English and Italian grammar are very different. Anybody that studies Italian can tell that the Italian and English grammar, specifically the verb tenses and the nouns, are completely different. But the most foreign concepts to English speake...
How Italy has become a leader for energy efficiency
When discussing about virtuous countries for energy efficiency standards, Germany and Japan are often quoted as examples of developed countries that have succeeded in upgrading industrial gear in an environmental-friendly way. However, the latest International Energy Efficiency Scorecard published by the nonprofit American Council for an E...
45 years of Italian legacy at Freehold pizzeria
by Susan Bloom Arriving in the U.S. from the town of Monte di Procida just outside of Naples in 1970, Antonio Durazzo started as a longshoreman in Brooklyn. But not for long. He soon moved to Freehold Township, where he opened his own eatery, Attilio's Restaurant & Pizza, in 1972. The following year he was joined in the b...
Four Tips to Order Espresso Like An Italian
Italians believe that life's pleasures are a God-given right. By contrast, in the United States, hard work is nearly synonymous with the pursuit of happiness. Maybe because of the romanticized version of Italy portrayed in films like Under the Tuscan Sun, we Americans tend to imagine Italy as a land, of bountiful, untethered pleasure. Despite two...