Sparta UNICO to Hold Italian Heritage Afternoon of Fun
Sparta UNICO is sponsoring a Heritage event for area residents. On April 17 people in the county are invited to Hillside Park in Andover for fun, food and family. They will provide live Italian music, food tasting, demonstrations, Italian lessons and cultural information. Door prizes include a free DNA testing kit donated by Ancestry.com.&...
Would "uncle Walt" approve? The Italic Institute of America lambastes new Disney Film for promoting racism to children
The Italic Institute of America (IIA), a national educational think tank, is accusing the new animated film "Zootopia" of "polluting the minds of impressionable young viewers with a rancid ethnic stereotype," says Bill Dal Cerro, the Institute's national president. Specifically, the Institute refers to the character of Mr. Big, an Arctic S...
Is that a Donatello in the MFA’s storage?
When New York art dealer Andrew Butterfield arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts in the spring of 2013, he carried with him a tantalizing conjecture: An obscure 15th-century sculpture, which the museum had kept in storage for most of the past 30 years, was in fact the lost work of a Renaissance master. Butterfield had not come to Boston out...
Bruculino: A Taste Of Italian Via Brooklyn
Warning: Menu changes often. No objections here. Bruculino cooks with the season. Bruculino is slang for a guy from Brooklyn. That's what Chef Joe Bruno is. The chef — who pioneered SoNo's Washington Street restaurant row with freshly made pastas — closed Pasta Nostra after 30 years and opened Bruculino around the corner. The sli...
Alisa DiGiacomo (Author of the book "Italy in Colorado: Family Histories from Denver and Beyond")
On the (virtual) road again, our trip around the US searching for Italian traces brings us today in Colorado. Again, not among the first States usually mentioned regarding the Italian emigration to the United States, but we will discover that there's a lot of Italy here too, starting from its motto that has its origin in Virgil's Aeneid: "Nil sine...
New Jersey e Italia, uno per l'altro
Il New Jersey da sempre è stato l'italiano d'America. La grande presenza di italo-americani è il motore principale, ma adesso si guarda ancora più in là, a un incremento dei rapporti commerciali tra Garden State e l'Italia. Lo ha sottolineato Maurizio Forte, presidente dell'Italian Trade Agency, l'Istituto per il Commercio Estero, l'ICE, di New Yor...
New Film by Local Producer/Survivor Marks 60th Anniversary of Deadly Andrea Doria Shipwreck
Author and Producer Pierette Domenica Simpson, who has written two books and a screenplay about surviving a deadly shipwreck while immigrating to America, has completed production of an international movie to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the catastrophe on June 25, 1956. The film, Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, will debut at a...
An Evening with Al Pacino at the Borgata in Atlantic City – June 4th
Al Pacino is one of the most acclaimed actors in film history. He is most famous for his roles in "The Godfather," "The Godfather II," "Serpico," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Scarface," "Carlito's Way," "Heat" and "Scent of a Woman." He is a winner of an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe awards, the National Medal of Arts and the...
Taverna is Now Open at River Oaks District
WHEN ALBERTO LOMBARDI OPENED TAVERNA at River Oaks District over the weekend, it was not his first rodeo, or perhaps more accurately, risotteria. This is the eighth location of the pasta, pizza and risotto specialist. It's one of seven members of Lombardi Family Concepts, which also includes Kai Asian Bistro, Lombardi's Romagna Mia and Tou...
Grazia Italian Kitchen event raises $40,000 for Pearland Police officer’s family
Grazia Italian Kitchen held a donation drive and raised $40,000 for the fallen Pearland Officer Endy Epankya's family last Saturday (June 19). Grazia Italian Kitchen owner Adrian Hembree, Executive Chef/Operator Steve Haug and Grazia Italian Kitchen management team and staff hosted the event from 6-11 a.m. in the parking lot of the restaurant...
A Badge of Honor
Over Independence Day weekend, Il Regno's very own Cav. John Napoli was kind enough to show us his brevet and medals from the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (Sacro Militare Ordine Constantiniano di San Giorgio), an ancient Roman Catholic dynastic order of Knighthood, which according to tradition traces its origins back to Emper...
Dino's brings specialty Italian to Asbury
Growing up, Dino LaSasso would never bring peanut butter and jelly or flavorless cold cut sandwiches to school for lunch. His mother, Patricia Bender, a former restaurant owner and chef, would make her three children veal cutlet sandwiches for lunch instead. "I just assumed everybody had food like that," LaSasso said. After he was shocked...