Tarantella, cookies and amore: Italian American Marching Club Pre-Parade Party
As bikers, walkers and runners made their way around the Audubon Park path on the Sunday afternoon of March 4, over by the park's Newman Bandstand the Italian American Marching Club/St. Joseph Society Pre-Parade Party was in full swing. Italian flags flew while young ladies -- maids -- danced the tarantella accompanied with music sung by Lena Prima...
L’Oca d’Oro brings worker-first, ingredient-forward focus to Mueller
Golden goose—that’s what proud parents Fiore Tedesco III and Katie Bender dubbed their baby girl when she was born with a shock of blonde hair—an anomaly in her brunette family tree. Tedesco, executive chef, now co-owns a restaurant bearing his daughter’s Italian nickname: L’Oca d’Oro. But making the restaurant a gold-plated success took years of h...
DSO's Ruth Reinhardt conducts smartly in an imaginative all-Italian ReMix concert
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's ReMix series of shorter and more casual concerts, at Moody Performance Hall, has struggled to find an identity. Maybe that's actually the point, to have maximum flexibility. But Friday night's concert, with munchies and drinks in the lobby before and afterward, did have a real focus, and an imaginative one. Led by a...
Rouses Brings Italian Products to Gulf Coast Consumers
Rouses Markets is partnering with the Italian Trade Agency to add Italian imports to Rouses stores throughout the Gulf Coast, including cheese, cured meats, preserves and wine. “This partnership expands exponentially the Italian imports we have on our shelves for our customers,” said Donny Rouse, CEO of the Thibodaux, La.-based grocery chain. “We’v...
'Ugly' new Italian restaurant brings beautiful Neapolitan pizza to East Austin
One of spring's most anticipated new restaurants finally has an opening date. Il Brutto, from hospitality group New Waterloo, will bring contemporary Italian cuisine to The Arnold building at 1601 E. Sixth St. starting March 12, according to a release. The eatery will be helmed by executive chef Erind Halilaj, formerly of Obicà Mozzarella Bar, and...
New restaurant at The Star in Frisco renews hope for Dallas Italian fans
Opening day has arrived for a new restaurant bringing a promising new rendition of authentic Italian cuisine. Called Da Mario, it will open at The Star in Frisco on February 28 at 5:30 pm. In other words, in mere hours, Dallas diners may finally get access to a level of authenticity in Italian food they've heretofore been denied. Da Mario is concei...
Annual AR Italian Food & Culture Festival to Debut in NLR
Immerse in Italian culture at the first annual Arkansas Italian Food & Culture Festival, presented by Relyance Bank, coming to North Shore Riverwalk on Friday, April 20, 4 p.m. - 9 p.m., and Saturday, April 21, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. “The goal is that when you’re at the festival and close your eyes and listen, and smell the food, that you will be inundate...
Slow Wine comes to Houston (March 5) and why that’s a really, really big deal (at least to me)
For the last two years, Italy’s “Slow Wine tour” has come to Texas. When I first moved to the state in 2008, that would have been nearly unthinkable. At the time, Texas and its three major wine destinations — Houston, Dallas, and Austin — were part of an “emerging” as opposed to “established” market for fine wine. As one prominent Texas-based wine...
From Italy to the Falls: Lazzarotto fits in at Hirschi High School
Pietro Lazzarotto didn't know what kind of situation he was coming into when he signed up to play basketball with the Hirschi Huskies. The senior foreign exchange student from Italy just wanted to play on an American high school basketball team so he could continue playing the sport in college. Much to his surprise, he joined one of the top Class 4...
The Happy Italian: A pizzeria with white-tablecloth fare
A surprise can be good or bad, right? The Happy Italian Pizzeria, a modest-looking restaurant on Jefferson Highway in Harahan, was a good surprise for me. On the advice of the Where NOLA Eats Facebook group members, we walked in to see the cooks at work in the open kitchen, sliding pizzas into a giant oven. We planned to order a pizza, maybe a sala...
CASA debuts European luxury goods in West Avenue showroom
It was Giorgetti's sexy Progetti chair that introduced Jerry Hooker and Jacob Sudhoff to one of Italy's finest makers of leather-and-wood furniture: Giorgetti. At the time, the men thought it was an attractive chair that would fit into their modern design aesthetic with its tall, white leather back and sleek wooden legs. On a trip to Italy they vis...
The 11th edition of the NM Italian Film & Culture Festival preparing to launch
With two Top 5 Best of the City awards and scores of rave reviews under their belts, the folks at Italian Festivals of New Mexico (IFNM) are gearing up for another first-class NM Italian Film & Culture Festival. In fulfillment of the nonprofit’s mission to promote Italian culture while giving back to the community, the much-anticipated annual fest...