Sprezza Is a Roman Holiday
by Eve Hill-Agnus Julian Barsotti's latest love letter to Italy is his most specific, fixated on a place as much as an idea, a feeling. At Carbone's, he honored his Italian-American roots. At Nonna, he ventured into the regions of Italy. Sprezza, in the emergent Maple Avenue Dining District, gives primacy to Rome. What does it mea...
Greater Baton Rouge American Association: Scholarship
The Greater Baton Rouge American Association is dedicated to the importance of the pursuit of education, and for this reason it wishes to help an outstanding student attend a college or university. The Greater Baton Rouge American Italian Association is pleased to announce that it will be offering two scholarship this year (2013) for stude...
New building expands Kimbell's gallery space
by Jamie Stengle The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is expanding its gallery space with a new building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano that is a nod to the museum's original Louis Kahn-designed building. "There are so many echoes of the Khan building here," said museum director Eric M. Lee as he stood in one of the new...
Downtown: Sons & Daughters of Italy — Club keeps culture of Italy strong in Cruces
In the New York and New Jersey area, there are dozens of Italian clubs and thousands of Italian Americans involved in them. In Las Cruces, there is one. "We are a cultural social club," said Al "Chance" Cella, founder of the Sons & Daughters of Italy in Las Cruces group. "To continue to stay in touch with our traditions, our heritage." ...
Bosco's Italian Cafe's Louisiana Crawfish King Cake: 58 days of king cake
So far in our 58 days of king cakes series, we've given you every type of king cake imaginable, from the mundane to the exotic. We've sampled traditional style braided cakes, tested king cakes with goat cheese, guava, and even tried a cake laced with the flavor of basil. Read more Source: http://www.nola.com &...
Andrea ‘Drew’ Bacigalupa, 1923-2015: Son says early Canyon Road artist ‘felt he had left a heritage’
Andrea "Drew" Bacigalupa, a longtime artistic fixture on Canyon Road as well as a writer, teacher and World War II veteran, died Sunday at his Santa Fe home. He was 91. "He was a complex man in that he had a lot of things going on," one of his sons, Ruan Bacigalupa, said Tuesday. "He was a writer and an artist and a draftsman-illustrator for the S...
New Northshore Gem Meribo Opens In Covington Today
by Nora McGunnigle Meribo is pronounced "Muh-REE-bo" and combines the two Italian words meridionale (southern) and cibo (food) to indicate the restaurant/pizzeria's dedication to combining southern Italian recipes with American southern ingredients, like wild boar and Benton's bacon. Co-founders and friends Vinnie La Donne (formerly GM at...
Dall'Italia al Midwest americano a caccia di tornado
Piatta, che più piatta non si può. Glaciale con i blizzard dell'inverno e torrida con il sole dell'estate. Coltivata, in buona parte a mais. La pianura del Midwest, che si estende dal Texas al confine canadese attraverso l'Oklahoma, il Kansas, il Nebraska e i due Dakota è la parte degli Stati Uniti che i turisti italiani ed europei conoscono di men...
Italian consul impressed with Tulsa on visit as part of Italian Culture Day
Fabrizio Nava's first visit to Tulsa to coincided with the much-ballyhooed opening of the Woody Guthrie Center in the Brady Arts District. But Nava, the consul general of Italy in Houston, was in town for a different sort of celebration. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., have designated 2013 as...
Report: Spurs strike deal with Belinelli
The San Antonio Spurs have reportedly reached an agreement with guard Marco Belinelli on a two-year contract, according to multiple reports. Yahoo! Sports has stated that the deal, which cannot be made official until July 10, is worth a total of $6 million. Belinelli comes to the defending Western Conference champions after spending last...
Cinema, proiezione a Houston di "Into Paradiso"
Il Consolato Generale d'Italia, il Consolato dello Sri Lanka a Houston e la St. Thomas University presentano la proiezione di "Into Paradiso" di Paola Randi (con sottotitoli in inglese). Napoli. Il ricercatore universitario Alfonso d'Onofrio, timido e goffo, viene licenziato. Gayan e' un affascinante ma squattrinato ex campione di cricket di Sri L...
Moores Opera Center presents The Italian Straw Hat
While trying to get to his wedding, a young Parisian man is swept up in events that spiral hilariously out of control. The composer of iconic film scores — such as The Godfather; Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet; and Fellini's La dolce vita, La strada and 8 ½ — also wrote this charming and disarming farce that moves like the wind with bountiful bel ca...