Tavola Pizzeria owners look to build relationships with Italian Flavors
A new restaurant serving Italian-style pizza cooked in a brick oven is open for business in northwest Norman. Adam Oxsen and his wife, Sherise, opened a new local pizza restaurant, Tavola, on Dec. 7. They named the restaurant Tavola, which is Italian for table, because they wanted to create a space in which “relationships could be built around the...
St. Expedite Lodge in Louisiana to host St. Joseph’s Jazz Concert
The Great River Road Museum next to Houmas House & Garden in Darrow Louisiana will be the site of a Jazz Concert presented by the ISDA St. Joseph’s Lodge and the American Italian Federation of the Southeast on March 20th from 1-5pm. The 2-acre amphitheater provides a social distancing site so that the regional Italian organizations do not have to...
A Chic New Italian Restaurant With Michelin Star Cachet Arrives in Downtown Next Month
Dallas’s Italian cuisine scene will get even stronger with the arrival of Monarch, a swanky new eatery with Michelin star cachet that’s set to open its doors in Downtown next month. The restaurant will make its debut on the 49th floor of the National building at 1405 Elm Street on March 10, according to a press release. It’s the first Dallas restau...
Chicago's Original goes deep-dish on pizza and Italian beef in Allen
A well-liked Chicago pizzeria is back in action: Called Chicago's Original Pizza, this mom-and-pop recently reopened in Allen, but has been doing this kind of food in Collin County for more than a decade. Chicago's Original started out on Greenville Avenue where it earned a following from deep-dish devotees around DFW, where the Chicago-style pizza...
The Dallas Opera Announces Free TOSCA Simulcast Stream
The Dallas Opera will make the company's gripping 2015 production of Giacomo Puccini's immortal Tosca available free of charge for home viewing. This passionate, star-studded production was originally simulcast live in high definition to a North Texas audience at Klyde Warren Park. TDO's Tosca stream will premiere online Friday, February 26, 2021 a...
Sal's Bronx Pizza brings authentic, New York-style pizza to Corpus Christi's Southside
There's a new pizzeria in town, and it's bringing a taste of authentic "Bronx-style" pizza to Corpus Christi's Southside. Owner Salvatore (Sal) Colicci, who also owns Bella Luna Downtown, opened Sal's Bronx Pizza on New Year's Eve to offer his version of authentic New York-style pizza to Corpus Christi. Since opening its doors, Sal's has become a p...
Vincent D'Amico, educator, Robert Frost scholar, dies at 90
Vincent D’Amico, Robert Frost scholar, retired educator and proud University of St. Thomas alumnus, died of cancer at his home on Jan. 31 at age 90. During his lifetime, he decided that like Frost he would acquire acres of land of his own. In 2019, he donated 50 acres of land near Conroe to the University of St. Thomas to help it establish a nursin...
Thomas Jefferson’s little Anthony and the Arkansas Delta
Arkansas is steeped in history, natural beauty and southern hospitality. It is (you would think) one of the last places in America where residents from, fourth, fifth and sixth generations can trace their lineage back to Italy. One location in Arkansas where Italian immigrants were brought over to work on a cotton plantation circa 1895 was Sunnys...
In Dialogue: On Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century | Feb 10
The Menil Collection presents In Dialogue: On Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century, with Irina Zucca Alessandrelli e Edouard Kopp. Co-curators of the exhibtion Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century Conversation in streaming open to the public Wednesday, Feb 10 2021, 7pm on Menil Collection website e sul YouTube Chan...
Luigi's building new location in Bartlesville
Luigi's Italian Restaurant is moving forward with plans to relocate from its 3822 Frank Phillips Blvd location to a new building on Washington Boulevard.The restaurant is developing an empty 1.5-acre plot in the 1400 block of Washington Boulevard, west of IHOP and Subway, into a 5,000-square-foot restaurant building featuring stucco and cultured st...
The Muffaletta Sandwich is Perfect for This Super Bowl
The Muffaletta sandwich was invented at New Orleans’ Central Grocery by Sicilian immigrants in the early 20th century. And even though the Saints are not in this year’s Super Bowl, the Muffaletta sandwich, in all its meat and cheese and brilliantly topped decadence, is the perfect choice as Super Bowl fare for these topsy-turvy times. For starters...
New Burrata Pizzas in Time for National Pizza Day at Russo's New York Pizzeria & Italian Kitchen
The birthplace of burrata cheese is southern Italy. Created from the scraps (or ritagli) of mozzarella curds being placed inside a still-hot cheese pouch, burrata cheese is a labor of love that's traditionally wrapped in leaves of asphodel. The buffalo's in southern Italy graze on rich forage, making their milk full-bodied, resulting in burrata che...