Cubs players were busy texting and submitting votes online Monday for first baseman Anthony Rizzo, one of five National League finalists for the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored by Experian. Even Cubs manager Rick Renteria checked Rizzo's name.   "Hey, everybody better be voting for Rizzo," Renteria said Monday. "It'd be a gre...

An Italian manufacturer has opened its first U.S. production line in Greater Cincinnati, cutting the ribbon on the facility on Thursday. Bonfiglioli USA opened a new expansion to its 80,000-square-foot facility on Hargrave Drive in Hebron. The facility also serves as the company's U.S. headquarters. Bonfiglioli, which makes pro...

by Casey Weldon   A new eatery is trying to attract new customers by giving out free food. Every day. For a year. Piada Italian Street Food, the creation of restaurateur Chris Doody, is opening a new dining spot in Hyde Park Plaza on Friday. In order to celebrate the opening, the owners of the restaurant are promising free food for a ye...

Sacred Heart Church in Camp Washington will host its annual Italian Dinner Sunday. Sunday's event will mark the 103rd Italian Dinner. Organizers said the dinner is more than a meal. It is a tradition and a fellowship based in love and friendship.   Read more   Source: http://www.wlwt.com    

by Polly Campbell   Cristian Pietoso, owner of Via Vite restaurant, Downtown, will be busy over the next few months, opening two new restaurants. First to open will be in the space of M Woodfired Grill in Hyde Park. The not-yet-named restaurant will be a traditional Italian osteria.   "Via Vite is traditional, but with a more mod...

by Larry Davis   Since it first opened its doors in 2011, crowds have packed the Holy Grail. It was the first establishment in at the Banks and it has a key location right across the street from Great American Ball Park. Co-owner Paul Goebel says The Banks has been good for the "Grail."   "We were, actually about half the streets were...

The AP® Italian Reading will take place June 12-18, 2014 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third year after the AP® Italian has been reinstated as a course and, after the excellent results of the two previous years, we are once more all looking forward to this year's Reading with great anticipation.   The Chief Reader, the Q...

by Joel M Beall   Frequent visitors of Eden Park have undoubtedly come across the statue of a she-wolf feeding twin infants. Some might be privy to the fact that it's a replica of the famous Capitoline Wolf located in Rome, and was bestowed to Cincinnati as a gift. What might be foreign, and somewhat of a head-scratcher to observers, is...

by Polly Campbell   Are you looking for a cheap feed or a fine-dining experience? Do you want to try something new, or do you think a restaurant should have been in place a few decades before it can be judged "best"? Any of those ways, you're in luck. There are Italian restaurants in Cincinnati that have been around since the Depression...

Saturday morning, they rolled more than 24,000 meatballs 115,000 raviolis and by hand in preparation for Sunday's feast.It takes volunteers weeks to prepare for the feast in Camp Washington, which benefits Sacred Heart Church. This is church's 104th year and the 30th for the dinner. "We have fun. We've been doing this controlled chaos for a long t...