Nearly thirty members of the Solon Italian Club came together at the Solon Community Center on the afternoon of Sunday, March 23 for the club's second annual sausage-making party.   Club members split the cost of supplies and broke into small groups to season the meat, mix in spices and load it into casings. Each group made several pounds of...

From June 28th until July 20th, Lake Como welcomes the tenth edition of the "Music on the Water" Festival, an international festival of chamber music.   There are six concerts every evening starting at 9:00 p.m., offering to the public and visitors to Colico, a town in the province of Lecco, the chance to get closer to the extraordinary worl...

The Sicilian Festival, the first festival to be held in San Diego's iconic Little Italy neighborhood, has announced that it will become part of the annual Little Italy Festa beginning October 11, 2015. For 21 years, the beloved Sicilian Festival was the labor of love for a small group of volunteers whose goal was to preserve the heritage and cultu...

The Feast – 40 years older and second in size to San Gennaro – celebrating the dramatic story of St. Paulinus, will have live, nightly entertainment, vendors selling Italian specialties and international delicacies, parades, a bazaar with games, gifts, souvenirs; children's rides and amusements and the atmosphere and excitement of Italy.   T...

Villagers are encouraged to claim their seats early for the Italian American Parade set to step off at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Spanish Springs Town Square. Among the acts appearing in the parade will be the Villages High School Band, the '57 Chevy Golf Cart Club, the Villages Twirlers and Drum Corps, the Village Cheerleaders, Clown Alley 179, the...

By Frances Parrish   Beverly Childs, executive director of the Anderson County Museum, took a trip to southern Italy in October, and now she is helping bring a slice of Italy to Anderson through the International Festival. Childs, a festival committee member, remembers walking through doors of Catholic churches in Italy and seeing the e...

The township chapter of UNICO, the national Italian-American service organization, is accepting applications from young women, one of whom will be chosen to represent the local chapter as Miss Hillsborough UNICO 2016 at various public functions.   Applicants must meet the following criteria: · Ancestry must be at least 50 percent Italian an...

by Rex Rutkoski   At the first Vandergrift Italian Festival in 2004, the Rev. Anthony Bosco compared ethnic heritage in America to a good minestrone. "So many different ingredients — Italian (pasta), Polish (carrots), Lithuanian (celery), German (broth) — brought together to make a wonderful dish, each uniquely a different piece adding...

There will be plenty of delicious food, fun games, rides and live entertainment. Weather permitting, there will be a spectacular fireworks show on Saturday night.   Mass will be celebrated at the Saint Rocco Society Chapel at 9 AM on Sunday, August 11th.   Read more    Fonte: Magna Grece    

Among the more than 300 festas that every year celebrate Italy in the US, a number that seems impossible but instead is real, today our interview will bring us to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Let's face it, this is not the first city that comes to our mind when we think about the American places of the Italian emigration: and probably it isn't even in the...