Close

by Catherine Accardi   What does one talk about when speaking with a legend? How often does one have the opportunity to speak with an icon of San Francisco's North Beach and beyond? And, in Italian, which he likes to call "la bella lingua". He enjoys being called Lorenzo.   I recently spoke with Lawrence Ferlinghetti about North Beach...

1043

Italian immigrants to Chicago faced many drastic changes in their environments and way of life. The bustling new metropolis was very different from an Italian rural village. The mass of new Italian immigrants who entered the city in the late nineteenth century, primarily men from the small towns surrounding Palermo, Sicily were either single or had...

1340

by Eric Brightwell Los Angeles and Orange Counties are home to many official and unofficial (but widely recognized) ethnic enclaves, including Cambodia Town, Chinatown, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Arabia, Little Bangladesh, Little Ethiopia, Little India, Little Osaka, Little Saigon, Little Seoul, Little Tokyo, Oaxacato...

1012

Holiday walk hours Friday, 12/5 noon-9pm, Saturday ,12/6 noon-9pm Sunday, 12/7 noon-6pm. Stay tuned at "Little Italy Cleveland" as we roll out the highlights for the weekend!   Bring your family and friends and join in the holiday cheer! Horse drawn carriage rides (Sunday) Ice Sculpting, Christmas Tree Auction and Carolers. Come out and...

7474

by Mireya Navarro   An elderly woman whose pending eviction from her apartment in Manhattan's Little Italy by the Italian American Museum was denounced by housing advocates has until June 30 to leave under an agreement between the two parties. The woman, Adele Sarno, 85, the daughter of Italian immigrants, went to Housing Court last mon...

636

By Aprille Hanson   In the 127 pages of the newly released book, "Images of America: Little Italy," a community is frozen in time.   The roughly 200 featured photos represent more than just the people of the past — it captures their spirit of hard work, faith and family that still lingers in the tight-knight Italian immigrant founded-...

1815

Il triangolo Kenmare, Lafayette Street e Cleveland Place, nel cuore dell'antica Little Italy, è dedicato al Lt. Joseph Petrosino, in onore alla leggendaria figura del poliziotto originario di Padula impegnato nella lotta alla Mano Nera, ucciso a Palermo in un agguato nel 1909. Ieri si è svolta una cerimonia per la posa di due targhe commemorative...

1501

Wednesday, December 30th (6:30 P.M.). Please join Anita Sanseverino in a photographic tour of Naples during the Christmas season, culminating in the area's most important street during the season, Via San Gregorio Armeno, the street of the Presepio Napoletano. Anita will share a history of the presepio and how it became central to Naples, and...

852

Belmont sta stretta alla sua Little Italy. L'enclave italiana del distretto del Bronx, 10 blocchi di negozi e ristoranti concentrati intorno alle due grandi arterie commerciali, Arthur Avenue e East 187th Street, vuole attirare nuovi residenti e clienti."Diamo risalto all'eredità culturale italiana perché è ciò per cui siamo conosciuti" ha detto Fr...

2336

From New York to San Diego, America cast off the inhibitions of an earlier era and celebrated prosperity, movies, the automobile, and jazz. Then - January 16, 1920 – The 18th Amendment was signed into law and America went DRY! It was Prohibition!   Thirsty Americans sought relief ... and the Speakeasy was born! There has never been a time l...

1488