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The History Press, a publisher located in Charleston, South Carolina has announced a February 23, 2015 publication date for one of its new titles: "BALTIMORE'S LITTLE ITALY: History and Heritage of The Neighborhood" by Suzanna Rosa Molino, director of Promotion Center for Little Italy.   Future newsletters of Promotion Center for Little Ital...

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di Gabriele Scarfone   L'immigrazione degli Italiani in America ha sempre avuto un connotato quasi cinematografico dovuto al forte senso di comunità che il nostro popolo è riuscito a trasportare anche oltre oceano.   Solo poche altre etnie possono vantarsi di avere lo stesso concetto di gruppo, branco o famiglia. Città come New York,...

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As a New Yorker who wants each neighborhood to be different, each block to be like a pocket with a secret tucked inside it, I have strongly mixed feelings about gentrification. As a critic confronted with shiny new restaurants in changing neighborhoods, though, I have to admit that I often end up liking the shiny new places more than what came befo...

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Friday, December 13th (6:30pm) - Suggested donation of $10 per person Photo essay by International Transportation Photojournalist Joseph M. Calisi   Joseph M. Calisi retraced places visited in his youth to capture the sun-splashed beauty of a region rarely seen by tourists. This photographic essay of Puglia, features the beauty of Sout...

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San Diego's Little Italy has fast become a neighborhood bathed in an urban chic sensibility and one with its own mythos. But before the contemporary convergence of myriad restaurants and retailers, the neighborhood had modest beginnings with its history going back hundreds of years.   It is a collective tale of immigration and assimilation–a...

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Sunday June 28 - 11 am/4 pm EDT - Bronx Little ItalyArthue Avenue & East 187th St, The Bronx 10458Bronx Little Italy will host its first Art Show on Arthur Avenue between East 187th Street and Crescent Avenue on Sunday, June 28th from 11am-4pm.   Come to the neighborhood for a day filled with great art and of course the great produc...

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When the fire hydrants begin to look like Italian flags with green, red and white stripes, you know you're on "The Hill". With an Italian American style all their own, featuring Provel cheese and fried ravioli, there's an unmistakable St. Louis flair in this town's Italian flavor.   Settlement of what's now called "the Hill" began in the 183...

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By Ray Alcaraz Over the past several months, Little Italy has been in the news quite a bit. Most of the items, it seems, have been related to incidents of crime, including a violent beating and robbing of a restaurant employee.   Other items have been written on opinion pages regarding Little Italy's future or how it must change to remain r...

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Lecture and photographic presentation by renowned Italian American photographer Anita Sanseverino   You are cordially invited to attend a lecture and photographic presentation by renowned Italian American photographer Anita Sanseverino titled, "Puglia: Italy's Best Kept Secret" on Wednesday, May 7th at the Italian American Museum. Anita...

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by James Edwards Besides the many fans and those in the sports world, there's another place in particular mourning the death of baseball legend Yogi Berra: a St. Louis neighborhood called The Hill. Berra grew up in The Hill, which became the nucleus of the city's Italian community, as many Italian immigrants settled there when arriving to St....

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