Popera prince Andrea Bocelli will perform a special Keep Memory Alive concert for the next Power of Love Gala on June 11 to benefit our downtown Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. When the Italian tenor was here for a Christmas concert at MGM Grand two weeks ago, Andrea and his wife, Veronica, toured the Frank Gehry-designe...
READ MOREby Robyn Leach The spirit of Frank Sinatra was very much alive Wednesday night in the restaurant named after "The Chairman of the Board" at Steve Wynn's Encore. Sinatra will be even more so Dec. 12, "Ol' Blue Eyes' " birthday, when CBS airs a two-hour special from Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas with stage and audience filled with su...
READ MOREEvery neighborhood needs a cozy Italian restaurant to call its own, and Green Valley has a handful of favorite haunts where the regulars are loyal and the food is hearty. Annie's Gourmet Italian Bistro, which reopened earlier this year after moving from its location of five years on Horizon Ridge Parkway to a higher-profile retail center just off t...
READ MOREby Marco D'Angelo Sometimes when writing my column I say to myself, "Do I really want to write this place up? This place is too good to share." But I can't do that to my loyal followers even though I'm making it harder to get my own reservation. In eight years in Vegas I had never been to the Italian American Social Club (2333 E. Saha...
READ MOREby Denise Valdez Ferraro's Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar is a successful family-owned business that just celebrated three decades in Las Vegas. On Friday, the City of Las Vegas is declaring it "Ferraro Family Day" to honor their 30 years in business. To celebrate its 30 years, the restaurant is offering full course meals for...
READ MOREFormer Mayor Oscar Goodman has been hosting a series of dinner events at his namesake steakhouse at Downtown's Plaza, mostly featuring colorful stories of Vegas past served as a tasty side dish. The next such event has him particularly excited. "When we got here in 1964 our social lives revolved around two places, and one of those was the...
READ MOREWe are going to join The Italian American Club, The Sons of Italy and The Augustus Society in creating a scholarship because, there is a niche not served by the other scholarships. The Italian American Club has a great scholarship program which is open to all college, university and trade school applicants regardless of age and grade (i.e. it is o...
READ MOREIt seems as if every deli and sandwich shop serves an Italian sub, but which ones are the best? Fellow Taste of the Town readers have suggestions for Hank Miller, who wrote in search of advice. Al Wirtzbaum and Zuzana Eissler both were effusive in their praise for ParmeZan Subs at 10720 S. Eastern Ave. in Henderson. Read more &nb...
READ MORETwo familiar faces were at the 10th annual Italian Fest and recognition dinner Saturday night. News 4's Joe Hart and Brandon Wholey attended the charity event for Bristlecone Family Resources. The non-profit offers addiction and mental wellness treatment and prevent services in Northern Nevada. "You will be surprised at how many people ar...
READ MOREThe partecipation of the Association Verace Pizza Napoletana at the 2014 International Pizza Expo is one of the pivotal moments for the celebration of the 30 years that the Association accomplished this year. Program of the EventAVPN Booth # 2009
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