The smell of pizza and doughboys permeated the air and Italian folk music played for the 24th annual Newport Festa Italiana’s Festival in the Park. It was a sunny day in Touro Park, warm with low humidity. The nice weather drew an ample crowd to the Italian-themed celebration. Some sat and watched Calabria Bella, a band based out of Westerly that’s...
READ MOREOn Saturday, July 7th at 5pm, Italy returns to Newport Polo for its 7th campaign against USA at the polo grounds at Glen Farm, home of the Newport International Polo Series. The 6-chukker exhibition polo match will mount USA, looking to continue their win streak against Italy, for a duration of approximately 2 hours. The match will conclude with a...
READ MOREOn Saturday, July 8 at 5 pm, Italy will make its sixth campaign to capture the silver trophy against USA, with its most formidable team to date in the NBC10 Newport International Polo Series, Presented by BMW. Playing for Italy will be captain Marco Elser, and Roman teammates Massimo Elser, Peter Elser, Lanfranco di Campello and Marcos Antinori, fr...
READ MOREmartedì 30 aprile 201319.45 Edwards Big Newport 6300 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA (map) Run time: 100 min. | ItalyITALIAN SPOTLIGHT "Immature-The Trip (Immaturi-Il Viaggio)"This follow-up to the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival Italian Spotlight once again follows the group of thirty-somethings on a vacation to Greece for a chance to r...
READ MOREThe Italian Trade Commission was pleased to collaborate with the Mariani Family of Banfi Vintners to toast Italy, the Gilded Age and the Spirit of American Exceptionalism earlier this month at the Elms Mansion Venetian Ball in Newport County presenting a selection of extraordinary wines from Tuscany, Piedmont and the Veneto. Banfi presented a fanc...
READ MOREby Chad Walsh When Justin and Stormee Wills opened Restaurant Beck on Depot Bay at the Oregon Coast a few years back, they decided to name it for their son, Becker, who's now six years old. Logic would follow that should the Wills ever open a sister restaurant, they'd name it for Becker's kid sister, Isla, who's now two. That's pretty muc...
READ MOREReprisal Chapter of DAR schedules March meeting The Reprisal Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at the home of Pat McCabe, 118 Lempster St., Lempster. McCabe will present the program, "Continental Congress 101." The public is welcome. Read more Source: http://www.n...
READ MOREBy Marisa Porto Award-winning Newport News poet Ann Falcone Shalaski was born in Connecticut and "nurtured by a warm, loving, and at times loud Italian family," according to her website. Her work has been published in The Comstock Review, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Main Channel Voices, and other publications. Shalaski's s...
READ MOREdi Riccardo Chioni L'atteso appuntamento con la 59.ma edizione del Winter Antiques Show in svolgimento alla Armory Park Avenue ha visto protagonista la Preservation Society of Newport County che ha presentato una mostra intitolata "Newport: The Glamour of Ornament" con opere d'arte appartenenti a 8 storiche magioni.Per l'occasione alla Arm...
READ MOREOn Sunday August 4th, Bruce Newbury radio host of Newport's the Dining Out with Bruce Newbury show invited the Italian Trade Commission and Italian Cheese Expert Margaret Cicogna to his live broadcast at the Chanler Hotel at Cliff Walk to discuss the Italian Cheese Medley presented by Agriform at the Preservation Society of Newport County's much an...
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