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When: Sunday, Feb. 19 | 5 p.m. - Where: Heinz History Center’s Detre Library & Archives Costs: $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students, military, Mondo Italiano and History Center members  Inspired by the 100th anniversary of World War I, an army of musicians will transform the letters of soldiers from the war from pain into art. This original progra...

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Piada Italian Street Food, the growing popular fast casual restaurant group, has opened its first Pennsylvania location on Forbes Avenue in Oakland. Taking yet another spin on the assembly line Chipotle concept, customers build personalized wraps with a “piada,” an Italian flatbread similar to a tortilla. Fresh pastas, chopped salads and Italian-in...

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"You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” The previous quote, stated by Giuseppe Verdi, a renowned opera composer, exemplifies how much of an international treasure the country of Italy is. From the long canals of Venice to the white sand beaches of Sicily to the ancient architecture of Rome, the splendors of Italy are abundant all over the...

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by Melissa Marinaro   Sunday, October 4, 2015 • 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Heinz History Center. Children 17 & under are admitted free; everyone else, regular admission rates apply. Tu e la tua famiglia are cordially invited to commemorate your italianità at the History Center with a full day of interactive activities designed with K-12 st...

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Visitors in search of an elegant Italian dining experience in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have many choices throughout the area.   Fine dining Italian restaurants are located in Pittsburgh's surrounding neighborhoods and nearby cities, and offer patrons handmade meals and complementary wine choices, served in an elegant ambiance, all just a sh...

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by Dan Gigler   It's four months into the year, and among the Christmas gifts that have been put to actual use rather than returned, regifted or banished to the basement: "The Mac & Cheese Cookbook" by Alison Arevalo and Erin Wade, proprietors of Homeroom, an Oakland, Calif., restaurant based around the almost divine-like combination of...

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Laura E. Ruberto presents the bilingual version of the memoir Such Is Life/Ma la vita e' fatta cosi' (Bordighera, 2010) by Leonilde Frieri Ruberto on Monday, May 6, 2013 from 6-8 PM at the Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh. The memoir is considered the first published in the United States written in Italian by a first-generation Italian American wo...

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By Sandra Fischione Donovan   Chef Matt Cavanaugh and his wife, Andrea, searched areas in Moon, Findlay and North Fayette for possible restaurant venues near their home in Crescent. But nothing seemed suitable, until he was urged to look at a Lawrenceville property.   "We fell in love with the brick," says Matt Cavanaugh of the Butler...

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By Katherine Schaeffer   Angela Hertz's Italian-American grandparents taught her to love her heritage — the food, the culture and the sense of family. But it wasn't until Hertz started college that she learned the language, studying abroad to hone her language skills.    "I made it my career," said Hertz, 38, who has taught...

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Severio Strati's 300-by-30-foot garden boasts grids of peppers, garlic and eggplant, with 130 tomato plants. There's a grape arbor, peach trees and a few figs that survived winter. "I cover good. That's why I didn't lose them," he says.   For 60 years, the Hazelwood resident — who spent most of his working life in J&L Steel's warehouse d...

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