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by Don Cazentre   Traditional Italian-American meets modern "light and bright" cuisine at Strada Mia, the newest restaurant in the storied location at the corner of Geddes Street and Park Avenue in Syracuse. The restaurant at 313 N. Geddes St. has been having a "soft opening" for the past few weeks, but is now ready to show off to the g...

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Kevin Gentile has been one of Central New York's best (and best known) chefs for more than a decade. Lately, he's been well-traveled, too. His newest stop is Bella Cigna, the Italian-American restaurant located next to the Swan Pond, at 301 Fayette St. (Route 92) in Manlius.   Starting Tuesday, he takes over as executive chef and g...

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Linda LeMura was born in 1960 in Syracuse, New York. Her parents moved to New York from Catania, Sicily, and settled in an Italian neighborhood – called the North Side – in Syracuse. Linda's parents stressed the importance of education and family to their children. She took their guidance to heart, and she received an athletic scholarship for...

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E' iniziata da pochi giorni (il 24 agosto fino al 17 novembre) una mostra tutta italiana al Museo d'arte di Oklaoma City, prima tappa di un tour americano che illustra attraverso dipinti di grandi Maestri della pittura italiana dal Medioevo, passando per il Rinascimento fino al XIX secolo. Prossime tappe: l' Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canad...

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Food fads often change, but for these four Italian restaurants in Syracuse, classic food prepared well is the recipe for success.   All four joints have been open for at least 30 years, and in some cases, much longer. Mangia!   Read more   Source: http://www.syracuse.com/    

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A wreath laying at the foot of the Christopher Columbus statue headlined a celebration of both Columbus and Italian-American heritage Monday. Organizers say the event at the statue -- which has stood for more than 70 years -- is more than a commemoration of Italian-Americans' contributions to the community.   "It's about tradition ... n...

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Most of the immigrants went to the cities. New York, Buffalo, Rochester and other cities in the State of New York received large contingents. It must be remembered that immigrants almost always came to join others who had preceded them – a husband, or a father, or an uncle or a friend.   In western New York most of the first immigrants from...

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by Don Cazentre   The smell of the wood fire tells you this is a place with local restaurant legend John Stage's signature on it. When you get to the blackened and blistered Neapolitan-influenced pizzas and the long list of Italian-style Negroni cocktails on the bar menu, you know it's a little different. Apizza Regionale opens at 5 p.m. Th...

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By Melinda Johnson   Syracuse Opera opens its season with "Glory Denied," by composer Tom Cipullo. The contemporary opera is based on the book "Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War," by Tom Philpott.   After being held in captivity in Vietnam from 1964 to 1973, Floyd "Jim" Thompson discovered...

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By Katrina Tulloch   The Italian American Athletic Club of Syracuse has donated 500 cases of water to the people of Flint, Michigan. News of the Flint water crisis broke in 2015, but Anthony Catania, the treasurer of the IAAC, hadn't heard about it until he saw Flint residents on the "Steve Harvey Show" last spring.   "People fro...

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