A Taste of Northern Italy In Austin
Last June, in the midst of a European heat wave, I slowly made my way down through Italy over the course of three weeks. It was my first visit, and the food I tried in every town rendered me speechless. Until you eat Italian food in Italy, you just can't understand the magic and power of Italian ingredients and cooking traditions. I have t...
TCM Classic Film Festival: A Special Tribute to Gina Lollobrigida
Thursday, April 28, 2016 Organized by: TCM Film Festival in collaboration with IIC Entrance: With fee Location: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024 - USA Held over four days in the heart of Hollywood, the TCM Classic Film Festival is a place where movie lovers from around the world...
Italian language activist Gioconda Motta
"When we lived in Melrose in the mid 1970s, my eldest daughter used to bring pizza to school for lunch. For her, having grown up in an Italian household, it was the most normal thing in the world. At some point however she started to come home and say they were making fun of her, therefore she didn't want pizza anymore. Yes, discrimination was that...
Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak remains an unbreakable record
It started on May 15, 1941, with a single against Eddie Smith of the White Sox at Yankee Stadium. Seventy-five years later, Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak remains baseball's most iconic record. The Yankee Clipper's Summer of 56 captivated a nation still recovering from the Great Depression. As the streak mounted, following DiMaggio...
Michael Schlow to open second Italian restaurant in Glover Park
By Tim Carman Michael Schlow didn't want to introduce Casolare this way: just months after the Boston-based chef and restaurateur launched Alta Strada, his casual trattoria in City Vista. But he didn't have much choice. The former Savoy Suites Hotel, where his new coastal Italian concept will be housed, has encountered numerous construction delays...
Jazz with a Sicilian Accent: Francesco Cafiso in New York
By George De Stefano "Everybody here speaks Italian, right?" Francesco Cafiso asked at the start of his June 9 concert at the Italian Institute of Culture in Manhattan. When no one contradicted him, the 27-year-old saxophonist from Vittoria, Sicily joked that he "spoke Italian very well." And then, whenever he addressed the audience durin...
Review: The Original Fiorellas’ Cafe in Gentilly
At the Original Fiorellas' Cafe, tradition is everything. Though it sits in a nondescript strip mall on Franklin Avenue, the bright red and white awning with the signature script is an easy giveaway of what's in store. Brothers Kelly and Calcie Fiorella opened the Gentilly restaurant in early 2016, pledging to honor their father's French Q...
Haute Secrets Boston: Anthony Caturano
Anthony Caturano is best known for his beloved North End Italian restaurant in Boston, Prezza, but he has recently expanded his roster of restaurants to include the newly opened, Tonno in Gloucester. Italian for "tuna," Tonno features coastal Italian seafood and a variety of homemade pastas adapted from Prezza like shrimp fra diavolo with tagliate...
Extraordinary Italian Taste promuove a Houston il Made in Italy di qualità
Wine&Food Week, giunta alla sua dodicesima edizione, è l'evento culinario per eccellenza di Houston. Ogni anno attrae oltre 10.000 visitatori provenienti dall'intera area metropolitana, la quarta più grande d'America. Extraordinary Italian Taste e Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas, sono state protagoniste di numerosi eventi di...
The Italian Girl in Algiers: Giving New Life to a 200-Plus-Year-Old Opera
PORTLAND OPERA'S season finale rounds out this week with the end of one opera's run and the continuation of another. Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, a 200-plus-year-old madcap comedy, picks up where Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1879 Eugene Onegin left off with its final Portland Opera performance Tuesday, July 26. Both shows bring fre...
Una Serata Italiana con Furla (NYC) on September 14
by NOIAW Wednesday, September 14, 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Furla Fifth Avenue Store | 645 5th Avenue at 51st Street, New York, NY 10022. Free with advance RSVP — invite your friends! Join us for a fabulous evening with the National Organization of Italian American Women exploring beloved Italian designer Furla's Fifth Avenue flagship sto...
The Family Whistle, or how the Coppolas Came to Americ
Back in 1904 a poor young man by the name of Agostino Coppola left his Southern Italian hometown of Bernalda for good. Starting from this small village near Matera, in the Basilicata region, he went on to cross the Atlantic and to seek fortune in America. Today, a century later, Agostino's descendants constitute one of the most influential families...