Rossini headlines 2017 OperaDelaware festival
In celebration of the 225th anniversary of Gioachino Rossini's birth, OperaDelaware will hold a spring festival featuring the Italian composer's popular setting of "Cinderella" and his rarely-performed tragedy "Semiramide." The 2017 festival runs April 29, April 30, May 6 and May 7, with afternoon and evening performances of "Semiramide" and "...
Is Italian-American Food It’s Own Category?
Everyone knows what Italian food is - but is Italian food in America its own category? We went to the 90th annual Feast of San Gennaro in New York's Little Italy to try and learn the differences. We spoke to business owners whose shops and restaurants have been around for over 100 years about the contributions Italian Americans have made...
Countdown to the UNICO Feast, Clark’s Family-Fun-Packed Columbus Day Weekend Event
The lights, the sights, the sounds and the smells: Clark UNICO is counting down the days until the 10th annual Italian-American Feast begins on Friday, Oct. 7. The three-day festival and carnival features rides, games, food, music and family fun for all. "We are very excited to hold the 10th Annual UNICO Italian American Feast," Clark UNIC...
White House state dinner for Italy will feature Gwen Stefani and Mario Batali
Seems the Obamas are going out with a bang — what is expected to be the last state dinner of the administration, a black-tie soiree Tuesday for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini, looks to be a glittery one. First lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday offered the first sneak peek into the dinner via Snapchat, revea...
Honor the dead: Chicago tour guides suggest visiting these graves
By Kori Rumore Julia Buccola Petta: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside. If I have to pick only one monument, it's that of a young woman named Julia Buccola Petta, who only became semi-famous after her death, not in life. She is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside — the same resting place as Al Capone and Dean O'Banion — and her m...
The Hill Nativity Walk
The Hill Nativity Walk will begin on Saturday, December 3 and will run through January 6. Displays of more than twenty Italian style nativity scenes are displayed in the windows of Hill merchants during the holiday season. Maps of the display locations where more information about the sets and the history of the traditiona can be found at Girasole...
New Italian Restaurant Bianconi Offers Upscale Surf and Turf
By James Bartlett After more than a decade at Via Veneto in Santa Monica, Fabrizio Bianconi has come to Beverly Grove and put down his own roots on Third Street with an eponymous restaurant. The large space is split into separate rooms with different styles and tones. There's the casual sofa lounge, which rests under rough brick arches an...
A Half-Century of Gangsters, Glamour and Guts: 'Martin Scorsese' Comes to Queens
Martin Scorsese released his first film, Who's That Knocking at My Door, nearly half a century ago, in November 1967. In the 49 years since, he has established himself as a legend of the cinematic arts, an auteur not unlike Jean-Luc Godard or Alfred Hitchcock, whose output maintains the same frenetic pace as the films he makes. On December...
Baldanza in New Canaan Is Very Serious About Its Comfort Food By John Mariani
By John Mariani The much-hyped phrase "farm to table" has become so empty of meaning that when you come upon the real thing, you can still be amazed at the idea. For while all food has to come from some farm or body of water, most restaurants only pay lip service to the commitment to obtain the finest provender from the most local purveyors. &nbs...
Angelo's Prime boutique grocery and restaurant opens in Schererville
A big name in Italian food in the Chicago Southland has opened its first location in Northwest Indiana. Carla Bolin, whose family ran the Angelo's restaurants in the south suburbs for many decades, picked up the family business by opening Angelo's Fresh Markets in Flossmoor and Tinley Park in recent years. Now she's opened her third Italian-th...
Italian influence is heaviest in four Eastern states
Italian culture is stronger in four adjoining Eastern states than anywhere else in America.Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are home to the 22 U.S. markets that have the largest percentages of Italian-American residents, according to the latest federal data.The U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey asked respondents...
Ottava Conferenza Ricercatori Italiani nel Mondo
Il primo Dicembre 2012 si è svolta nell'Auditorium del Consolato generale d'Italia sito in 1330 Post Oak Boulevard, Houston Texas l' Ottava Conferenza dei Ricercatori Italiani nel Mondo, organizzata dal Comitato per gli Italiani all'estero (COMITES) della circoscrizione consolare di Houston, comprendente gli Stati del Texas, dell'Oklahoma, della Lo...