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Buon appetito! A local chef has brought the amazing taste of Italy to South Florida, all at cheap eat prices. "We have a little buffalo mozzarella and we have beautiful salami," Chef Angelo Elia told CBS4′s Lisa Petrillo.   Acclaimed chef Elia makes his signature pizza with the passion of a man who truly loves his job. This Italian born and...

Calling all NIAF friends! Join this special day of giving!   Here's a chance to join forces with folks all over the region in giant day of giving. Done in conjunction with United Way of the National Capital Area, the Do More 24 campaign is about encouraging community support and encouraging us all to join together to support the causes we ar...

by Enrica Corselli   Se diciamo "Giuseppe Verdi", qual è la prima cosa che vi viene in mente? Se ci state ancora pensando, possiamo darvi un aiutino..."La donna è mobile, qual piuma al vento"... Ecco, ora canterete l'aria più famosa del Rigoletto per il resto della vostra giornata.   E per chi invece non ha familiarità con questi vers...

di Michele Pierri   David Thorne lascerà Villa Taverna ma non smetterà di seguire le vicende italiane. Dopo quattro anni vissuti intensamente nel ruolo di ambasciatore degli Usa a Roma, è atteso a Washington per un incarico al fianco del Segretario di Stato, John Kerry. L'Italia, nonostante le tante turbolenze economiche e politiche, rappres...

University of North Georgia is looking for an Italian instructor to teach a joint class (Italiano 1001/2001) Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9:00 to 9:50 a.m. Classes start August 19, 2013 and run through the first week of December. We already have a dozen students signed up for the 1001 and 2 returning students for the 2001 portion.   The...

By Derek Harper When Atlantic City hosts its inaugural American Palio horse race in October, a delegation from the event's ancestral home in Italy is expected to be in town to ensure it gets off on the right hoof. Italian organizers are working to arrange a visit from two of the most successful jockeys in the Palio's history, said Alarico Rossi,...

Michael Stillman's newest restaurant, Quality Italian, is serving up revamped Italian American dishes in a massive space designed by the team at AvroKo. Like its neighboring sister restaurant Quality Meats, the menu is meat-heavy, but it also includes crudo, homemade pastas, and several fish dishes.   The cocktails are mixed by Monkey Bar ve...

Alla ripresa dei lavori parlamentari l'on. Vezzali - al ritorno dalla maternità - e l'on. Nissoli Fitzgerald hanno avviato un percorso d'iniziative comuni - assieme al capogruppo di SC agli Esteri Mario Marazziti - per avviare occasioni di gemellaggio tra Italia e Stati Uniti con il coinvolgimento delle eccellenze sportive in favore delle comunità...

By Casey Seiler   Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deputy secretary for gaming and racing was identified Thursday as the state official whose email to the New York Racing Association resulted in the Wandering Dago lunch truck being bounced from Saratoga Race Course just hours later.   Bennett Liebman's July 19 email to NYRA President Christopher K...

Dear Friends,New York Italians in collaboration with Fordham University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Italian Honor Society C.I.A.O. is very happy to invite you to:"Tech and the City". Based on over 50 interviews with entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, university professors, members of the Bloomberg adm...

Chef Kevin Garcia of Morello Italian Bistro in Greenwich, CT is offering flavorful farrotto specials this fall, incorporating the versatile, Italian ingredient in salads, soups and side dishes. Chef Garcia recently shared his take on "farrotto," a simple yet decadent dish using the ancient Italian grain farro, cooked in the style of risotto. "One...

Asolo Repertory Theatre is proud to add I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI to its 2013-2014 season. Jacques Lamarre's saucy stage adaptation of Giulia Melucci's memoir will star Antoinette Lavecchia as Melucci, an Italian-American writer living in Brooklyn with an entertainingly unsuccessful love life. Previews for the show will be held May 18 and M...