20th Annual Festa Italiana at V. Sattui Winery
Join us to celebrate V. Sattui's Italian heritage at our 20th Annual Festa Italiana on Saturday, July 25th from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Our 2 ½ acre picnic grove transforms into a traditional Italian summer festival, with live music, dancing and, of course, your favorite V. Sattui wines. Tickets are now available at www.VSattui.com and cost $89 per me...
CNR opens research center in a new “Nanotech Valley” near Lecce
by Marzio Bartoloni Nanotechnology has found a home in Puglia, thanks to €18 million in investments and with 12,000 square meters of laboratories and 200 researchers at the new nanotechnology center of the National Research Council (CNR) inaugurated recently in Lecce - inside the Ecotekne Campus at the University of Salento. This...
Wine Tasting Fundraiser – June 3, 2015
Ann Bambino Lodge #2353, Order Sons of Italy in America invites you to our Wine Tasting Fundraiser. $25 per person, paid at the door. RSVP in advance is STRONGLY recommended by calling Anne Marie at (516)242-4475 or email info@annbambinolodge.org. Come taste various red & white wines from California, South Africa and m...
Monello adds to Minneapolis' Italian fare starting today
by Jess Fleming If the first bites are any indication, Monello, an Italian restaurant in the old Porter and Frye space in the Hotel Ivy in downtown Minneapolis, is going to knock it out of the park. We got a sneak peek this past weekend, and Chef Michael "Young Chef" DeCamp, most recently head chef at La Belle Vie, has created fre...
How the art of making confetti in Sulmona changed while keeping tradition alive
by Serena Perfetto Blue for a little boy or pink if it is a girl; white for weddings or red for graduation: while the colour changes according to the event in which they are offered to guests, the Italian confetti are today well known worldwide as a symbol of good luck during important celebrations. What was once only a sweet made...
Time Spent with a Legend: Conversations with Lawrence Ferlinghetti
by Catherine Accardi What does one talk about when speaking with a legend? How often does one have the opportunity to speak with an icon of San Francisco's North Beach and beyond? And, in Italian, which he likes to call "la bella lingua". He enjoys being called Lorenzo. I recently spoke with Lawrence Ferlinghetti about North Beach...
Italian American Community Center to hold 15th Annual Festa Italiana
For the 15th consecutive year the Italian American Community Center will feature its Festa Italiana with a variety of programs ranging from international entertainment, great Italian food and activities for young and old. The Festa Italiana will run on July 16, 17 and 18 on the ground of the IACC on Manitou Road in Gates. In pursuit of its mission...
Gli studenti più meritevoli della Regione Lombardia sono venuti a “degustare” la Grande Mela
di Ilaria Costa Otto studenti selezionati dalla Regione Lombardia- tra coloro che alla maturita' del 2014 hanno ottenuto 100 e lode- sono venuti a New York dal 12 al 18 luglio a "degustare" la Grande Mela. Il progetto, nato in occasione della visita a New York dell' On. Maroni nel 2014 e sotenuto dalla Dr.ssa Valentina Aprea Assessore Ist...
From city to the sea: the best beaches near Venice, Florence and Rome
Let us guess: you have probably already booked your ticket to Italy for this summer and now you are planning to visit some of the most wonderful Italian cities such as Florence, Rome or Venice to admire their breathtaking architecture, museums and monuments. Are we right? But considering that it's summer and a bit of sun and crystalline cl...
Ring-a-Ding-Ding: The movies of Frank Sinatra
21-23 August, Vogue Theatre, 3290 Sacramento St, SF. Frank Sinatra would be 100 this year and to celebrate Jack Daniel's is presenting "Ring-A-Ding-Ding: The Movies of Frank Sinatra" at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco. Over the weekend of August 21, 11 of Sinatra's most iconic roles will be screened, a carefully curated selection o...
A Look at the 19th Annual Festa di San Donato in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Friday after work, I made my way to Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the 19th Annual Feast of San Donato. Organized by Francesca Mazza (and her gracious family) the ceremony took place outside their beautiful home at 158 Conselyea Street. Normally held on August 7th, this year's celebration was postponed a few weeks because Franca and her family...
The story of the Christopher Columbus Statue on Boulevard
Standing at the end Boulevard, next to the tennis courts at Byrd Park, is the first statue of Christopher Columbus erected in the South. In the early 1920s, Richmond's Italian-American community – about 1,000 strong – wanted to gift a statue of their kinsman to their adopted home. The residents hoped city officials would add a Columbus sta...