Brooklyn Columbus Parade & Brunch
The Brooklyn Columbus Parade sponsored by the Federation of Italian American Organizations and the support community groups and business invites you to participate in and celebrate the 32th Annual Parade. This year the parade will take place on Saturday, October 12th, 2013 at 1PM. The parade will be preceded by a celebratory Mass at St. Athanasius...
Acting Workshop "The Befana show"
In Italian popular tradition, an old lady riding on a broomstick visits all the children on the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany to fill their socks with candy and presents if they are good or a lump of coal or dark candy if they are bad. Befana carries a bag, wears a black shawl and is covered in soot because she enters the children's houses throu...
Piada Italian Street Food in Hyde Park offers free food for a year to first 100 customers
by Casey Weldon A new eatery is trying to attract new customers by giving out free food. Every day. For a year. Piada Italian Street Food, the creation of restaurateur Chris Doody, is opening a new dining spot in Hyde Park Plaza on Friday. In order to celebrate the opening, the owners of the restaurant are promising free food for a ye...
2013 Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti: Opera in the Heights presenta il "Don Pasquale" di Doninzetti a Houston
Opera in the Heights presenta dal 15 al 24 novembre il "Don Pasquale" di Gaetano Doninzetti al Lambert Hall nel quartiere storico di Houston Heights. Preparatevi a rimanere incantati dal canto, e a ridere al vedere come Don Pasquale si rende ridicolo per amore ! Don Pasquale, al vedere suo nipote Ernesto rifiutare la sposa che questi aveva...
Italy's Cinque Terre: Exquisite scenery and tasty seafood
A yellow bell tower that warned of pirates in past centuries stands sentinel in Italy's seaside village of Manarola. A bit farther down the hill in a town is a house with a water-wheel, which gives the town its name in the local dialect. The sunny walk across the hillside above town is spread with olive groves and vineyards of glistening green...
New Books
Some new and forthcoming titles that may be of interest to our readers. All are available at Amazon.com • Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 by Paul Oldfield Publisher: Cambridge UniversityPublication Date: March 31, 2014Hardcover: $89.10Language: EnglishPages: 320 Read more Fonte: Magna...
Italian Premier Letta reiterates support for 2024 Olympic bid with Rome as likely candidate
Italian Premier Enrico Letta reiterated his support Wednesday for a possible bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics and promoted a new law to help build football stadiums. "The Olympics in Italy is an objective within reach and a game we have to play," Letta said. "We must have lofty ambitions." While Rome has not yet been officially selected,...
The Cloisters in Naples, restoring ..a way of life.
"Two years ago we came across the Cloisters of the Church of Santa Caterina a Formiello, in Naples' historic town center, says Davide de Blasio and his wife Rosa Alba Impronta founders of Fondazione Tramontano Arte, we were walking through hidden sites with our friend Antonio Martiniello, and we discovered this amazing complex, built in the 16th ce...
Taking Stock of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture (Part 1)
by Mauro Battocchi As we watch 2013 edge to a close, let's take a look back at the outstanding events that brought many dimensions of Italy's rich culture to the Bay as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture. We've been truly graced to have such a delightful schedule of engagements and I offer my heartfelt thanks to all who made...
The Tragic Story of Italian / American Player: Tony Conigliaro (1964-1971/ 1975)
Anthony Richard Conigliaro, was born on January 7, 1945 in Revere, Massachusetts. The six foot three, right hand hitting outfielder was signed out of St. Mary's High School in Lynn, Massachusetts by the home town Boston Red Sox in 1962. The highly touted prospect came up to the big leagues in 1964 at age 19, getting the starting left fiel...
Beretta to highlight wholesale
After 20 years honing its apparel skills in Europe, Beretta is taking aim at the American market. According to WWD, the 500-plus-year-old company, whose primary business is firearms, has offered apparel targeted to hunters and outdoorsmen in its own stores for more than 20 years. For fall, Beretta is expanding its offering to a full lifest...
Italy is Served - New ICCC Chef's Cooking Demo and Dinner Series
The Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston launched this January, with great enthusiasm of the public, a new series of educational cooking demonstration and dinner aimed to promote and to guide the public through the history, the tradition and the flavors of the Italian-American Cuisine. The second appointment of this new and exciting...